Conference Report: Mini Conference for Third-Year PhD Students

On June 6, 2024, the Organic Chemistry Department at Faculty of Science Charles University held Mini Conference, showcasing the research of third-year PhD students.

Published Jun 19, 2024

Our faculty hosts a lecture by Nobelist Prof. J. M. Lehn

Start date Jun 26, 2024

We cordially invite you to the lecture of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Honorary Doctorate of the Charles University, Prof. J.M. Lehn from the University of Strasbourg "From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry", which will take place on Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 10:30 in the Large Geological Lecture Hall at the Albert Hall. Prof. J.M. Lehn will also participate in the meeting of the three Nobel Prize winners under the title Sound of Science at the Estates Theatre on Friday 28 June 2024. More information can be found below.

Published Jun 18, 2024

Experientia Day 2024

Start date Jun 13, 2024

All researchers and students are welcome to join the Experientia Day 2024 on Thursday 13/6 at 10.00 in the IOCB Lecture Hall. We are looking forward to: revealing Experientia Foundation grant recipients for 2024, hosting dr. Jakub Hývl (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) with an invited lecture “Organobismuth Chemistry: Novel Materials And Alternatives to Transition-metal Catalyst” and hosting dr. Petr Kovaříček (UCT Prague) with an invited lecture “Covalent dynamics, phase interfaces and photocatalysis – from ‘soups’ to self assembled catalysts”.

Published Jun 10, 2024

New insights into the regulation of the activity of the transcription factor Gcn4 in spatially structured yeast populations

Facebook Twitter The rapid response of both yeast and mammalian cells to a changing environment is an important prerequisite for their survival. The transcription factor Gcn4p helps yeast cells to react quickly to the availability of amino acids in the environment and to adapt their metabolism accordingly. The activity of this factor can be regulated at the level of its translation and stability. In the work published in the journal mBio, scientific teams of Zdena Palková (Faculty of Science, Charles University/BIOCEV) and Libuše Váchová (Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences/BIOCEV) have uncovered a mechanism for regulating the activity of Gcn4p, which is important for the coordinated interaction of cells and their differentiation and is unique for spatially structured yeast populations, i.e. for the predominant form of yeast existence under natural conditions.

Published Jun 07, 2024