Biologický ústav

About department

Department of Biology is one of the oldest theoretical departments at Masaryk University. It was established in 1919. The first chair of the Department Edward Babák is an author of the General Biology teaching concept for all medical faculties. Currently, the Department provides both theoretical and practical education of Medical Biology for Czech and International students. As a centre of excellent international biomedical research it also coordinates a PhD school in Biomedical Sciences.

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9 Nov

PhD conference in Biomedical Sciences 2022 is coming soon

We would like to invite you to the Annual PhD Conference of Biomedical Sciences PhD program, this year the conference will take place on November 21-24, 2022 at the MU Brno University Campus (building C03, room 117). The goal of the conference is to exchange experience and support communication between doctoral students and their supervisors from different institutes and scientific fields

4 Oct

Nicola Silva's research seeks to answer one of the fundamental, unanswered biological questions

Some of the most deleterious stimuli that can compromise genome integrity and lead to cancer development include physical interruptions to both DNA strands, called double-strand breaks (DSBs). It is not only the different stages of DSB that Dr. Nicola Silva from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, MU, is focusing on in his research.

24 Sep

Award for Natália at the conference "XXV. Biologické dny"

Our PhD student Natália Vadovičová was awarded for her poster showing the control of AMPK kinase by the translation factor eIF4F in malignant melanoma.

26 Jun

Department of Biology joins International Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute is a project for which almost 1.5 billion crowns have been allocated for the period of 3.5 years from the resources of the National Recovery Plan (NPO) - specifically from the EXCELES program of the Ministry of Education. Prof. Slabý, the head of the Dept. of Biology, is the coordinator of this project at Masaryk University.

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