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Research Internship of Visnja Kosic
We’re thrilled to welcome a doctoral student Visnja Kosic from the University of Belgrade, Serbia to the Loschmidt Laboratories! She’ll be joining us for a one-month stay to engineer industrially significant glycoside hydrolase, a starch-debranching enzyme – pullulanase, using our web-based tools. This project is made possible with the support of STSM from COZYME. Visnja, […]
Celebration of Publication Success
We celebrated the publication success of our team and the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center with a glass of champagne and a thanksgiving speech from Joan. The jointly prepared article has been accepted to the journal Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to the authors!
New Method for Computational Design of Biotherapeutics
Stanislav Mazurenko and Jiri Damborsky were involved in the development of a new computational method using machine learning to improve protein design. They collaborated with teams from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB) to develop a new […]
Tereza Nominated for the Government Prize for Talented Students
Out of 47 nominations received, three laureates were selected for the Government Prize for Talented Students. One of the laureates is Tereza Sustrova from the Gymnasium in Brno, who worked on her Secondary School Activity (SOC) at the Loschmidt Laboratories under supervision of Martin Marek. Tereza will be awarded in the category of secondary and […]
Stas Co-Edited a Special Issue in ACS Synthetic Biology
Our team leader Stanislav Mazurenko collaborated with Hector García Martín (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the United States) and Huimin Zhao (University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, the United States) to co-edit a virtual special issue published in ACS Synthetic Biology. The collection focuses on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to enhance predictive capabilities in […]
Festive Gathering in LL
On Sunday 28 April, the University Campus in Brno became the venue for a festive gathering to honor the centenary of Alfred Bader’s birth and 30 years since the founding of the research group which later became the Loschmidt Laboratories. After a welcome drink, participants enjoyed tours of the laboratories, a light show with luminescent […]
Stas to Present at the 10th ScaDS.AI Summer School
Our artificial intelligence (AI) team leader, Dr. Stanislav Mazurenko, has been invited to present at the 10th International Summer School on AI and Big Data in Leipzig, Germany. Join us for his talk on AI-based protein design, scheduled for Wednesday, June 26th at 11:40 am.
BRKTHRU VOICES prize for Enantis
Enantis, a biotechnology spin-off from Masaryk University, has been awarded the BRKTHRU VOICES prize by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Despite stiff competition from over one hundred innovative companies, Enantis emerged victorious at in-cosmetics Global 2024 in Paris.
Farewell Party of Tadeja and Marika
The sunny Monday 8th April was perfect for the farewell party organized by Tadeja Gao and Marika Majerova who are leaving the team of Martin Marek for maternity leave. Tadeja and Marika, we will miss you in the Loschmidt Labs! Photos by Kaja Sedlackova and Irena Halikova
LL outreach seminar
Our spring outreach seminar took place in Pivovarska restaurant Moravia in Brno on April 12th, 2024. The participants enjoyed great science, rich discussions as well as some informal time together, this time around also with colleagues from the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute.Photos by Kaja Sedlackova