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LECTURE: Quo Vadis Chemie - Professor Cristina Nevado, University of Zürich

From Potent and Highly Selective Bromo- domain Ligands…to Efficient Alkene/Alkyne dDfunctionalizations…an Exciting Journey. The lecture takes place on September 19th (Monday) at 3 pm,Ch-2 Lecture Hall.

CER - International Scientific Conference for PhD students of EU countries - Call for papers

It is our pleasure to invite your PhD students and assistants to the virtual 6th International Scientific Conference CER 2016, held on October 24-27, 2016. The goal of the scientific conference is to discuss PhD results through EU countries and different branches. Conference will run online. Thus, PhD students are invited to submit your paper at Virtual Conference. All submitted papers will be publish in the Conference Proceedings.

Lecture: Prof. David R. Goodlett, Ph.D. - Developing a lipid A structure activity relationship library

A professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Fundamentally, his interest in science revolves around the conundrum of protein structure-function relationships. Lecture will be held this Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9 am. at the Conference Hall, room No. U2.012, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec.

LECTURE: “Aspartyl(Asparaginyl)-beta-Hydroxylase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer” by Mark Olsen, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy – Glendale Midwestern University

When: September 1st, 2016 – 11:00 AM Where: BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, Vestec – conference room: U2.012

FACULTY NEWS: ESEH Summer School - The Undesirable: How Parasites, Diseases, and Pests Shape Our Environments

The centerpiece of the summer school’s program will be the presentations of the participants’ projects and subsequent discussion. We will also have a number of other exciting events, including a keynote by the eminent historian of science Soňa Štrbáňová, a field trip, and a writing workshop led by Patrick Kupper, an environmental historian and the winner of the 2013 Turku Book Award.

New vision for Albertov Campus unveiled

On August 1st, the project for the construction of new buildings on the Albertov Campus entered the next phase of development. In a ceremony attended by the highest officials of Charles University and all faculties involved, the results of the architectural design competition were announced, with the unveiling of the winning designs from which a final winner will be chosen. To learn more about the progress of this unique Charles University project, we spoke to CU Faculty of Science Assistant Dean of Development Josef Novotný.

Popular Science: Transformations of mining areas

The landscape in northwest Bohemia has been heavily modified by man. We can see rapid development, mainly in the strip mining of brown coal. Scientists from the University of Life Sciences together with Dušan Romportl, a member of the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, the Faculty of Science, Charles University, analysed changes in the forest cover using a Geographic information system (GIS).

Popular Science: Immigrants - Where are they heading in the USA and Australia and how will it be in the future?

Nowadays Europe, the old continent, is talking about a huge wave of immigrants and their distribution to the individual countries. The authors analysed the data from two traditional immigrant countries, the USA and Australia. Josef Novotný and Jiří Hasman from the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, the Faculty of Science, tested a method for the prediction of the development of the distribution of migrants and the population structure of the regions.

Popular Science: Man and nature are connected vessels

All of us are aware that humankind tries to preserve cultural heritage. However, how can geomorphologists contribute? Every significant site and building is established in a specific environment. Natural processes at the site are very important for us and are worth watching. This is a reason why the LACUNHEN scientific network was founded. The Faculty of Science is member of it, specifically Vít Vilímek from the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology.

Popular Science: Will we lose the views in the Giant Mountains and Jeseníky Mountains?

The highest mountains in the Czech Republic have a lot of views of the Czech basin as well as to the Polish lowlands. This is thanks to the timberline which we can find on the highest places in the Czech Republic. Will the timberline remain in the future? Václav Treml and Tomáš Chuman from the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, the Faculty of Science, Charles University are interested in the dynamics of forests and the treeline in the Giant Mountains and Jeseníky Mountains.