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Aliaksandra at AAIC 2026
Our PhD student, Aliaksandra Kursit, recently attended the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC2026) in London. Aliaksandra presented her research poster highlighting the development of a screening method that identified several existing drugs capable of binding to ApoE4—a key protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Among these, two promising compounds stood out by effectively blocking the protein’s […]
Research Internship
It was a great pleasure to host Abdulkadir Yayci from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) at Loschmidt Laboratories! Abdulkadir spent the past three weeks working with our computational protein engineering tools, and we’re thrilled that his stay was so productive. We can’t wait to share the results of this collaboration soon! Big thanks to COZYME – […]
Summer Barbecue
Yesterday, we gathered for our summer barbecue! We enjoyed delicious roasted sausages, meat, and cheese — but most of all, the great company and relaxed conversations with colleagues. It was also a wonderful opportunity to spend time with our research interns at the end of their research stay, Rehmadanta Sitepu (BOKU University, Vienna) and Abdulkadir […]
Registration Opening Soon: 8th Computational Enzyme Design Course
Ready to take your enzyme engineering skills to the next level? Registration opens September 16, 2026 for our 8th Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course! Join us online (Feb 8–11, 2027) to master software tools for enzyme mining, activity, specificity, stability, and solubility engineering—plus cutting-edge applications in Machine Learning and Quantum Computing! Early-bird discounts apply! Don’t […]
Open Position Junior Researcher
The proteomics laboratory run by our colleague Lenka Hernychova at the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI) in Brno is seeking a Junior Researcher! Learn more about the position, requirements, and benefits here.
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