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Faraneh Earns a Doctoral Degree
We are delighted to celebrate the successful defense of Faraneh Haddadi’s PhD thesis, “Integrating Machine Learning with Structural Protein Analysis.” Faraneh has completed her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at RECETOX, Faculty of Science at Masaryk University, under the supervision of Stanislav Mazurenko. Her research explored the intersection of structural and computational biology, machine learning, […]
Amalie Receives Awards at the Conference of Young Life Scientists
Secondary school student Amalie Stekla received several prestigious awards for her research in marine bioluminescence at the Conference of Young Life Scientists 2026. Her project, which focuses on the structural and chemical basis of bioluminescence in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis, is supervised by Karolina Sedlackova. Amalie’s achievements include: We congratulate Amalie on these remarkable […]
Success at ISBC & ISLS 2026 in Thailand
Our team members attended the XXIII International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence and the XXI International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry (ISBC & ISLS 2026), held in Rayong, Thailand, from May 25–29, 2026. This event marked the first-ever ISBC & ISLS gathering held in Southeast Asia. Karolina Sedlackova and Martin Sitte presented a poster, while Martin […]
Press Release: New Algorithm Helps Scientists Reduce Protein Aggregation
In collaboration with IT4Innovations, we have developed a unique machine-learning–based tool called AggreProt, capable of rapidly and reliably identifying “sticky” regions in proteins that drive protein aggregation. Protein clumping into non-functional clusters has long limited the effective use of proteins in real-world applications. AggreProt could help overcome this challenge and accelerate the development of proteins […]
Honza Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis
We are pleased to congratulate Jan Mican on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics in the Study of Thrombolytics. Honza completed his doctoral studies in Environmental Health Sciences at RECETOX, Faculty of Science at Masaryk University, under the supervision of David Bednar. During his PhD studies, Honza authored or co-authored […]
Interview with Naina
Naina Verma, a Ph.D. student on Lenka Hernychova’s team, focuses on the research and development of proteins for the treatment of blood clots, specifically staphylokinase. She specializes in structural biology and protein engineering, as well as in analyzing how changes in a protein affect its function. She therefore contributes to the design of safer and […]
David Received MU Rector’s Award
Our theoretical team leader, David Bednar, has received the MU Rector’s Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for Young Scientists Under 40 in Natural Sciences and Medicine. He is the author or co-author of 92 publications in high-impact journals, as well as 14 bioinformatics tools and 3 databases widely used by the scientific community. The traditional […]
Hana Received Student Award at Interdisciplinary Meeting
Our PhD student, Hana Faldynova, received the Student Award for the best oral presentation at the 25th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Researchers and Students 2026, held in Trest from 17–20 May 2026. Her talk focused on uncovering distant functional mutations through ultra-high-throughput screening of dehalogenases for bulky substrates in the Bioscience & Molecular Biology category. […]
Marika Earns Doctoral Degree
Congratulations to Marika Majerova on successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Structural and Biochemical Studies of Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes.” She has officially completed her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics at the Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, under the supervision of Martin Marek. Marika delivered an excellent presentation and confidently […]
Celebration of Our Latest Scientific Achievements
Today, we celebrated several exciting achievements together over a glass of champagne. Newly accepted publications: • Rosinska, M., et al. (2026) — EnzymeMiner 2.0: advancing automated enzyme discovery with expansive sequence mining and smart property analysis, Nucleic Acids Research • Majerova, M., et al. (2026) — Structural Insights into the Evolution of Alpha/Beta-Hydrolase Fold Luciferases, […]