Scientists from the Mendel University in Brno will participate in a European project to respond to major global changes in society. Most of the population is now moving to big cities and the question of how to feed these cities arises. The project, called Hungry…

Use of electrochemical biosensors based on printed electrodes in practice is one of the main goal of Research group for biomarkers. In cooperation with the University of Pardubice, they have developed an automatic device that brings this dream closer to reality. Journal Analytical Methods appreciated…

Panning wine, as well as misrepresenting the geographical origin of wine, brings multimillion-dollar losses to winemakers. Scientists from the Faculty of Agronomy at Brno’s Mendel University are trying to change this with the help of the UV fingerprint method, which has already been successfully applied…

With the world’s dwindling water supplies, scientists are increasingly looking at how to treat wastewater more efficiently. One possibility for the future could be the use of microalgae with artificial intelligence, which is a line of research currently underway at our Department of chemistry and…

Ph.D. Studying can be one big adventure, during which you make a lot of friendships, new collaborations, you can travel a lot, go on internships and conferences, and last but not least, do research that you enjoy and makes sense of. Our student Soumajit Mukherjee,…

Thanks to the third part of the (Ne)Vědkyně podcast, which was created at our Department for the purpose of popularizing science and our scientists, we can meet another of our colleagues, Libor Lenža. Libor is a man of many jobs, interests and goals. He collaborates…

Farmers have been using zinc in livestock for more than a decade as a substitute for antibiotics, growth promoters and prophylactic drugs. Zinc serves to prevent the formation and spread of diarrhea among piglets weaned from sows. However, repeated zinc loading can induce resistance to…

Our colleague, Miguel Ángel Merlos Rodrigo, MSc., Ph.D. successfully published the article Metallothionein-3 promotes cisplatin chemoresistance remodeling in neuroblastoma in March this year, in which he examines the impact this protein regulation in tumor cells and the mechanisms underlying cisplatin resistance (you can find the…

The very first guest of the new (Ne)Vědkyně podcast is Ladislav Sivák, the Head of the Laboratory of Tumor Biology and Immunology at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno. Ladislav dedicated his career to the field of Immunology, in his laboratory…

A project based on experiments carried by a balloon into the stratosphere can become a stepping stone to much bolder scientific achievements. “We are building the ground for larger and more distant targets, such as low orbit, space station or the planet Mars,” says Dr….

This year, Mendel University in Brno announced for the first time the Student Grant Competition “Igráček“, the primary goal of this grant is to increase the quality of teaching connected with research within doctoral studies with two years of financial support for projects. The solver of the student grant is not only the student of the doctoral study program, but also his team, which also includes mentors from the ranks of academic staff. This is a very prestigious grant, in which…

Professor Vojtěch Adam became the new leader of the Smart Nanodevices research group at CEITEC BUT in September. The head of the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Mendel University in Brno and the holder of the prestigious ERC grant plans to maintain the existing multidisciplinarity of the group and support the use…

In the beginning, there was light… actually, more like UV radiation. And it enables the chemists from Brno to differentiate among hundreds of samples of various wines. And they want everybody to be able to do the same thing. Just like the discovery of penicillin,…

Azo dyes are the most numerous and most significant group of organic dyes. Although many of them have been shown to be carcinogenic or cause urticaria or allergies, they are still used to dye everything from textiles to plastics or paper. Over 70,000 tonnes are…

Mass spectrometry, electrochemistry or labelled nanoparticles. All these methods are used by Ing. Lucie Pompeiano Vaníčková, Ph.D., a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in her research. The result of her project, entitled Metallothionein as a Prognostic Marker of Skin Cancer, should result…

How can we use Satellite Technologies to Improve Agriculture and Reduce Environmental Impact? This is the motto of this presentation with special emphasis to promote the prize announced by Europe’s Global Navigation Satellite System. We’re looking for new ideas and innovations, particularly those  relying upon…