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Mgr. Lenka Caisová

Born: 1982 in Prachatice

Contact:
Instutute of Botany AS CR
Dukelská 135
Třeboň, CZ-379 82
Tel.: (+420) 384 721 156
E-mail: lcaisova_at_gmail.com

and/or

University of South Bohemia
Faculty of Science, Dept. of Botany
Na Zlaté stoce 1, room 103
České Budějovice, CZ-370 05
Tel.: (+420) 389 032 302
 

 

 

College:
2001 - present University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Science (formerly Fac. of Biological Sciences)

 

Fields of scientific interest:

I am dealing with taxonomy and ecology of filamentous green algae, particularly of genera which were traditionally classified to the order Chaetophorales. I am mainly interested in variability of polymorphic algal species especially Aphanochaete, Chaetophora, Draparnaldia, Fritschiella and Stigeoclonium. I have experience with determination, isolation and cultivation of freshwater filamentous green algae, cross-table gradient experiments an also with basic molecular methods (DNA analyses).taxonomy and ecology of aerophytic cyanobacteria

Scientific emplyers:
Since 2005 – Institute of Botany of the Academy of Scinences of the Czech Republic

 

International cooperation:

  • 2009 - 2010 - Botanical Institute at the University of Cologne (prof. Michael Melkonian), Germany (6 months)
  • 2009 - Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP), (Dr. Thomas Pröschold), Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Dunbeg by Oban, Scotland (4 weeks)
  • 2009 - The Culture Collection of Algae at the Botanical Institute of the University at Innsbruck (Dr. Georg Gärtner), Austria (1 week)
  • 2008 - Experimental Phycology and Culture Collection of Algae (SAG), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Prof Dr. Thomas Friedl), Germany, Sokrates/Erasmus program (3 months)
  • 2008 - archeological survey in Belo Horizonte, Brasil, Lagoa Santa project (4 weeks)
  • 2006, 2007    biological survey in Altai, Kazakhstan, Irbis project (3 months)
     

Grant projects:

  • 2009 – 2012 – GA ČR 206/09/0697: The phylogeny of polymorphic filamentous green algae – cooperator
  • 2009 – GA JU 038/2008P: The phylogeny of ecologically important polymorphic filamentous green algae - principal investigator

Publications:

Caisová L. & Gabka M. (2009): Charophytes (Characeae, Charophyta) in the Czech Republic: taxonomy, autecology and distribution. Fottea. 9(1): 1 – 43.

Caisová L. (2008): Sinice a řasy na kůře stromů [Cyanobacteria and algae growing on the bark tree]. Veronica, 22 (3), 9 pp.

Zapomělová E., Hrouzek P., Řeháková K., Šabacká M., Stibal M., Caisová L., Komárková J. & Lukešová A. (2008): Morphological variability in selected heterocystous cyanobacterial strains as a response to varied temperature, light intensity and medium composition. Folia Microbiologica. 4: 333–341.

Caisová L., Husák Š. & Komárek J. (2008): Nitella mucronata (Br.) Miquel (Charophyta) in the Czech Republic. Fottea. 2: 105 – 107.

Caisová L. & Kopecký J. (2008): Relation of "Pleurocapsa cuprea" to the genus Hildenbrandia (Rhodophyta). Phycologia. 4: 404 – 415.

Caisová L. (2007): Diversity of Cyanophyta and Algae of the Katon-Karagay National Park Territory (East Kazakhstan). – In: Modern Approaches to Biodiversity Protection in the Context of Steady Development Achievement of Republic Kazakhstan, International Science Conference Papers, Usk-kamenogorsk, p. 46 – 52.

Caisová L. (2006): Pleurocapsa cuprea, originally described as blue – green alga, is a eukaryotic alga similar to the species Hildenbrandia rivularis (Rhodophyta). Czech Phycology. 6: 69 – 76.