Newsletter and Internal information 2/2022
9 Feb 2022, 13:23
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RECETOX News 2/2022
RECETOX supports Stick to Science initiative
RECETOX supports the broad online Stick to Science initiative, which responds to the delayed negotiations on the association of the United Kingdom and Switzerland with the EU Horizon Europe program. Researchers are jointly calling for accelerated launch of association agreements. Both countries are important research partners and their exclusion from Horizon Europe brings uncertainty to European research. More about the initiative is here.
Get to know your scientist: Gabriela and Albert Kšiňan
Is it normal to offer alcohol to teenage children at home? In the Czech Republic, yes. Thinking that they will drink more responsibly, parents often offer their teenager a glass of beer with lunch or a drink at a family party. But can't this have the opposite effect? That's what psychologists Gabriela and Albert Kšiňan will explore in the second part of the Get to know your scientist series. They have based their research on alcohol on data from the ELSPAC longitudinal study.
A negative effect of the pandemic: millions in the UK drink harmful amounts of alcohol at home
The number of Brits consuming large amounts of alcohol at home has risen by two million over the last year. The coronavirus pandemic has affected alcohol consumption habits. People forced to stay in their homes succumbed to drinking as a coping mechanism for dealing with insecurity and stress. In mid-January, the British newspaper The Guardian published an article on the increased alcohol consumption in British homes. We asked Dr. Albert Kšiňan, who deals with this topic in his research, to comment on this article from the perspective of the Czech Republic.
Toxicologist working at RECETOX, Brno, gets scientific award from the King of Sweden: Interview with Dr. Sebastian Lungu-Mitea
Dr. Sebastian Lungu-Mitea became a new member of Dr. Klára Hilscher's research group in November 2021. Although he conducted his PhD in Uppsala, Sweden, he found the work of the RECETOX bioanalytical toxicology group so interesting that he decided to move to the South Moravian metropolis. Sebastian preferred Brno to Uppsala - even though he received an award for his scientific work directly from the hands of the Swedish King.
Let us remind you that since the beginning of 2022, authors are obligated to send manuscripts to Michaela Hylsová (michaela.hylsova@recetox.muni.cz) for affiliation and acknowledgement control. For more information please see Intranet.
Thank you for cooperation.
Tax declaration for 2022
If you still have not signed the tax declaration for 2022, please complete and sign theTax Declaration form (open in Adobe Acrobat) and deliver it to the wage office no later than15 February 2022(this is the last possible date). It applies to all the employees, except those who work on specific contracts (DPP/DPČ). Employees who have main employment at another faculty will sign it there. If you apply the tax relief on children, be sure to fill in your spouse's information (Birth registration number) and their employer (name, address).
If you have any questions, please contact the Wage Clerk,Bc. Eva Matoušková, where you can also ask for a taxable income certificate if you are filing your own tax declaration.
SOČ in 2022
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 the 1, you can announce your topic due to South Moravian Centre for International Mobility (https://www.jcmm.cz/projekt/soc_ucitele), you can get financial support (5000 CZK supervisor reward and 10 000 to 20 000 CZK for material).
LA grants - Czech Science Foundation is in the role of a partner organization. The deadline is according to foreign agencies - currently, project proposals can still be submitted in cooperation with the German agency DFG, the Austrian agency FWF, the American NSF, the Luxembourg agency FNR, the Slovenian agency ARRS and the Swiss agency SNSF).
Please, if you are interested in any call, contact Nikola Stejskalova immediately.
HORIZON EUROPE and associated programmes
The Hop On Facility foresee the possibility for legal entities from low R&I performing countries to join already selected collaborative R&I actions. The budget increase must be exclusively account at the benefit of the new partner with the exception of a coordination fee of up to 10% of the increased budget to be allocated to the coordinator of the consortium:
New partner can increase project budget about 0.2-0.5 millions EUR
It will be supported 80 projects
Cut-off date: 4. 2022/10. 11. 2022
Eligible are project without partners from the „Widening countries“
Melymuk Lisa Emily, Ph.D.: Identification of chemical and biological determinants, their sources, and strategies to promote healthier homes in Europe (INQUIRE), role: partner
Klánová Jana, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.: European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC), role: partner
EU / Horizon Europe / Research infrastructures
Klánová Jana, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.: A European-wide foundation to accelerate Data-driven Cancer Research (EOSC4Cancer), role: partner
Congratulations!
Selected publications
Below you will find selected publications already available at WoS in last month. The list of other publications is available HERE.
Q1:
Schell, T., Hurley, R., Buenaventura, N. T., Mauri, P. V., Nizzetto, L., Rico, A., & Vighi, M., Fate of microplastics in agricultural soils amended with sewage sludge: Is surface water runoff a relevant environmental pathway? (2022) Environmental Pollution, doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118520
Varadi, M., Anyango, S., Armstrong, D., Berrisford, J., Choudhary, P., Deshpande, M., Nadzirin, N., Nair, S. S., Pravda, L., Tanweer, A., Al-Lazikani, B., Andreini, C., Barton, G. J., Bednar, D., Berka, K., Blundell, T., Brock, K. P., Carazo, J. M., Damborsky, J., … Velankar, S. (2022). PDBe-KB: collaboratively defining the biological context of structural data. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(D1), D534–D542. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab988
Akkouh, I. A., Hribkova, H., Grabiec, M., Budinska, E., Szabo, A., Kasparek, T., Andreassen, O. A., Sun, Y.-M., & Djurovic, S. (2022). Derivation and Molecular Characterization of a Morphological Subpopulation of Human iPSC Astrocytes Reveal a Potential Role in Schizophrenia and Clozapine Response.Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(1), 190–198. doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab092
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
Newcomers at RECETOX
We welcome new colleagues to the center and wish them a lot of work success!
