Education and training

Dear colleagues, we invite you to the RECETOX joint seminar for a public lecture of doc. Jakub Hofman. The lecture is organized within a process of Jakub's application for full professor title/position at Faculty of Science, MU.

Further information in the section PhD positions

Have you checked our summer issue of hte RECETOX news yet? There is progress report on implementing the EU Horizon 2020 project ICARUS targeting and improving urban air quality, introduction to EnzymeMiner, a novel platform for biotechnology combining IT database search with microfluidic characterization to speed the whole process of identification of prospective enzymes, or results of our research on impact of monsoon on remobilization of persistent organic pollutants in India and globally

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic invites excellent scientists to apply for POSTDOC POSITION in the field of Environmental Toxicology / Environmental Health.

Enzymes are biocatalysts of living cells, converting small molecules called substrates to their corresponding products. Enzymes are highly valued by chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Most of the enzymes perform chemical reactions deep inside themselves at precisely organized active sites. The active sites can only accommodate certain molecules which allows the enzymes to distinguish their own substrates from all the molecules in the surrounding environment. Another layer of a molecule recognition is provided by the enzyme tunnels, which connect the active sites with the surrounding environment. In this study, an enzyme with a tiny active site and narrow tunnels was noted to be able to catalyze a substrate about two times bigger in its size.

The research teams of Professor Jiří Damborský and David Bednář from RECETOX Masaryk University and FNUSA-ICRC, of Professor Jaroslav Štěrba from the Children's Hospital of Brno University Hospital and of Associate Professor Ondřej Slabý from CEITEC are developing a new computational tool for personalized paediatric oncology - PredictSNP-Onco.

The training “Sharing Experience of the Czech Republic in Risk Assessment with Environmental and Information Center expert from Armenia” took place at RECETOX, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic 4-8 June 2018. This activity is based on a contract between the UNIDO and the RECETOX supporting the implementation of the GEF project “Implementation of BAT and BEP for the reduction of UP-POPs releases from open burning sources”.

Dean of Faculty of Science, Masaryk University is opening positions of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY AT RESEARCH CENTRE FOR TOXIC COMPOUNDS IN THE ENVIRONMENT.

We invite applications for a Ph.D. position to work in the group of Prof. Vladimir Sindelář. The main role of this position is concerned with the synthesis of bambusuril receptors and the investigation of their properties. Background in host-guest chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry is preferred.