Other activities at the department

Focus of the Department of Biology & Wildlife Diseases

The Department of Biology & Wildlife Diseases was established to its present form in September 2000. The Department is located in buildings no. 31 a 22. The Department provides teaching of compulsory undergraduate study subjects (e.g. biology, biophysics, zoology) for both faculties of UVS Brno. 

The department's research activities are focused on health issues in wildlife populations that are not used to a food production. The research is aimed at the health status of wild birds and mammals within the study of the occurrence of parasitic, infectious and non-infectious disease agents of these animals. For example, molecular biological methods are used to diagnose disease agents. The results of current research are well documented by recent publications in prestigious scientific journals, whose authors or co-authors are academic staff of the department. The head of the department, prof. Literák, was at the beginning of all the laboratories mentioned below and participated in their activities.

Academic staff, students, project scientists, technicians and laboratory workers are focused in several sections to ensure research:

• The Center of Telemetry Studies (head prof. MVDr. Ivan Literák, CSc.)
• The Laboratory of Entomology (head prof. RNDr. Oldřich Sychra, PhD)
• The Laboratory of Biophysics (head prof. MVDr. Petr Dvořák, CSc.)
• The Laboratory of Molecular Biology (head Mgr. Ivo Papoušek, PhD)
• The Laboratory of Antibacterial Resistance Research (head Assoc. prof. RNDr. Monika Dolejská, PhD)
• The Laboratory of Wildlife Diseases (head prof. MVDr. Pavel Široký, Ph.D.)
• The Laboratory of Pathogen Monitoring (head Assoc. prof. MVDr. Eva Bártová, PhD)

The department participates in the security of:

• Conference of student scientific professional activity (Assoc. prof. MVDr. Eva Bártová, PhD)