Interviews
I Came into My Own in the Microworld
Read an interview with Martin Toul who defended his PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics successfully this year. At the same time, he received the MU Rector’s Award for his thesis on “Rational protein design guided by kinetic studies”. In the interview, he describes his scientific beginnings and his successes in researching “glowing” enzymes or stroke drugs.Brno Scientists Get Closer to the Future Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Read about the results of scientists who have come significantly closer to answering the question of how to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease. Experts from the Faculties of Science and Medicine at Masaryk University, the International Clinical Research Center, and the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute believe that the results of the research will help develop other highly effective therapeutic agents for this 21st century threat to civilisation.Former Ph.D. Student in LL Published in Nature Neuroscience
Read an interview with Jarda Bendl, an alumnus of Loschmidt Laboratories, who moved for a postdoc to the USA in 2017. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. One of his recent articles has been published in the top scientific journal Nature Neuroscience.Detailed Pathogen Detection in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
Read about the results of scientists from several research teams at the International Clinical Research Centre (FNUSA-ICRC), a joint facility of Masaryk University and St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno. The researchers demonstrated the link between microbial infections and the development of Alzheimer’s disease and focused on the frequency of the most common viral and bacterial pathogens in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.Students Attended 50th Czech and Slovak Cerebrovascular Congress
Veronika Slonkova and Honza Mican, students of Loschmidt Laboratories of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, and FNUSA-ICRC, attended the 50th Czech and Slovak Cerebrovascular Congress (Mikulov, 22-24 June 2022). Honza gave a lecture on the computational design of a novel generation of thrombolytics and introduced a poster focused on protein engineering of staphylokinase. Veronika presented a poster focused on in vitro methods for the selection of thrombolytics. Read a short interview about the meeting here.Potential Stroke Cure Is 10,000 Times More Effective Than Thought
Martin Toul from the Loschmidt Laboratories of the Faculty of Science MU, RECETOX and the International Clinical Research Centre at St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) has discovered in his work a connection that increases the previously recognized effectiveness of staphylokinase in dissolving blood clots up to ten thousand times. This breakthrough discovery could help to find new and more effective drugs for acute stroke patients.Former Visiting Student in LL Became Director of EKOPLON
Mateusz Samoraj, who conducted research at Loschmidt Laboratories in 2015, became a Director of Agrochemicals Technology and Product Development in EKOPLON. EKOPLON is a Polish company that provides comprehensive solutions for agricultural production in farm animal nutrition and foliar fertilizers. Mateusz obtained his Ph.D. at Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland in 2016, and he is the co-author of 24 publications, four patents, and one book.Getting Experience in Germany
Michal Vasina is a doctoral student of Environmental Health Sciences at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk University. His research is focused on application of microfluidics in protein and metabolic engineering under the guidance of Prof. Zbynek Prokop in the Loschmidt Laboratories. Michal visited University of Greifswald in Germany from August to September 2021. Read short interview with Michal here.Research Visit in Switzerland
Michaela Slanska is a student of Biochemistry at Masaryk University who works on her Diploma Thesis in Zbynek Prokop’s Team of Loschmidt Laboratories. She visited prestigious Swiss university ETH Zürich from March to May 2021. On this occasion, we asked her for a short interview.The VIth Summer School Successfully Behind Us
Summer School on Protein Engineering organized by the Loschmidt Laboratories was performed on-line in June 2021. Thirty secondary school and university students attended the course and learnt about bioinformatics, molecular and structural biology, enzymology and microfluidics. Short interview with three students who succeeded in presentation of scientific article is here.Read whole interview (in Czech)