10 Aug 2022 Graduation ceremony Updated. In July, we held graduation ceremonies for our successful graduates. We would like to congratulate the new masters and engineers and wish them much professional and personal success!
8 Aug 2022 Ludovic Mayer: Don’t be scared to go far for new experience Ludovic, a Ph.D. student in Environment and Health, is not afraid of any challenge, and scientific research is one big adventure. He comes from a tiny French town called Saint-Avold, and he liked the RECETOX research topics so much that he decided to move to the South Moravian metropolis. His research...
5 Aug 2022 Tumours teach us how to live well and survive, says microbiologist Šmardová Cancer arises from cells that violate the basic rules of coexistence and cooperation. Altogether, there are eleven typical characteristics that distinguish tumours from healthy tissues. Molecular biologist Jana Šmardová believes that these features reflect more general principles that underlie the proper...
4 Aug 2022 I'm not a lab person, but I want to change legislation as a scientist Natálie Šelleová is a second-year bachelor's student in Environment and Health. Although she does not want to work in a lab in the future, human health and environmental issues are her top-of-mind priorities. After her studies, she desires to be a person explaining complex scientific issues to the public...
3 Aug 2022 Dry streams According to experts from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, extreme drought is prevailing in several domestic regions. The situation is worst in the south-eastern part of Moravia, where many streams have already dried up. The new Dry Rivers app is designed to monitor the water levels in these...
27 Jul 2022 We celebrated a thousand followers, blew up a kilo of gunpowder, smiles award-winning chemistry teacher Radek Matuška, a graduate of our faculty, is a chemistry teacher at the Secondary Industrial School of Chemistry in Brno. A few years ago, he was voted the best chemist in the Golden Amos survey, and now he has received an award from the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. In his classes, he is not...
22 Jul 2022 Gold medals of MU awarded to founders of Mendel Lectures Geneticist and biochemistry professor Kim Nasmyth and his wife Anna, who are currently attending the Mendel Genetics Conference, will be bringing home to Oxford one of the most prestigious recognitions of Masaryk University.
21 Jul 2022 Thanks to Mendel, Brno is a Mecca for geneticists A visit to the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno, where Johan Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, lived and worked, is the same as visiting Mecca for world-renowned scientists in the field of genetics and related fields. Nobel Prize laureates and other scientists who came to Brno for the major international...
20 Jul 2022 G. J. Mendel: generous, charitable, selfless Mendel loved his family very much and was grateful to them. His warm emotional relationship with his family, and especially his mother, can be seen in the surviving letters he wrote home from Brno or Vienna. He addresses his parents as ‘Dearest Parents’ or ‘Beloved Parents’, and his mother and sister...
13 Jul 2022 Michal Zajaček: the level of images from the Webb telescope has exceeded expectations. New ones may be coming out every week The Webb Telescope provided a glimpse into the history of the universe like never before. After the first full-color image of a galaxy-filled galaxy in unprecedented sharp resolution, which NASA unveiled on Tuesday after midnight our time, the office released a set of four more photos. Michal Zajaček,...
12 Jul 2022 Astrophysicists discover record-breaking star The record-breaking star at the centre of the Galaxy has been discovered by scientists from Masaryk University, the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. (The M Magazine article available only in Czech.)
4 Jul 2022 Silkworm at the Faculty of Science Scientists from the Department of Experimental Biology of the MU Faculty of Science have the largest silkworm breeding in the country. For now, it is mainly used for teaching students, but in the future it could help in finding cures for serious diseases. Watch the Ceska televize report and find out...
