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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...

22 Apr 2021

How do neurolipids trigger degeneration?

Alzheimer's disease - an incurable disease that affects not only old age. PharmDr. Zdenek Spacil, Ph.D., studies at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno changes in the composition of membrane lipids, which precede the onset of neurodegeneration and the development of Alzheimer's dementia...

22 Apr 2021

The 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is Open!

The competition for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for the 2022-2023 academic year is launched.

Lack of collaboration between science and politics is harming the planet

PFAS substances – water and soil contaminants that will stay in the environment forever and their use is steadily growing. Endocrine disruptors that interfere with the human as well as the animal hormone system, causing various diseases including diabetes, obesity, and male infertility. Also, the by...

20 Apr 2021

Antarctica in uncertain times. Season 2021 at Johann Gregor Mendel Station

Read the National Geografic article (in Czech only).

16 Apr 2021

On tick hunting: Rovnost journal reporter in the footsteps of a biologist. Look what they found

Find a suitably long wooden stick, tie a piece of cloth on it, measure the temperature and go hunting. Biologist Alena Žákovská and her colleagues from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University go to collect ticks in selected places in Brno every week. Read the reportage (in Czech only).

12 Apr 2021

Space exploration will soon experience a big boom, says the new holder of the “Austrian Nobel Prize”

Slovak astrophysicist Norbert Werner had an extraordinary week in the second half of March. On Monday, he watched the launch of the Soyuz rocket carrying the first nanosatellite for detection of gamma-ray bursts into orbit, on which he participated in the development. Just four days later, he received...

12 Apr 2021

The botanical garden has opened its gates

We are very happy to announce that, since Monday April 12 2021, the outdoor part of our Botanical Garden has been opened to the public once again! Opening times are from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm on weekdays (we are closed on weekends). The botanical garden is only accessible through the gate on Veveří...

8 Apr 2021

TA CR, GAMA 2 Programme

Technology Transfer Office announces call no. 052021 to support the verification of the results of applied research and experimental development  in terms of their  practical application and  preparation for the subsequent commercial use.

A new scholarship programme

From April 1, 2021, the Faculty of Science is launching a new scholarship programme to support doctoral students’ mobilities. Outgoing students can now apply for a scholarship of up to CZK 100,000.

Scientists developed a microfluidic platform that may contribute to the effectiveness of synthesizing pharmaceuticals or training artificial intelligence

The Loschmidt laboratories team at RECETOX and Department of Experimental Biology (Masaryk University, Faculty of Science) led by Prof. Zbynek Prokop, together with colleagues from ETH Zurich, recently developed a new microfluidic platform for rapidly and effectively investigating enzymes and their...

6 Apr 2021

The same point of view: our faculty then and now

Did you know that  where  the  pond  with the statue of the Frog  now stands  in the Botanical Garden, there was originally a  tropical greenhouse  with a pond  where the first  Victoria  amazonica   was grown as early as 1924?