Newsletter and Internal information 9/2021
17 Sep 2021, 14:22  |  Čeština

RECETOX News 9/2021

Start of the semester

New bachelor and master students are joining RECETOX with the third year of realization of our new study programmes. This school year, 29 students in the Environment and Health programme and the same number of students in the Mathematical Biology and Biomedicine program will begin their bachelor's studies. A total of eight students enter the master's programs, three of them the Environment and Health and five the Mathematical Biology and Biomedicine. Since January 2021, a total of 16 doctoral students have also started their doctoral studies.

South Moravian Region Science festival 2021

On September 3-4, the annual South Moravian Region Science Festival was held at the Brno Riviera. This year a record number of activities awaited visitors, and RECETOX, as every year, was present. Over the course of the two-day event, more than 6,600 people attended, including families with children and primary schools.

We thank all the volunteers from RECETOX for their help in organizing the event and their great approach towards the "young scientists" who, according to the feedback, really enjoyed the event.
 

Regular seminars and lectures

The start of the semester brings back also various seminars and events organized inside or outside of RECETOX. Explore the schedule of RECETOX Seminar Series, Life Science Seminar Series or Mendel Lectures. Try and find interesting topics, excellent speakers and possibilities of scientific collaboration.

PhD evaluations

As every year, our RECETOX PhD students undergone the annual evaluation during this summer. Thirty-six students, out of sixty-two, met with prof. Luděk Bláha, prof. Jana Klánová and their supervisor to discuss their study and research progress. We are happy, that majority of them succeeded well and some issues in progress were identified at just two students. We foresee that eight dissertation theses should be submitted before the end of the year, so new PhDs are on the way. 

Michal Bittner: Fulbright at Baylor University

Michal Bittner has already begun his Fulbright scholarship at Baylor University in Texas, where he collaborates with prof. Bryan W. Brooks, a world expert in aquatic toxicology.

But a stay abroad is not all hard work in the laboratories – check out the photo sent by prof. Brooks of our colleague and his family at their very first American football game!

Internal information

Untaken annual leave

More than half of the year is behind us, so please check out your vacation this year. Academic staff should have taken at least 5 weeks of leave by October 3, 2021, non-academic staff at least 3 weeks. In agreement with your superior, schedule your unused vacation so that it will be used up by the end of 2021 and enter it in INET.

The vacation schedule (planned vacation) does not replace electronic Vacation Requests. So please do not forget to always submit the request in INET before the vacation HERE.

When confirming the month in the Working Time Record, make sure that you have listed all the holidays you have taken

Annual inventory of assets

From 1. to 31. of October 2021 a regular annual inventory of assets will take place. We ask you to ensure that all instruments and equipment listed in the asset register are present in the relevant laboratory/office on 30 September and subsequently throughout the inventory period. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact Jaroslava Žaludová

Quarterly health and safety inspection

To ensure your safety, we are implementing quarterly health and safety inspections to identify potential problems and find solutions or improvements together. The inspection will take place from 20 to 23 September at all workplaces of the Center.

We will contact you with a concrete date.
 

Carer’s Allowance (OČR)

The holidays are over, school has already started, the autumn is coming and your children may get sick and you will have to deal with Carer’s Allowance (OČR in Czech). Below you can find what to do in such a situation.

1. Immediately inform you superior by e-mail and cc Jana Vičarová 

2. Bring filled and signed form “I. díl - Rozhodnutí o vzniku potřeby ošetřování (péče)- žádost o ošetřovné” (Carer’s allowance request). In case you worked the first day of the OČR, report a number of hours worked. Jana Vičarová will report the OČR to the attendance system and will forward the information to the payroll department.

3. At the end of the OČR, inform your supervisor and Jana Vičarová. Bring “II. díl – Rozhodnutí o ukončení potřeby ošetřování” (Carer’s allowance termination) and inform her about the date of your return to work and hours worked in case you worked during the OČR. Jana Vičarová will report the OČR to the attendance system and will forward the confirmed form to the payroll department.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Update of the RECETOX Operating Rules

The operating rules of RECETOX have just been updated to adjust the system of occupational health and safety in the Center, incorporating your suggestions, and simplifying the rules. Annexes to the operating rules will be updated next month. A summary of the most important changes to the Centre's Operating Rules can be found HERE.

English version will be completed within a month.

Operations department moving

Part of the Operations Department (Sabina Váňová, Denisa Ludvíková Vizentová and Linda Nosková) moved. If you need to deal with orders, checkout, card payments, keys, etc., you can find them in office 109 in pavilion D29.

Upcoming calls

Planned Calls

  • TA ČR (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic) – TREND – December 2021, Subprogram 1

  • GACR – LA grants - Czech Science Foundation is in the role of a partner organization. In autumn 2021 a call will be announced in cooperation with the Polish agency NCN and the Slovenian agency ARRS.

  • MŠMT (Ministry of education youth and sports) – INTER-EXCELLENCE II the first calls in the INTER-ACTION, INTER-COST and INTER-EUREKA sub-programs are planned for the autumn of this year. More information HERE (only in CZECH).

European Research Council (ERC)

Selected publications

T10:

Gómez, L., Niegowska, M., Navarro, A., Amendola, L., Arukwe, A., Ait-Aissa, S., … Lettieri, T., Estrogenicity of chemical mixtures revealed by a panel of bioassays. (2021) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147284

Bhandari, G., Atreya, K., Vašíčková, J., Yang, X., & Geissen, V., Ecological risk assessment of pesticide residues in soils from vegetable production areas: A case study in S-Nepal. (2021) Science of The Total Environment, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147921

 

Q1:

Sedlačková, L., Melymuk, L., & Vrana, B., Calibration of silicone for passive sampling of semivolatile organic contaminants in indoor air. (2021) Chemosphere, doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130536

Rosecký, M., Šomplák, R., Slavík, J., Kalina, J., Bulková, G., & Bednář, J., Predictive modelling as a tool for effective municipal waste management policy at different territorial levels. (2021) Journal of Environmental Management, doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112584

Schulze, B., van Herwerden, D., Allan, I., Bijlsma, L., Etxebarria, N., Hansen, M., … Samanipour, S., Inter-laboratory mass spectrometry dataset based on passive sampling of drinking water for non-target analysis. (2021) Scientific Data, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01002-w

Wietzoreck, M., Bandowe, B. A. M., Hofman, J., Martiník, J., Nežiková, B., Kukučka, P., … Lammel, G., Nitro- and oxy-PAHs in grassland soils from decade-long sampling in central Europe. (2021) Environmental Geochemistry and Health, doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01066-y

Marques, S. M., Planas-Iglesias, J., & Damborsky, J., Web-based tools for computational enzyme design. (2021) Current Opinion in Structural Biology, doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2021.01.010

Vacková, S., Králík, M., Marečková, K., Ráčková, L., Quade, L., Sedláčková, L., … Kučera, L., Human “barcode”: Link between phosphate intensity changes in human enamel and light microscopy record of accentuated lines. (2021) Microchemical Journal, doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2021.106370

Sovadinová, I., Upham, B. L., Trosko, J. E., & Babica, P., Applicability of Scrape Loading-Dye Transfer Assay for Non-Genotoxic Carcinogen Testing. (2021) International Journal of Molecular Sciences, doi.org/10.3390/ijms22168977

Kasović, M., Štefan, L., Neljak, B., Petrić, V., & Knjaz, D., Reference Data for Fat Mass and Fat-Free Mass Measured by Bioelectrical Impedance in Croatian Youth. (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168501

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Recruitment of new employees

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

Newcomers at RECETOX

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

Rebecca Strada

Researcher and PhD student
Research group of Peter Šebej, Fluorescent Probes
 

Miroslav Kadidlo​

Information analyst
Research Infrastructure, Information Systems

Olga Střížová

Laboratory technician
Research Infrastructure, Trace Analytical Laboratories
 

Andrea Dalecká

Postdoc
Research group of Hynek Pikhart, Environmental Epidemiology ERA Chair

Barbora Bučková

Economist of projects
Support Functions, Grant Office
 

Michaela Cvanová

Analyst
Research Infrastructure, Biostatistics and Data Analysis

Lucia Žáková

Study assistant
Research Infrastructure, Recruitment and Examination
 

Igor Bozek

Researcher and PhD student
Research group of Petr Klán, Organic Photochemistry

Simeon Borko

Programmer
Research group of David Bednář, Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics

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