Introduction to the Department
Established in 1994, the Department of Zoology and Fisheries continues a long tradition of teaching and research in Applied Zoology and Fisheries at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. The department focuses on specialized subjects within these fields, with sections in Parasitology, Entomology, Ichthyology, Malacology, Astacology, Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Invasion Biology.
Scientific Research Activities
Our main research areas include parasites and parasitic infections of domestic, farmed, wild and exotic animals; assessment of anthropogenic environmental burdens and their effects on diverse animal groups, including studies on the revitalization and recovery of altered habitats. Further important areas of research include the systematics, behavour, and ecology of aquatic animals; impacts of invasive species; analyses of dipteran insect taxocenoses; and the ecology and bionomics of selected species of insects, fishes, crustaceans, and molluscs.
Teaching
The department offers core courses in zoology and specialised subjects in the systematics, biology and husbandry of selected groups of organisms, reflecting the expertise of individual sections. We also collaborate with the Research Institute of Beekeeping to deliver courses in apiculture. Selected courses are taught in English.
Consulting and Cooperation with Practice
The department works closely with many scientific and educational institutions, for example:
- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Laboratorio de Necton, Chetumal, Mexico
- State Veterinary Institute Prague, Laboratory of Parasitology, Prague, Czechia
- The Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
- Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
- University of Padova, School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Padova, Italy
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Uppsala, Sweden
- School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- University pf Lyon, VetAgro Sup, Lyon, France
- Natural history museum London, United Kingdom
- Natural history museum Paris, France
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
- Royal Belgian institute of Natural Sciences, Brusel, Belgium
- Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren, Belgium
- The South African Museum, Capetown, Republic of South Africa
- Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, RSA
- National Collection of Insects, Pretoria, RSA
- Národní muzeum Praha, Praha, Czechia
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Field Museum – Chicago, USA
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
- Institut Pertanian Bogor, Bogor, Indonésie
- Universitas Terbuka, Jižní Tangerang, Indonésie
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Nizozemsko
- University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia
- WasserCluster Lunz, Austria
- Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
- Karlstad University, Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Sweden