Invitations to events, articles: gender and science

11 Apr 2022

Studying isolation and stress in Antarctica. Next stop, space?

Ph.D. student Lucie Ráčková, working at the Environmental Physiology research group, RECETOX, studies the relationship between isolation and acute and chronic stress. As a polar expedition member to the J.G. Mendel Station on James Ross Island, Antarctica, she investigated how polar explorers perceive separation...

Jana Šmardová receives the medal for extraordinary creative achievement

The medal for extraordinary creative achievement has been awarded to Jana Šmardová for her new book ‘What Tumours Teach Us - Parallels in the Behaviour of Cells and Humans’. The award was presented by Dean Tomáš Kašparovský during the recent meeting of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Science.

24 Feb 2022

Monika Kuncová: I want to get to the bottom of things

Monika is a third-year bachelor’s student in the Environment and Health study program. In the interview, Monika explains why she chose science and what she has enjoyed the most as a student at RECETOX. As the primary coordinator of IBIS, an interactive biology seminar, she popularizes science among high...

3 Feb 2022

From studies at RECETOX to dream job in Düsseldorf, Germany

16 Nov 2021

Lucia Cengelová won the national round of the AMAVET competition

Lucia Cengelová, who is working on her high school professional activity in Loschmidt's laboratories under the guidance of Miloš Musil, won the national round of the AMAVET competition. Congratulations!

28 Jun 2021

The L´Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science went to Terezie Mandáková this year

Cytogeneticist Terezie Mandáková, who works at the CEITEC MU and at the Faculty of Science, MU in Brno is the winner of this year's L´Oreal-UNESCO competition for Women in Science. She is an internationally renowned scientist in the field of plant cytogenetics. She studies plant chromosomes and genomes....

10 May 2021

I was taught that when you start doing something, it should be done properly, on time and seen through to the end.

“ In the early 1990s, it was believed that it was better if no one entered the garden s , then no one would want anything or steal anything. I wanted to change a ll that ,” says Magdaléna Chytrá in the interview.

26 Apr 2021

I'm attracted to challenges. Protein engineering and working in a spin-off company offer plenty of them.

Radka Chaloupková studied Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (MU), and defended her Doctoral thesis in the field of Biochemistry. She has completed two foreign research internships in Great Britain, one at the University of Warwick and the other at Diamond Light Source Ltd....

23 Apr 2021

Eighteen kilos of clay from Antarctica. Polar scinetist Jana Smolíková describes what can be read from the ice

She returned from Antarctica a month ago. And even though Jana Smolíková has been there three times, she would like to return again. "It's easy to catch an Antarctic virus and fall in love with it. And I caught it too," says one of two women of this year's polar expedition of Masaryk University to Mendel's...

23 Feb 2021

When you do your own experiments, you’ll appreciate the great laboratory equipment

Sabina Fronková graduated from the Brno-Bystrc Grammar School and then applied to us for a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics. Having successfully completed her degree, she is now continuing her studies with a follow-up Master's degree in Biotechnology. She is also a member of the Generation...

19 Feb 2021

If students show enthusiasm and interest, they will not be short of practical research opportunities

Lucka Pifková comes from Kroměříž and studies Molecular Biology and Genetics at our faculty. She is also a member of the Generation Mendel team, which last autumn celebrated great success with its synthetic biology project in the international  iGEM  competition.

18 Feb 2021

For Women in Science

The 15th year of the L'Oréal-UNESCO talent program For Women in Science, supported by the international organization UNESCO and the company L‘Oréal Czech Republic in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, is starting.