RECETOX Newsletter 1/2024

EVAK evaluations

As in the previous year, the "Evaluation of employees at the MU Faculty of Science" will be carried out in the EVAK system in the first quarter of 2024. Dates, information and relevant links are available in INTRANET in the HR section.

New acknowledgement rules

Notice: Periodic health examinations

We ask all employees to follow the instructions of their supervisors and to comply with the obligations arising from the employment relationship and related regulations. This includes, for example, the need to undergo periodic health examinations, without the validity of which workers cannot, for example, be allowed access to laboratories.

Purchases of tickets, accommodation, conference fees

Do you need to buy tickets or accommodation or register for a conference through the operations department during your trip?

1. First you need an approved travel order with the related costs, which the University is supposed to pay for you, filled out.

2. After the approval of the travel order, it is necessary to contact the Operations Department.

You can find all updated instructions in ČJ and AJ on the intranet.

SOČ

RECETOX has participated in high school projects for many years. The goal of this activity is to allow exploring of interesting scientific topics for high school students (such as study od literature, experiments, writing of thesis and its defence in a national competition). Many of these high school projects supervised by our colleagues took top places in the regional and national competition. The high school students can try science by themselves due to these projects, and they may gain motivation for the whole life.

RECETOX supports the supervision of high school projects by 5000 CZK reward. This activity is newly counted in „XD102 Teaching assistance“ for Ph.D. students. This high school project topic can be written and communicated in English, but the thesis needs to be written and defended in the Czech language.

Until March 15, you can announce your topic due to South Moravian Centre for International Mobility , you can get financial support (5000 CZK supervisor reward and 10 000 to 20 000 CZK for material).

More information about SOČ available on the intranet HERE.

If you plan to offer a high school project or you want to know more information, please contact Rozárka Jílková.

Welcome to new Ph.D. student

We are excited to welcome our new Ph.D. student:

• Michaela Vykypělová - supervisor Mgr. Ondřej Adamovský, PhD.

We wish her great success in her studies and we hope she'll enjoy her time at RECETOX!

Open Calls

IHI Call 5 (deadline 16. 1. 2024)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan Standard Program – only PhD holders (deadline 14. 4. 2024)
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan Short-term Program – both PhD students and PhD holders (deadlines 12. 1. 2024; 7.6.2024)

-Horizone Europe calls

GAMU
– Excellent Diploma Thesis: support of students in theit Master´s studies-

Deadline: 31.1. 2024
If you are interested in submitting a project proposal please contat Mrs. Monika Kellnerová.

GAČR – Lead Agency

• USA – National Science Foundation (NSF) continuous call
• Rakousko – Austrian Science Fund (FWF) continuous call
• Německo – German Research Foundation (DFG) continuous call
• Slovinsko – Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) deadline 18.1. 2024

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

Planned calls

Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) planned calls in 2024

Standard Projects - Proposals for basic research projects with a usual duration of 3 years. All researchers and their teams are eligible to apply, regardless of the length of their career. It is not thematically defined.

Junior Star - Project proposals by excellent early career scientists and women scientists up to 8 years after completing their Ph.D. in all areas of basic research will be supported. Project proposals with a typical duration of 5 years and a total budget of CZK 25 million.

POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP - Supports male and female researchers who have completed their PhD in the last four years. It can be used in two ways - either as an exit grant, which will allow scientists from Czech institutions to conduct research for two years at a prestigious research institute in the world with the condition of one additional year spent at the institute in the Czech Republic, or as an arrival grant, thanks to which a Czech postdoctoral researcher will be able to return to the Czech Republic, or a foreign scientist or scientist to start a career at a Czech institute.

International calls - project proposals involving scientific teams from the Czech Republic and a partner country. Cooperation with the following countries is expected this year:

• Tchaj-wan – National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
• Jižní Korea – National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
• São Paulo, Brazílie – São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
• Rakousko – Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Německo – German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Polsko – National Science Centre (NCN)
• Slovinsko – Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)
• Švýcarsko – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Lucembursko – Nation Research Fund (FNR)
• USA – National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Chorvatsko – Croatian Science Foundation (HRRZ)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic planned calls in 2024

Planned calls of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic has published a schedule of calls for this year. The announcement of the competition for the Environment for Life 2 programme is expected at the beginning of April. The announcement of the competition for the TREND programme is expected at the end of June. All planned calls can be found in the timeline under this link.

Further calls for project proposals are expected for the AZV (Agency for Health Research) and EARTH II (Ministry of Agriculture) programmes.

Other

The evaluation protocols for the GACR project proposals have been published in the GRIS system.

Training and other grant-related events

TT Day - 23.1. 2024
Open Day TT Day will take place on 23.1. 2024 from 15:00 to 18:00 in the space of SIMU LF MU. The TT Day will include presentations of interesting facts about technology transfer, intellectual property and CTT achievements, a guided tour of SIMU LF and networking. The event is organized by the Centre for Technology Transfer of the Czech Republic. Will be held in Czech. REGISTRATION

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

• Glüge, J., & Scheringer, M. (2023). Evaluation of Physicochemical Property Data in the ECHA Database. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 52(4). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153030
• Jha, E., Patel, P., Kumari, P., Verma, K. K., Panda, P. K., Mohanty, P. S., Patro, S., Varma, R. S., Mishra, Y. K., Kaushik, N. K., Suar, M., & Verma, S. K. (2023). In vivo molecular biocompatibility of Calotropis gigentea contrived smart Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-sulphonic-Silver microgel hybrid with embryonic Danio rerio inferred via intrinsic atomic physiological impacts. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11(6), 111183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.111183
• Yu, H., Lin, T., Hu, L., Lammel, G., Zhao, S., Sun, X., Wu, X., & Guo, Z. (2023). Sources of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments of the East China marginal seas: Role of unintentionally-produced PCBs. Environmental Pollution, 338, 122707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122707
• Tarábek, P., Vrana, B., Chalupková, K., Bednáriková, A., Okšová, L., Bystrický, P., Leonova, N., & Konovalova, O. (2023). Examining the applicability of polar organic chemical integrative sampler for long-term monitoring of groundwater contamination caused by currently used pesticides. Science of The Total Environment, 903, 165905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165905
• Navarro, I., de la Torre, A., Sanz, P., Baldi, I., Harkes, P., Huerta-Lwanga, E., Nørgaard, T., Glavan, M., Pasković, I., Pasković, M. P., Abrantes, N., Campos, I., Alcon, F., Contreras, J., Alaoui, A., Hofman, J., Vested, A., Bureau, M., Aparicio, V., … Martínez, M. Á. (2023). Occurrence of pesticide residues in indoor dust of farmworker households across Europe and Argentina. Science of The Total Environment, 905, 167797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167797
• Chvojka, M., Madea, D., Valkenier, H., & Šindelář, V. (2023). Tuning CH Hydrogen Bond‐Based Receptors toward Picomolar Anion Affinity via the Inductive Effect of Distant Substituents. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202318261

• 2024 GFFA Science Slam- 19 January Berlin
• Open Day TT Day -23 January, 15:00-18:00, SIMU LF MU
• Open Day- January 27, UKB
• Open Day- January 30, UKB
• V4+ Conference on Environment and Health in CEE and V4+ Ministerial Conference-11 – 12 March, University Campus Library
• SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting- 5– 9 May Sevilla
• PhD Conference 2024 - 29 – 30 May
• RECETOX Summer School - 10– 14 June

Currently, we have these open vacancies:

• Postdoc in Computational Pathology

• Vzorkař/Laboratorní technik

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.