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Kristýna Šárková: Events of the Week 1–8 December
1 Dec Mon Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Use of CRISPR/Cas9 for Investigating Targeted Therapy Opportunities in B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia SPEAKER: Helena Peschelová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 11:00–13:00 2–5 Dec Tue–Fri Processing and Analysis of Biological Images WHERE: Brno, Netroufalky 7, EDU Centrum 2–3 Dec Tue–Wed Long Live Research Data: National EOSC CZ Conference 2025 WHERE: Ostrava, Hornopolní 3313/42, Quality Hotel Ostrava City 2 Dec Tue RECETOX Seminar Series SPEAKER: Andrea Dalecká, Gabriela Kšiňanová, Albert Kšiňan WHERE: University Campus, Building D29, Room 252 - RCX1 WHEN: 9:00–11:00 2 Dec Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: From Sequence to Insights: Developing Bioinformatics Workflows for NGS Data Analysis SPEAKER: Alejandro Antonio Medaglia Mata WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 2 Dec Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Small RNA Biogenesis: Co-Transcriptional Regulation and RNA Modifications SPEAKER: Jakub Dolata WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 2 Dec Tue Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl) WHERE: Brno, Kraví hora 2, Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno WHEN: 18:00–20:00 3 Dec Wed Observation of Entangled Electron-Zone Boundary Phonon States With Transient Spectroscopic Ellipsometry SPEAKER: Kurt Hingerl WHERE: Brno, Kotlářská 2, MU Faculty of Science, Building 6, Room F1 WHEN: 11:00 3 Dec Wed Sip of Science TOPIC: CAR-T Cells - Neither Marvel nor DC but Lab Grown Superheroes SPEAKER: Narendra Varma Gottumukkala WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 15:30–17:30 4 Dec Thu Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: RNA Editing and Splicing by ADAR2 In Children With Seizures SPEAKER: Qiupei Du WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 10:00–12:00 4 Dec Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Clinical Potential of MSC-EVs and Translational Challenges SPEAKER: Bernd Giebel WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 4 Dec Thu Botanical Seminar TOPIC: Interactions Between Hemiparasites and Invasive Plants of Grassland Habitats (PhD Defence) SPEAKER: Kateřina Knotková WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 5 Dec Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: The Use of Low-Cost Sensor Technologies in Air Quality Research: Unmeasured Areas and Citizen Science Approaches SPEAKER: Ondřej Mikeš WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 Save the Date: * PI_Forum Brno #7: Equal Opportunities, 3 February * Days of Electron Microscopy, 23–29 March * Off the ADAR Radar Conference, 30–31 March * EUROPIC 2026, 31 May–4 June
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Kristýna Šárková: Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Membrane Thinning: A Shared Mechanism by Scramblases, Insertases and Translocases by Robert Vácha (CEITEC MU). WHEN: Friday, 28 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Eliška Janíčková: Call for Speakers – PI Seminar Series Spring 2026
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the PI Seminar Committee, we would like to thank you for your support and participation in the PI Seminar Series Autumn 2025. Although several lectures are still scheduled, we are already preparing for the next semester – Spring 2026 – and are looking for independent group leaders with their own research groups and funding to present. You are also welcome to nominate a speaker; simply share the link below with them. Further information, including organizational details and registration, can be found HERE. Please note that the deadline to sign up is 1 December 2025. Thank you for your continued engagement. We look forward to your talks in the upcoming semester. On behalf of the PI Committee, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Kristýna Šárková: Events of the Week 24 November – 1 December
24–25 Nov Mon–Tue TANGENC Conference 2025 WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium 24–26 Nov Mon–Wed EU-Openscreen: Training School Early-Stage Drug Discovery WHERE: Online WHEN: 9:20–13:30 25 Nov Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: Decoding Chromatin Changes in High-Risk CLL Using Multi-Omics Approaches SPEAKER: Karolína Černovská WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 25 Nov Tue Good Practice of Scientific Publishing SPEAKER: Monika Kuchlei Sieberová WHERE: Faculty of Arts, Arne Nováka 1/1, Room B2/42 & Online WHEN: 10:00–11:30 25 Nov Tue BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD TOPIC: From PhD to Start-up CEO; Enantis (CZE) & Head of Startup Support; Innovation Agency JIC (CZE) SPEAKER: Veronika Stepankova WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 WHEN: 16:00 27 Nov Thu Work-Life Balance SPEAKER: Alena Slezáčková WHERE: Komenského nám. 2, Brno, Training room CERPEK, Room 328 WHEN: 9:00–13:00 27 Nov Thu Biosciences in Polar and Alpine Research WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 WHEN: 9:00–15:00 27 Nov Thu Microbial Dream Team: Synthetic Co-Culture for Bioplastic Production From Light and CO2 SPEAKER: Katharina Pflüger-Grau WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 10:00–11:30 27 Nov Thu Innovation Lectures TOPIC: Beneficial Aspects of the Separation Technique Capillary Electrophoresis for the Biomedical, Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Field SPEAKER: Ann Van Schepdael WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 12:00–13:50 27 Nov Thu Structural Biology Seminar Series TOPIC: Protecting Your Brain Babies: Intellectual Property for Researchers and Other Brave Souls SPEAKER: Ondřej Woznica WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 27 Nov Thu ADDIT-CE NeuroConnect Meetup WHERE: BioVendor Group, Karásek 1767/1, 621 00 Brno WHEN: 15:00–18:30 27 Nov Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Integrative Biology of Dormancy and Stress Tolerance in Embryos of Annual Killifishes on Earth and Beyond SPEAKER: Jason Podrabsky WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 27 Nov Thu Alpine Plants in a Warming World – Particularly Threatened or Well Buffered? SPEAKER: Stefan Dullinger WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 28 Nov Fri EMBL | BioNT Careers Webinar - Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs SPEAKER: Toni Wagner & Helena Vela WHERE: Online WHEN: 11:00–12:00 28 Nov Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Membrane Thinning: A Shared Mechanism by Scramblases, Insertases and Translocases SPEAKER: Robert Vácha WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 1 Dec Mon Industrial Biotechnology (Free Online Course) WHERE: Online WHEN: 08:00–16:00 1 Dec Mon Doctoral State Exam and Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Use of CRISPR/Cas9 for Investigating Targeted Therapy Opportunities in B-cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia SPEAKER: Helena Peschelová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 & Online WHEN: 11:00–13:00 Save the Date: * Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl), 2 December * Long Live Research Data National EOSC CZ Conference 2025, 2-3 December * Processing and Analysis of Biological Images, 2–5 December * Off the ADAR Radar Conference (Mary O’Connell & Liam Keegan), 30–31 March * EUROPIC 2026, 31 May–4 June
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Kristýna Šárková: Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Natural Products as Building Components in Supramolecular Pharmacy by Ondřej Jurček (MUNI PHARM). WHEN: Friday, 21 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Kristýna Šárková: Events of the Week 17–24 November
18 Nov Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: Bioinformatic Pipeline for Analysis of Small Non-Coding RNAs SPEAKER: Karolína Trachtová WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 18 Nov Tue Impact of Polar Ozone Loss in Arctic and Antarctic UV Radiation SPEAKER: Kaisa Lakkala WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, Building 05, Room Z4 WHEN: 12:30 18 Nov Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Polyploidy and Hybridisation for Brassica Crop Improvement SPEAKER: Annaliese Mason WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 18–21 Nov Tue–Fri Continuous First-Order Logic and Metric Structures SPEAKER: Itai Ben-Yaacov WHERE: Faculty of Science Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 WHEN: 15:00 19–21 Nov Wed–Fri Educational Course Neuroimaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 19 Nov Wed NTK Webinar: Searching and Evaluating on Web of Science & Scopus WHERE: Online WHEN: 10:00–11:30 19 Nov Wed Sip of Science TOPIC: How to Stay Sane in Structural Biology - Spoiler Alert, You Don’t. Or the Good, the Bad, and the Reviewer #2 SPEAKER: Karel Kubíček WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 15:30–17:30 19 Nov Wed The Traveling Salesman Problem: Package Deliveries, Pub Walks, and Astro Tours SPEAKER: William Cook WHERE: Komenského nám. 220/2, Room 300 WHEN: 16:30 20 Nov Thu Structural Biology Seminar Series TOPIC: Revealing the Logic of Gene Regulation SPEAKER: David Šafránek WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 20 Nov Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Using Stem Cell Models to Help Understand Dementia SPEAKER: Charlie Arber WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 20 Nov Thu The Global Re-Shuffling of Species SPEAKER: Franz Essl WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 16:00 21 Nov Fri Doctoral Thesis Defence TOPIC: The Influence of Small Drug-like Molecules on MYC mRNP Interactions SPEAKER: Sepideh Mohammadi Koubjari WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 & Online WHEN: 12:00–14:00 21 Nov Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Natural Products as Building Components in Supramolecular Pharmacy SPEAKER: Ondřej Jurček WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 24–25 Nov Mon–Tue TANGENC Conference 2025 WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium Save the Date: * BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD: From PhD to Start-up CEO; Enantis (CZE) & Head of Startup Support; Innovation Agency JIC (CZE), 25 November * ADDIT-CE NeuroConnect Meetup, 27 November * Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl), 2 December * Long Live Research Data National EOSC CZ Conference 2025, 2-3 December * Processing and Analysis of Biological Images, 2–5 December
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Kristýna Šárková: Reminder: Today's Principal Investigator Seminar
We are reminding you about the next seminar, Modular Design of Small-Molecule Tools for Biology Research, by Jakub Švenda (MUNI SCI). WHEN: Friday, 14 November, at 13:00 WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 Best regards, CEITEC MU, Events Team
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Kristýna Šárková: Events of the Week 10–17 November
10 Nov Mon Biochemistry and Our Changing Climate SPEAKER: Karla M. Neugebauer WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 09:00–17:00 11–14 Nov Tue–Fri MUNI PhD Career Days WHERE: Masaryk University, Komenského náměstí 2 11–12 Nov Tue–Wed CECE Junior 2025 WHERE: Brno, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the CAS, Veveří 967/97 11 Nov Tue Capillary Electrophoresis - Unnecessary Due to AI? SPEAKER: Hermann Wätzig WHERE: Brno, Veveří 967/97, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences WHEN: 9:00 11 Nov Tue Molecular Medicine Seminar Series TOPIC: GPX4-Mediated Suppression of Ferroptosis Drives Resistance to ALK Inhibitors in Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma SPEAKER: Gerardo Enrique Abarca Ríos WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 211 WHEN: 9:30–10:30 11 Nov Tue Mendel Centre Seminar TOPIC: Percolation Complexes on Membranes Affecting Root Paths SPEAKER: Panagiotis Moschou WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 11 Nov Tue BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD TOPIC: From PhD to Head of Research Group and Project Manager; Contipro (CZE) SPEAKER: Josef Chmelar WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Room 145 WHEN: 16:00 11 Nov Tue Discussion Beautiful Social Machines III: The Collapse of Civilization WHERE: Brno, Mendlovo náměstí 157/1, Mendel’s Refectory of the Augustinian Abbey WHEN: 17:00 11 Nov Tue Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Jan Fousek, Pavel Filip) WHERE: Brno, Kraví hora 2, Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno WHEN: 18:00–20:00 12 Nov Wed NTK Webinar: AI Essentials for Academia WHERE: Online WHEN: 10:00–11:00 12 Nov Wed Life Science Transfer Academy: Business Planning WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 13:00–17:00 12 Nov Wed Masterclass Learned Societies: Behind the Mystery of the Genetic Code SPEAKER: Julius Lukeš WHERE: Masaryk University, Komenského náměstí 2, Room 343 WHEN: 15:00 13 Nov Thu CEITEC Consortium Showcase WHERE: University Campus, Building E35, Atrium WHEN: 10:00–12:00 13 Nov Thu Zoological Seminar Special Seminar on the Declaration of the Soutok Protected Landscape Area SPEAKER: David Horal, Vladan Riedl WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 WHEN: 13:00 13 Nov Thu 4th Soft Skills Workshop: Leadership and Career Guidance Across Academia and Business WHERE: Online WHEN: 13:30–15:30 13 Nov Thu Structural Biology Seminar Series TOPIC: Bridging Domains and Disorder: Bioinformatics and Modeling of Protein– DNA and Protein–Protein Interactions SPEAKER: Jiří Vondrášek WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 14:00–15:00 13 Nov Thu Křehká svoboda 2025 WHERE: Brno, Mendlovo náměstí 1, Mendelův skleník v Augustiniánském opatství WHEN: 16:00–19:00 13 Nov Thu Botanical Seminar TOPIC: Forest and Steppe Vegetation of Northern Mongolia SPEAKER: Jan Novák WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 306 & Online WHEN: 16:00 13 Nov Thu Life Sciences Seminar Series TOPIC: Transcriptional CDKs and Phosphatases: Keeping RNA Polymerase II on Track and on Time SPEAKER: Robert Fisher WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 132 WHEN: 16:00 14 Nov Fri Company Visit to IQS Nano WHERE: Lelekovice, Hlavní 110, Hall F2, IQS Nano s.r.o. A1 Park WHEN: 10:00 14 Nov Fri Principal Investigator Seminar Series TOPIC: Modular Design of Small-Molecule Tools for Biology Research SPEAKER: Jakub Švenda WHERE: University Campus, Building B11, Room 205 WHEN: 13:00–14:00 Save the Date: * Educational Course NeuroImaging: Mapping the Function and Structure of Brain, 19–21 November * TANGENC Conference 2025, 24–25 November * BIOTOP Seminars: Biotech Talks to PhD: From PhD to Start-up CEO; Enantis (CZE) & Head of Startup Support; Innovation Agency JIC (CZE), 25 November * ADDIT-CE NeuroConnect Meetup, 27 November * Hlava plná otazníků: O výzkumu mozku (Monika Fňašková, Michal Mikl), 2 December * Long Live Research Data National EOSC CZ Conference 2025, 2-3 December * Processing and Analysis of Biological Images, 2–5 December