CURRICULUM VITAE
Citations (Web of Science)Selected lectures at international conferences
Sum of Times Cited: 767, h-index: 18
Conference “Measuring Behaviour 2005” – Invited lecture - Wageningen, The Netherlands, September 2005 - Symposium “Innovative use of the water maze to assess neurocognitive abilities in laboratory rodents”.
Lecture title “Stuchlik A., Bures J.: Application of variants of the Place Avoidance task as alternatives to the Morris Water Maze in the study of spatial cognition in rodents.”
World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, June 2011, Prague, CR, Free oral communication Genetic Neurodevelopmental Models in Biological Psychiatry: A Study of Hippocampus-Dependent Learning in Rats with Neuronal Nogo-A Knockdown
International C.I.A.N.S. Conference 2012 - lecture: Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of the rat HXB/BXH recombinant inbred strains reveals genetic determinants of spatial learning and behavioral flexibility in active place avoidance task, Stará Lesná, Slovakia, 2012
BEHAVIOUR 2013 (Newcastle , England) – organizer of symposium and a talk: Spatial memory and cognitive control deficits in animal models of brain disorders.
FENS FRM Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013- Place navigation in moving world and animal models of brain disorders - Talk at the Symposium dedicated to Jan Bures.
Psychopharmacology Congress, Susesi resort, Antalya, Turkey, 2014
2 short lectures: 1) Neural substrate of place navigation in the moving world: brain circuits and dynamic tasks
2) Modeling schizophrenia: Effects of a psychotomimetic MK-801 on behavioral flexibility and working memory in rats
57th Conference of Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society, Jesenik, January 2015
Organization of a symposium: From animal models to schizophrenia patients: cognitive deficit, coordination, hypersynchrony and functional imaging
- Lecture at the symposium: Disruptions of cognitive functions in animal models of schizophrenia.
Scientific functions
2005-2007 - Member of Network Governing Council, TEDDY Network of Excellence (EU, FP6)
2012- Member of Editorial Board "Neuroscience Journal&rdquo", ISSN: 2314-4262
2012- Member of Editorial board of Academy of Science Czech Republic
2013- Member of Editorial board for "American Journal of Biomedical Research", ISSN: 2328-3947
2013- Member of Doctorate Program Council – Animal Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University
2014- Member of Network Scientific Committee (NSC), TEDDY Network
2014- Guest Associate Editor and Review Editor, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, IF = 4,2
2014- Member of Editorial Board “Timing & Time Perception Reviews”, Brill
2016- Member of the Committee for Doctoral Dissertations (DSc.) in Zoology and Animal Physiology
Selected grant projects
Czech Science Foundation grant 309/07/0341 – Behavioral pharmacology of spatial cognition and its application in studies of experimental model of schizophrenia – finished, evaluated as excellent
EU- FP6 - TEDDY Network of Excellence (EU) - Task-force in Europe for Drug Development for the Young (2005-2010) - member of the Network´s Governing Council
Czech Science Foundation grant 309/09/0286 - 2009-2011 Spatial cognition in stable and dynamic environments: behavioral tasks and neural mechanisms - (principal investigator)
Czech Science Foundation grant P303-10-J032 (bilateral grant with CRT Dresden) 2010-2012 RNDr. Genetic factors linking metabolism, adult neurogenesis and behavior. (principal investigator)
IGA MZ ČR NT13386 2012-2015: Development of diagnostic tests for a cognitive deficit in schizophrenic patients based on study of spatial navigation deficit in an animal model of the disease.
Program of internal support of bilateral cooperation Academy of Sciences ČR M200111204 - 2012-2015: Role of adult neurogenesis in behavioral separation and prevention of interference of memory traces.(A. Stuchlik-G. Kempermann)
Czech Science Foundation grant GACR 14-03627S
- Hippocampus, neocortex, and navigation in the moving world: from structures to neurons
Grant KONTAKT II (AMVIA) - LH14053 (bilateral grant with Prof. WH Meck, Duke University, Durham)
- Fourth dimension in space? Integration of temporal and spatial processing in the brain
Agency for Medical Research - AZV 15-34524A Pathophysiological constituents of neuronal circuits in OCD: Translational study targeting glutamatergic regulation in the anterior cingulate cortex
Selected awards
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) 40th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Contribution in Early Scientific Career) – awarded in July 2008.
Award of the President of the Czech Science Foundation 2010 for a project: „Behavioral pharmacology of spatial cognition and its application in experimental model of schizophrenia“ (2007-2009)
Books
E-Book: Stuchlik, A., Sumiyoshi, T., eds. (2015).
Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia and other Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Convergence of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence.
Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-679-1
Book chapters
Fajnerová I, Vlček K, Brom C, Dvorská K, Levčík D, Konrádová L, Mikoláš P, Ungrmanová M, Bída M, Blahna K, Španiel F, Stuchlík A, Horáček J, Rodriguez M.:
Virtual Spatial Navigation Tests Based on Animal Research: Spatial Cognition Deficit in First Episodes of Schizophrenia.
Book chapter in: Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation. Paul M Sharkey & Joav Merrick (eds), Nova Publishing. Hauppauge NY, USA,, ISBN: 978-1-63484-027-9.
Nekovarova T, Stuchlik A, Vales K, Rambousek L, Sumiyoshi T:
Cognitive Deficits in Pharmacological Rodent Models of Schizophrenia: Evaluation of Spatial Cognition: In "Schizophrenia Research: Recent Advances"
Editors: Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Nova Publishing, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-61942-459-3
Stuchlik A, Petrasek T, Hatalová H, Rambousek L, Nekovarova T, Vales K:
Behavioral Tests for Evaluation of Information Processing and Cognitive Deficits in Rodent Animal Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Schizophrenia in the 21st Century, Dr. T.H.J. Burne (Ed.), 2012, ISBN: 978-953-51-0315-8, InTech, Rijeka
Patents
Czech Patent (ÚPV) - Pregnanolone derivatives substituted in position 3alpha, process for their preparation and use. 2012. Date: 25.01.2012. Patent No.: 303037
Czech Patent (ÚPV) - Pregnanolone derivatives substituted in position 3alpha with cationic group, process of their preparation, their use and composition containing them. Date: 02.08.2012. Patent No.: 303443
PCT patent application: Steroide anionic compounds, method of their production, usage and pharmaceutical preparation involving them
PCT patent application: Pregnanolone derivatives substituted in 3alpha-position with the cationic group, method of their production, usage and pharmacuetical preparation involving them - IP/0805/H
Public engagements:
More than 15 media contributions
4 lectures for public
Intensive activity of social networks (Groups): LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook
Teaching
Since 2009 I have been teaching a semester course "Neurobiology of Behavior and Memory" at the Faculty of Sciences, Charles University; Supervision of undergraduate and PhD students. (Faculty of Sciences, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University).
Voluntary Courses
Communication of Science by Means of Media: Organizer: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic January 2011-March 2011.
Coursera Course, Duke University, Course ”The Brain and Space” - passed with distinction.
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