9 Jun 2021

Invitation to the Statistical Methods Summer School

Come and learn, and have fun at the same time. You will gain knowledge on the planning of experiments and, what is more, you will get a professional consultation on your own dissertation or research on site.

4 Jun 2021

Workshop for the development of teaching competency

This workshop is designed for all teachers at Masaryk University, regardless of their workload, teaching load or length of practice. The program is also open to Doctoral students who participate in teaching.

24 May 2021

Top scientific centre in Brno: We will change medicine one day!

Not everything important takes place in Prague. Top scientific and medical excellence can also be found in the second largest Czech city. The International Centre for Clinical Research (ICRC) has been in operation for ten years and is constantly proving its potential. One of the most important research groups as regards the number of members is the ‘Protein Engineering group’, which is led by Jiří Damborský from our Loschmidt laboratories.

Scientists want to use bacteria to recycle important metals

While most people associate bacteria with disease, many can be useful, not only for human health but also for protecting the environment. Biochemists from Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science, together with their Austrian colleagues, want to use bacteria to help solve the problem of metals that accumulate in fly ash and slag during waste incineration and go on to harm the environment.

13 May 2021

Parasitic plants. Helpers in the fight against plant invasions and expansions?

The word parasite usually evokes negative associations and emotions in humans. It is a kind of bandit that hurts everyone living around. The word half-parasite can then raise doubts and suspicions that it is something “undead”, somehow halfway there. But not everything has to be black and white. Even bandits can become heroes. You can read an article on the subject by Kateřina Knotková and Jakub Těšitel from our Department of Botany and Zoology, recently published in the journal Vesmír (in Czech only).

7 May 2021

Join the Open Science Roadshow at our faculty on May 18, 2021

Do you publish? Do you produce research data? Then, come and get acquainted with the upcoming MUNI Open Science Strategy for the years 2022–2028 and discuss its possible form.

6 May 2021

Biotechnological discovery of Brno scientists patented in Singapore

Fibroblast growth factor FGF2-STAB, which was developed at MUNI, has now been patented, not just in Europe but also in Singapore, with patent proceedings also ongoing in a number of other countries. The patent is shared between Masaryk University and the university spin-off ‘Enantis’, which is in charge of the commercial use of the growth factor molecule. The discovery will have applications in cell biology, regenerative medicine and cosmetics.

29 Apr 2021

Conversations about the Universe - part 6

In the sixth edition of ‘Conversations about the universe’, Norbert Werner and Samuel Kováčik from the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, discuss a novelty about the unique discovery of medium-mass black hole detected by a gamma-ray burst. (In Czech only.)