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14 Feb 2023

Brno scientists have a revolutionary discovery on their hands. They want to sustainably light up using sea glowworms

Imagine turning on a light one day without needing electricity and without the side effect of releasing heat. Scientists at the Loschmidt Laboratories at MU Faculty of Science are a little closer to this revolutionary innovation. They have described and explained the mechanism of the glowing of the sea...

14 Feb 2023

22nd meeting of the AS of the Faculty of Science in the term of office 2020-2023

which was held on February 13th, 2023 from 3:00 p.m. in the meeting room B17/432 in the Bohunice campus.

13 Feb 2023

The faculty has invested a lot in me. I want to return to the Czech Republic in the future and pass on the benefits of that investment

As a postdoctoral researcher at the Moffitt Cancer Center, NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center based in Tampa, Florida, Stanislav Drápela is investigating the processes by which cancer cells “fall asleep” and “reawaken”. In this interview, he explains how the focus of his early studies – the ability...

10 Feb 2023

MUNI Mendel Doctorandus welcomes the new semester with new students and a brand-new logo

The MUNI Mendel Doctorandus programme for talented PhD students opened another admission procedure in January 2023. A total of 14 students across the faculties of the Bohunice Campus and CEITEC applied, and members of the MMD Committee reviewed their applications. After the evaluation, all applied students...

8 Feb 2023

Why plants live together and how an intruder can most easily penetrate them

Functional and phylogenetic relationship of plant species helps Zdeňka Lososová, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno, to determine which plants can live together in one plant community. Thanks to this, for example, it is possible to estimate whether the introduced...

7 Feb 2023

Invitation to the 22nd meeting of the AS of the Faculty of Science in the term of office 2020-2023

which will take place on February 13th, 2023 from 3:00 p.m. in the meeting room B17/432 in the Bohunice campus.

7 Feb 2023

Czech Antarctic Research Program presents its activities in the Campus Corridor Gallery

Come to campus to see 15 posters about the unique research activities of the Czech Antarctic Research Program.

6 Feb 2023

Barrande Fellowship Programme

The French Institute in Prague and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports support international educational exchange programmes and scientific cooperation between French and Czech scientific teams. They provide a scholarship for PhD students in the Cotutelle programme as well as a scholarship for...

6 Feb 2023

From the Library Director: “We try to make students feel like they are in their own living room here”.

For more than thirteen years, Taťána Škarková has been running the Faculty of Science’s Central Library on Kotlářské Street. Before that, she also worked for thirteen years at the Municipal Library in Moravsky Krumlov, where she originally comes from. After thirteen years she is definitely not thinking...

3 Feb 2023

Open Days at SCI MUNI attracted 900 students from all over the Czech Republic and Slovakia

More than 900 students and 200 parents from all over the Czech Republic and Slovakia visited the Open Days of the Faculty of Science of MU, which took place on Saturday , 21 January and Tuesday , 24 January at the University Campus in Bohunice and the Kotlářská campus. All our institutes opened the doors of their halls ,

2 Feb 2023

To Nobel Prize through foreign internships

Students from Czech universities do have the chance to achieve the best scientific results and work in top international teams under the guidance of Nobel Prize winners. However, young people should build international contacts during their studies abroad and improve their language skills, says Ctirad...

31 Jan 2023

Thanks to RECETOX, Masaryk University hosts World Health Organization Collaborating Centre

Hans Kluge, Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, sent a notification of the appointment of the RECETOX Centre of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University as the fourth WHO Collaborating Centre in the Czech Republic.