27 Mar Our PhD student received Brno PhD Talent scholarship City of Brno supported 25 young researchers as part of Brno PhD Talent scholarship program. Among the awardees is also our PhD student Anna Dorotíková from Dr. Stjepan Uldrijan group.
3 Mar The Biology Department organizes "BIOTOP" seminar series Are you interested in career options after graduation of your PhD studies? Would you like to discover more about work in a biotech company or improve your job application skills? Then the BIOTOP seminar series is for you!
17 Jan Scientists at the Biology Department received two GAČR grants this year Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) will support 2 new research projects at the Biology Department. Specifically, these are standard projects with a duration of 3 years in the research groups leaded by Professor David Šmajs and Doctor Nicola Silva.
24 Nov 2022 Another award for our student at the Student Scientific Conference For her project on the regulation of AMPK in malignant melanoma, Natália Vadovičová, a PhD student at the Dept. of Biology, was awarded again, this time at the 66th Student Scientific Conference of the FM MU.
9 Nov 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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.
15 Jan 2022 Professor Šmajs' team published in the New England Journal of Medicine! Professor David Šmajs' team from the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, in collaboration with international researchers published a research article about yaws eradication strategy in The New England Journal of Medicine.
13 Dec 2021 Head of the Department of Biology was a government commissioner, pedagogue and scientist for a year Molecular biologist, Ondřej Slabý, who works as the Head the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Medicine MU and leads a research group at CEITEC MU, resigned from the position of government commissioner for science and research in health care.
27 Nov 2021 Three scientists from the Department of Biology received the MUNI Scientist award The Masaryk University Grant Agency awarded the MUNI SCIENTIST prize for the second time for significant achievements in the field of research. Of the five nominated researchers and their teams, Lumír Krejčí and Pavel Krejčí and Michaela Bosáková, all from the Department of Biology, were awarded for the Faculty of Medicine.
24 Sep 2021 The Department of Biology organizes "BIOTOP" seminar series Are you interested in career options after graduation of your PhD studies? Would you like to know how it is to work in a biotech company? Then the BIOTOP seminar series organized by the Department of Biology is for you!