Past presidents
Prof. Tomáš Kalina, M.D., Ph.D.
2nd Medical School, Charles University, Prague
President 2011–2019
Committee member since 2009
Prof. Ing. Jaroslav Doležel, DrSc.
Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Olomouc
President 2007–2011
Vice-president since 2011
Committee member since 2001
Prof. RNDr. Alois Kozubík, CSc.
Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
President 2001–2007
Honorary president since 2007
Committee member 2001–2013
Prof. Tomáš Kalina, M.D., Ph.D.
I am currently a Professor at the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charles University in Prague, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Czech Republic. I graduated MD in 2000 from the 2nd Medical School, Charles University Prague and started my research and diagnostic carrier in Prague (leukemia diagnostics and biology) and continued on a postdoctoral fellowship at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA (immune reconstitution post-BMT). I received PhD from Immunology in 2005. I was awarded "ISAC Scholar" in 2010. Throughout my career I have been working with various flow cytometry based techniques (leukemia phenotyping, minimal residual disease monitoring, immune monitoring, immunodeficiency, bead-based affinity proteomics, mass cytometry, algorithmic data analysis). I developed CDMaps repository of antigen density over human cell subsets (hcdm.org). I am a founding member of EuroFlow consortium (EuroFlow.org) where I am responsible for coordination of the technical aspects, design of flow cytometry procedures and Quality Assesment. I have authored 117 research publications, delivered over 40 invited lectures and lectured numerous educational workshops.
prof. RNDr. Alois Kozubík, CSc.
He graduated from the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, specializing in animal physiology (1972–1977). Between 1981 and 1984, he earned the title of Candidate of Sciences (CSc.) in the field of biophysics at the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno, where he worked from 1994 to 2016 as the head of the Cytokinetics Department, which he founded and developed with his colleagues.
In 2000, he qualified as an associate professor in the field of animal physiology and in 2011 as a professor in the field of molecular biology at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. Within the Institute of Experimental Biology, he served as the head of the Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology (2005-2018) and for more than 25 years as a university lecturer. He supervised a total of 16 PhD students (advisor to 9), 21 master's students, and 9 bachelor's students.
He was a member of various professional committees, field boards, and committees for state master's, final, and doctoral exams at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, and elsewhere. As an acknowledgment of his scientific and pedagogical contributions, he received the Gold Medal of P. J. Šafárik University for his significant contribution to the development and formation of biological research at the Faculty of Science, UPJŠ Košice.
In his professional field, he focused on anticancer therapy, cellular physiology and pathophysiology (toxicology); cellular signaling in the regulation of proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis (tissue homeostasis) in normal and transformed cell populations; and the role of polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolites (eicosanoids) in signal transduction induced by cytokines and growth factors.
The results of more than 20 grants from the Czech Science Foundation, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the European Social Fund, the Fund for the Development of Universities, and the Czech Technological Agency, of which A. Kozubík was the principal investigator or co-investigator, also led to practical outcomes. In total, A. Kozubík is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in renowned international journals, more than 450 presentations and scientific communications at domestic and international conferences, 2 chapters in foreign monographs, 4 invited review articles, and about 20 invited lectures at conferences. He is a co-author of several Czech and foreign patents.
A. Kozubík was one of the founders and the first president (2002-2007) of the Czech Society for Analytical Cytology (ČSAC). He was a member of several other international scientific societies, a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, SR (2004-2007), a member of the board of the VÚVeL Institute, vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute of Biophysics, and a member of several other scientific organizations. He served as the chairman of the subcommittee and committee of the Czech Science Foundation and as a foreign expert and member of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) until 2012.
As a science organizer, he was a member of the organizing and program committee of several international conferences, such as the main organizer of the Analytical Cytometry conferences I (2001), II (2003), IV (2007), and VII (2013), and co-organizer of the conferences III (2005) and VII (2011). He was also a co-organizer of the EMBO workshop "Mitochondria, Apoptosis and Cancer," held in Prague in 2009.
Prof. Ing. Jaroslav Doležel, DrSc.
Jaroslav Doležel is a senior researcher at the Center for Plant Structural and Functional Genomics of the Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc and a professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Palacký University in Olomouc. His research focuses on the organization, function and evolution of plant genomes. Among other he pioneered the development of methods for flow cytometric estimation of ploidy and genome size and for flow cytometric chromosome sorting - the method which facilitates genome sequencing and gene cloning in agricultural crops with complex genomes. J. Doležel published over 350 papers in scientific journals cited over 25,000 times (h-index 71), and edited three books. He is a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and received prestigious awards for his scientific achievements, including the National Prize of the Government of the Czech Republic "Czech Mind" - the highest scientific award in the Czech Republic awarded annually to one scientist.