Jirina Prochazkova
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Jirina Prochazkova
@sciiris.bsky.social
Scientist, Brno, Czechia
#LipidsConnect
#sphingolipids, #glycosphingolipids, #lipidomics, #cancer, #breastcancer, #ovariancancer #cellsurface

www.linkedin.com/in/jirina-prochazkova-315a2bab
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We are starting the biggest world conference about #Xenopus 🐸! All important people in this model organism are here. Tomorrow at 14:00 is my talk — wish me good luck! 🍀
August 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Rising rates of early-onset ER+ breast cancer in women without genetic risk suggest a shift in disease biology. Chronic exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may play a role, highlighting the need for research + regulatory attention.

#Comment 📖 👇
Environmental endocrine disruptors: rethinking the origins of early-onset ER+ breast cancer - Nature Reviews Cancer
Rising rates of early-onset oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer in women without genetic risk suggest a shift in disease biology. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may accelerate tissue ageing, destabilize epigenetic regulation and impair immune surveillance. Chronic and cumulative EDC exposure may induce field cancerization in the breast, warranting urgent attention from researchers, regulators and public health leaders.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Jirina Prochazkova
💥 We have 3 positions open in my lab in Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭:
#nanopores #smFRET #biomolecular #dynamics #singleMolecules

We’re looking for talented & ambitious new colleagues enthusiastic about biomolecular dynamics & single-molecule tech.

Please share broadly, thank you!🤝

schmid.chemie.unibas.ch
Home | Research Group Schmid | University of Basel
schmid.chemie.unibas.ch
July 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This is devastating for early discovery research and all of the (very very many) phenomena that are simply impossible to accurately model with even the most advanced in vitro platforms. And I say that as an enthusiastic advocate of organoid research.
July 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology!

RNA biology
Epigenetic regulation
Cell cycle regulation
Cancer, immunology
Virology

Application and information ⬇️
application.igmm.cnrs.fr

@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Jirina Prochazkova
Scientists are caught in the crosshairs, as the Trump administration uses research grants as leverage in its fight to reshape admissions, teaching and more at US universities.

https://go.nature.com/42NmZUz
How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril
Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM