We are pleased to announce that on 25 June 2025 , our PhD student Shun-Min Yang received the Dean's award for excellent research results presented in the dissertation thesis entitled Heme biosynthesis in diatoms , in the study programme of Integrative Biology. This dissertation focused on the subcellular localisation of heme biosynthetic enzymes in the diatom Phaeodactylum...
Exceptional early-career talent is the focus of the prestigious Otto Wichterle Award, which will be presented today by the Czech Academy of Sciences to a total of twenty-five scientists. The 2025 awards will be handed over to the laureates by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Radomír Pánek.
Abstract: Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites that have evolved a highly specialized feeding strategy, enabling them to ingest exceptionally large volumes of host blood, often containing pathogenic microbes. As vectors of numerous infectious agents, ticks have a significant impact on human and animal health worldwide. Central to their success as blood feeders and...
The international portal Research.com has published its latest rankings of the most cited scientists for 2025. More than 20 researchers from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences appear among the Czech scientific elite across several disciplines. Notably, two of them – Julius Lukeš and Jiří Macas – secured leading positions in the fields of genetics and molecular biology.
Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but fascinating creatures.
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming course “Biological Specimens in Electron Microscopy” , which will take place from June 23 to 27, 2025 , in the Pau1 lecture room and LEM facility . As the LEM facility is acquiring a new high-resolution SEM equipped with EDX and integrated RAMAN systems for elemental composition and chemical...
At the end of April, parasitologist Julius Lukeš from the Institute of Parasitology at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences was formally welcomed as a new member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The ceremony took place in Washington, D.C., as part of the 162nd Annual Meeting of the NAS, held from April 25 to 27, 2025.
On Tuesday, May 6 at 2 PM , the photo exhibition The Naked Kingdom will be opened in the atrium of the aula of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague-Suchdol. The exhibition, which combines pictures of African wildlife and a unique series of nudes from a charity campaign iCare, will be opened at 2 PM by its author, prof. Andrei Mihalca , by a lecture about his photographic...
