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Jaroslav Heyrovsky Foundation Award for Tereza and Martin
Tereza Sustrova received the Jaroslav Heyrovsky Foundation Award for her successful work in the national round of the Secondary School Professional Activity (SOČ) competition. The supervisor of Tereza’s work, Martin Marek, was also awarded. The award ceremony took place at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague […]
Michal Defended His Doctoral Thesis Succesfully
Sincere congratulations to Michal Vasina who was successful at defending his doctoral thesis “Application of microfluidics in protein and metabolic engineering” and thus completed his Ph.D. studies at RECETOX, Masaryk University!
Dan and Hanka Awarded Brno PhD Talent
Two doctoral students Daniel Pluskal and Hana Faldynova pleased their supervisors Martin Marek and Zbynek Prokop with the success in the Brno Ph.D. Talent 2023 Competition. While Hanka’s project will be focused on the study and prediction of protein solubility, Dan will work on the study of bioluminescent systems. Congratulations!
David Bednar Appointed Associate Professor
David Bednar, team leader in the Loschmidt Laboratories, was appointed Associate Professor at the graduation ceremony in the Mendel Refectory in the Old Brno Monastery on November 30th. David habilitated in the field of Environment and Health (RECETOX MU) and he is focused on the development of novel bioinformatics tools useful for enzymological and medical […]
New Article in Nature Communications
Our article “Illuminating the mechanism and allosteric behavior of NanoLuc luciferase” has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. This joint work with team of Yves L. Janin (CNRS, France) and Tomas Barta (Faculty of Medicine, MU) deciphered the mechanism and allosteric behaviour of NanoLuc luciferase.Read the just published article here.
Martin Toul Won Doctorandus Prize of the Czech Head Award
LL alumnus Martin Toul is one of the winners of the prestigious Czech Head Award. Martin received the Doctorandus Prize, which is awarded to young scientists for research in the natural sciences. Martin’s work was focused on the study of the staphylokinase protein, which is used to treat stroke. Clarification of the protein action enabled […]
Martin Toul Received the Award of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for Outstanding Students
The Award of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for Outstanding Students and Graduates was awarded to Martin Toul, who successfully completed the doctoral study program at Masaryk University this year and worked as a researcher in LL. Martin moved for a postdoc to VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation research (Belgium). Congratulations! Read more here.
David Presented at ELIXIR 3D-BioInfo conference
David Bednar gave an excellent talk at ELIXIR 3D-BioInfo conference in Prague on November 15-17. The meeting brought together researchers working in a range of bioinformatics and computational themes and was co-funded by Elixir and Elixir.cz. David’s lecture was focused on our web tools for computational protein stabilisation, FireProt and FireProtASR.Both tools are freely available […]
2nd Place in the Competition of Transfera Technology Day 2023
Martin Marek and Daniel Pluskal represented LL in the national competition Transfera Technology Day 2023. They received 2nd place for the engineering of glow-type luciferase. Congratulations to both of them and their co-workers! Watch live stream here: https://lnkd.in/d6gfewNw (from 28:04) Read more info here.
Martin to Be a Chairperson at the 34th European Crystallography Congress 2024
Martin Marek accepted an invitation to be a chairperson for the micro-symposium titled Structural studies in Enzymology at the 34th European Crystallography Congress (ECM34). The meeting will take place in Padova from August 26th to 30th, 2024.