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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

STARS – Supporting TAlented PhD Research Students: Call for applications

Do we know how newly introduced cultural crops are influencing the soil?

Soil is an important provider of ecosystem services, among the most important of which include the possibility of food production and the mitigation of climate change effects. This is made possible through carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling, which are processes primarily driven by soil biota. However, the intensification of agricultural production caused by the growing demand for biofuels reduces the soil biota. We are used to producing oilseed rape, Miscanthus and hybrid sorrel (Rumex patientia x R. tianshanicus) as biofuel plants. While the first two crops are already established in our country, we have very little information so far about the effects of the long-term cultivation of hybrid sorrel on soil organisms.

A way to discover the true species diversity of single-celled organisms?

What is the true diversity of organisms on our planet? That is the question that keeps many scientists awake at night. Interestingly, until now many more macroscopic organisms have been described than the very smallest ones, invisible to the naked eye. But one would probably assume that those tiny organisms will be more abundant as they have obviously had much more time for their differentiation.