Newsletter and Internal information 3/2022
8 Mar 2022, 11:15  |  Čeština

RECETOX News 3/2022

Experiments are fundamental to science and fun: Interview with a student Tomáš Janoš

Tomáš studies Environment and Health. He's originally from Ostrava. In the interview, he explains why he decided to become a scientist and what led him to choose RECETOX and Brno. As an avid runner, he established a running club with colleagues at RECETOX - studying at RECETOX is not only about books and science but also about people and shared experiences.

Read more HERE

Julie Dobrovolná: Stress is not our enemy

Julie Dobrovolná deals with stress in her scientific work. In the interview, you will learn why it is essential to study stress in Antarctica and also the difference between stress during a covid pandemic and war.

 

The PROSECO research study is getting to its end. It shows the dynamics of the development of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the Czech population

Since October 2020, the long-term PROSECO research study has been examining the dynamics of the development of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in the Czech population. The prospective study is now nearing completion, with participants taking the third and final blood sample analysis. At the same time, colleagues Vojtěch Thon and Pavel Piler published the results of the first phase of the study, which ran from autumn 2020 to spring 2021, in the prestigious journal Communications Medicine.

Read more about the study HERE.

RECETOX Running Club

To all fans of sports and running: Join us for a regular run every Tuesday at 5 pm. Doesn´t matter how good you are, the main thing is to enjoy.

We usually run around 5 km (cca 30-40 min), we start and finish by the door to RECETOX building on the ground floor. Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday. Healthy body, healthy mind!

For more information, please contact Tomáš Janoš, Barbora Rudzanová or Nina Pálešová.

Upcoming calls

 

HORIZON EUROPE and associated programmes

The Hop On Facility foresee the possibility for legal entities from low R&I performing countries to join already selected collaborative R&I actions. The budget increase must be exclusively account at the benefit of the new partner with the exception of a coordination fee of up to 10% of the increased budget to be allocated to the coordinator of the consortium:

  • New partner can increase project budget about 0.2-0.5 millions EUR
  • It will be supported 80 projects
  • Cut-off date: 4. 2022/10. 11. 2022
  • Eligible are project without partners from the „Widening countries“
  • More information: F&T Portal and brief information on the call.

 

More information on Horizon Europe calls: Funding & tender opportunities or website Horizont Evropa.

 

Planned calls

  • TA ČR (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic) – TREND (Subprogram 1) - The date of the announcement of the call is not clear yet.

  • TA ČR (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic) – Water4All Call 2022 – soon will be announced.

  • TA ČR (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic) – DELTA 2 Programme: Announcement of the date of the launch of the 4th call and the preliminary parameters.

Successful projects

AZV – Ministry of health

  • PharmDr. Zdeněk Spáčil, Ph.D. - Novel biomarkers for non-invasive in vitro diagnostics in clinical embryology

GAMU – INTERDISCIPLINARY

  • prof. MUDr. Julie Dobrovolná, Ph.D. - Stress of Citizens and Entropy in Urban Setting

Selected publications

Below you will find selected publications already available at WoS in last month. The list of other publications is available HERE.

T5:

Schneider, M., Grossi, M. F., Gadara, D., Spáčil, Z., Babica, P., & Bláha, L. ,Treatment of cylindrospermopsin by hydroxyl and sulfate radicals: Does degradation equal detoxification? (2022) Journal of Hazardous Materials, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127447

Nováková, Z., Novák, J., Bittner, M., Čupr, P., Přibylová, P., Kukučka, P., Smutná, M., Escher, B. I., Demirtepe, H., Miralles-Marco, A., & Hilscherová, K.Toxicity to bronchial cells and endocrine disruptive potentials of indoor air and dust extracts and their association with multiple chemical classes. (2022) Journal of Hazardous Materials, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127306

Brumovský, M., Bečanová, J., Sáňka, O., Løken, K. B., Baho, D. L., Sørensen, K., & Nizzetto, L.Line ferries and cargo ships for the monitoring of marine contaminants of emerging concern: Application along a Europe-Arctic transect. (2022) Journal of Hazardous Materials, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127232

 

T10:

Jornod, F., Jaylet, T., Blaha, L., Sarigiannis, D., Tamisier, L., & Audouze, K.,  AOP-helpFinder webserver: a tool for comprehensive analysis of the literature to support adverse outcome pathways development. (2022) Bioinformatics, doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab750

Degrendele, C., Klánová, J., Prokeš, R., Příbylová, P., Šenk, P., Šudoma, M., Röösli, M., Dalvie, M. A., & Fuhrimann, S., Current use pesticides in soil and air from two agricultural sites in South Africa: Implications for environmental fate and human exposure. (2022) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150455

 

Q1:

Grulichova, M., Kuruczova, D., Svancara, J., Pikhart, H., & Bienertova-Vasku, J.Association of Picky Eating with Weight and Height—The European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC–CZ). (2022) Nutrients, doi.org/10.3390/nu14030444

RECETOX in Media

RECETOX Events

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Regular seminars and lectures

Out of the RECETOX:

Recruitment of new employees

Currently, we have these open vacancies

 

We would be grateful for sharing them as well, or if you already know about a great candidate for one or few of the positions, feel free to recommend them to us by sending their CV to rcx-hr@recetox.muni.cz

Newcomers at RECETOX

We welcome new colleagues to the center and wish them a lot of work success!

Zuzana Prouzová

Economist for projects
Support Functions, Grant Office

 

Mirjana Stanojević

Project coordinator
Support Functions, Grant Office

Saltuk Mustafa Eyrilmez

Postdoc
Research group of David Bednář, Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics

Štěpánka Horníčková

HR assistant
Support Functions, Human Resources Department

 

Pavel Kohout

Programmer
Research group of David Bednář, Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics

Lenka Baková

Head of the department
Support Functions, Human Resources Department

Petra Brenerová

Researcher
Research group of Petra Bořilová Linhartová, Environmental Genomics

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