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Honza Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis
We are pleased to congratulate Jan Mican on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics in the Study of Thrombolytics. Honza completed his doctoral studies in Environmental Health Sciences at RECETOX, Faculty of Science at Masaryk University, under the supervision of David Bednar. During his PhD studies, Honza authored or co-authored […]
Interview with Naina
Naina Verma, a Ph.D. student on Lenka Hernychova’s team, focuses on the research and development of proteins for the treatment of blood clots, specifically staphylokinase. She specializes in structural biology and protein engineering, as well as in analyzing how changes in a protein affect its function. She therefore contributes to the design of safer and […]
David Received MU Rector’s Award
Our theoretical team leader, David Bednar, has received the MU Rector’s Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for Young Scientists Under 40 in Natural Sciences and Medicine. He is the author or co-author of 92 publications in high-impact journals, as well as 14 bioinformatics tools and 3 databases widely used by the scientific community. The traditional […]
Hana Received Student Award at Interdisciplinary Meeting
Our PhD student, Hana Faldynova, received the Student Award for the best oral presentation at the 25th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Researchers and Students 2026, held in Trest from 17–20 May 2026. Her talk focused on uncovering distant functional mutations through ultra-high-throughput screening of dehalogenases for bulky substrates in the Bioscience & Molecular Biology category. […]
Marika Earns Doctoral Degree
Congratulations to Marika Majerova on successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Structural and Biochemical Studies of Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes.” She has officially completed her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics at the Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, under the supervision of Martin Marek. Marika delivered an excellent presentation and confidently […]
Celebration of Our Latest Scientific Achievements
Today, we celebrated several exciting achievements together over a glass of champagne. Newly accepted publications: • Rosinska, M., et al. (2026) — EnzymeMiner 2.0: advancing automated enzyme discovery with expansive sequence mining and smart property analysis, Nucleic Acids Research • Majerova, M., et al. (2026) — Structural Insights into the Evolution of Alpha/Beta-Hydrolase Fold Luciferases, […]
MUNI Day at Loschmidt Laboratories
Today’s MUNI Day at the Loschmidt Laboratories featured two excursions for 10 participants. First, the participants were introduced to proteins and protein engineering, then they toured the laboratories and were informed about the preparation of bacterial proteins.Many thanks to Martin Havlasek and Magdalena Votapkova for organizing the excursions. Photos by Sarka Nevolova
Environmental Excursions
As part of the course Environmental Excursions, students from the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, had the opportunity to visit the information center at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant, tour the Respono waste sorting facility, and the adjacent composting plant at the Kozlany landfill. They also learned about the biogas plant in Velesovice and explored […]
Our Students at Czech PhD Bioinformatics Conference
Five of our doctoral students participated in the Czech PhD Bioinformatics Conference in Olomouc on April 23–24, 2026. Martin Havlasek and Monika Rosinska, both recipients of the Brno PhD Talent Award, delivered oral presentations. Martin introduced the AggreProt tool for predicting protein aggregation, while Monika presented the EnzymeMiner platform for discovering new biocatalysts. Pavel Kohout, […]
Exploring Protein Structures at ESRF Synchrotron
Our team members Martin Marek, Martin Sitte, Kaja Sedlackova, and Sasa Kursit recently traveled to the European Synchrotron ESRF in Grenoble, France, for two exciting scientific missions. On beamline ID29, they focused on preparing and optimizing microcrystals of bioluminescent proteins for serial crystallography experiments. Their second mission took place on beamline ID23, where they collected […]