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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 and David DOLEZEL. Steroid receptor coactivator TAIMAN is a new modulator of insect circadian clock. PLoS Genetics. San Francisco: Public Library Science, 2023, vol. 19, No 9, p. 1-25. ISSN 1553-7404. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010924. URL info
  • BRIEDIKOVÁ, Kristína, Juraj MARKUS and Martin VÁCHA. Nedávajte si k hodinkám magnet: vplyv magnetického poľa na cirkadiánny rytmus (Don't put a magnet on your watch: the effect of magnetic fields on circadian rhythms). In 49th Ethological Conference Brno November 3rd – 6th. 2022. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. Invertebrate Magnetoreception – In Between Orientation and General Sensitivity. Online. In Fritzsch, B. and Bleckmann, H. The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. 2nd ed. Academic Press: Elsevier, 2020, p. 445-458. ISBN 978-0-12-805408-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24159-X. URL info
  • BARTOŠ, Přemysl, Pavel SLABÝ, Radek NETUŠIL, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ, David DOLEŽEL and 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 and Martin VÁCHA. Weak radiofrequency fields affect the insect circadian clock. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. LONDON: ROYAL SOC, 2019, vol. 16, No 158, p. 1-4. ISSN 1742-5689. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0285. URL info
  • SLABÝ, Pavel, Přemysl BARTOŠ, Jakub KARAS, Radek NETUŠIL, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ and Martin VÁCHA. How swift is Cry-mediated magnetoreception? Conditioning in an American cockroach shows sub-second response. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Frontiers Research Foundation, 2018, vol. 12, No 107, p. 1-10. ISSN 1662-5153. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00107. URL info
  • NETUŠIL, Radek, Tomáš PECKA and 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 and Martin VÁCHA. Vliv radiofrekvenčních polí na magnetorecepci hmyzu (Impact of radiofrequency fields on magnetoreception in insects). In Zoologické dny 2017. 2017. info
  • PECKA, Tomáš, Radek NETUŠIL, Pavel SLABÝ, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ and Martin VÁCHA. Magnetorecepce hmyzu funguje i při červeném světle (Magnetoreception in insects operates under red light). In Zoologické dny 2017. 2017. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. Magnetoreception of invertebrates. Online. In John H. Byrne. The Oxford Handbook of Invertebrate Neurobiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 1-40. ISBN 978-0-19-045675-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190456757.013.16. 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 and 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, 2016, vol. 113, No 6, p. 1660-1665. ISSN 0027-8424. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518622113. info
  • NETUŠIL, Radek, Pavel SLABÝ, Přemysl BARTOŠ, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ, Jakub KARAS and Martin VÁCHA. Magnetically induced freezing in cockroach. Effect of interstimulus interval. In RIN 16 Orientation & Navigation. 2016. info
  • TOMANOVÁ, Kateřina and 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, 2016, vol. 219, No 11, p. 1717-1724. ISSN 0022-0949. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.132878. info
  • SLABÝ, Pavel, Kateřina TOMANOVÁ and Martin VÁCHA. Cattle on pastures do align along the North–South axis, but the alignment depends on herd density. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 2013, vol. 199, No 8, p. 695-701. ISSN 0340-7594. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-013-0827-5. info
  • VÁLKOVÁ, Tereza and Martin VÁCHA. How do honeybees use their magnetic compass? Can they see the North? Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2012, vol. 102, No 4, p. 461-467. ISSN 0007-4853. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485311000824. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Markéta KVÍČALOVÁ and Tereza VÁLKOVÁ. American cockroaches prefer four cardinal geomagnetic positions at rest. Behaviour. 2010, vol. 147, No 4, p. 425-440. ISSN 0005-7959. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ and Markéta KVÍČALOVÁ. Radiofrequency magnetic fields disrupt magnetoreception in American cockroach. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2009, vol. 212, No 21, p. 3473-3477. ISSN 0022-0949. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ and Dana DRŠTKOVÁ. Ablation of Antennae Does Not Disrupt Magnetoreceptive Behavioural Reaction of the American Cockroach to Periodically Rotated Geomagnetic Field. Neuroscience Letters. Elsevier, 2008, vol. 435, No 2, p. 103-107. ISSN 0304-3940. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Dana DRŠTKOVÁ and Tereza PŮŽOVÁ. Tenebrio beetles use magnetic inclination compass. Naturwissenschaften. 2008, vol. 95, No 8, p. 761-765. ISSN 0028-1042. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin, Tereza PŮŽOVÁ and Dana DRŠTKOVÁ. Effect of light spectrum wavelength on magnetic compass orientation in Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 2008, vol. 194, x, p. 853-859. ISSN 0340-7594. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. Tenebrio beetle pupae show a conditioned behavioural response to pulse rotations of a geomagnetic field. Journal of Physiological Entomology. 2007, vol. 32, No 4, p. 336-342. ISSN 0307-6962. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. Laboratory behavioural assay of insect magnetoreception: magnetosensitivity of Periplaneta americana. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2006, vol. 209, No 19, p. 3897-3901. ISSN 0022-0949. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin and Helena NEJEZCHLEBOVÁ. Magnetic orientation in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor and the effect of light. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 2004, vol. 207, No 7, p. 1241-1248. ISSN 0022-0949. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. The influence of static, homogenous magnetic field (B=320mT) on extracardiac pulsations of Tenebrio molitor pupae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). J. Insect. Physiol. 1997, vol. 43, No 11, p. 629-636. ISSN 0022-1910. info
  • VÁCHA, Martin. Magnetic orientation in insects. Biologia. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1997, vol. 52, No 5, p. 629-636. ISSN 0006-3088. info

2024/03/05

Curriculum vitae Martin Vácha, Ph.D.: doc. RNDr. Martin Vácha, Ph.D. (učo 1376), version: English(1), last update: 2024/03/05 10:41, M. Vácha