Triple Success at SOC Competition

Tereza Sustrova, Julie Krizkova and Dominika Damborska succeeded in the regional round of the science competition for secondary school students (SOC). Tereza prepared her thesis on „Reprogramming the luciferin-substrate specificity in NanoLuc luciferase” under the supervision of Martin Marek, while Julie’s thesis “On the origin of bioluminescence in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis” was supervised by Marika Majerova. Both students won the 1st places in Molecular Biology. Dominika (Health, 3rd place) worked on hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometric analysis under the supervision of our close collaborator Lenka Hernychova from Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MOU). Sincere congratulations and wishing them the best of luck for the national competition in June 2023!