Petr Rab, Prof., DSc.



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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: +420 315 639 546
Fax: +420 315 639 510
E-mail: rab@iapg.cas.cz

 curriculum vitae

1969 - 1974 graduated from Czech University of Agriculture, fisheries biology
1974 - 1981 postgraduate Ph. D. in fish cytogenetics in IAPG CZAS, Libechov, PhD Thesis: Cytogenetic studies in some species of cyprinid fishes in Czechoslovakia.
1981 - 1986 research assistent
1986 - 1991 senior researcher
1991 - 1994 head of Laboratory of Fish Genetics, IAPG AS CR
1994 - 2002 director of IAPG
1995 Doctoral Thesis Cytogenetic Studies of Selected Holarctic Freshwater Fish Groups.
2002 – present head of DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Laboratory of Fish Genetics, IAPG AS CR
2004 – present member of Academy Council

 specialization

fish cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy/karyosystematics, chromosome evolution (especially of freshwater holarktic groups), unisexual fish groups, fish genetic conservation, chromosome banding in lower vertebrates, fish molecular cytogenetics

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 awards

1998 – Purkyne´s Award of the journal ZIVA – the best paper of the year.

 selected reviewed articles

All publications via PubMed