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There are two categories and the first prize is 3000 CZK in each category:
I. "Scientific Merit" category - captures a major breakthrough in research from the previous year.
II. "Aesthetic Merit" - the photo (image) should be pleasing to the eye and open to all kinds of artistic treatment- people can unleash their inner surrealist.
The competition is under the patronage of prof. Alexander W. Bruce (
(previous years' entries 2011 - 2022 here)
Gabriela Krejcova (Adam Bajgar lab)
SCIENTIFIC MERIT PRIZE
1st place
GPs: Macrophage-specific delivery tool visualized three ways. Confocal and electron microscopy images of Drosophila macrophages (green) internalizing yeast-derived glucan particles, which represent a suitable macrophage-specific delivery tool.
Alexey Bondar (Hana Sehadova lab)
SCIENTIFIC MERIT PRIZE
2nd place
Single molecule interactions - the image demonstrates interactions between individual signaling molecules (a G protein-coupled receptor and a G protein) in living cells after treatment with dopamine.
Hana Sehadova (Sehadova lab)
SCIENTIFIC MERIT PRIZE
3rd place
Rocket to Mars - Parts of the queen bumblebee's ovary. The developing oocyte is nourished by a group of sister cells.
Hana Sehadova with Oxana Skokova-Habustova (Sehadova lab)
AESTHETIC MERIT PRIZE
1st place
Inseparable friends - A muscular and glandular trichome on a potato leaf of the Marabel variety.
Hana Sehadova with Michal Zurovec (Sehadova lab)
AESTHETIC MERIT PRIZE
2nd place
A tangled path - The silk of the spindle ermine moth, Yponomeuta cagnagella.
Anxhela Hania (Sobotka lab)
AESTHETIC MERIT PRIZE
3rd place
Colony core of Trichodesmium - a marine filamentous cyanobacterium; the sample was collected in the Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat, Israel) and employed to visualize the presence of associated bacteria.
Thinles Chondol (Jiri Dolezal lab)
Cross-section of the root of plant Askellia flexusa (Asteraceae) - from the Himalayas (~ 4700 m asl) stained with AstraBlue and Safranin solution (Abbreviations: ep - epidermis; ph - phloem; xv - xylem vessel; xf - xylem fiber; pa - parenchyma; ca - cambium; mr - medullary rays).
Alexey Bondar (Hana Sehadova lab)
Recycled paper - the photo of a paper towel made from recycled paper with visible bits of different candy wrappers from the original paper used for recycling.
Shu-Min Yang (Miroslav Obornik lab)
An ultrathin TEM section of a four-cell cyst of Chromera velia
Gabriela Krejcova (Adam Bajgar lab)
Wasp egg: Immune response to a parasitoid egg. Although the parasitoid wasp egg (blue) laid in Drosophila larva (visualized by micro computed tomography) tries to hide from the host immune response in the folds of intestine (green), it is recognized by plasmatocytes (white, upper left) and later encapsulated by lamellocytes (white, upper right).
Thinles Chondol (Jiri Dolezal lab)
Cross-section of the root of plant Askellia flexusa (Asteraceae) - from the Himalayas (~ 4700 m asl) stained with AstraBlue and Safranin solution (Abbreviations: ep - epidermis; ph - phloem; xv - xylem vessel; xf - xylem fiber; pa - parenchyma; ca - cambium; mr - medullary rays).
Hana Sehadova with Ivo Sauman (Sehadova lab)
Crystals - Calcium oxalate crystals on the silk cocoon of the cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia.
Hana Sehadova (Sehadova lab)
On the hair fiber - Detail of a hair root of a curious student. The image was taken during a practical microscopy exercise.
Zuzana Urbanova (Urbanova lab)
Frozen beauty of Sphagnum cuspidatu.
Image Competition Archive 2011-2022
Summer semester 2023/2024 - link to full seminar schedule here
Invited by | Date | Speaker | |
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Marek Jindra | April 23 | Ing. Vojtěch Ledvina, Ph.D. |
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PhD student seminar | April 30 | Michaela Husová (Alena Zíková) |
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PhD student seminar | May 7 | Pavla Šnebergerová (Dan Sojka) |
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PhD student seminar | May 21 | Anastasiia Kolomiiets (Josef Elster) |
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PhD student seminar | May 28 | Simona Koutková (Petr Nguyen) |
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Tomáš Doležal | June 4 | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schirmeier (née Limmer) |
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PhD student seminar | June 11 | Orsola Iorillo (Drahomíra Faktorová) |
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PhD student seminar | June 25 | Enrico Bullo (David Doležel) |
Winter semester 2023/2024 - link to full seminar schedule here
Summer semester 2022/2023 - Link to full seminar schedule here
Invited by | Date | Speaker |
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David Doležel | February 23 - FRIDAY! | Charalambos Kyriacou |
PhD student seminar | January 30 | Kristýna Hovorková |
Alena Panicucci Zíková | January 25 - THURSDAY! | Prof. Ariel Silber
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PhD student seminar | January 23 | Kristýna Brožová |
PhD student seminar | January 16 | Alyssa Malapit Fontanilla |
Marek Jindra | January 9 | prof. Zdeněk Dvořák |
PhD student seminar | December 19 |
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December 12 | Meeting of the department |
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PhD student seminar | December 5 | Vijaya Geetha Gonepogu |
Tomáš Doležal | November 21 | Josef Lazar |
Michaela Fencková | November 7 | Veronika Poláková Vymetálková |
Alexander Bruce | October 17 | Katarzyna Filimonow and Roberto De La FuenteLink between extracellular matrix (ECM) and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the mouse periimplantation embryoThe RUNT-related transcription factor RUNX1 accompanies primitive endoderm lineage segregation within the ICM during mouse blastocyst formation |
Iva Mozgová | October 10 | Jakub Žárský |
Winter semester 2022/2023 - link to full seminar schedule here
Invited by | Date | Speaker | group |
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Iva Mozgová | October 4 | Frédeŕic Berger |
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Michael Wrzaczek | October 11 | Hirofumi Nakagami |
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Petr Nguyen | October 18 | James R. Walters |
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Habilitation pedagogical lecture | November 1 | Alena Panicucci Zíková |
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Hassan Hashimi | November 8 | Marcus Keller |
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PhD student seminar | November 15 | Ayush Sharma (Obornik lab) - via Zoom
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Alena Panicucci Zíková | November 22 | Alexander Mühleip |
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Lenka Gahurová | November 29 | Daniel Rozbeský |
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Tomáš Doležal | December 6 | Michaela Fencková |
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Alena Zíková | December 13 | Catarina Gadelha |
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Petr Nguyen | December 20 | Filip Kolář
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PhD student seminar | January 10 | Bankatesh Kumar (Paris lab)
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Lenka Gahurová | January 17 | Jan Nevoral |
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Lenka Gahurová | January 24 | Radoslav Janoštiak |
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PhD student seminar | February 7 | Kristýna Brožová (Jirků lab)Jovana Majstorović (Holzer lab)Tomáš Konečný (Mozgová lab) |
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Alexander W. Bruce | February 14 | Tomáš Vomastek |
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Petr Nguyen | February 21 | TBA |
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Michaela Fencková | May 2 | Martin Schwarzer |
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PhD student seminar | March 1 | Tihana Vondrak |
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Andela Kuvejla |
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Saverio Rana |
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March 29 | Heribert Hirt |
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April 19 | Helena Fulková |
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April 26 | Alastair Gardiner |
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May 10 | Kateřina Rohlenová |
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PhD student seminar | May 17 | Monika Kreklová |
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Martina Hejníčková |
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Valéria Juricová |
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Ping Chen |
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May 31 | Arne Sahm |
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PhD student seminar | June 7 | Samo Naseem |
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Michaela Husová |
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Enrico Bullo |
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Pavla Šnebergerová |
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Archive of seminars here
List of courses offered by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics taught in English
Number | Name | Semester | Credits | Guarantor | |
Undergraduate courses |
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KMB | 182 | Departmental Seminar | both | 2 | 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 215 | Bioinformatics Project | winter | 8 | 'prof. Ing. Miroslav Oborník, Dr.' |
KMB | 219 | Introduction to Cell Biology | winter | 2 | 'doc. Mgr. Tomáš Doležal, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 223 | Techniques of microscopy and image analysis for biologists | summer | 5 | Mgr. Hana Sehadová, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 358 | Introduction to Genomics | summer | 3 | 'Dr. Alexander William Bruce, Ph.D.', 'Mgr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 605 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | summer | 6 | 'prof. Ing. Miroslav Oborník, Dr.' |
KMB | 758 | Molecular Biology and Genetics I | winter | 3 | 'Dr. Alexander William Bruce, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 770 | Methods in Molecular Biology | winter | 4 | 'Mgr. Lenka Chodáková, Ph.D.' |
Graduate courses (Master and Ph.D. level) |
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KMB | 182 | Departmental Seminar | both | 2 | 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 217 | Methods of Functional Genomics | summer | 5 | 'RNDr. Vladimír Beneš, CSc.', 'Mgr. David Doležel, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 218 | Epigenetics | winter | 3 | 'Mgr. Petr Svoboda, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 223E | Techniques of microscopy and image analysis for biologists | summer | 5 | Mgr. Hana Sehadová, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 602E | Advanced methods of molecular biology 2 | summer | 4 | Mgr. Lenka Gahurová, Ph.D.', RNDr. Alena Panicucci Zíková, Ph.D., |
KMB | 618 | Epigenetics and regulation of gene expression | summer | 5 | 'Mgr. Lenka Gahurová, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 622 | Scientific Writing for Experimental Biologists | winter | 5 | 'doc. Mgr. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.' |
KMB | 613 | Bioinformatics for biologists | summer | 5 | 'Ing. Petr Novák, Ph.D.' |