Newsletter and Internal information 5/2021
17 May 2021, 13:03  |  Čeština

RECETOX News 5/2021

Open Science

Do you publish or produce research data? Do you want to be better prepared for the changes in academic practice? Come and get acquainted with the MUNI 2022-2028 Open Science Strategy, which focuses primarily on Open Access (to scientific publications) and FAIR Data (research data). These topics are currently resonating internationally, in Europe (the European Open Science Cloud initiative or the Horizon Europe framework program), and gradually also nationally.

What is the goal of MUNI’s Open Science Roadshow?

  • Introduce a draft university strategy and collect your feedback, which will significantly contribute to its finalization and early submission for approval by the MU management. We will present the proposed steps and the main principles of Open Science as a new type of infrastructure of advanced scientific services.
  • Use this unique opportunity to influence the university’s direction in Open Science by providing the faculty’s perspective.

The Faculty of Science’s academic community meeting will take place online using the MS Teams application on May 18, 2021, from 13:00 to 15:00. Register for the event HERE (for your convenience, the event link will be sent a day before). Direct access to the virtual room can be found HERE.
 

Habilitations and Professorships

The Evaluation committee of the Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education has recommended the approval of the accreditation of the Habilitation and Professorship Procedure in the Environmental Health Sciences for RECETOX. At the end of this month, the accreditation should be formally approved and new procedures may start. 

Singapore patent: Thermostable FGF2 Polypeptide

Congratulations to our colleagues from Loschmidt Laboratories and Enantis for obtaining a patent in Singapore for their invention entitled "Thermostable FGF2 Polypeptide" for enhancing the Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 (FGF2).

FGF2 shows significantly higher temperature stability than its original wild-type predecessor and can be applied in cell biology, regenerative medicine, or cosmetics.

Read more about the FGF2 HERE

Internal information

Remuneration for SOČ

Secondary school professional activities (SOČ) are practical or theoretical activities completed by secondary school students, which they perform in addition to their regular studies in cooperation with an expert, e.g., from a university. Thanks to SOČ, students perform work that will potentially lead them to a scientific career. For this reason, among others, RECETOX supports SOČ.

The current list of topics implemented in our Center and further information about SOČ can be found HERE.

We thank this year's awardees for their activity and congratulate them on their defended work; they can look forward to the reward in May.

If you are interested in listing a topic for SOČ or your topic SOČ is missing from the list, please contact Kateřina Nováková.

Ergonomic organization of the workplace

When sitting for a long time, a properly adjusted office chair and table will relieve you.

For the ergonomic organization of the workplace, we offer tips in this smart guide and the following videos.
 

Mobile phone numbers and parking revision

In April, the working SIM cards (mobile phone numbers) and parking lots of the Center were revised. Employees affected by the change are contacted individually by Alena Bečková.

To increase the efficiency, safety and serviceability of the Center, the following changes will take place in the parking, with effect from 1 June 2021:

1. For D29, a parking place is created for sampling techniques in the arrive - load / unload - depart mode

2. The opening of the D29 garage door will only be permitted to persons parking in the garage and to the staff providing the supplies, due to the high failure rate and cost of door repairs. Others can walk through the door in the garage door.

Printing of COVID passport from INET

Do you need to prove a negative test for COVID at a hairdresser or elsewhere? Print a confirmation from INET. You can find it in the Prevention application, on the very bottom of the page under the Print COVID Pass button.

Upcoming calls

Tentative dates of ERC calls for 2022

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced tentative dates for next year's open calls in order to give applicants an idea of the timeframe. The calls for Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants are expected to open already in autumn 2021 with deadlines at the beginning of 2022. The ERC Work Programme 2022 is not yet approved, thus the dates indicated for the 2022 calls are tentative and subject to change.

The Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences will organize a National information day on ERC calls for 2022 in September 2021.

Planned Calls

Submitted proposals:

HORIZON ERC Consolidator grants

  • prof. MUDr. Julie Dobrovolná, Ph.D. - Stress of Citizens and Multilayer Entropy Models of the City

GACR STANDARD PROJECTS

  • doc. Babica - Structure and proinflammatory signalling mechanism of cyanobacterial lipopolysaccharides from toxic bloom-forming species (as partner)

  • doc. Babica - From cells to population: novel flame retardants as emerging metabolic disruptors

  • doc. Babica - The importance of ferulic acid from cereals in modulation of inflammatory response andintestinal epithelium functions (as team member)

  • Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek - Exploring the acquisition of novel protein functions within haloalkane dehalogenase family

  • Lisa Melymuk - Linking chemical and microbial profiles in house dust with environmental parameters

  • PharmDr. Zdeněk Spáčil - Glycan biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cerebral organoid and rat model

  • PharmDr. Zdeněk Spáčil - Assessment of complex antidiabetic properties of Arctium species as a tool for the management (as team member)

  • prof. Vladimíř Šindelář - Intramolecularly bridged bambusurils

  • prof. Zbyněk Prokop - Engineering enzyme activity by targetting gate dynamics

  • RNDr. Iva Sovadinová - Towards the next generation of animal-free male reprotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures

  • Stanislav Mazurenko - An Artificial Intelligence-Based Platform for Enhancing Protein Design

GACR Lead Agency

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

Ministry of agriculture

  • prof. Bláha - Balance of organic micropollutants in manure, organic fertilizers and agricultural technological waters, proposal of the method of their control and monitoring (as partner)

Selected publications

T5:

Müller, B., Sulzer, P., Walch, M., Zirath, H., Buryška, T., Rothbauer, M., … Mayr, T., Measurement of respiration and acidification rates of mammalian cells in thermoplastic microfluidic devices. (2021) Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2021.129664

T10:

Sharma, B. M., Kalina, J., Whaley, P., & Scheringer, M., Towards guidelines for time-trend reviews examining temporal variability in human biomonitoring data of pollutants. (2021) Environment International, doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106437

Garcia-Cegarra, A. M., Jung, J.-L., Orrego, R., Padilha, J. de A., Malm, O., Ferreira-Braz, B., … Bahamonde, P., Persistence, bioaccumulation and vertical transfer of pollutants in long-finned pilot whales stranded in Chilean Patagonia. (2021) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145259

Q1:

Mikula, P., Mlnaříková, M., Nadres, E. T., Takahashi, H., Babica, P., Kuroda, K., … Sovadinová, I., Synthetic Biomimetic Polymethacrylates: Promising Platform for the Design of Anti-Cyanobacterial and Anti-Algal Agents. (2021) Polymers, doi.org/10.3390/polym13071025

RECETOX in Media

 

RECETOX Events

RECETOX PhD Conference

We invite you to the second Annual RECETOX PhD Conference, which will be online this year. The conference will include the State Doctoral Exam of RECETOX PhD students and also the Poster Session.

You can find more information about RECETOX PhD Conference HERE

Date & Venue: 26 – 27 May 2021, Online

17th RECETOX Summer School

We are pleased to invite you to the 17th RECETOX Summer School. This year with a special focus on Social and Environmental Epidemiology

You can find more information about Summer School HERE

Date & Venue: 21 - 25 June 2021, Online

Registration deadline 15 June 2021

Employees and students of RECETOX, please contact Petra Růžičková for registration!

Save the date

Seminar series:

Recruitment of new employees

Thanks for recommending candidates and new positions

Thank you to everyone who recommended candidates or shared the Centre's job and career opportunities to their contact networks and thus contributed to finding new colleagues! Keep recommending and sharing.

We are currently looking for suitable candidates for the positions:

Newcomers at RECETOX

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

Akrem Jbebli

Researcher and PhD student
Research group of Jana Klánová; Human Exposome
 

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