Petr Kotlik, Dr., PhD.



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DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Laboratory of Fish Genetics

Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, v.v.i.

Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic

Rumburska 89

277 21 Libechov

Czech Republic



Phone: +420 315 639 545
Fax: +420 315 639 510
E-mail: kotlik@iapg.cas.cz

 curriculum vitae

1991 - 1993Bachelor; Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague
1993 - 1996Magister, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague
1998 – 1999researcher, department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague
1999 – presentresearcher, Laboratory of Fish Genetics, IAPG AS CR, Libechov
2000 - 2001Docteur du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle; 2001; Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France „Phylogeographie et systematique des barbeaux d'Europe Centrale - Ph. D. thesis, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

 specialization

My major area of research is the evolutionary response of organisms to global climate change, which I study using a variety of species, especially fishes, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals and crustaceans. My collaborators and I have shown that some temperate species survived in glacial refugia that were located distinctly north of the traditionally recognized southern refugia, in areas of locally more favourable climate within regions of generally unfavourable climate. In ongoing projects, my students, collaborators and I are studying the importance and genetic basis of evolutionary adaptations that species have acquired to survive in such northern’ refugia.

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