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2nd Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course Successfully Behind Us
2nd Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course organized by the Loschmidt Laboratories was performed on-line in May 2021. The course was fully booked after only two weeks, with participants from 16 countries and 4 continents, 12% of them coming from industry. The feedback from the participants was very positive. The great majority of the participants was […]
Singapore Patent for FGF2 Granted
A Singapore patent Nr. 11201804402W has been granted in respect of an invention of thermostable Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 (FGF2) polypeptide. The engineered FGF2 has improved thermal stability compared to the wild-type and is of use in the cell biology research, regenerative medicine and related medical applications or cosmetics. Sincere congratulations to all inventors from […]
The Dean’s Award for Honza and Ondra
Honza Stourac and Ondra Vavra were awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University for the academic year 2020/2021. Sincere congratulations to both! More here
Martin to Present at ProtStab’2021
Martin Marek will give an oral presentation “Unexpected changes of folding energy landscape upon a computational protein stabilization” at 13th International Conference on Protein Stabilization (ProtStab’2021). The conference will be held at University of Food Technologies, Plovdiv on October 07-09, 2021. ProtStab’2021 will cover all important aspects of protein chemistry, biochemistry and application as well […]
Nikola’s Success at SOC
Nikola Velatova won the 1st place in the district round of Secondary-School Professional Activities (Studentská odborná činnost, SOČ). Nikola focused on testing enzymes for degradation of sulphur mustard under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Schenkmayerova.Sincere congratulations to both and good luck in the next round!
The Dean’s Award for Jan
Jan Mican was awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University for the academic year 2020/2021. Jan took the first place for the excellence in science. Sincere congratulations to Honza and his supervisor David Bednar!
Gaspar Presented at 18th IUGEN International Winter School
Gaspar Pinto gave a lecture in the biotechnology session at the 18th International Molecular Biology and Genetics Winter School. The event was organized by the Genetics Club of Istanbul University (IUGEN) on March 26-28, 2021. Gaspar gave a short overview of the software tools devoleped in LL and then focused on the introduction of Caver, […]
Event Biotechnology Innovations for the Cosmetic Industry
Which are the latest innovations of biotechnology for the cosmetic industry? How can these innovations be transferred to the industry? And why should researchers think about transfer technology from the laboratory to the industry? These and other questions will be discussed during the event by three speakers: – Daniel López, coordinator of the European project […]
David Presented at ESAB Webinar
David Bednar gave a lecture “EnzymeMiner and SoluProt: searching for novel and soluble enzymes in sequence databases” at ESAB Webinar on Novel Enzymes on March 5th, 2021. The mission of ESAB (European Society of Applied Biocatalysis) is to promote the development of Applied Biocatalysis throughout Europe. Applied Biocatalysis is the development through science and engineering […]
Poster Award for Andrea
Sincere congratulations to Andrea who won a poster prize at the CCP4 Crystallographic School in South Africa – Data Collection to Structure Refinement and Beyond. The workshop was held from 22 February – 5 March 2021 online due to Covid-19 pandemics. The title of the poster was “Structural analysis of a haloalkane dehalogenase from subfamily […]