The research group explores the diversity, distribution, and abundance of soil microorganisms, their interactions and the effect that they have on ecosystems with particular interest in microbial control over carbon and nitrogen cycling and response of microbial communities to climate change.

News

• Welcome to Jennifer who joined the group as a Ph.D. student 10/2021

• Successful fieldwork done on Disko Island, Greenland, photos 8/2021

• Welcome to Gabriele who joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher 7/2021

• Successful fieldwork done in Abisko, Sweden, photos 7/2021

• Jana and Camelia interviewed for national radio Cesky rozhlas plus 6/2021

• Jana was awarded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship "MicroWar: Response of soil microbial communities to climate warming: from local to global scale 4/2021

• Welcome to Camelia who joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher 4/2021

• Welcome to Alzbeta who joined the group as a research assistant 03/2021

• New paper studying arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in aquatic habitat published 01/2021

• Ph.D. Position in Microbial Ecology - see details here 01/2021

• Postdoctoral Position in Microbial Ecology - see details here 01/2021

• Five-year project from Czech Science Foundation (JUNIOR STAR) studying response of soil microbes to climate change in Arctic just started 01/2021

• New paper about cultivation of 'unculturable' subsurface bacteria published 12/2020