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Two @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants have been awarded to @czechacademy.bsky.social researchers!

🎉 Congratulations to Leoš Valášek @mbuavcr.bsky.social and Julius Lukeš (our Biology Centre) & Jan Zouplna (our Oriental Institute). #3Stops2Go #CLOSER #ERCSyG

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🦠 A fungus that spreads from domestic guinea pigs causes skin infections in children, especially in Europe.

🔬 A new study by a research team from our @mbuavcr.bsky.social reveals why it is so successful.

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Fungi may use toxic substances to spread skin infections from guinea pigs to children - Mikrobiologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.
A fungus that spreads from domestic guinea pigs causes skin infections in children, especially in Europe. A new study by a team from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IMI...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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We are pleased to welcome Professor Adrian Raftery (University of Washington), who will deliver an
ICS CAS Invited Lecture in Statistical and Environmental Modelling on the topic:

Did the Paris Climate Agreement Work? Evidence from Bayesian Integrated Assessment
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🌐 Václav Verner completed the first year of university while still in high school.

He became the first student to start at @vschtpraha.bsky.social directly in the second year.

He is also a three-time gold medalist from the International Chemistry Olympiad. 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Bringing research to life — the Week of the @czechacademy.bsky.social at CERGE_EI
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📚 Ibn Fadlan’s Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River, translated from Arabic into Czech by Ondřej Beránek, has received the Turjuman Award, presented by the Sharjah International Book Fair. @academianakladatel.bsky.social

More ➡️ sibf.com/en/awards?aw...
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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💎 Phys.org featured research led by Petr Cigler from #IOCBPrague, presenting a faster and more affordable way to produce quantum nanodiamonds.

See more ► phys.org/news/2025-10...

#IOCB #nanodiamonds #research #quantum #materials #science
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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🧬 Martin Volek from @uni-wuerzburg.de received the Czech Brains ("Česká hlava") 2025 prize for research conducted during his doctoral studies at IOCB Prague. 1/2

#UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague #AVCR #AkademivedCR #Ceskahlava #ceskaveda #chemie
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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📄Regenerating liver uses ammonia to support de novo pyrimidine synthesis and cell proliferation. Nat Commun 16, 9664 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
International team driven by Jiri Neuzil @ibtcas.bsky.social
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#MassSpectrometryImaging
Laboratory of Molecular Structure Characterization, IMIC
Regenerating liver uses ammonia to support de novo pyrimidine synthesis and cell proliferation - Nature Communications
The authors show that regenerating liver requires de novo pyrimidine synthesis and it uses ammonia as precursors differentially as it traverses the liver zones. Tracing studies and spatial metabolomic...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees!

Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all!

➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9

#EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Two @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants have been awarded to @czechacademy.bsky.social researchers!

🎉 Congratulations to Leoš Valášek @mbuavcr.bsky.social and Julius Lukeš (our Biology Centre) & Jan Zouplna (our Oriental Institute). #3Stops2Go #CLOSER #ERCSyG

Details ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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On Thursday and Friday, November 6–7, a philosophical workshop on AI & Propaganda will take place at the Institute of Philosophy in Prague. Speakers will include Teresa Marques, Neri Marsili, and others. Everyone is warmly invited! More information here: 1url.cz/UJg5v
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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CTS invites you to the workshop Ruins and Relics: Rhythms, Temporalities, and Trajectories of Change
📍 December 3, 2025, IE, Prague
📑 Details in the attached programme
📚 EN
💰 Funded by OP JAK The Land Gone Wild
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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New publication in Nature Communications from Lukáš Čermák lab
⚖️Cells need the right balance between old and new MCM proteins for error-free DNA copying
🧩We identified DCAF12 as a key factor that controls how new MCM complexes are assembled
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CRL4DCAF12 regulation of MCMBP ensures optimal licensing of DNA replication - Nature Communications
MCM2-7 complexes drive genome duplication, but their assembly in human cells is not fully understood. Here, the authors identify the CRL4-DCAF12 ubiquitin ligase as crucial for MCM2-7 maturation, safe...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Distinguishing between magnetic states at the atomic-scale 🧪⚛️

Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we show that SPM with NiCp2 molecules can discriminate between nearly degenerate magnetic ground states 🧲🔬🧑‍💻

@fzuavcr.bsky.social @imdeanano.bsky.social @oistedu.bsky.social

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doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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⚛️ We invite you to attend the International Workshop on Low-Dimensional Materials for Applications (LDM4A), jointly organized by the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry (JHIPC), HZDR, and Materials Science Institute of Madrid.
🌐 www.icmm.csic.es/en/workshop-...
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
On 19 November 2025, our Institute of Mathematics will hold “WOMEN AND MEN. SCIENTISTS AND PARENTS DAY” hosting a part of the exhibition “Women of Mathematics From Around The World: A Gallery of Portraits” womeninmath.net/project/abou... Open to the public!

Details ➡️ www.math.cas.cz/index.php/ne...
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#research #drugdesign

Nickel-Catalyzed Efficient, Regioselective One-Pot Synthesis of 1-Methyleneindenes via Tandem C–C Bond Formation: Computational Mechanistic Insights and Docking Studies
(Ahamed, Lo et al.) – @chemistryeurope.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/asia...

#JUFET @iocbprague.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#workshop | The Bourgeois Public Discusses Art III: Transnational Media, Mediators, and Art Practices
in Central Europe

📅 6–7 November 2025
📍 Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS, Prague

Program ➡️ www.udu.cas.cz/archiv/conte...
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎨 The first day of the Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences has kicked off by unveiling a discovery of extraordinary artistic value from the collection of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences @digiknihovnaavcr.bsky.social 🦏👀 #TydenAVCR
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Problems with responsible AI: Vulnerability, Explainability and Mindshaping -- Seminar with Tillmann Vierkant

cetep.eu/problems-wit...
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
cetep.eu
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#new_paper: Cross-linked poly(alkylene citrates) with
L-glutathione for vascular tissue engineering:
structure–property relationships and cell-type
dependent response to oxidative stress
@rsc.org: vascular tissue engineering
doi.org/10.1039/D4TB02563F
Cross-linked poly(alkylene citrates) with L-glutathione for vascular tissue engineering: structure–property relationships and cell-type dependent response to oxidative stress
Cross-linked poly(alkylene citates) (cPAC) based on 1,6-hexanediol (cPHC) and 1,8-octanediol (cPOC) and modified with 0.4, 0.8 and 1.6% w/w l-glutathione (GSH) were synthesized as potential materials ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Scientists identified an unusual type of brain cell which may play a key role in progressive multiple sclerosis, likely contributing to the persistent inflammation that characterizes MS.

The discovery opens a promising path toward developing effective therapies for this neurodegenerative disorder.
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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📢Available position: Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution. Application deadline: 20 November 2025. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/384592
Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. Project Overvi...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM