Tomas Tyml, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems
Education
University of South Bohemia (Ph.D., Parasitology)
Other Appointments
Postdoc at the DOE’s Joint Genome Institute
(Tanja Woyke’s team)
https://jgi.doe.gov/our-science/scientists-jgi/single-cells/

Research Interests
Whether symbiotic associations have played an essential role in the evolution of life is no longer questioned. And yet, this phenomenon is mostly studied in relatively narrow and isolated directions on a limited number of model systems. Using traditional cultivation methods along with microcopy and new, cutting-edge single-cell techniques, I hope to broaden our understanding of the roles that these associations have played in the evolutionary history and diversity of life. My current research is primarily focused on these three projects:
1. How common are intracellular associations in so far neglected eukaryotic lineages?
2. Co-cultivation survey: a large-scale co-cultivation effort to access novel symbiotic taxa
3. Focusing on specific model systems to get a better mechanistic understanding of interactions between host and symbiont

Publications
Tyml, T., Date, S. V. & Woyke, T. 2019. A single-cell genome perspective on studying intracellular associations in unicellular eukaryotes. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 20190082.
Tyml, T. & Dyková, I. 2018. Sappinia sp. (Amoebozoa: Thecamoebida) and Rosculus sp. (SAR: Cercozoa) isolated from king penguin guano collected in the Subantarctic (South Georgia, Salisbury Plain) and their coexistence in culture. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 65:544–555.
Tyml, T., Lares-Jiménez, L. F., Kostka, M. & Dyková, I. 2017. Neovahlkampfia nana n. sp. strengthening an underrepresented subclade of Tetramitia, Heterolobosea. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 64:173–182.
Tyml, T., Skulinová, K., Kavan, J., Ditrich, O., Kostka, M. & Dyková, I. 2016. Heterolobosean amoebae from Arctic and Antarctic extremes: 18 novel strains of Allovahlkampfia, Vahlkampfia and Naegleria. Eur. J. Protistol., 56:119–133.
Schulz, F., Tyml, T., Pizzetti, I., Dyková, I., Fazi, S., Kostka, M., & Horn, M. 2015. Marine amoebae with cytoplasmic and perinuclear symbionts deeply branching in the Gammaproteobacteria. Sci. Rep., 5:13381.
For the full list, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=tyml+t