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Open Postdoc Position: Protein Engineering
We are seeking a motivated scientist for a postdoctoral position in bioinformatics and molecular modeling team of the Loschmidt Laboratories at the Masaryk University and International Centre For Clinical Research (ICRC), Brno, Czech Republic. JOB DESCRIPTION: construction of rationally designed protein mutants creation of semi-rational libraries for directed evolution of proteins protein expression, purification and […]
FireProt in MUNI
An article by Ema Wiesnerova describing our software tool FireProt, a web server providing a robust computational strategy for predicting highly stable multiple-point mutants, has been published in MUNI.
Jan Stourac won Dean’s Award
Jan Stourac received the Award of the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics for the Best Diploma Thesis. Sincere congratulations!
Jan Stourac and Ondrej Vavra Masters of Science
Congratulations to Honza and Ondra who passed their state exam and defended their Master theses.
An article co-authored by our group among the most influential articles of 2016
The article “Exacerbation of substrate toxicity by IPTG in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) carrying a synthetic metabolic pathway” by Pavel Dvorak, Lukas Chrast, Pablo I. Nikel, Radek Fedr, Karel Soucek, Miroslava Sedlackova, Radka Chaloupkova, Víctor de Lorenzo, Zbynek Prokop and Jiri Damborsky was selected among the most influential articles of 2016 for Microbial Cell Factories, according […]
Martin Toul among the top five in biology/biochemistry category of Sigma-Aldrich competition
Martin Toul, our Master student, got among the five finalists in the biology/biochemistry category of the highly competitive Sigma-Aldrich prize at the Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Biologists, Biochemists and Chemists in Milovy, Czech Republic May 30 – June 1, 2017. The prize for young researchers is announced every year by Sigma Aldrich as the general […]
Petra Babkova awarded the International Union Crystallography Poster Competition Price
Petra Babkova was awarded the International Union Crystallography Poster Competition Prize as well as the IUCr Journals Student Poster Prize at the International School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC) 2017 in Granada. Congratulations!
New Addition to Loschmidt Laboratories Team
Our team is growing bigger and younger all the time. The new team member is called Matous and was born on May 18th to Jitka and Pavel Vanackovi. Congratulations!
Submitted grant proposal to Bill Gates Foundation
Loschmidt Laboratories submitted a grant proposal to Bill Gates Foundation under the call “New Approaches for Improving Timeliness of Routine Immunizations in Low-Resource Settings to engineer stable vaccines for Africa.” The proposal title is New Approaches for Improving Timeliness of Routine Immunizations in Low-Resource Settings.
FireProt 1.0 released and accompanied by a publication
Researchers and developers from Loschmidt Laboratories released FireProt 1.0: Web server for automated design of thermostable proteins: http://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/fireprot/ The relevant publication in Nucleid Acids Research is already available online: https://academic.oup.com/…/article-l…/doi/10.1093/nar/gkx285