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ELIXIR CZ annual conference 15 – 16 Nov, 2017
ELIXIR CZ, an infrastructure for storing, processing and analysing life science data in the Czech Republic and a part of the panEuropean research infrastructure ELIXIR, is organizing an annual conference in Trest on 15 – 16 Nov, 2017. Apart from plenary lectures by prominent international scientists, the conference will give the participants a chance to learn […]
New video explaining the goals of Rafts4Biotech EU project
The European project Rafts4Biotech, on which Loschmidt Laboratories cooperate, is launched its video animation explaining how this international initiative funded by the European Commission will exploit the existence of bacterial lipid rafts for industrial applications. Bacterial lipid rafts are specialized membrane structures with a different composition and fluidity that favours the interactions between proteins that […]
Invitation to a presentation by Synthetic Genomics
Synthetic Geomics, a company of Craig Venter and Dan Gibson, are going to present in Loschmidt Laboratories on September 6 at 2 p.m. See the invitation for more information. More
Andrea Schenkmayerova received a grant to attend an EMBO Practical Course
Congratulations to Andrea who has been awarded an EMBL Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme Fellowship to support her attendance at the EMBO Practical Course: Synthetic Biology in Action: Programming Bacteria to Do Amazing Things.
Open Postdoc Position: Protein Engineering
We are seeking a motivated scientist for a postdoctoral position in bioinformatics and molecular modeling team of the Loschmidt Laboratories at the Masaryk University and International Centre For Clinical Research (ICRC), Brno, Czech Republic. JOB DESCRIPTION: construction of rationally designed protein mutants creation of semi-rational libraries for directed evolution of proteins protein expression, purification and […]
FireProt in MUNI
An article by Ema Wiesnerova describing our software tool FireProt, a web server providing a robust computational strategy for predicting highly stable multiple-point mutants, has been published in MUNI.
Jan Stourac won Dean’s Award
Jan Stourac received the Award of the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics for the Best Diploma Thesis. Sincere congratulations!
Jan Stourac and Ondrej Vavra Masters of Science
Congratulations to Honza and Ondra who passed their state exam and defended their Master theses.
An article co-authored by our group among the most influential articles of 2016
The article “Exacerbation of substrate toxicity by IPTG in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) carrying a synthetic metabolic pathway” by Pavel Dvorak, Lukas Chrast, Pablo I. Nikel, Radek Fedr, Karel Soucek, Miroslava Sedlackova, Radka Chaloupkova, Víctor de Lorenzo, Zbynek Prokop and Jiri Damborsky was selected among the most influential articles of 2016 for Microbial Cell Factories, according […]
Martin Toul among the top five in biology/biochemistry category of Sigma-Aldrich competition
Martin Toul, our Master student, got among the five finalists in the biology/biochemistry category of the highly competitive Sigma-Aldrich prize at the Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Biologists, Biochemists and Chemists in Milovy, Czech Republic May 30 – June 1, 2017. The prize for young researchers is announced every year by Sigma Aldrich as the general […]