In this issue, we feature an interview with the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR), Prof. Jiří Drahoš. The interview focuses on funding science and research at AS CR and the methodology that has become the universal tool for distributing money to the whole Czech science as a whole. On the basis of this government-conceived tool, the institutional financial grant for the AS CR should be reduced by about 50 percent by 2012. and Marina Hužvárová.
The paper addresses the history of Czech psychology with special emphasis on the history of psychology both at universities and at specialized research institutes. The authors deal with the pre-history and origins of Czech psychology as well as the development of psychology after establishing the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, including the beginnings of work and organizational psychology as psychotechnics. The autors base the article mainly on works of the historiographer of psychology Jiří Hoskovec, and they want to pay tribute to his work with this article. At the end also the current state of psychology - existing associations, journals and main trends in Czech psychology are introduced., Článek se věnuje historii psychologie v ČR se zaměřením na rozvoj oboru v rámci univerzit a výzkumných institucí. Autoři se zabývají starší historií a původem české psychologie v jiných oborech. Dále je popsán vývoj české psychologie po roce 1918 v rámci Československé republiky, kdy se rozvíjela psychologie práce a také psychotechnika. Článek vychází z prací historiografa psychologie J. Hoskovce, kterému tímto článkem chceme vzdát hold. V závěru je shrnut současný stav psychologie a jmenujeme existující asociace, vydávané časopisy a hlavní trendy české psychologie., Daniel Heller, Simona Hoskovcová., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
Plant virology department of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is successful in description and sequencing of mycoviruses and plant viruses, recently. Most of the newly described viruses have unique genome organization and did not induce disease symptoms in their plant of fungal hosts, respectively. By contrast, some mycoviruses debilitate their hosts and are promising as tools for biological control of harmful fungi. and Karel Petrzik, Ondřej Lenz.