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FEMS Scholarship Awarded
Tomas Buryska has been awarded a FEMS grant for his research stay at TU Vienna. Sincere congratulations!
Microfluidics: A Lecture by Prof. Andrew deMello
Prof. Andrew deMello, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, presented his lecture entitled “Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time” in UKB on 20th July 2016. The lecture discussed recent studies that are focused on exploiting the spontaneous formation of droplets in microfluidic systems to perform a variety of analytical processes.
IVth Summer School of Protein Engineering
We organized the IVth Summer School on Protein Engineering on June, 26-30.
Lukas Daniel, Ph.D.
Lukas Daniel successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis “Molecular Modelling of Enzymes’ Substrate Specificity” yesterday. Sincere congratulations and good luck in future projects!
Successful Defences of Student Theses
Antonin Kunka, Pavel Solansky, Klara Markova, Martin Toul, and Veronika Dockalova successfully defended their student theses. Sincere congratulations and good luck for the state exams!
Daniel Pluskal a Winner of SOC Competition in Chemistry
Daniel Pluskal won 1st prize in Chemistry in national round of SOC competition. Sincere congratulation to Daniel and many thanks to Radka Chaloupkova, Veronika Liskova, Irena Halikova, and all members of the team who have supervised Daniel during his work in the lab. We are looking forward to further cooperation with Daniel!
EU-funded Research Training Network ES-Cat
Directed Protein Evolution for Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis (ES-Cat) is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network set up to provide young researchers with hands-on research experience and formal training in ten European partner groups, which use directed evolution as a tool to reproduce Nature’s remarkable ability to generate molecular machines – in particular enzymes – […]
Article in PLOS Computational Biology
Bendl, J., Musil, M., Stourac, J., Zendulka, J., Damborsky, J., Brezovsky, J., 2016: PredictSNP2: A Unified Platform for Accurately Evaluating SNP Effects by Exploiting the Different Characteristics of Variants in Distinct Genomic Regions. PLOS Computational Biology 12: e1004962.
Professor Stephen Benkovic Visited LL
Professor Stephen J. Benkovich from The Pennsylvania State University visited the Loschmidt Laboratories on May, 18, 2016 (Wednesday). On Thursday, the professor gave a lecture entitled “On De Novo Purine Biosynthesis: The Purinosome” within the series of Mendel lectures in the Refectory of the Augustinian Abbey.
Zuzka Dunajova, Lukas Daniel, Verca Liskova and Tomas Buryska Received Dean’s Award
Zuzka Dunajova and Lukas Daniel received Dean’s Award for students for their outstanding theses. Verca Liskova and Tomas Buryska for publication activities. Our sincere congratulations!