Newslettery
Newslettery pro Early Stage Researchers (pouze v angličtině)
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 12/2025
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 11/2025 CZ
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 10/2025 CZ
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 9/2025 CZ
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 6/2025
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 5/2025
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 3/2025
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Newsletter for PhD students and Postdocs of the Faculty of Science MU 2/2025
Events of the Week
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Events of the Week 8–15 December
9 Dec Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: Deciphering Structural Complexity in Leukemia Genomes Through Nanopore Sequencing SPEAKER: Sabina Peňázová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 9 Dec Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Plant Cell Wall Integrity at the Crossroads of Plant Defence, Mechanics and Making a Difference SPEAKER: Thorsten Hamann WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 10 Dec Wed Online Workshop TOPIC: Time Management SPEAKER: Matěj Sapík WHERE: Online WHEN: 10:00–11:30 10 Dec Wed Expedition to Worlds Deepest Known Vent Sites in the Cayman Trough and Ore Formation in the Zambia Copperbelt SPEAKER: Stephen Roberts WHERE: Brno, Kotlářská 2, MU Faculty of Science, Building 11, Room G2 WHEN: 14:30–17:00 11 Dec Thu Ice-Binding Proteins: Nature’s Nanotools for Ice Control SPEAKER: Ido Braslavsky WHERE: University Campus, Building C12, Room 311 WHEN: 10:00 11 Dec Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Novel Insights in Ethylene-Related Metabolism and Its Role in Plant Stress SPEAKER: Dominique Van Der Straeten WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 12 Dec Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Liquid Biopsies in Multiple Myeloma SPEAKER: Sabina Ševčíková WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 Save the Date: * PI_Forum Brno #7: Equal Opportunities, 3 February * Days of Electron Microscopy, 23–29 March * Off the ADAR Radar Conference, 30–31 March * EUROPIC 2026, 31 May–4 June
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Events of the Week 1–8 December
1 Dec Mon Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Use of CRISPR/Cas9 for Investigating Targeted Therapy Opportunities in B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia SPEAKER: Helena Peschelová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 11:00–13:00 2–5 Dec Tue–Fri Processing and Analysis of Biological Images WHERE: Brno, Netroufalky 7, EDU Centrum 2–3 Dec Tue–Wed Long Live Research Data: National EOSC CZ Conference 2025 WHERE: Ostrava, Hornopolní 3313/42, Quality Hotel Ostrava City 2 Dec Tue RECETOX Seminar Series SPEAKER: Andrea Dalecká, Gabriela Kšiňanová, Albert Kšiňan WHERE: University Campus, Building D29, Room 252 - RCX1 WHEN: 9:00–11:00 2 Dec Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: From Sequence to Insights: Developing Bioinformatics Workflows for NGS Data Analysis SPEAKER: Alejandro Antonio Medaglia Mata WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 2 Dec Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Small RNA Biogenesis: Co-Transcriptional Regulation and RNA Modifications SPEAKER: Jakub Dolata WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 2 Dec Tue Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl) WHERE: Brno, Kraví hora 2, Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno WHEN: 18:00–20:00 3 Dec Wed Observation of Entangled Electron-Zone Boundary Phonon States With Transient Spectroscopic Ellipsometry SPEAKER: Kurt Hingerl WHERE: Brno, Kotlářská 2, MU Faculty of Science, Building 6, Room F1 WHEN: 11:00 3 Dec Wed Sip of Science TOPIC: CAR-T Cells - Neither Marvel nor DC but Lab Grown Superheroes SPEAKER: Narendra Varma Gottumukkala WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 15:30–17:30 4 Dec Thu Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: RNA Editing and Splicing by ADAR2 In Children With Seizures SPEAKER: Qiupei Du WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 10:00–12:00 4 Dec Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Clinical Potential of MSC-EVs and Translational Challenges SPEAKER: Bernd Giebel WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 4 Dec Thu Botanical Seminar TOPIC: Interactions Between Hemiparasites and Invasive Plants of Grassland Habitats (PhD Defence) SPEAKER: Kateřina Knotková WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 5 Dec Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: The Use of Low-Cost Sensor Technologies in Air Quality Research: Unmeasured Areas and Citizen Science Approaches SPEAKER: Ondřej Mikeš WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 Save the Date: * PI_Forum Brno #7: Equal Opportunities, 3 February * Days of Electron Microscopy, 23–29 March * Off the ADAR Radar Conference, 30–31 March * EUROPIC 2026, 31 May–4 June
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Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Membrane Thinning: A Shared Mechanism by Scramblases, Insertases and Translocases by Robert Vácha (CEITEC MU). WHEN: Friday, 28 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Call for Speakers – PI Seminar Series Spring 2026
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the PI Seminar Committee, we would like to thank you for your support and participation in the PI Seminar Series Autumn 2025. Although several lectures are still scheduled, we are already preparing for the next semester – Spring 2026 – and are looking for independent group leaders with their own research groups and funding to present. You are also welcome to nominate a speaker; simply share the link below with them. Further information, including organizational details and registration, can be found HERE. Please note that the deadline to sign up is 1 December 2025. Thank you for your continued engagement. We look forward to your talks in the upcoming semester. On behalf of the PI Committee, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Events of the Week 24 November – 1 December
24–25 Nov Mon–Tue TANGENC Conference 2025 WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium 24–26 Nov Mon–Wed EU-Openscreen: Training School Early-Stage Drug Discovery WHERE: Online WHEN: 9:20–13:30 25 Nov Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: Decoding Chromatin Changes in High-Risk CLL Using Multi-Omics Approaches SPEAKER: Karolína Černovská WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 25 Nov Tue Good Practice of Scientific Publishing SPEAKER: Monika Kuchlei Sieberová WHERE: Faculty of Arts, Arne Nováka 1/1, Room B2/42 & Online WHEN: 10:00–11:30 25 Nov Tue BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD TOPIC: From PhD to Start-up CEO; Enantis (CZE) & Head of Startup Support; Innovation Agency JIC (CZE) SPEAKER: Veronika Stepankova WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 WHEN: 16:00 27 Nov Thu Work-Life Balance SPEAKER: Alena Slezáčková WHERE: Komenského nám. 2, Brno, Training room CERPEK, Room 328 WHEN: 9:00–13:00 27 Nov Thu Biosciences in Polar and Alpine Research WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 WHEN: 9:00–15:00 27 Nov Thu Microbial Dream Team: Synthetic Co-Culture for Bioplastic Production From Light and CO2 SPEAKER: Katharina Pflüger-Grau WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 10:00–11:30 27 Nov Thu Innovation Lectures TOPIC: Beneficial Aspects of the Separation Technique Capillary Electrophoresis for the Biomedical, Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Field SPEAKER: Ann Van Schepdael WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 12:00–13:50 27 Nov Thu Structural Biology Seminar Series TOPIC: Protecting Your Brain Babies: Intellectual Property for Researchers and Other Brave Souls SPEAKER: Ondřej Woznica WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 27 Nov Thu ADDIT-CE NeuroConnect Meetup WHERE: BioVendor Group, Karásek 1767/1, 621 00 Brno WHEN: 15:00–18:30 27 Nov Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Integrative Biology of Dormancy and Stress Tolerance in Embryos of Annual Killifishes on Earth and Beyond SPEAKER: Jason Podrabsky WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 27 Nov Thu Alpine Plants in a Warming World – Particularly Threatened or Well Buffered? SPEAKER: Stefan Dullinger WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 28 Nov Fri EMBL | BioNT Careers Webinar - Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs SPEAKER: Toni Wagner & Helena Vela WHERE: Online WHEN: 11:00–12:00 28 Nov Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Membrane Thinning: A Shared Mechanism by Scramblases, Insertases and Translocases SPEAKER: Robert Vácha WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 1 Dec Mon Industrial Biotechnology (Free Online Course) WHERE: Online WHEN: 08:00–16:00 1 Dec Mon Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Use of CRISPR/Cas9 for Investigating Targeted Therapy Opportunities in B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia SPEAKER: Helena Peschelová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 11:00–13:00 Save the Date: * Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl), 2 December * Long Live Research Data National EOSC CZ Conference 2025, 2-3 December * Processing and Analysis of Biological Images, 2–5 December * Off the ADAR Radar Conference (Mary O’Connell & Liam Keegan), 30–31 March * EUROPIC 2026, 31 May–4 June
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Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Natural Products as Building Components in Supramolecular Pharmacy by Ondřej Jurček (MUNI PHARM). WHEN: Friday, 21 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Events of the Week 17–24 November
18 Nov Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: Bioinformatic Pipeline for Analysis of Small Non-Coding RNAs SPEAKER: Karolína Trachtová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 18 Nov Tue Impact of Polar Ozone Loss in Arctic and Antarctic UV Radiation SPEAKER: Kaisa Lakkala WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, Building 05, Room Z4 WHEN: 12:30 18 Nov Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Polyploidy and Hybridisation for Brassica Crop Improvement SPEAKER: Annaliese Mason WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 18–21 Nov Tue–Fri Continuous First-Order Logic and Metric Structures SPEAKER: Itai Ben-Yaacov WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 WHEN: 15:00 19–21 Nov Wed–Fri Educational Course Neuroimaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 19 Nov Wed NTK Webinar: Searching and Evaluating on Web of Science & Scopus WHERE: Online WHEN: 10:00–11:30 19 Nov Wed Sip of Science TOPIC: How to Stay Sane in Structural Biology - Spoiler Alert, You Don’t. Or the Good, the Bad, and the Reviewer #2 SPEAKER: Karel Kubíček WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 15:30–17:30 19 Nov Wed The Traveling Salesman Problem: Package Deliveries, Pub Walks, and Astro Tours SPEAKER: William Cook WHERE: Komenského nám. 220/2, Room 300 WHEN: 16:30 20 Nov Thu Structural Biology Seminar Series TOPIC: Revealing the Logic of Gene Regulation SPEAKER: David Šafránek WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 20 Nov Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Using Stem Cell Models to Help Understand Dementia SPEAKER: Charlie Arber WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 20 Nov Thu The Global Re-Shuffling of Species SPEAKER: Franz Essl WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 21 Nov Fri Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Influence of Small Drug-like Molecules on MYC mRNP Interactions SPEAKER: Sepideh Mohammadi Koubjari WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 & Online WHEN: 12:00–14:00 21 Nov Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Natural Products as Building Components in Supramolecular Pharmacy SPEAKER: Ondřej Jurček WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 24–25 Nov Mon–Tue TANGENC Conference 2025 WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium Save the Date: * BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD: From PhD to Start-up CEO; Enantis (CZE) & Head of Startup Support; Innovation Agency JIC (CZE), 25 November * ADDIT-CE NeuroConnect Meetup, 27 November * Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl), 2 December * Long Live Research Data National EOSC CZ Conference 2025, 2-3 December * Processing and Analysis of Biological Images, 2–5 December
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Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Modular Design of Small-Molecule Tools for Biology Research, by Jakub Švenda (MUNI SCI). WHEN: Friday, 14 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team