Katerina Nedbalcova works in the Veterinary Research Institute in Brno, Czech Republic in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Preventive Medicine in the bacteriological laboratory. She deals with the topics of bacterial infectious diseases of livestock, especially pigs, cattle and poultry. She is currently a researcher or coresearcher of various projects focused on the treatment of bacterial infections in animals, including monitoring of development and spread of resistances of specific veterinary pathogens to antimicrobials, or finding suitable alternatives to antimicrobial treatment. She is a member of the Working Group for Antimicrobials of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic and the head of the Commission of the Protection of Experimental Animals against Cruelty in the Veterinary Research Institute in Brno.