Horizont Europe

• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 call is finally open and will close on September 14th. The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. The scheme also encourages researchers to work on research and innovation projects in the non-academic sector and is open to researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, to those who are displaced by conflict, as well as to researchers with high potential who are seeking to restart their careers in research.

Czech Science Foundation

• Lead Agency grants - GA CR in the role of partner organization (deadline according to the foreign agency - currently it is still possible to submit project proposals in cooperation with the German agency DFG/ongoing call, Austrian agency FWF/ongoing call, American NSF/ongoing call and the Swiss SNSF agency/deadline 1 October 2022 for the Czech Republic). If you are interested in this call, please contact Nikola Stejskalová.

Ministry of Agriculture

• The announced topics represent the focus of individual projects in the field of agriculture, food industry, forestry and water management and protection of agricultural land. The deadline of this call is July, 27. Topics here (only in Czech).

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• DELTA 2 - The subject of this public tender is the support of international cooperation in the field of applied research through joint projects of Czech entities supported by the TA CR and foreign partners with the expected support of foreign organizations. The deadline of this call is July, 13.

If you are interested in any call, please contact Nikola Stejskalová.

Planned calls

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• Preliminary parameters of the 6th public competitions of the program Environment for Life (announcement planned on June 29, 2022).
  
  
• Preliminary parameters of the 5th public competitions of the THETA Program (announcement planned at the beginning of the June, 2022).

Project events

• EOSC roadshow (Praha 1. 6. 2022, Brno 3. 6. 2022, Ostrava 17. 6. 2022) – in Czech only
  
• Open Science Workshop 2022 | Open Science MUNI (8. 6. 2022) – hybrid
  
• 7. národní konference o genderu a vědě (14. 6. 2022) – hybrid – in Czech only
  
• TC AV ČR: CZ-SK Infoden k ERA Talents (15. 6. 2022) – on-line – in Czech only
  
• Conference on Synergies in the Research and Innovation Funding in Europe (7. 7. 2022) – hybrid
  
• European Research and Innovation Days (28. - 29. 9. 2022) – on-line
  
• Global health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking info day (2. 6. 2022) – on-line
  
• MU: Open Science Workshop 2022 (8. 6. 2022) – hybrid
  
• GRANTS WEEK 2022 (19.- 20. 9. 2022) – hybrid
  
• RECETOX Informational Webinar on MSCA PF 2022 call for applicants – date and time tbs
  

Other information

• Updated Work Programme for EU Missions 2021-2022
• Aktualizován Pracovní program pro rok 2022– in Czech only
• Proof of Concept ERC granty v ČR - in Czech only

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

T5:

Kunka, A., Lacko, D., Stourac, J., Damborsky, J., Prokop, Z., & Mazurenko, S., CalFitter 2.0: Leveraging the power of singular value decomposition to analyse protein thermostability. (2022) Nucleic Acids Research. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac378

Pípal, M., Novák, J., Rafajová, A., Smutná, M., & Hilscherová, K., Teratogenicity of retinoids detected in surface waters in zebrafish embryos and its predictability by in vitro assays. (2022) Aquatic Toxicology, 246, 106151. doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106151

Q1:

Domínguez-Romero, E., Komprdová, K., Kalina, J., Bessems, J., Karakitsios, S., Sarigiannis, D. A., & Scheringer, M., Time-trends in human urinary concentrations of phthalates and substitutes DEHT and DINCH in Asian and North American countries (2009–2019). (2022) Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00441-w

Poljak, M., Wohlrábová, L., Palao, E., Nociarová, J., Míšek, J., Slanina, T., & Klán, P., Chalcogen-based ratiometric reversible BODIPY redox sensors for the determination of enantioselective methionine sulfoxide reductase activity. (2022) Chemical Communications, doi.org/10.1039/D2CC02016E

Q2:

Lu, W., Pikhart, H., Tamosiunas, A., Kubinova, R., Capkova, N., Malyutina, S., Pająk, A., & Bobak, M., Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia, and associated risk factors in the Czech Republic, Russia, Poland and Lithuania: a cross-sectional study. (2022) BMC Public Health, doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13260-3

• Seznam zprávy: Skryté nebezpečí v jídle i vzduchu. Velký projekt zjistí, jak ničí naše tělo (czech only)

• Lidové noviny: Hodné bakterie si hýčkejte (czech only)
  
  
• Vědavýzkum.cz: Nové partnerství pomůže chránit před účinky chemických látek (czech only)
  
  
• Forbes.cz: Lovkyně stresu. Vynález týmu českých vědkyň zajímá armádu, personalisty i gamery (czech only)

Save the date

• RECETOX Seminar Series: Maribel Casas (IS Global, Barcelona), 9 June 2022, 9:00 am
  
  
• Synthesis and Analysis of Drugs 2022, 7 - 9 September 2022
  
  
• The International Congress of Toxicology (ICT 2022), 18 - 22 September 2022
  
  
• International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022), 19 - 21 October 2022

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 a few of the positions, feel free to recommend them to us by sending their CV to rcx-hr@recetox.muni.cz

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