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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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, … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
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 … Read More »