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Johnson Matthey Academic Conference 2023 – The Best Poster Award goes to our faculty3rd year PhD student Anastasia Kurbanova (from Dept. of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry) won the best poster award at the Johnson Matthey Academic Conference 2023. Anastasia is doing her PhD studies under supervision of Dr. Jan Přech in the research group of Prof. Jiří Čejka with the main research focus on synthesis and catalytic application of zeolites. Published Apr 28, 2023 |
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Manuscript written on the barricadesAn article that is unique both in its scientific content and powerful human story behind. That's how to describe the manuscript that has just been published in the journal Marine Micropaleontology. The main author of the entire project and the published text is Yuliia V. Vernyhorova, a Ukrainian paleontologist from Kyiv. Among the key co-authors, we also find several scientists from the Institute of Geology and Paleontology and the Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources of the Faculty of Science of Charles University. Published Apr 26, 2023 |
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Degradation as a synthetic pathway?Zeolites are extensively studied materials with a high potential for real-life use and industrial applications. However, these applications are often limited by zeolite synthesis, which usually demands harsh conditions and is thus unsuitable for preparing chemically labile materials. Such materials have now been successfully prepared by the research group of Professor Jiří Čejka and Associate Prof. Maksym Opanasenko, in the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, and the Charles University Centre of Advanced Materials (CUCAM). Their article has been published in the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). Published Apr 24, 2023 |
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Charles University awarded its best graduatesOf the eighteen winners, four were from our faculty! Mojmír Polák and Petra Krsková received the award from the hands of the Rector Prof. Milena Králíčková (Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Heyrovský Award), the Prof. PhDr. Václav Příhoda Award went to Hana Janoušková and Ondřej Kopecký. Congratulations! Published Apr 21, 2023 |
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New insights into caldera formation - what precedes volcanic eruptions?A new publication by a joint team from the Department of Geology and Paleontology of our faculty (Jiří Žák, Filip Tomek) and the Czech Technical University in Prague (Michael Somr, Petr Kabele) in one of the most prestigious geoscience journals Earth- Science Reviews (IF=12,038; ranking 4/203 in the category "Geosciences, multidisciplinary") analyses the conditions under which gravitational collapse of volcanoes into underlying magma vents and catastrophic volcanic eruptions can occur in the upper crust. Published Apr 19, 2023 |
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A team of researchers from Faculty of Science has been awarded a prestigious renewal of their HFSP GrantHuman Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grants are awarded for frontier collaborative projects that promise to cross the established science frontiers and to tackle bold scientific challenges. They especially encourage bringing different scientific expertise together and maximizing trans-laboratory collaboration. Published Apr 11, 2023 |
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Opinion and Recommendations of the Dean's Advisory Board for the Use of Artificial IntelligenceThe faculty Dean´s Advisory Board have issued a statement and recommendations on artificial intelligence. Read by clicking on this news item. Published Apr 11, 2023 |
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Apply for the FameLabDo you want to become a star in the scientific world and shine in one of the oldest international science competitions? Then the FameLab competition is just for you! The World Stand-up Competition with the finale in Cheltenham, England, is closing applications on May 31, 2023 Published Apr 05, 2023 |
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Successful finalisation of the 4EU+ UNREAD project’s second editionOn 23 and 24 March 2023, our faculty hosted the final 4EU+ conference "Urban Regulations and Political Memory". This interdisciplinary course is one of the educational projects of the 4EU+ Alliance and is led by a team of geographers, historians and lawyers from Charles University, the University of Warsaw and the University of Milan. The conference programme was also prepared by a member of the Urban and Regional Laboratory research team, Assoc. Martin Ouředníček from the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development together with Master's students Jakub Kraft and Daniel Bečvář and the head of the Map Collection, PhDr. Eva Novotná, Ph.D. Published Mar 27, 2023 |
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Photo contest Šutroskop (MicROCKscopia)The Geologilcký Art Spolek (GAS) is organizing a photo contest with geoscientific themes for students of all disciplines and years of the Faculty of Science of Charles University. The deadline for submitting photos is April 14, 2023! Published Mar 20, 2023 |
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New weapons against 'brain-eating' and tropical diseases thanks to BIOCEV scientistsAn international team of parasitologists and medicinal chemists from the BIOCEV Centre has developed and successfully tested a substance against a deadly parasite. Naegleria fowleri attacks the human brain and despite all modern treatments, 97% of cases end fatally. The new substance has been shown to cure the infection in mice. Along with it, scientists have discovered other anti-parasitic agents that could be used against malaria or sleeping sickness in the future. Published Mar 07, 2023 |
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Conference "Bologna process: benefits, challenges, opportunities"On Tuesday, March 14, 2023, the conference „Bologna Process: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities“ will take place at Charles University at historical residence Carolinum, under the auspices of the Eastern Partnership University Cluster. The aim of the conference is to assemble experiences and to share best practices regarding the increasing comparability in the standards and quality of university education and promoting meaningful student and academic mobilities and joint educational endeavors between the EU universities and the universities of Eastern Partnership countries. The conference will take place in a hybrid format. Published Mar 06, 2023 |
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The study's findings provide insights into the surprising evolution of proteinsA team of researchers from the Faculty of Science at Charles University, BIOCEV and IOCB (Czech Republic), Johns Hopkins University (USA) and ELSI (Japan) has discovered why modern proteins use a quasi-universal repertoire of 20 canonical amino acids (AAs). The study, published in the journal JACS, shows that foldability was likely a critical factor in the selection of the canonical alphabet. Published Feb 28, 2023 |
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Against the mainstream in fungal systematicsDevelopments in the current systematics of fungi are largely directed towards the division of existing species into smaller, narrowly defined species. But as demonstrated by scientists from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, and the Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on the Aspergillus genus model, such a division is often not justified and only complicates or makes the correct identification of species impossible. The results were published in a series of three publications in a prestigious journal Studies in Mycology. Published Feb 26, 2023 |
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Our faculty hosted the School of AdsorptionOn 7 and 8 February, the School of Adsorption organized jointly by the CUCAM team and Pragolab and Micromeritics took place at the Faculty of Science. The main aim of the School was to introduce interested students and company representatives to the basics and applications of adsorption, development of new experimental and theoretical procedures and interpretation of adsorption data. Published Feb 09, 2023 |
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Lewis acid zeolites – (green) catalysts for tomorrowJan Přech, Ewelina Szaniawská and Jiří Čejka (group of Synthesis, Catalysis and Advanced Materials from the Dept. of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry) with Steven L. Suib (University of Connecticut, USA) published a paper in the most cited chemistry journal: Chemical Reviews (IF=72,1). The article critically reviews recent advances in tetra- and pentavalent metal-substituted molecular sieve catalysis. Published Jan 20, 2023 |
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Professor Petr Nachtigall diedProf. RNDr. Petr Nachtigall, Ph.D. passed away on 28 December 2022. He was an internationally recognized expert in computational material science; he worked at our faculty at the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry. We honor his memory. Published Jan 04, 2023 |
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Heme, heme, is oxygen here?You have probably heard that aristocrats have blue blood, right? Of course, it is not true. We all have blood of a beautiful red color, thanks to a protein called hemoglobin – the blood pigment. This protein has a non-protein part called heme, which carries oxygen in our blood from lungs to a whole body. Besides being an oxygen carrier, heme has a much wider set of tasks in various proteins of many organisms. For example, bacteria use heme in oxygen sensor proteins to orient themselves in the environment. The team of Assoc. Prof. Markéta Martínková from the Faculty of Science, Charles University has recently published a new mini-review focused on the mechanisms of action of those proteins. Published Dec 18, 2022 |
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SGA Student Chapter Prague – The 20th AnniversarySince 2022 is the year of celebrations for the SGA Student Chapter Prague, we have decided to organize the annual SGA Prague Christmas meeting and the 20th Anniversary celebration on 7th December. The event took place at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. On the same day we organized an excursion to the gold mine near Jílové u Prahy took place for those interested. Published Dec 15, 2022 |
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The great importance of small dimensionsDr. Michal Mazur and his colleagues from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague study catalysts that are based on metal nanoparticles stabilized at zeolites. Recently, they have prepared a new type of zeolitic catalyst. Their results have been published in the prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie. Published Dec 13, 2022 |