PhD STARS program 2020 is open for applications

BIOCEV: SEMINAR ON RESEARCH FUNDING

Start date Jan 29, 2020

Seminar is targeted to young and senior researchers and administrators. It will provide detailed overview about funding sources for collaborative research in partners countries, consortia and share experience of partners with funding schemes. Experts from partners institutions as well as Czech National Contact Points for H2020 will participate as speakers. January 29th, 2020, 10:00 - 15:00 BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, Vestec - Main conference hall

Published Jan 13, 2020

How to live without oxygen?

Our parasitologists in BIOCEV (research team of Jan Tachezy) discovered anaerobic peroxisome in free-living Mastigamoeba balamuthi. The article was published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA.

Published Jan 16, 2020

New Master course for this summer semester: Genomics of adaptation and speciation!

Genomics of adaptation and speciation: new course with practical classes involving state-of-the-art genomic analyses applied to the topics of adaptation and speciation! A Master course joint between the Dept of Botany, Dept of Zoology, Centre for Theoretical Studies and Palacky University in Olomouc.

Published Jan 09, 2020

Prof. Petr Nachtigall has been awarded the Minister of Education Award for the Excellent Research

Minister of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic Ing. Robert Plaga, Ph.D. has awarded Prof. Petr Nachtigall of Faculty of Science, Charles University, for “excellent research achievements in science focusing on the study of novel two-dimensional materials”. The award for year 2019 is based on the achievements obtained during last five years.

Published Dec 02, 2019

Opening of electron microscopy laboratory as a part of Charles University Centre of Advanced Materials

Newly established Electron Microscopy Laboratory is now part of our Faculty. Laboratory is equipped with new JEOL JEM-NEOARM 200Ftransmission electron microscope.

Published Jan 16, 2019

Springer-Verlag publishes second edition of BIOCEV researcher prof. Jan Tachezy's book

Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Mitochondria of Anaerobic Eukaryotes will have new updates in its 2019 second edition.

Published Dec 12, 2019

Sixty years ago: A Nobel Prize for Jaroslav Heyrovský

December 10 marks exactly sixty years that Czech scientist and inventor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His main area of work was in polarography. Professor Jiří Barek discusses the chemist’s success and invaluable contribution.

Published Dec 12, 2019

The merger of two polyploids is better than the sum of their parts

Plant evolutionary biologists from the Department of Botany (Roswitha Schmickl and Magdalena Bohutínská), together with collaborators from the United Kingdom (John Innes Centre and the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Cambridge), found an intriguing role of introgressive hybridisation in adaptation to whole genome duplication (WGD). Specific, bidirectional adaptive gene flow affected loci known to be essential for processes that are impacted by WGD: meiotic stability, endopolyploidy, and transcription. The paper was recently published in Nature Communications.

Published Dec 12, 2019