The Mentoring program 202213. 12. 2021 Biology Centre is launching a new mentoring program, which will start in February 2022. This program lasts 10 months and is appropriate for active Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows working at...
How plants refrain the ''sunstroke'' of photosynthetic apparatus9. 12. 2021 For plants, the only source of energy for all life functions is the light of our Sun. Transformation of light into a form usable by plants is ensured by the so-called light-harvesting complexes...
Predatory periodical stole scientific paper from European Journal of Entomology12. 11. 2021 A complaint about plagiarism was delivered to the editors of the European Journal of Entomology (EJE), which is published by the Institute of Entomology of the Biology Centre, Czech Academy of...
Vojtěch Novotný received the Academic Award5. 11. 2021 Biologist Vojtěch Novotný received the prestigious Praemium Academiae 2021 award. The Czech Academy of Sciences supports this important scientific award with a generous grant of up to 30 million...
Elisabeth Hehenberger awarded Lumina Quaeruntur Award5. 11. 2021 Elisabeth Hehenberger, a biologist focusing on bioinformatics, is coming to the Institute of Parasitology of the Biology Centre CAS. Thanks to the prestigious Lumina Quaeruntur award, which...
Success in FameLab competition: Miguel Gonzalez Ximenez de Embun won the second prize18. 10. 2021 Our colleague Miguel Gonzalez Ximenez de Embun from the Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, won the runner-up price on the science communication competition: FameLab Final of the Czech...
Can we taste strawberries and raspberries without viruses?28. 9. 2021 Which viruses are harmful to strawberries and raspberries? What are the ways to protect the plants, and how can healthy seedlings be grown and kept? These are some of the questions the scientists...
The new electron microscope enables work at cryo-conditions and provides higher resolution8. 9. 2021 At the beginning of September, the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy started operation of the new transmission electron microscope JEOL JEM-1400. The new microscope is not only capable of...
Biochemical congress in České Budějovice29. 8. 2021 The 26th Biochemical Congress in České Budějovice (Czech Republic) will take place from August 29th – September 1st, 2021 under the motto "Life is Biochemistry, Biochemistry is Life". For the first...
Experts on metals in plants from 36 countries met in České Budějovice27. 8. 2021 One hundred and seventy-one experts from 36 countries are involved in the international network of researchers "Metabolism of trace metals in plants" PLANTMETALS, which focuses on metals in plants...
