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Summer School in Environmental History: The Undesirable - How Parasites, Diseases, and Pests Shape Our Environments

The Working Group for Czech and Slovak Environmental History in cooperation with the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague and the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and with the support of European Society for Environmental History are pleased to announce a four-day graduate summer school in environmental history which will take place in Prague in late August 2016. Application deadline is 20 May 2016.

PhD fellowship in structural biology of 14-3-3 protein complexes

The Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague is offering a PhD scholarship at Tomas Obsil research group to start in October 1st 2016. Project is part of the Horizon2020 (H2020) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) “Targeted small-molecule Stabilization of Protein-Protein Interactions (TASPPI)”.

Lecture: Mary O'Connell - ADAR1 discriminates between self and non-self endogenous RNAs

Mary O'Connell has a profound record in the world’s foremost research institutes such as Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and MIT, Boston. She has joined the Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University (CEITEC MU) last year via the ERA Chairs programme. Mary is going to talk about RNA editing enzymes of ADAR family and its link to innate immunity and autoimmunity. The lecture takes place on 15th March 2016 in B3 (Vinicna 7) starting at 4.30 pm.

Quo Vadis Chemie: Microfluidic assays for enhanced biochemical analysis

Microfluidic biosensors have gained considerable attention in recent years, due to their potential to serve as future point-of-care diagnostic tools. However, despite significant technological advancements, achieving clinically-relevant sensitivity in short analysis time remains a major challenge for many applications. In particular, slow reaction kinetics remain a major bottleneck in the analysis of low sample concentrations. The lecture will be held by asst. prof. Moran Bercovici, Israel Institute of Technology.

Space weathering: geologists' journey to space

For most of us, the term geological research is likely to evoke explorations aimed at reaching various depths under the Earth's surface. That, obviously, is what this work is usually about. Geologists, however, can also raise their heads towards the sky and demonstrate their competence in areas that are normally "dominated" by scientists with telescopes, and their expertise can help in research involving various space bodies, from asteroids to planets.

Anton Bauer (The Antibody lab, Vienna, Austria): Antibodies - what else?

The faculty audience is welcome to visit a lecture by Anton Bauer - Fotochemie Lecture Hall (Vinicna 7) on Tuesday 1st of March, 4.30 pm. Anton is going to talk about the establishment of a next-generation antibody platform and identification of a product candidate now in clinical trials, antibodies in immunoassays and a diagnostic marker, and their mammalian recombinant protein expression system and its planed use for the production of SIgA antibodies for oral and topical application.

Lecture screening in Great Zoological Hall: A Personal History of Structural Virology

The first series of Mendel Lectures was in 2003, when it was devoted to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Since then, Brno has been visited by 50 scientists, including Nobel Prize winners. Our faculty students can visit sceening of the lectures in the Great Zoological Hall at Vinicna 7. We begin on Thursday 3rd of March with one of the founders of structural biology Michael Rossmann.

Charles University Faculty of Science Gala Ball

You are cordially invited to attend the Gala Ball of the Charles University Faculty of Science, which will be held on Friday, March 4th, 2016 at 8 pm at the Prague Congress Centre. Tickets can be purchased at the Department of External Relations, Albertov 6, office no. 130.

Czech scientists solved the enigma of coexistence of people with Rh+ and Rh- blood groups

Before the advent of modern medicine, about 10 000 Rh positive children born to Rh negative mothers were dying for hemolytic anemia in the US each year. Without the superiority of the heterozygotes – the carriers of both variants of Rhesus gene, the less abundant allele should be quickly eliminated from any population. Jaroslav Flegr probably solved 80 years old enigma of coexistence of carriers of two variants of Rhesus gene in the same population.

8th International Student and Early Career Conference NEW WAVE in Prague

Traditionally, the NEW WAVE Conference draws graduate and post-graduate students, as well as young professionals from the fields of Physical and Social Geography, Cartography, Demography, Sociology, Urban planning and related disciplines to share and discuss their research in a friendly and open-minded atmosphere with a multidisciplinary audience. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: 15th March, 2016