Our graduates also presented at the conference of the Czech and Slovak Ethological Society
From November 13 to 16, Prague hosted the 52nd Conference of the Czech and Slovak Ethological Society. Our graduates also presented their research at this prestigious event. We congratulate them on their achievements and thank them for their excellent representation of the faculty and the university.
The lecture by Mgr. Vojtěch Kasič entitled “Tourists? Who cares: A Striking Example of Chamois Habituation in Northern Czechia” even won 1st place and the prize of the expert jury and the audience (shared 1st place). Vojtěch Kasič studied applied biology and ecology at the Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He began studying introduced populations of chamois in the Czech Republic as part of both of his final theses. His research has long focused on the chamois population in northern Bohemia from a wide range of ethological and biological perspectives – from the impact of anthropogenic disturbance, through interspecies interactions with other ungulates and the impact of hunting, to parasitological surveys.
Recent master’s graduate Tereza Havlínová participated in the poster section with a topic covered in her thesis. She presented a paper entitled “Geographical distribution and reproductive strategy of the Western European and Eastern European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus and Erinaceus roumanicus) in Czech Republic rescue stations’ data.”
Barbora Jelínková, a graduate from previous years, also participated in the conference. In her further research, she moved from the original topic of her bachelor’s thesis, Chemical Communication of Domestic Cats, to the issue of the immune system’s influence on behavior. At the conference, she presented a paper entitled “Effects of Lipopolysaccharide Induced Maternal Immune Activation in Long Evans Rats on Offspring Behavior.”