The team of the Laboratory of Applied Biochemistry of the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science USB led by J. Štěrba and the Mosquito Virus Interactions research group from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg under the leadership of Prof. E. Schnettler will start working together on the Czech-German GAČR-DFG project " Tick-borne flaviviral sfRNA as an important factor of viral infection pathogenesis in the human host and tick vector".