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Working with the giants of the science world overseas: MIT Global Seed Fund

Working with the giants of the science world overseas: MIT Global Seed Fund

Published: Thursday 15.8.2024

Cooperation is essential to today´s scientific world. The group of Modelling of (nano)materials led by Assoc. Prof. Lukáš Grajciar, and Dr. Christopher J. Heard is proving it right now. They were awarded the MIT Global Seed Fund, which supports the mobility of researchers and students between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other universities in the world.

New data-driven map reveals extensive peatlands in Amazon Basin

New data-driven map reveals extensive peatlands in Amazon Basin

Published: Thursday 8.8.2024

A consortium of researchers led by the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and Charles University, Prague have developed a new data-driven map which predicts substantially more peatland area in the Amazon basin than previously estimated. The high-resolution map provides the first field-data-driven extent of peatlands in the Amazon basin and will be useful for future research and policy on the vulnerability of peatlands to climate change and human impacts.

New study reveals role of cell surface sugars in neuronal navigation

New study reveals role of cell surface sugars in neuronal navigation

Published: Thursday 25.7.2024

An international team of scientists from the Faculty of Science at Charles University, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Stanford University has uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which cell surface sugars influence the navigation of neurons in the nervous system. Their results were published in the prestigious journal PNAS.

22nd International Summer School on Bioanalysis

22nd International Summer School on Bioanalysis

Published: Monday 15.7.2024

From July 8 to July 12, 2024, the 22nd annual International Summer School on Bioanalysis took place at the Faculty of Science of Charles University, under the patronage of Dean Professor Zima. The event, organized by a team of teachers and doctoral students from the Department of Analytical Chemistry and the Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, was attended by 82 representatives from a total of 19 universities.

New book: Geoenvironmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

New book: Geoenvironmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

Published: Monday 15.7.2024

The book Geoenvironmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru has just been published by Springer. The book was edited by Vít Vilímek, Bryan G. Mark and Adam Emmer and a collective of 30 authors from Czechia, USA, Canada, Peru, Austria, Switzerland, UK and France contributed to the book.

The Unstoppable Bianka Mičke

The Unstoppable Bianka Mičke

Published: Monday 22.4.2024

Bianca studies the gut microbiome at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University. This March she won two silver medals at the World Championships in wing, which is a wind sport, where the racers sail with the help of an inflatable sail

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