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Newsletter and Internal information 12/2025
8 Dec 2025, 13:53
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RECETOX Newsletter 12/2025
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Knowledge Security in Projects
Masaryk University (MU) is responding to global developments and, in accordance with requirements from the European Union and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS), has issued Directive No. 1/2025: Knowledge Security. This directive establishes binding rules to safeguard research and education at MU against illegitimate operation of threat actors undue influence by high-risk actors, high-risk country, and within high-risk industry. Security assessment is applied to staff business trips, study stays, projects carried out at MU, approval of contracts including memoranda of cooperation, establishment of employment relationships, admission to doctoral study programmes, and work, study and other stays at MU.
As part of this provision, a new Security section has been introduced into project documentation within ISEP. This section will be activated whenever a proposed project involves a high-risk industry (as defined in the official list of high-risk industries) or includes a partner from a high-risk country (as defined in the official list of high-risk country or any non-EU country). Both lists are subject to continuous updates.
The Security tab in ISEP must be submitted for review and approval by MU’s Security Manager no later than 14 days prior to the project submission deadline, to allow for an official assessment and recommendation (approval or non-approval).
In 2026, the Grant Office will issue a guideline for submitting project proposals, including fixed deadlines for providing mandatory information (e.g., security, ethics, etc.). These guidelines and deadlines will be distributed to all team leaders and principal investigators in January 2026.
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RECETOX Manual for Authors
Dear colleagues,
we would like to inform you about the publication of a new document, the RECETOX‘s Manual for Authors. This document provides recommendations and rules for preparing and publishing scientific results at RECETOX. The full version is available on our Intranet.
We would also like to remind you to send your manuscripts for revision of acknowledgements and consultation regarding the Open Science requirements of funding providers to our Open Science specialist Michaela Hylsová (michaela.hylsova@recetox.muni.cz) before submitting them to a journal.
Thank you very much for your cooperation!
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The European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) Alliance just launched its second call for research projects, offering applicants the opportunity to request access to EDUC research infrastructures. The call is open to PhD candidates and researchers from EDUC universities.
Applications can be submitted until 27 February 2026.
You can find more information HERE.
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RECETOX Christmas Gathering
Date&Time: 11 December, 15:45
Venue: D29/252 (RCX1), online
We would like to cordially invite you to our Christmas Gathering followed by a Christmas Party.
Please note that the Christmas gathering in RCX1 will be brief (approximately
20 minutes). Immediately afterwards, the Christmas party will begin, starting with a welcome drink.
We look forward to celebrating the holiday season together!
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Meeting ID: 322 460 399 022 89
Passcode: 2S3Du74Y
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The EU has taken a major step toward protecting soil health. In October 2025, the European Parliament adopted the Soil Monitoring Law to harmonize soil assessments across Member States, support farmers to improve soil fitness and resilience, and address emerging threats like microplastics. The overall objective of the directive is to achieve healthy soils by 2050. A public list of potentially contaminated soils will be created across all EU countries, and simplified procedures for Member States will be implemented without adding new obligations for farmers or foresters.
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In September, our research group Mechanistic Environmental Toxicology, led by Prof. Luděk Bláha, attended the Biennial Conference VODA 2025 organized by the CzWA association in Litomyšl. This conference served as an important meeting point for experts – scientists, technologists, and regulators – focused on water management and protection. The central theme of this year’s conference was the newly revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.
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The EIRENE consortium together with the PARC partnership have organized a joint knowledge lab at the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury held in Geneva, Switzerland 3-7 November 2025. The session entitled “How Partnerships and Research Infrastructures Enhance Implementation of the Minamata Convention” held on 5th November 2025 in the exhibition area, showcased innovative tools supporting national implementation of the Convention, including a real-time mercury data platform, population exposure and risk mitigation tools, and an open-access research infrastructure as opportunity for an open access and long term collaboration.
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A ceremony took place in the premises of the Augustinian Abbey at Mendel Square, during which newly habilitated academics from Masaryk University received their appointment decrees. Congratulations to Associate Professor Lise Emily Melymuk from the RECETOX center, who successfully completed her habilitation in the field of Environment and Health. Lisa Melymuk is an internationally respected scientist and an expert in knowledge transfer and the application of research results in legislation and in the protection of human health and the environment.
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This year’s 45th edition of the DIOXIN conference took place in the first week of November in Antalya, Turkey. One of its sections focused on chemical management and the contribution of science to the implementation of international conventions protecting human health from the impacts of chemical exposure. The organizers dedicated this section to the memory of Ivan Holoubek, who devoted a large part of his professional life to work for the UN Environment Programme and to supporting chemical conventions, and who spent several years working on international projects in Turkey. His legacy was highlighted in the opening presentation by Ipek Imamoglu.
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The international conference „Occupational Surveillance and Environmental Health“ was organized on 18.-21. November in Fez, the city where the Kairaouine madrasa was founded in 859, described by UNESCO as the oldest university in the world. The conference supported by BioNet, the Euro-African Biomonitoring Network, took place in the impressive new campus of the Euromed University in Fez. BioNet is an ERASMUS project co-funded by the European Union to enhance closer cooperation between European and African universities by co-building capacities for the assessment of environmental exposure in the population.
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From 10–12 November 2025, the town of Hustopeče hosted the 24th annual conference “Air Quality in Time”, organized by the Czech Aerosol Society (ČAS) in cooperation with the research infrastructures RECETOX and ACTRIS-CZ. The event brought together 80 experts from academia, public administration, and technology companies. The program featured plenary lectures, thematic sessions, a poster section, and the traditional young scientists’ competition – the Dekati Award.
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Submitted projects
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) – Doctoral Networks:
prof. RNDr. Luděk Bláha, Ph.D. - Artificial Light Training programme (ALIGHT)
doc. Ing. Vlad Popovici, PhD - Cancer AI Research and Education for Scientists (CARES)
doc. Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D. - Enzymes through Computational Design and Evolution (EnzyCODE)
doc. Mgr. Klára Hilscherová, Ph.D. - Towards REDucing pollution FOOTprints - Tracing human and environmental exposure from indoor sources (REDFOOT)
ERC Synergy Grant: Ing. RNDr. Martin Marek, MBA - Robot Enzymologist (BioPIC)
TACR Water4All:
doc. Mgr. Klára Hilscherová, Ph.D. - Integrated Biota–Passive Sampling and Non-Target Screening Workflow for the Prioritisation of Emerging Bioaccumulative Substances (INTEGRATE-NTS)
prof. RNDr. Luděk Bláha, Ph.D. - Plasma based quaternary wastewater treatment to reduce contamination and associated health risks (PlaQuaTreat)
MUNI JUNIOR STAR:
RNDr. Luděk Sehnal, Ph.D. - Natural product diversification through multi-hybrid biosynthetic pathways
Mgr. Albert Kšiňan, Ph.D. - GENetic EffectS Impact Self-control –a LIFEcourse approach (GENESIS-LIFE)
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New successfull project
GACR STANDARD:
Prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D. - Synthesis and Photochemical Properties of Hitherto Unexplored Fundamental Structural Derivatives of Cyanine Dyes
Prof. Ing. Vladimír Šindelář, Ph.D. - Molecular capsules based on bridged bambusurils
Mgr. Albert Kšiňan, Ph.D. - SCALE: Self-Control—A cross-cultural Longitudinal Evaluation
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Below you will find selected publication:
- Musil, M., Borko, S., Planas-Iglesias, J., Lacko, D., Rosinska, M., Kabourek, P., Martins, L. O., Tataruch, M., Damborsky, J., Mazurenko, S., & Bednar, D. (2025). FireProtDB 2.0: large-scale manually curated database of the protein stability data. Nucleic Acids Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1211 EARLY ACCESS
- Štulajterová, M., Ambro, Ľ., Sedláková, D., Nemergut, M., Kohout, P., Mazurenko, S., Varhač, R., Strunga, A., Toul, M., Prokop, Z., Damborský, J., Tomková, M., & Sedlák, E. (2025). Assessing the impact of His-tags on activity and stability of staphylokinase variants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 328, 147655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.147655
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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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We welcome new colleagues to the center and wish them a lot of work success!
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