RECETOX Newsletter 4/2024

Harmonogram of purchase requests in 2024

Allowance

We would like to remind you that the allowance can be planned only as part of a business trip abroad and is set as follows: 40% for heads of departments, 20% for other employees, 0% for student employees. Allowance is determined as a percentage of the food costs. Allowance is not allowed for domestic travel. You can find guideline on how to fill in a travel form for a business travel abroad HERE.

Cash purchase and reimbursement

1. Put request for cash purchase in to Inet.

2. Buy BY CASH (NOT by credit card)

3. Put request for reimbursemnet of cash purchase in to Inet.

4. Bring the original receipt to the cash desk in room D29/109 as possible. No later than the end of the month in which the purchase was made. Failure to do so may result in non-reimbursement of the purchase. December receipts for the year can be turned in for reimbursement no later than mid-December, after which the main cash desk of the university is closed.

Thank you for your understanding!

Housekeeping at the seminar - 23rd of April

There will be a "housekeeping session" at the beginning of the seminar, which is scheduled for April 23rd. We will inform you about the current events and upcoming activities at RECETOX, including the situation regarding the reconstruction of Hall D30.

Bike to Work challenge

Like last year, we will support the "Bike to Work Challenge" again this year. We will support the three teams of five - on the first-come-first-serve basis. For information on how to apply, please email jan.ostrizek@recetox.muni.cz. 

Wiley Webinar Series: Enhancing Your Research and Publishing Skills

Explore upcoming Wiley webinars designed to enhance your research and publishing skills:

"How to Be a Better Human"

Improve your life, one idea at a timeIt's easy to want to make a change but hard to know where to begin. Every Monday, host and comedian Chris Duffy talks to an expert who shares actionable tips to help you navigate life's ups and downs. Listen to How to Be a Better Human from the TED Audio Collective wherever you get your podcasts.
You can find the podcast HERE.

Submitted projects

HORIZON EUROPE:

• Elliott James Price, PhD, Interoperable, cross-domain, cross-ERIC health data for European R&D and public health action, call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01, role: partner
• prof. RNDr. Jana Klánová, Ph.D., Infrastructure Integration for Collaborative African - EU Research on Exposome, call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01, role: partner
• prof. RNDr. Jana Klánová, Ph.D., Enabling Decentralised Digital Twin Era in existing Research Infrastructures for Predictive, Preventive, Personalised, and Participatory Health, call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01, role: partner
• prof. RNDr. Jana Klánová, Ph.D., BORIS: Boosting Research Infrastructures Capacity for Synergistic Chemical Risk Assessment, call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01, role: partner

TAČR SIGMA

Čupr Pavel, doc. RNDr. Ph.D., DaRoS, role: coPI

CZECH SCIENCE FOUNDATION (GAČR)

• Uncovering the dark matter of the phosphoproteome: High density phosphorylation of S/T clusters (coPI prof. RNDr. Zbyněk Prokop, Ph.D.)
• Development of methods and tools for engineering of next-generation thrombolytics for the treatment of stroke (PI doc. Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D.)
• Development of methods and tools for engineering of next-generation thrombolytics for the treatment of stroke (PI doc. Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D.)
• The Meaning of Protein Channels (coPI doc. Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D.)
• Exploring structure-properties relationships to teach new tricks to the old dyes (PI Mgr. Peter Šebej, Ph.D.)
• Decoding the molecular principles of bioluminescence (PI Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek, Ph.D., MBA)
• Chemical Exposure and Gonadal Hormones: Bridging the Gap with Advanced In Vitro Models (PI RNDr. Iva Sovadinová, Ph.D.)
• Pesticides in the atmosphere - characterisation of their distribution and fate (PI prof. Gerhard Lammel, PhD.)
• AI-based design of protein therapeutics (PI Stanislav Mazurenko, PhD)
• Transport and bioaccumulation of pesticide residues in meta food webs of agricultural landscape (coPI prof. RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D.)
• Resolving the puzzle of resonance energy transfer in bioluminescence (Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek, Ph.D., MBA)
• COMPROMISE (PI Elliott James Price, PhD)
• Oral bacteria with pathogenic potential in colorectal carcinoma development (coPI doc. RNDr. Pavel Babica, Ph.D.)
• Environmental hazard and fate of pesticide mixtures in soils contaminated with agricultural microplastic (PI prof. RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D.)
• A microfluidic platform to probe the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease and screen for new drug candidates ( PI prof. RNDr. Zbyněk Prokop, Ph.D.)
• From fish to cells: Elucidating the regulatory role of the mTOR signaling pathway in the embryonic development of Nothobranchius sp. (coPI RNDr. Iva Sovadinová, Ph.D.)
• ChemTrace: Chemicals in plastic products: tracing hazardous compounds from supply chain through to children’s exposure (PI Lisa Emily Melymuk, Ph.D.)
• Drug Delivery and Targeting Using Biocompatible Infinite Coordination Polymers (coPI doc. RNDr. Pavel Babica, Ph.D.)

New successful projects

TAČR

Innovative technology of municipal wastewater quaternary treatment (coPI prof. RNDr. Luděk Bláha, Ph.D.)

Open calls

GAČR – Lead Agency

• USA – National Science Foundation (NSF) continuous call
• Rakousko – Austrian Science Fund (FWF) continuous call
• Německo – German Research Foundation (DFG) continuous call
• Luxembourg - Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), 24.4. 2024
• Croatia - Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), 17.5. 2024

If you are interested in submitting a project proposal please contact Mrs. Monika Kellnerová.

Horizon Europe Calls

Planned Calls

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 call should open in April 2024 and it closes on September 11th, 2024. If you have a suitable candidate, who fulfils the eligibility criteria, contact Mirjana Stanojević ASAP.

Other news

Dear colleagues,

The Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe project coordinators would like to remind you of the importance of complying with project obligations and fulfilling the timesheets and other requirements. If you are employed on an H2020 or HEU project, you must fill in the Description of the Work Activity on the Project at the beginning of your involvement with the project. You are also obliged to fill in the monthly Timesheets throughout your involvement with the project. If you are not sure if you are employed on one of the H2020 or HEU projects, or if you want to know more click here. Here you can find the new video manual for filling in the Timesheets. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Mirjana Stanojević or Eva Kuklínková.

Travel Orders – Eligibility of Expenses (Active Participation and Others)

If the travel order is funded by a project, we kindly request the following cooperation:

1. When filling out the travel order before the trip, please specify the type of event (conference, workshop, etc.) and the format of your contribution (presentation, poster, lecture, etc.).

For project meetings, please also provide an invitation or program (via email) to document the duration of the travel order.

1. When completing the travel report, please include the project number, conference name, and title of your contribution, and provide evidence of active participation to the budget administrator (via email). Until active participation is documented, the travel order will not be approved and reimbursed.

The budget administrator will have this information available for external audits, as well as for the documentation in interim and final reports.

Training and other grant-related events

• TC Prague: National Information Day on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (12. 4. 2024) – online, program here, register here
• TC Praha: CBE JU National Information Day 2024 (14. 5. 2024) – fyzicky, program here, register here
• EC: EU Missions info days (25. - 26. 4. 2024) – online
• ON-LINE workshops for ERC applicants on the PREPARATION OF A COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL: LIFE SCIENCES (15. - 17. 5. 2024) – online; register as a substitute here

Below you will find selected publications already available at WoS in last month. 

• Rybnikář, M., Malaník, M., Šmejkal, K., Švajdlenka, E., Shpet, P., Babica, P., Dall’Acqua, S., Smištík, O., Jurček, O., & Treml, J. (2024). Dibenzocyclooctadiene Lignans from Schisandra chinensis with Anti-Inflammatory Effects. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(6), 3465. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25063465
  
• Eghbalinejad, M., Hofman, J., Kotouček, J., Grillo, R., Hochmanová Bílková, Z., Reiff, N., & Höss, S. (2024). Nano-enabled pesticides: a comprehensive toxicity assessment of tebuconazole nanoformulations with nematodes at single species and community level. Environmental Sciences Europe, 36(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-024-00879-9
• Micenková, L., Sedláček, I., Hrbáček, F., Švec, P., Nývlt, D., Pantůček, R., & Mašlaňová, I. (2024). Effect of soil depth on the structure of bacterial composition in the active layer at five geologically distinct sites on James Ross and Vega Islands in Antarctica. Polar Biology, 47(3), 295–303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-024-03230-3
• Demuth, J., Kaushik, R., Kozlikova, M., Rando, C., Machacek, M., Novakova, V., Šindelář, V., & Zimcik, P. (2024). BODIPY-cucurbituril complexes: supramolecular approach toward improvement of photodynamic activity. Materials Advances. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA01164J
• Jeseta, M., Kalina, J., Franzova, K., Fialkova, S., Hosek, J., Mekinova, L., Crha, I., Kempisty, B., Ventruba, P., & Navratilova, J. (2024). Cross sectional study on exposure to BPA and its analogues and semen parameters in Czech men. Environmental Pollution, 345, 123445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123445
• Jézéquel, Y. A., Svěrák, F., Ramundo, A., Orel, V., Martínek, M., & Klán, P. (2024). Structure–Photoreactivity Relationship Study of Substituted 3-Hydroxyflavones and 3-Hydroxyflavothiones for Improving Carbon Monoxide Photorelease. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.4c00070

• Researcher (also suitable for PhD) Atmospheric Pollutants

• Research software engineer

• Open Ph.D. positions 

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

• SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting - 5– 9 May, Sevilla
• PhD Conference 2024 - 29 – 30 May

• 20th RECETOX Summer School and PARC Training 2024- 10–12 June, registration HERE

• Symposium on Caged Compounds, 16-20 June, IOCB Prague

• Science festival - 6-8 September 

• Researchers Night-topic: mystery, September 27