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Lukas at International Science and Engineering Fair in Dallas
Former SOČ student Lukas Drdla attended the International Science and Engineering Fair in Dallas, USA in May 2023. Approximately two thousand students under the age of 20 were nominated from 60 countries for this year’s competition. Lukas gained the opportunity to attend the event thanks to the success in the national round of Secondary-school professional […]
Jiri to Present at Elixir 3D Bio AGM
Jiri Damborsky is invited to give a talk in the Protein Engineering session of the upcoming Elixir 3D Bio AGM in Prague (Nov 15-17). Since structural bioinformatics is undergoing a fast transformation with major breakthroughs from experimental methods and transformative new approaches in computational prediction, there are many issues to discuss including scientific developments and […]
Press Release: We Are Closer to Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating disease that disrupts part of the brain and causes cognitive decline – thinking and memory. It gradually leads to the patient’s dependence on the daily help of a caring person. A team of scientists from Loschmidt Laboratories together with colleagues from Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk […]
Ondra Succesfully Defended Doctoral Thesis
Sincere congratulations to Ondrej Vavra who was successful at defending his doctoral thesis “Relationships between enzyme access pathways and catalytic activity by the methods of molecular modeling” and thus completed his Ph.D. studies at RECETOX, Masaryk University!
Success of Tereza and Julie at SOC Competition
Tereza Sustrova from Gymnazium Kapitana Jarose won 1st place in a whole-country round of a science competition for secondary school students (SOC, category Molecular Biology). Her project was focused on reprogramming the luciferin-substrate specificity in NanoLuc luciferase. Her colleague Julie Křížková from Wichterlovo Gymnazium achieved 7th place in the samecompetition (category Molecular Biology) with her […]
New Baby in LL
Congratulations to Saltuk Eyrilmez and his wife on the birth of their son Alper (6th June 2023, 3010 g and 45 cm)!
Jiri Received the Medal of the Learned Society
The Learned Society of the Czech Republic has honored achievements of Jiri Damborsky with the Medal for Merit for the Development of Science. The medal has been awarded during a ceremony at Karolinum in Prague on 15 May 2023 at Karolinum in Prague. Sincere congratulations! Read a short article here.
Rector’s Award for Martin Toul
The Rector’s Award has been awarded to Martin Toul during the Dies Ademicus Assembly of the Academic Community in the Karel Engliš Great Hall at the MU Faculty of Law. Martin has received a diploma, a medal of Masaryk University and a financial reward for the Best students in MU Doctoral Programmes. Sincere congratulations to […]
Veronika’s Success at Interdisciplinary Meeting in Milovy
Veronika Slonkova has won the award for the best oral presentation in the section Bioscience & Molecular Biology at the XXII. Interdisciplinary meeting of young life scientists in Milovy. Veronika gave an excellent talk about the engineering of fibrin-selective and more efficient alteplase thrombolytic protein, followed by extensive discussion and the presentation was acknowledged by […]
Presentations at ISMB/ECCB 2023
Several presentations from LL have been accepted by ISMB/ECCB 2023 which will be held in Lyon on July 23-27. Joan Planas Iglesias will give a talk about LoopGrafter, an in-house developed web tool for protein engineering (LoopGrafter: A Web Tool for Transplanting Dynamical Loops for Protein Engineering). Posters will be presented by Faraneh Haddadi (Capturing […]