I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Pecina

I.2 - Name

Lukáš

I.3 - Degrees

Mgr., PhD.

I.4 - Year of birth

1995

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

researcher

I.8 - E-mail address

lukas.pecina@uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/70012

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Biology

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8751-8755

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University Bratislava

II.b - Year

2018

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Systematical Biology

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University Bratislava

II.b - Year

2020

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Zoology

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University Bratislava

II.b - Year

2024

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Zoology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
researcher	Comenius University Bratislava	from 2024

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Protistology	Systematical Biology	I.	Biology

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Anatomy and morphology of animals	Biology, Systematical Biology	I.	Biology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Vďačný P., Érseková E., Šoltys K., Budiš J., Pecina L., Rurik I. (2018). Co-existence of multiple bacterivorous clevelandellid ciliate species in hindgut of wood-feeding cockroaches in light of their prokaryotic consortium. Scientific Reports 8: e17749.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2020). Two new endozoic ciliates, Clevelandella lynni sp. n. and Nyctotherus galerus sp. n., isolated from the hindgut of the wood-feeding cockroach Panesthia angustipennis (Illiger, 1801). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 67: 436–449.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2022). DNA barcoding and coalescent-based delimitation of endosymbiotic clevelandellid ciliates (Ciliophora: Clevelandellida): a shift to molecular taxonomy in the inventory of ciliate diversity in panesthiine cockroaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 1072–1102.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2023). 2D approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of clevelandellids (Ciliophora, Armophorea) inhabiting the hindgut of the Panesthiinae cockroaches. Zoologica Scripta 52: 662–687.

Pecina L., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2025). Macroevolutionary trends and diversification dynamics in the hindgut order Clevelandellida (Ciliophora, Armophorea). Zoologica Scripta 54: 253–269.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2020). Morphological versus molecular delimitation of ciliate species: a case study of the family Clevelandellidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Armophorea). European Journal of Taxonomy 697: 1–46.

Pecina L., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2025). Macroevolutionary trends and diversification dynamics in the hindgut order Clevelandellida (Ciliophora, Armophorea). Zoologica Scripta 54: 253–269.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Kišidayová S., Scholcová N., Mihaliková K., Váradyová Z., Pristaš P., Weisskopf S., Chrudimský T., Chroňáková A., Šimek M., Šustr V. (2023) Some Aspects of the Physiology of the Nyctotherus velox, a Commensal Ciliated Protozoon Taken from the Hindgut of the Tropical Millipede Archispirostreptus gigas. Life 13: e1110.

Costa F.S., Dias R.J.P., Rossi M.F. (2021). Macroevolutionary analyses of ciliates associated with hosts support high diversification rates. International Journal for Parasitology 51: 967–976.

da Silva Z.R.J., Cedrola F., Rossi M.F., Dias R.J.P. (2023). Ciliates in domestic ruminants in Africa and the first characterization of ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) in the rumen of domestic caprines of the Landim breed (Capra hircus L) from Mozambique. Symbiosis 90: 241–257.

Jahnes B.C., Sabree Z.L. (2020). Nutritional symbiosis and ecology of host-gut microbe systems in the Blattodea. Current opinion in insect science 39: 35–41.

Li S., Zhuang W., Perez-Uz B., Zhang Q., Hu X. (2021) Two Anaerobic Ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea) from China: Morphology and SSU rDNA Sequence, with Report of a New Species, Metopus paravestitus nov. spec. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 68: e12822.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

UK/164/2023 Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of ciliates of the order Clevelandellida isolated from the digestive tract of cockroaches using the secondary structures of rRNA molecules. Principal investigator.

UK/1124/2024 Reconstruction of the phylogeny of endobiotic ciliates of the order Clevelandellida with a focus on the search for an ancestral host and the evolution of rRNA molecules. Principal investigator.

APVV-19-0076 Diversity and evolution of selected groups of protists and animals. Co-investigator.

APVV-23-0015 Diversity, phylogeny and co-evolution of protists and helminths with their animal hosts. Co-investigator.

VEGA 1/0013/21 Evolution and diversity of ciliates associated with invertebrates. Co-investigator.

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2025-02-28

Name and surname:	Mgr. Lukáš Pecina, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava