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Newsletter and Internal information 1/2025
8 Jan 2025, 11:49
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RECETOX Newsletter 1/2025
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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 HERE.
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Protein Scientist Jan Velecký: Machine learning can shine where human imagination falls short
Jan Velecký is a researcher at the RECETOX center. In the interview, he explains what protein engineering is about, why it is important to study protein solubility, and how machine learning can be crucial for human knowledge.
Read more HERE.
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Researchers have developed a tool that will enhance drug discovery and exploration of the biological function of these molecules
A new bioinformatic tool, BGC Atlas, was developed by a consortium of bioinformaticians. It identifies and clusters biosynthetic gene clusters from publicly available datasets, offering a centralised database and a web interface for metadata-aware exploration of BGCs and gene cluster families (GCFs).
Read more HERE.
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Martin Bobák is the new professor at the RECETOX center
On Tuesday, December 10th, the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, appointed new university professors. We are very pleased to announce that among them is Martin Bobák, a representative of the RECETOX center at Masaryk University.
Read more HERE.
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Microplastics found in coral from three remote Mascarene Islands in the Western Indian Ocean
Coral reefs are some of the most unique and biodiverse ecosystems on earth, providing invaluable ecological services and supporting millions of livelihoods worldwide. However, these vital ecosystems are increasingly threatened by microplastic pollution, which harms their growth, reproduction, and resilience.
Read more HERE.
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Other news
New HEU project DTRIP4H
On January 1, 2025, the Horizon Europe project DTRIP4H (Enabling Decentralised Digital Twin Era in existing Research Infrastructures for Predictive, Preventive, Personalised, and Participatory Health) officially began under the leadership of professor Jana Klánová. Running until December 2028, the project aims to revolutionize healthcare by creating a decentralized ecosystem of digital twins and developing innovative use cases in areas such as cancer treatment, drug development and personalized medicine.
Timesheets
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.
ERC grants
The European Research Council (ERC) provides attractive, long-term funding to support excellent investigators (Principal Investigators) and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking and ambitious research. Research funded by the ERC is expected to lead to advances at the frontiers of knowledge and to set a clear and inspirational target for frontier research across Europe.
ERC grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities and are open to researchers of any nationality. The host institution must be established in a Member State or an Associated Country.
The sole criterion for evaluation is scientific excellence – of the research project and the Principal Investigator.
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Support for ERC applicants is provided at multiple levels:
1) RECETOX – contact Veronika Jálová for details
2) Masaryk University - assistance with preparation of B1, B2 and A parts of the proposal (ethics,…), contact with ERC experts (ERC holders, evaluators, etc.), organisation of mock interviews, etc.
Workshop on ERC Grant Applications: Strategies, Pitfalls and Best Practices - on 5. 2. 2025 at 9:00 - 11:00 in the seminar room 145, A35, UKB
3) Czech Expert Group for supporting ERC applicants and Technology Centre Prague – national information day (recording from 22 October 2024 available here), preparatory workshops for ERC applicants (WS in 2024, WS in 2025 to be announced), mock interviews, etc.
4) ERC CZ – programme financed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic which aims at ERC applicants who passed to the Step 2 of the ERC evaluation but could not be funded by the ERC due to budgetary constraints.
Basic information including abstracts of evaluated proposals and funded projects can be found at the ERC dashboard.
For further information contact Veronika Jálová.
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Training and other grant-related events
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Below you will find selected publications:
- Hrezova, E., Jiskrova, G. K., Prusa, T., Andryskova, L., & Pikhart, H. (2024). Vitamin B12 intake during pregnancy linked to child speech development and intelligence quotient. Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae307
- Klvanova, E., Videnska, P., Barton, V., Bohm, J., Splichalova, P., Koksova, V., Urik, M., Lanickova, B., Prokes, R., Budinska, E., Klanova, J., & Borilova Linhartova, P. (2024). Resistome in the indoor dust samples from workplaces and households: a pilot study. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1484100
- Khan, R. T., Pokorna, P., Stourac, J., Borko, S., Dobias, A., Planas-Iglesias, J., Mazurenko, S., Arefiev, I., Pinto, G., Szotkowska, V., Sterba, J., Damborsky, J., Slaby, O., & Bednar, D. (2024). Analysis of mutations in precision oncology using the automated, accurate, and user-friendly web tool PredictONCO. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 24, 734–738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2024.11.026
- Aust, A.-C., Vidova, V., Coufalikova, K., Smetanova, S., Kozeluhova, K., Micenkova, L., Videnska, P., Smatana, S., Budinska, E., Borek, I., Janku, P., Klanova, J., Spacil, Z., & Thon, V. (2024). Fecal tryptophan metabolite profiling in newborns in relation to microbiota and antibiotic treatment. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 108(1), 504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-024-13339-4
- de La Bourdonnaye, G., Marek, M., Ghazalova, T., Damborsky, J., Pachl, P., Brynda, J., Stepankova, V., & Chaloupkova, R. (2024). Structural analysis of the stable form of fibroblast growth factor 2 – FGF2-STAB. Journal of Structural Biology: X, 10, 100112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjsbx.2024.100112
- Phan, A., Sokolova, A., & Hilscherova, K. (2024). An adverse outcome pathway approach linking retinoid signaling disruption to teratogenicity and population-level outcomes. Aquatic Toxicology, 277, 107143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107143
- Harding-Larsen, D., Funk, J., Madsen, N. G., Gharabli, H., Acevedo-Rocha, C. G., Mazurenko, S., & Welner, D. H. (2024). Protein representations: Encoding biological information for machine learning in biocatalysis. Biotechnology Advances, 77, 108459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108459
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Energy for 2025
Dear colleagues,
we wish you lots of new strength, ideas and energy for 2025. Perhaps you can be inspired by the books and videos of W. Timothy Gallwey, American writer, author of a series of books beginning with The Inner Game ... . "The Inner Game" is based on principles in which the individual uses uncritical observation of key moments in order to observe them as accurately as possible. If the observations are precise, the observer's body will adjust itself to give the best performance. You can find the books Inner Game for Managers and Manage Stress with the Inner Game Method in Czech in our library. A link to video in English HERE.
We wish you inspiring moments,
Lenka, Adri, Jirka
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Dear collegues,
You can see an overview of our new team members HERE.
We welcome new colleagues to the center and wish them a lot of work success!
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We are looking for new colleagues
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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 few of the positions, feel free to recommend them to us by sending their CV to rcx-hr@recetox.muni.cz
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