Degrees Earned
PhD. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut – 2011
M.S. Biology, John Carroll University – 2006
B.S. Biology, University of South Bohemia – 2004
Courses Taught
Organic Evolution (BIO 320)
Plant Biology (BIO 230 + laboratory)
Bioinformatics (BIO 260 + laboratory)
Concepts in Biology (BIO 160 + laboratory)
Publications & Editorships
Neupane S, Fučíková K, Lewis LA, Kuo L, Chen M-H, Lewis PO. In press. Assessing combinability of phylogenomic data using Bayes factors. Systematic Biology.
Kaštovský J, Fučíková K, Veselá J, Brewer-Carías C, Vegas-Vilarrúbia T. In press. Algae. In Biodiversity of Pantepui: the pristine ‘Lost World’ of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands [Eds. Rull V, Vegas Vilarrúbia T, Huber O, Señaris J]. Elsevier, Cambridge, USA.
Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Neupane S, Karol KG, Lewis LA. Order, please! 2019. Uncertainty in the ordinal-level classification of Chlorophyceae. PeerJ 7: e6899.
Greguske E, Nadeau A, Fitzmeyer E, Fučíková K. 2018. Genome annotation of Bacillus phage Saddex. Microbiology Resource Announcements 7: e01044-18.
Saber AA, Fučíková K, McManus HA, Guella G, Cantonati M. 2018. Novel green algal isolates from the Egyptian hyper-arid desert oases: a polyphasic approach with a description of Pharao desertorum gen. et sp. nov. (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 54: 342-357.
McManus HA, Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Lewis LA, Karol KG. 2018. Organellar phylogenomics inform systematics in the green algal family Hydrodictyaceae (Chlorophyceae) and provide clues to the complex evolutionary history of plastid genomes in the green algal Tree of Life. American Journal of Botany 105: 315–329. Invited article for the special issue: Using and Navigating the Plant Tree of Life.
Štenclová L, Fučíková K, Kaštovský J, Pažoutová M. 2017. Molecular and morphological delimitation and generic classification of the family Oocystaceae. Journal of Phycology 53: 1253-1282.
Fučíková K, Lewis LA, Lewis PO. 2016. Comparative analyses of chloroplast genome data representing nine green algae in Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Data in Brief 7: 558–570.
Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Lewis LA. 2016. Chloroplast phylogenomic data from the green algal order Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) reveal complex patterns of sequence evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 98: 176–183.
Watanabe S, Fučíková K, Lewis LA, Lewis PO. 2016. Hiding in plain sight: Koshicola spirodelophila gen. et sp. nov. (Chaetopeltidales, Chlorophyceae), a novel green alga associated with the aquatic angiosperm Spirodela polyrhiza. American Journal of Botany 103: 865–875.
Lewis PO, Chen M-H, Kuo L, Lewis LA, Fučíková K, Neupane S, Wang Y-B, Shi D. 2016. Estimating Bayesian phylogenetic information content. Systematic Biology 65: 1009–1023.
Kaštovský J, Veselá J, Bohunická M, Fučíková K, Štenclová L, Brewer-Carías C. I 2016. New species of cyanobacteria, green algae and diatoms from the table mountain Churí-tepui, Chimantá Massif (Venezuela). Phytotaxa 247: 153–180.
Fučíková K, Lahr DJG. 2016. Uncovering cryptic diversity in two amoebozoan species using complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 63: 112-122.
Fučíková K, Johansen JR, Hall JD. 2015. Contribution to the desmid flora of Southeastern Maine. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 142: 166-178.
Rangel TF, Colwell RK, Graves GR, Fučíková K, Rahbek C, Diniz-Filho JAF. 2015. Phylogenetic Uncertainty Revisited: Implications for Ecological Analyses. Evolution 69: 1301–1312.
Fučíková K, Pažoutová M, Rindi F. 2015. Meiotic genes and sexual reproduction in the green algal class Trebouxiophyceae (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 51: 419-430.
Fučíková K. 2015. A new record of the rare freshwater red alga Tuomeya americana (Batrachospermaceae, Rhodophyta) from Connecticut. Rhodora 117: 342-353.
Varol M., Fučíková K. 2015. Four new records for the freshwater algae of Turkey. Journal of Limnology and Freshwater Fisheries Research 1: 83-88.
Farwagi A, Fučíková K, McManus HA. 2015. Phylogenetic patterns of gene rearrangements in four mitochondria genomes from the green algal family Hydrodictyaceae (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae). BMC Genomics 16: 826.
Urban M, Lewis LA, Fučíková K, *Cordone A. 2015. Population of origin and environment interact to determine oomycete infections in spotted salamander populations. Oikos 124: 274-284.
Fučíková K. 2015. A new record of the rare alga Pachycladella (Chlorophyceae) in New England. PhytoKeys 56: 19-27.
Fučíková K, Lewis PO, González-Halphen D, Lewis LA. 2014. Gene arrangement convergence, diverse intron content, and genetic code modifications in mitochondrial genomes of Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyta). Genome Biology and Evolution 6: 2170-2180.
Fučíková K, Leliaert F, Cooper ED, Škaloud P, D’Hondt S, De Clerck O, Gurgel CFD, Lewis LA, Lewis PO, Lopez-Bautista JM, Delwiche CF, Verbruggen H. 2014. New phylogenetic hypotheses for the core Chlorophyta based on chloroplast sequence data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2: 63.
Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Lewis LA. 2014. Putting incertae sedis taxa in their place: a proposal for ten new families and three new genera in the Sphaeropleales. Journal of Phycology 50: 14-25, selected for Algae Highlight.
Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Lewis LA. 2014. Widespread desert affiliations of trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) including discovery of three new desert genera. Phycological Research 62: 294-305.
Fučíková K, Flechtner VR, Lewis LA. 2013. Revision of the genus Bracteacoccus Tereg (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on a phylogenetic approach. Nova Hedwigia: 96:15–59.
Tippery NP, Fučíková K, Lewis PO, Lewis LA. 2012. Probing the monophyly of the Sphaeropleales (Chlorophyceae) using data from five genes. Journal of Phycology 48: 1482–1493.
McManus HA, Lewis LA, Fučíková K, Haugen P. 2012. Invasion of protein coding genes by green algal ribosomal group I introns. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62:109-116.
Fučíková K, Lewis LA. 2012. Intersection of Chorella, Muriella and Bracteacoccus: Resurrecting the genus Chromochloris Kol & Chodat (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Fottea 12:83-93.
Rodríguez-Salinas E, Li Z, Fučíková K, Lewis LA, Brand JJ, González-Halphen D. 2012. Lineage-specific fragmentation and nuclear relocation of the mitochondrial cox2 gene in green algae (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64:166–176.
Fučíková K, *Rada JC, Lukešová A, Lewis LA. 2011. Cryptic diversity within the genus Pseudomuriella Hanagata (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae, Sphaeropleales) assessed using four barcode markers. Nova Hedwigia 93:29-46.
Bohunická M, Johansen JR, Fučíková K. 2011. Tapinothrix clintonii sp. nov. (Pseudanabaenaceae, Cyanobacteria), a new species at the nexus of five genera. Fottea 11:127-140.
Kaštovský J, Fučíková K, Hauer T, Bohunická M. 2011. Microvegetation on the top of Mt. Roraima, Venezuela. Fottea 11:171-186.
Fučíková K, *Rada JC, Lewis LA. 2011. The tangled taxonomic history of Dictyococcus, Bracteacoccus, and Pseudomuriella (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) and their distinction based on a phylogenetic perspective. Phycologia 50:422-429.
Johansen JR, Kováčik L, Casamatta DA, Fučíková K, Kaštovský J. 2011. Utility of 16S-23S ITS sequence and secondary structure for recognition of intrageneric and intergeneric limits within cyanobacterial taxa: Leptolyngbya corticola sp. nov. (Pseudanabaenaceae, Cyanobacteria). Nova Hedwigia 92:283-302.
Hall JD, Fučíková K, *Lo C, Lewis LA, Karol KG. 2010. An assessment of proposed DNA barcodes in freshwater green algae. Cryptogamie-Algologie 31: 529-555.
Fučíková K, Kaštovský J. 2009. Vincularia roraimae (Zygnematophyceae, Desmidiales), gen. et sp. nov. from the top of Mt. Roraima, Venezuela. Nova Hedwigia 88:49-56.
Fučíková K, Hall JD, Johansen JR, Lowe RL. 2008. Bibliotheca Phycologica 113: Desmid flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart. 59 pp.
Johansen JR, Olsen CE, Lowe RL, Fučíková K, Casamatta DA. 2008. Leptolyngbya species from selected seep walls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Algological Studies 126:21-36.
Johansen JR, Lowe RL, Carty S, Fučíková K, Olsen CE, *Fitzpatrick MH, Ress JA, Furey PC. 2007. New algal species records for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with an annotated checklist of all reported algal taxa for the park. Southeastern Naturalist 6(sp1):99-134.
Johansen JR, Fučíková K, *Fitzpatrick MH, Lowe RL. 2005. The red algal genus Rhodospora (Bangiophycidae, Rhodophyta): first report from North America. Journal of Phycology 41:1281-1283.
Fučíková K. 2015. Komu se nelení, tomu se červení: zelená řasa Trentepohlia na Vysočině. Sborník Muzejního Spolku v Třešti. 1/205: 28-31. (in Czech)
Farkas T, Fučíková K, Caskenette A, Cisneros L, Medina R, Sezen U, Wade E. 2015. UConn BioBlitz 2015 Post-Blitz Report. Connecticut Wildlife 35: 14-15.
Invited Presentations
2017. Green algae out of their element (or are they?). Symposium on terrestrial algae at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Monterey, CA.
2017. Fantastic algae and where to find them. Biology Department Seminar Series, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
2016. Deciphering DNA: Tackling fundamental questions about algae using bioinformatics. Minority Biomedical Research Support seminar, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA.
2014. Mitochondrial genome evolution in green algae: a balance between variation and conservation. Botany Dept., University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2013. Big words, small critters: mitochondrial peculiarities of the Chlorophyceae. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
2013. Some Assembly Required: the Green Algal Tree of Life. International Phycological Congress, Orlando, FL.
2009. Ecological, Activist & Community Involvement – Opening plenary speaker, 21st Annual Conference on Women & Gender, Storrs, CT.
Presentations
2016. Deciphering DNA: Tackling fundamental questions about algae using bioinformatics. Minority Biomedical Research Support seminar, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA.
2014. Mitochondrial genome evolution in green algae: a balance between variation and conservation. Botany Dept., University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2013. Big words, small critters: mitochondrial peculiarities of the Chlorophyceae. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
2013. Some Assembly Required: the Green Algal Tree of Life. International Phycological Congress, Orlando, FL.
2009. Ecological, Activist & Community Involvement – Opening plenary speaker, 21st Annual Conference on Women & Gender, Storrs, CT.
Other Conference Presentations
2019 Northeast Algal Symposium, Salem, MA (poster with undergrad coauthor Aleeza Isaac ‘20).
2018 Northeast Algal Symposium, New Haven, CT (poster), Phycological Society of America/International Society of Protistologists, Vancouver, BC, Canada (poster with undergrad coauthor Melissa Taylor ‘18).
2017 Northeast Algal Symposium, Carroll, NH (poster).
2015 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vienna, Austria.
2014 Northeast Algal Symposium, Newport, RI; Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR.
2012 Phycological Society of America, Charleston, SC; Northeast Algal Symposium, Winter Harbor, ME.
2011 Phycological Society of America, Seattle, WA.
2010 Evolution 2010, Portland, OR; Phycological Society of America, East Lansing, MI; Northeast Algal Symposium, Bristol, RI.
2009 International Phycological Congress, Tokyo, Japan (poster).
2008 Graduate Research Symposium, Storrs, CT.
2007 Northeast Algal Symposium, Narragansett, RI.
2005 Microscopical Society of Northeast Ohio, University Heights, OH (poster).
2004 All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, Gatlinburg TN (poster).
Grants and Awards
2019. $1,000 Mehrhoff Research Award (New England Botanical Club)
$4,000 Faculty Development Grant (Assumption College)
2018. $7,000 Honors Research Summer Fellowship (Assumption College)
$2,000 Natural History Research Grant (Western North American Naturalist)
2017. $4,500 Faculty Development Grant (Assumption College)
2015. $1013 Mehrhoff Research Award (New England Botanical Club)
2011. $400 Hoshaw Travel Award (Phycological Society of America)
2008. $1400 Civic Engagement Grant (CT Campus Compact): awarded to “Green Grads”
2005. $100 Best graduate student poster (Microscopical Society of Northeast Ohio)
Professional Affiliations
Member: New England Botanical Club, Phycological Society of America, Northeast Algal Society.
Reviewer: American Journal of Botany, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Nova Hedwigia, Journal of Phycology, Phycologia,
Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, Phytotaxa, Phytokeys, PLoS One, Algae, Fottea.
Section Editor: Phytotaxa (2016-2018).