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Friday’s Celebration
On Friday, we celebrated the acceptance of our FireProt ASR 2.0 manuscript in Briefings in Bioinformatics and the award of a new GACR grant supporting our collaboration with Aleksandra Marsavelski’s team. Photo by Irena Halikova
Sergio Attended Quitel 2026
Our team member, Sergio M. Marques, attended Quitel 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal, last week! Sergio presented our work on CAVER, CaverDock, and Caver Web in an invited plenary lecture and an oral presentation, highlighting their applications in protein tunnel analysis and ligand transport. This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme […]
BBQ Party
Summer barbecue at Loschmidt Laboratories! A big thank you to Irena Halikova and everyone involved in organizing this wonderful event! We enjoyed delicious food, refreshing drinks, and great conversations with colleagues. Photo: Karolina Sedlackova
Pavel Earns a Doctoral Degree
Congratulations to Pavel Kohout on successfully defending his PhD thesis, Machine Learning for Computational Protein Design, supervised by Stanislav Mazurenko (pictured with Pavel in the group photo on the left). Pavel’s research focuses on applying state-of-the-art machine learning methods to protein engineering. During his PhD, he published four articles, completed two research stays, delivered invited […]
Poster Award at RCX Doctoral Conference
Congratulations to our doctoral students! At the RECETOX Doctoral Conference 2026, Daniel Pluskal‘s poster on engineering Renilla reniformis GFP ranked among the top three posters, and Martin Sitte successfully passed his doctoral state examination. Photo: Sabina Vojtechova
National SOC Success for Monika and Amalie
The high school students conducting their Secondary School Professional Activity (SOČ) projects at the Loschmidt Laboratories achieved excellent results in the national round of the competition in Olomouc. Monika Dlouha (Matyáš Lerch Grammar School, Brno) won 2nd place, and Amalie Stekla (Bystrc Grammar School, Brno) secured 3rd place in the Molecular Biology category. Congratulations to […]
Summer Starts with Beach Volleyball!
The first beach volleyball match of the summer took place this Monday, bringing together players from Pavel Dvořák’s Microbial Bioengineering Laboratory and the Loschmidt Laboratories. After an exciting and competitive game, everyone gathered at the U Tesaře pub to relax and enjoy some well-deserved beer and lemonade. Many thanks to Martin Sitte for organizing this […]
Dr. & Dr. Party
Last Friday, we celebrated a major milestone with Faraneh Haddadi and Jan Mican, who successfully earned their PhD degrees and completed their academic journey. Despite the rather chilly weather, we enjoyed a wonderful time together—barbecuing, sharing great conversations, enjoying delicious food, and raising a glass to their achievements. We wish both of them continued success […]
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 […]
Martin Received Dean’s Award
Martin Havlasek, a doctoral student at Loschmidt Laboratories, has received the Dean’s Award from the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in the Best Student in a Bachelor’s or Master’s Program category. Martin, who was supported by a Brno PhD Talent grant, is among the most successful graduates of the Bioinformatics program. During his PhD […]