The 21st Annual International Conference of the Metabolomics Society took place on June 22–26, 2025, in the enchanting city of Prague, Czech Republic. It was a wonderful opportunity to discover novel trends in metabolomics as well as new tools and approaches. During the first two days, participants attended workshops on topics such as MZmine, MS2LDA,

This year’s meeting took place at the Congresshotel Zuiderduin in the picturesque town of Egmond aan Zee in the Netherlands from 15 to 19 June 2025. The scientific programme for ISBA2025 featured twelve symposia, interactive workshops and a special lunch that brought together well-established scientists and promising early-career researchers. There were also seven plenary talks.

On wednesday 18 June, our team participated at VědaFest 2025, at Praha Dejvice. Our aim was to explain what antibiotics from bacterial origin mean to broad public. New was that with our collegue Voojta we could provide excursion to deaf people (impacted). We were happy to participate in such event, created for broad public (kids,

Zdenek Kamenik was invited to the University of Fribourg by Professors Laure Weisskopf and Ola Abdelrahman. During the visit, he presented our bioinformatics tool, CluSeek, at the departmental seminar and had the opportunity to engage in scientific discussions with Laurent Falquet, manager of the bioinformatics platform, and Pierre-Marie Allard, head of the metabolomics facility. Zdenek also had fruitful

An invitation was extended for a talk by Assist. Prof. Francesca Berini on “Current Approaches for Antibiotic Discovery in Actinomycetes.” The talk took place on Tuesday, February 8, at 11 AM in the Kinosál at IPHYS, Vídeňská 1083, Praha 4 – Krč. Prof. Berini, a researcher at the University of Insubria in the Microbial Biotechnology