News
HotSpot Wizard 2 Released
A new version of a web server for automated identification of hot spots and design of smart libraries was released. Bendl, J., Stourac, J., Sebestova, E., Vavra, O., Musil, M., Brezovsky, J., Damborsky, J., 2016: HotSpot Wizard 2: Automated Design of Site-Specific Mutations and Smart Libraries in Protein Engineering. Nucleic Acids Research 44: W479-W487.
David Bednar a Finalist of Sigma-Aldrich Competition
David Bednar became one of five nominated finalists of Sigma-Aldrich competition (The Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Biologists, Biochemists and Chemists) in the field of biochemistry/biology for his work on FireProt, a robust computational strategy for predicting highly stable multiple-point mutants.
Daniel Pluskal a Finalist of SOC
Daniel Pluskal from the Grammar School Brno-Reckovice classified for the final of the SOC competition for the secondary school students. The final of the competition will take place on June, 17-19 in Hradec Kralove. We wish Daniel good luck with his presentation!
Professor Nikolay Dokholyan Visited LL
Professor Nikolay Dokholyan from the University of North Carolina visited the Loschmidt Laboratories on May, 2-4, 2016 and presented the lecture entitled “Controlling Allosteric Networks in Proteins”.
Article in Analytical Chemistry
Bidmanova, S., Steiner, M.S., Stepan, M., Vymazalova, K., Gruber, M.A., Duerkop, A., Damborsky, J., Prokop, Z., Wolfbeis, O.S., 2016: Enzyme Based Test Stripes for the Visual or Photographic Detection and Quantitation of Gaseous Sulfur Mustard. Analytical Chemistry (in press), doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01272.
Gabriela Dankova and David Kovar Joined the Group
We wish Gabriela and David good luck with their projects!
Veselé Velikonoce – Happy Easter
2015’s Most Influential Article from Microbial Cell Factories
Our article was selected the 2015’s most influential article from Microbial Cell Factories according to Altmetric.com: Dvorak, P., Chrast, L., Nikel, P.I., Fedr, R., Soucek, K., Sedlackova, M., Chaloupkova, R., de Lorenzo, V., Prokop, Z., Damborsky, J., 2015: Exacerbation of Substrate Toxicity by IPTG in Escherichia Coli BL21(DE3) Carrying a Synthetic Metabolic Pathway. Microbial Cell […]
University for Children MjUNI 2016
We organized a lecture and laboratory experiments within the university for children MjUNI on March, 12. More information about the MjUNI can be found at http://mjuni.cz/.
Laboratory Technician
Loschmidt laboratories have been seeking a laboratory technician. The work will be focused on optimization and use of modern microfluidic systems for quick and systematic characterization of newly isolated and modified proteins. The deadline for applications is over.