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  Wages inERC projects and changes in the system of project bonuses

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• The National Contact Centre - Gender and Science has created a new guide on how to address the gender dimension in research content

  The National Contact Centre - Gender and Science has created a new guide on How to address the gender dimension in research content (in Czech)

• Team led by Dr. Z. Franta will collaborate on the project within the OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation call

  Colleagues from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Medical Biology led by Dr. Zdeněk Franta will participate as partners in the project Biology of Hyaluronic Acid within the framework of the OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation call coordinated by BC CAS, in collaboration with Contipro. Congratulations!

• ERC-CZ awarded to Dr. V. Kubelka

  The Faculty of Science of JU will host another ERC-CZ project, this time under the leadership of Dr. Vojtěch Kubelka. Congratulations!

• Prof. Polívka will collaborate on a project within the OP JAK Excellent Research call

  Colleagues from the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry led by Prof. Tomáš Polívka will participate as partners in the Photomachines project within the framework of the OP JAK Excellent research coordinated by the MBU in Třeboň. Congratulations!

• Ongoing evaluation of the ERC CZ program

  The public competition for ERC CZ program projects was announced six times, 30 basic research projects were supported within the program. Biological sciences, chemistry and mathematics have the highest representation in the focus of projects. The main contribution of the program is the achievement of a number of original findings, which are presented in the international scientific community in the form of conference papers and, above all, articles in professional journals. A direct economic benefit can be seen in the education of young scientific and technical workers at a world-class level.

  By comparing the ERC CZ program with the GA ČR Junior Grants and Grant Projects of Excellence in Basic Research EXPRO, which are similar in type, the ERC CZ program is competitive in terms of various evaluation parameters. It is fully comparable to the EXPRO program, which aims to support research teams led by a top internationally recognized scientific personality or a young scientist with potential for excellence. The results of the ERC CZ program have the highest citation response and average percentile among the compared programs.

  The ERC CZ program aims to involve specific Czech research facilities in the European (international) research area. Demonstration and measurement of cooperation takes place with the help of foreign scientists in solving ERC CZ projects and their co-authorship of the results. The USA has the most – 70 collaborations and Germany – 67 collaborations.

  Due to the multidisciplinarity of the projects, the solution teams have a different number of workers with the same structure. The teams are made up of senior and junior researchers. On average, 7 junior workers or students were involved in one project. Considering the supported projects, it is about 200 young scientists. The program clearly contributed to the development of human resources in research.

  Interest in obtaining an ERC grant within the Czech scientific community is growing. The number of submitted projects and their quality is growing. In comparison, the quality of projects measured by the number of successfully evaluated projects is growing faster than the number of submitted projects.

  The ERC CZ program stimulates scientists to submit projects with a motivational tool in the form of the obligation of the researcher to submit an adequately modified project proposal to the ERC call no later than two years after the start of project funding from national sources. With this motivational tool, it increases the quality and number of submitted project proposals. The Czech Republic still lags behind compared to other countries.

  The motivational effect and financial support provided within the ERC CZ program is proving to be very effective and beneficial. The program enables the development of some methods and techniques that were more financially demanding and could not be implemented within standard projects.

• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023

  MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers who have a PhD and want to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and cross-industry mobility. The closest deadline is September 13, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. The JU deadline is September 5, 2023 12:00 p.m. If you are interested, please contact project support: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• EIC Transition Open Call

  EIC Transition Open is a funding system for projects in any area of science, technology or application, as well as challenge-focused funding in specific strategic areas. Deadline is April 12, 2023 and September 27, 2023. If interested, please contact the project department.

• Demonstration of climate resilience solutions in support of the implementation of the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission

  HORIZON-MISS-CLIMA-01: Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions to build resilience towards health risks caused by the effects of climate change. The deadline is Wed 20 September 2023 17:00. Please inform the Project Support about your intention to apply.

• Demonstration of climate mitigation and resilience solutions in support of the implementation of the Adaptation to Climate Change, Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030 and A Soil Deal for Europe Missions

  HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-OCEAN-SOIL-01: Mission Climate adaptation, Mission Ocean & waters and Mission Soil Deal for Europe – Joint demonstration of an integrated approach to increasing landscape water retention capacity at regional scale. The deadline is 20 September 2023 17:00. Please inform the Projekt Support about your intention to apply.

• Caring for significant parts of nature and landscape - Environmental Operational Program

  A new call for Caring for significant parts of nature and landscape has been announced. The call is aimed at strengthening the protection and preservation of nature, biological diversity and green infrastructure. The deadline is June 30, 2023. If you are interested, please contact the project department.

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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Achievments

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01/06/2023

Peter Nguyen's group has elucidated the role of sequence repeats in the location of ribosomal DNA in butterfly genomes.
This helps us to understand the mechanisms of genome reorganisation during evolution and the emergence of new species.
Full article: https://academic.oup.com/.../10.1093/gbe/evad090/7179266...

 

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18/05/2023

Michaela Fencková has won the L´Oreal Women in Science Award for her work on fruit flies.
Photo: L´Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science
Source: https://vedavyzkum.cz/z-domova/z-domova/17-rocnik-l-oreal-unesco-pro-zeny-ve-vede-zna-tri-nove-vitezne-projekty?fbclid=IwAR0bG66szOWPTviMlnheXZIVHbpNDwGmZq-HVcv7Jcx9Qv1RfbV9nSB4qJc

 

 

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27/03/2023

Parasite of the month: Varroa destructor
Alena Bruce Krejčí in Trends in Parasitology.

https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/fulltext/S1471-4922(23)00070-3?fbclid=IwAR0zQZuMh9gMel0K8Ul31TT-rlwe6Wb-byXgfpeTo12dedMQ50tBUPhjBzY

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09/03/2023

Congratulations to our students who won the following awards this semester:
🏆 DEAN´s AWARD - Mgr. Václav Brabec
"In silico and functional analysis of clock component timeless-m" defended in the field of EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
🏆 RECTOR´s AWARD - Mgr. Mgr. Monika Hrubá
for outstanding results in her studies in the follow-up Master's degree programme N1501 BIOLOGY

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24/02/2023

Congratulations to this year's GAJU student grant winners, 9 out of 11 awarded grant proposals from the Faculty of Science are from our Integrative Biology PhD program 🥳.

https://www.jcu.cz/.../inf.../ga-ju-indi-2023-final-web.xlsx

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31/01/2023

Success Squared 👏 Cover image of the current issue of Nature by the team Leoš Valášek, Zdeněk Paris a Julius Lukeš.

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11/01/2023

Amazing success from the lab of Julius Lukes and Zdenek Paris by our PhD student Ambar Kachale 🥳
The solution to the genetic mystery has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05584-2?fbclid=IwAR27h7jBKhi-Hcu-tPjugeApeosP728vm1zios5U3yob2zgdCXayCO2FGhw