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Curriculum vitae Martin Vácha, Ph.D.

Name

• Martin Vácha, Ph.D., born October 30, 1967 Brno, married, 2 children

Department/Faculty/University

• Animal Physiology and Immunology
  Experimental Biology
  Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
  Kamenice 5
  62500 BRNO CZECH REPUBLIC

Function, current position

• Associate Professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 1999: Ph.D., MU Brno
• 1991: Master Degree, MU Brno

Professional experience

• 2010 - present: Faculty of Science MU, Associate Professor
• 2008 - 2010: Faculty of Science MU, lecturer
• 1997 - 2008: Faculty of Science MU, Assistant Professor
• 1991 - 1997: Faculty of Science MU, Assistant

Teaching Activities

• Lessons:
• Bi3030 Animal Physiology
• Bi6790 Animal Biology
• Bi1140 Biology of social insects
• Bi3080 Sensory Neurophysiology
• Bi7630 Comparative Physiology of Invertebrates
• Bi6111 Behavioural Methods in Physiology
• Theses supervision:
• 80 bachelor and master theses
• Ph.D. mentoring:
• Soukopová (defended 2004)
• Kvíčalová (2016)
• Tomanová (2016)
• Slabý (2018)
• Bartoš (2019)
• Netušil (2021)
• Briediková

Research activities

• Sensory Physiology
• Ethophysiology
• Behavioural neurobiology
• Animal magnetoreception
• Circadian clock control

Professional stays abroad

• Research stays:
• 2013 – Research stay at Mendel polar station on Jamess Ross island
• 2002-2003: Virginia Tech University, USA, prof. J. Phillips lab, Fulbright fundation
• 1999: Univerzity Marburg, Germany, prof. U. Homberg lab, DAAD
• Short stays:
• 2002 Wienna, 1999 Poznaň, 1994 Hannover, 2012 Toulouse, 2013-2016 Marburg

University Activities

• 1999-2002: member of the Academic senate of the Faculty of Science MU 2010-2018: guarantor of Ph.D. study program Animal Physiology Since 2008: guarantor of M.Sc. education program Experimental Animal Biology and Immunology. Since 2023: Head od the Section

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• Principal investigator of research projects:
• GAČR 2001-2003 Verification of magnetoreception of mealworm beetle
• GAČR 2005-2008 Analysis of magnetoreception behviour of laboratory insect species
• GAČR 2007-2010 Neural fundaments of insect magnetoreception
• GAČR 2013-2015 Physiological and functional genetic analysis of magnetoreception on an insect model
• GAMU 2019-2021 At the Cross-road of Magnetic Fields and Light: A New Perspective of circadian Clock Control

Memberships, WOS indexes

• 2001-present: member of the Czech and Slovak Ethologiocal Society
• 2008-present: member of the Royal Institue of Navigation
• 2016-2020: member of European Society for Photobiology
• publications: 19, H-index: 13, citations: 419

Selected Publications

• SMYKAL, Vlastimil, Lenka CHODAKOVA, Marketa HEJNIKOVA, Kristína BRIEDIKOVÁ, Bulah Chia-Hsiang WU, Hana VANECKOVA, Ping CHEN, Anna JANOVSKA, Pavlina KYJAKOVA, Martin VÁCHA a David DOLEZEL. Steroid receptor coactivator TAIMAN is a new modulator of insect circadian clock. PLoS Genetics. San Francisco: Public Library Science, roč. 19, č. 9, s. 1-25. ISSN 1553-7404. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010924. 2023. URL info
• BRIEDIKOVÁ, Kristína, Juraj MARKUS a Martin VÁCHA. Nedávajte si k hodinkám magnet: vplyv magnetického poľa na cirkadiánny rytmus. In 49th Ethological Conference Brno November 3rd – 6th. 2022. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity. In Fritzsch, B. and Bleckmann, H. The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. 2. vyd. Academic Press: Elsevier. s. 445-458. ISBN 978-0-12-805408-6. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24159-X. 2020. URL info
• BARTOŠ, Přemysl, Pavel SLABÝ, Radek NETUŠIL, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ, David DOLEŽEL a Martin VÁCHA. Radiofrequency noise modifies the insect sense of time. In 10th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation 10-12 April 2019 Royal Holloway College, UK. 2019. info
• BARTOŠ, Přemysl, Radek NETUŠIL, Pavel SLABÝ, David DOLEŽEL, Thorsten RITZ a Martin VÁCHA. Weak radiofrequency fields affect the insect circadian clock. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. LONDON: ROYAL SOC, roč. 16, č. 158, s. 1-4. ISSN 1742-5689. doi:10.1098/rsif.2019.0285. 2019. URL info
• SLABÝ, Pavel, Přemysl BARTOŠ, Jakub KARAS, Radek NETUŠIL, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ a Martin VÁCHA. How swift is Cry-mediated magnetoreception? Conditioning in an American cockroach shows sub-second response. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Frontiers Research Foundation, roč. 12, č. 107, s. 1-10. ISSN 1662-5153. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00107. 2018. info
• NETUŠIL, Radek, Tomáš PECKA a Martin VÁCHA. Weak radiofrequency fields rather cancel than only modify the magnetic navigation of insects. In Spatial Cognition 2018 Tuebingen. 2018. info
• NETUŠIL, Radek, Tomáš PECKA a Martin VÁCHA. Vliv radiofrekvenčních polí na magnetorecepci hmyzu. In Zoologické dny 2017. 2017. info
• PECKA, Tomáš, Radek NETUŠIL, Pavel SLABÝ, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ a Martin VÁCHA. Magnetorecepce hmyzu funguje i při červeném světle. In Zoologické dny 2017. 2017. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. Magnetoreception of invertebrates. In John H. Byrne. The Oxford Handbook of Invertebrate Neurobiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. s. 1-40. ISBN 978-0-19-045675-7. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456757.013.16. 2017. info
• BAZALOVÁ, Olga, Markéta KVÍČALOVÁ, Tereza VÁLKOVÁ, Pavel SLABÝ, Přemysl BARTOŠ, Radek NETUŠIL, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ, Peter BRAEUNIG, How-Jing LEE, Ivo ŠAUMAN, Milena DAMULEWICZ, Jan PROVAZNIK, Richard POKORNY, David DOLEZEL a Martin VÁCHA. Cryptochrome 2 mediates directional magnetoreception in cockroaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. WASHINGTON: National Academy of Sciences, roč. 113, č. 6, s. 1660-1665. ISSN 0027-8424. doi:10.1073/pnas.1518622113. 2016. info
• NETUŠIL, Radek, Pavel SLABÝ, Přemysl BARTOŠ, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ, Jakub KARAS a Martin VÁCHA. Magnetically induced freezing in cockroach. Effect of interstimulus interval. In RIN 16 Orientation & Navigation. 2016. info
• TOMANOVÁ, Kateřina a Martin VÁCHA. The magnetic orientation of the Antarctic amphipod Gondogeneia antarctica is cancelled by very weak radiofrequency fields. Journal of Experimental Biology. CAMBRIDGE: COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, roč. 219, č. 11, s. 1717-1724. ISSN 0022-0949. doi:10.1242/jeb.132878. 2016. info
• SLABÝ, Pavel, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ a Martin VÁCHA. Cattle on pastures do align along the North–South axis, but the alignment depends on herd density. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. roč. 199, č. 8, s. 695-701. ISSN 0340-7594. doi:10.1007/s00359-013-0827-5. 2013. info
• VÁLKOVÁ, Tereza a Martin VÁCHA. How do honeybees use their magnetic compass? Can they see the North? Bulletin of Entomological Research. roč. 102, č. 4, s. 461-467. ISSN 0007-4853. doi:10.1017/S0007485311000824. 2012. info
• VÁCHA, Martin, Markéta KVÍČALOVÁ a Tereza VÁLKOVÁ. American cockroaches prefer four cardinal geomagnetic positions at rest. Behaviour. roč. 147, č. 4, s. 425-440. ISSN 0005-7959. 2010. info
• VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ a Markéta KVÍČALOVÁ. Radiofrequency magnetic fields disrupt magnetoreception in American cockroach. Journal of Experimental Biology. roč. 212, č. 21, s. 3473-3477. ISSN 0022-0949. 2009. info
• VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ a Dana DRŠTKOVÁ. Ablation of Antennae Does Not Disrupt Magnetoreceptive Behavioural Reaction of the American Cockroach to Periodically Rotated Geomagnetic Field. Neuroscience Letters. Elsevier, roč. 435, č. 2, s. 103-107. ISSN 0304-3940. 2008. info
• VÁCHA, Martin, Dana DRŠTKOVÁ a Tereza PŮŽOVÁ. Tenebrio beetles use magnetic inclination compass. Naturwissenschaften. roč. 95, č. 8, s. 761-765. ISSN 0028-1042. 2008. info
• VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ a Dana DRŠTKOVÁ. Effect of light spectrum wavelength on magnetic compass orientation in Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. roč. 194, x, s. 853-859. ISSN 0340-7594. 2008. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. Tenebrio beetle pupae show a conditioned behavioural response to pulse rotations of a geomagnetic field. Journal of Physiological Entomology. roč. 32, č. 4, s. 336-342. ISSN 0307-6962. 2007. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. Laboratory behavioural assay of insect magnetoreception: magnetosensitivity of Periplaneta americana. Journal of Experimental Biology. roč. 209, č. 19, s. 3897-3901. ISSN 0022-0949. 2006. info
• VÁCHA, Martin a Helena NEJEZCHLEBOVÁ. Magnetic orientation in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor and the effect of light. The Journal of Experimental Biology. roč. 207, č. 7, s. 1241-1248. ISSN 0022-0949. 2004. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. The influence of static, homogenous magnetic field (B=320mT) on extracardiac pulsations of Tenebrio molitor pupae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). J. Insect. Physiol. roč. 43, č. 11, s. 629-636. ISSN 0022-1910. 1997. info
• VÁCHA, Martin. Magnetic orientation in insects. Biologia. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, roč. 52, č. 5, s. 629-636. ISSN 0006-3088. 1997. info

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