Science and PhD study programes evaluation

An international evaluation of science and doctoral study programs will take place at RECETOX on 21 and 22 April. The event will be realized within the university-wide evaluation (IHV MUNI) and within the evaluation of the TEAMING project. Four external evaluators, prof. Jana Roithová (Radboud University, NL), prof. Robert Barouki (INSERM, Paris, FR), prof. Bryan Brooks (Baylor University, TX, USA) and prof. John Giesy (University of Saskatchewan, CA) will focus on the center's scientific performance and strategy, institutional environment, center management, and the quality of doctoral programs.

Enjoy Brno!! Quarantine is over.

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, Luxembourg agency FNR/deadline 28 April 2022 for the Czech Republic and the Swiss SNSF agency/deadline 8 April 2022 for the Czech Republic)

Horizont Europe

• Currently open Calls for Proposals: Funding & tender opportunities

Planned Calls

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

• Preliminary parameters of the 6th public competitions of the TREND program Technology Leaders (announcement planned on April 27, 2022)

• Preliminary parameters 4th public tenders with the DELTA 2 program (announcement planned for May 18, 2022)

• Preliminary parameters of the 5th public competitions of the THETA Program (announcement planned on June 1, 2022)
  
  

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF): The call is expected to open on 12th May 2021 with the deadline for submission of proposals on 14th September 2022. If you plan to apply for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship or are interested in further information, contact Mirjana Stanojević (mirjana.stanojevic@recetox.muni.cz) ASAP.
  
  
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN): The call for MSCA Doctoral Networks (former MSCA Innovative Training Networks) is expected to open on 12th May 2022 with the deadline for submission of proposals on 15th November 2022.

Successful Grants

Czech Science Foundation

Lead Agency grants:

• doc. Ing. Branislav Vrana, PhD. - Accumulation in textiles and release by laundry as an emission pathway for aromatic amines from indoor environments to waste- and surface waters

Standard project:

• prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D. - Synthesis and Photochemistry of Isotope Labeled Probes of Neonatal Jaundice Phototherapy (part of dr. Švenda’s team)

Submitted proposals

Czech Science Foundation

Lead agency grants - partner organization:

• prof. MUDr. Julie Dobrovolná Ph.D. - EntroCity - Novel approaches for integrated assessment of individual-level stress load in urban Settings
  
  
• Mgr. Ondřej Adamovský Ph.D. - Investigating the environmental fate of microplastics and their effects on model organisms through structural and chemical imaging

Standard project:

• prof. RNDr. Petr Klán Ph.D. - Synthesis and Photophysical and (Photo)chemical Properties of Novel Cyanine Derivatives
  
  
• Stanislav Mazurenko PhD - An Artificial Intelligence-Based Platform for Enhancing Protein Desig
  
  
• prof. RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D. - Transport and bioaccumulation of pesticide residues in meta food webs of agricultural
  
  
• Mgr. Ondřej Adamovský Ph.D. - The immune system and adverse effects from environmental exposures
  
  
• doc. RNDr. Pavel Babica, Ph.D. - Deciphering the relationship between structure and bioactivity of lipopolysaccharides of water bloom cyanobacteria
  
  
• doc. RNDr. Pavel Babica, Ph.D. - Kill or not to kill – the question of the influencing bacterial communication and host cell-microbe interaction by phytochemicals (part of prof. Šmejkal team)
  
  
• doc. RNDr. Pavel Babica, Ph.D. - Development of Enterohepatic Drug Carriers: Porous Bile Acids-Based Metallo-Supramolecular Nanoparticles
  
  
• Mgr. Peter Šebej, Ph.D. - Polymethine dyes with novel structures – on the way beyond the linear chromophore
  
  
• prof. Ing. Vladimír Šindelář, Ph.D. - Chemical modification of bambusurils for adjusting their binding affinity and selectivity

Lead agency grants:

• prof. RNDr. Zbyněk Prokop Ph.D. - A microfluidic platform to probe the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease and screen for new drug candidates

Project Events

• The Technology Centre CAS is organising on 26 April 2022 the Online Information Day on Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF), focused on the 2022 Call.

  The Information Day on MSCA PF is designed to familiarize participants with this type of grant. This event is primarily for researchers considering applying to MSCA PF but also for project managers and those who will be supporting the applicants when preparing their project proposals.

  You can register till 24 April 2022 (23:59). More information on the event is available HERE.
  
  

• 14 April 2022 - MSCA-PF candidates‘ training hour – regular event organized by MUNI and Palacký University Olomouc (a regular one-hour training each Thursday from 11:00 to 12:00, with last session on 26.5.2022; no session on 5.5.2022); registration necessary
  
  
• 23-25 May 2022 - MSCA Workshop to support your MSCA-PF proposal preparation organized by MUNI; registration is necessary
  
  
• 30-31 May 2022 - Applicants' workshop on MSCA-PF (for potential fellows and their supervisors organized by TC CAS (in preparation)

Other Information

• Czech Science Foundation - New publication to help early-career scientists navigate through grant schemes
  
  
• Luděk Sehnal succeeded in the MSCA challenge
  

  Luděk Sehnal's NAfrAM project received financial support from the European Union's MSCA EF-LIF program (European Fellowship, Life Sciences panel). He will conduct his research in laboratories led by Professor Ziemert in Tübingen, Germany, where he will study and use the genetic information of Antarctic microorganisms to characterize their biosynthetic potential and discover new antimicrobials.

  The main goal of the NAfrAM project is to characterize the overall biosynthetic potential hidden across (meta)genomes of microorganisms from different types of Antarctic ecosystems (lakes, streams, wetlands). The project thus responds to the problem of a long-term decline in the development of antibiotics and the associated lack of highly effective substances. Congratulations to Luděk for his great success.

  
  
• RECETOX has achieved great success
  
  RECETOX has achieved great success in last year's call HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01. Luděk Sehnal's NAfrAM project, all projects were successfully evaluated and all achieved a rating above 70% success rate. Brij Sharma's project has achieved a high evaluation and is currently on the reserve list due to a lack of funds. The researchers from other successful projects will have the opportunity to fund their projects from the national program OP JAK. Congratulations to all the researchers and project support for their success!
  
  
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022
  
  Are you looking for funding for your postdoctoral stay? One of the Horizon Europe programmes – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – offers prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships (former Individual Fellowships). The Postdoctoral Fellowships target researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills, gain experience in other countries, disciplines and non-academic sectors, and develop their careers. You can apply for European Fellowships (12-24 months, to come to Europe or move within) or Global Fellowships (12-24 months in a third country + 12 months mandatory return phase in Europe). If you apply with MUNI (check if you comply with the mobility rule), there are two other options for alternative funding of your research - ERA Fellowships (former Widening Fellowships) and Operational Programme John Amos Comenius managed by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. You can find further information about MSCA-PF at the website of the RECETOX Grant Office or contact directly Mirjana Stanojević (mirjana.stanojevic@recetox.muni.cz).
  
  
• Call for MSCA-PF-2022 is expected to open on 12th May 2022 with the deadline for submission of proposals on 14th September 2022.
  
  
• Ph.D. student support
  
  Ph.D. students at RECETOX need to fulfill a mandatory international internship, and here they can learn about funding options for the planned internship or study stay. An overview of current scholarship programs and grants.

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

T10:

López-Cabeza, R., Kah, M., Grillo, R., Koutný, M., Salač, J., Bílková, Z., Eghbalinejad, M., & Hofman, J., Tebuconazole and terbuthylazine encapsulated in nanocarriers: preparation, characterization and release kinetics. (2022) Environmental Science: Nano. doi.org/10.1039/D1EN00981H

Q1:

Del Mauro, A., Kokan, Z., & Šindelář, V., Dynamic [1]rotaxanes via a reversible covalent bond and host–guest anion recognition. (2022) Chemical Communications, doi.org/10.1039/D2CC00779G

Moore, S., Paalanen, L., Melymuk, L., Katsonouri, A., Kolossa-Gehring, M., & Tolonen, H., The Association between ADHD and Environmental Chemicals—A Scoping Review. (2022) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052849

• irozhlas.cz: Jak se bránit stresu z válečného konfliktu? Podle vědkyně se každý musí přizpůsobit sám sobě (czech only)

• Medical Tribune: Když děti pijí pod dozorem (czech only)
  
  
• Lidové noviny: Alergie vytvořil sám člověk (czech only)

Global Environment & Health challenges

Learned Society of the Czech Republic, Masaryk University, and Brno Observatory and Planetarium are jointly inviting you to the panel discussion of the leading Environmental Health scientists.

When: Monday 25 April 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm

Where: Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno, Kraví hora 522/2, Brno 

You can find more information HERE

Save the date

• Annual RECETOX PhD Conference, 25 - 26 May 2022
  
  
• 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

Regular seminars and lectures

• RECETOX Seminar series (Tuesdays, 9:00 am)
  You can find the detailed program on websites.
• Seminar Series for bachelor and master students E6000 (Mondays, 1:00 pm)
  You can find the detailed program on websites.

Out of the RECETOX:

• Life Sciences Seminar Series (Thursdays, 4:00 pm)
  You can find the detailed program on websites.
• Mendel Lectures
  You can find the detailed program on websites.

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 centre and wish them a lot of work success!