Teambuilding – small group from Vestec and Krč went for one day trip from Sv. Jan pod Skalou via Solvayovy lomy (the open-air museum with the permanent exhibition History of Limestone Mining and Transport in the Czech Karst) to Karlštejn (the castle founded in 1348 by the Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman […]
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Our dear colleague and PhD student Lada Hanzlíková celebrated her 30th birthday at the beginning of March. We were delighted with her moss cake and our lab gave her some Pandora accessories. March was also the month of births for our dear colleagues Aninda Mazumdar and Baraa Jadalla. Happy birthday again!
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From 26 February we welcomed visitors from Tromsø, Norway, from the Arctic University of Norway. Veronika K. Pettersen and her Ph.D. student Gaute visited our laboratories in Krč and in Vestec. During their stay, our team discussed the ongoing collaboration on (SCFA- Microbiome, Metabolome), where our Ph.D. student Anička Jelínková is the liaison between Czech
Last week of February we had visitors from Norway- Veronika K. Pettersen Read More »
60th birthday of Jirka Janata Our laboratory celebrated the 60th birthday of our former laboratory leaderJirka Janata on 9.1.2024. The next celebration, this time in style, will be at a later date, when it will be possible to sit outside. Moreover, before that, on 7.1.2024 we celebrated our new leader Zdeněk Kameník. Happy Birthday!
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Topic: resistance and the development of new antibiotics and the 80th anniversary of the isolation of streptomycin (19th October) – the first drug against tuberculosis. Link to the TV report (Broadcasted 19th October 2023) : https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/veda/3622623-prvni-lek-na-tuberkulozu-byl-objeven-pred-osmdesati-lety-chorobu-se-dosud-nepodarilo
Gabriela Balíková Novotná and Zdeněk Kameník film an interview for Czech Television Read More »
The second scientific conference NIVB Meeting 2023 was held from 2 to 5 October 2023 in Kutná Hora. This year’s meeting built on the success of the first edition in 2022 and also brought together experts from the fields of virology and bacteriology, fostering collaboration and developing breakthrough research. More informations: https://nivb.cz/cs/2023/10/10/nivb-meeting-2023/?rl_gallery_no=1&rl_page=5
The second scientific conference NIVB Meeting 2-5th October 2023,Kutná Hora Read More »
On Friday 15th September, 12 lab members (mix Krč+ Vestec) went to Čerčany, either by train or by their own transport. Here, after the draw, the partners went with their canoes to Týnec nad Sázavou. The whole day there was a calm mood, between the crews you could get to know people who normally do
Conoeing at Sázava- 15th September- Teambuilding Read More »
The development of new antibiotics, particularly those effective against resistant bacteria, is one of the global health challenges of our time. Workers at the Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, in international collaboration with the University of Tokyo, have now solved the structure of a key condensing (coupling) enzyme used for antibiotic biosynthesis and elucidated
An article about protein CcbD published in Nature Catalysis and related press Read More »
25 May 2023 Dominika Luptáková and Jaroslav Semerád became the 2023 Otto Wichterle laureates. Vladimír Havlíček took this as an opportunity to organize gathering of all laureates of OW award at IMIC.
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Our PhD student Lada Hanzlíková presented her results as a poster entitled “Hascofovomycin, a new 4-alkyl-L-proline derivate isolated from marine Actinobacteria” in the Bioscience & Molecular Biology section.
