The Science is Beautiful photography and art competition is now open

The popular Science is Beautiful photography and art competition begins on Monday, October 10, 2022. Starting at 12 p.m., you can register your photos or illustrations on the competition website until midnight on October 31, 2022. Traditionally, there are three academic categories for faculty and a Discovery category for the general public. Winners of all categories will be announced on Dec. 7 in the Carolina Grand Auditorium. We look forward to seeing all who attend

Published Oct 14, 2022

4EU+ Flagships and our participation

The 4EU+ European University Alliance brings together seven comprehensive, research-intensive, public universities from four regions of Europe to strengthen the European vision of deepened cooperation and mutual enrichment. What are the flagships and how do our university and faculty participate in them?

Published Oct 08, 2022

Exhibition: Earth’s Beauties seen from Space

Start date Oct 06, 2022 - Oct 16, 2022

We invite you to the exhibition "Earth's Beauties seen from Space", which will take place from 6 to 16 October 2022 at Karolinum (Ovocný trh 560/5, 110 00 Prague 1).

Published Oct 03, 2022

BIOCEV DAYS 2022

Start date Oct 10, 2022 - Oct 12, 2022

The annual scientific conference with poster session will be held from 10 to 12 October in the BIOCEV Center, Průmyslová 595, Vestec. This conference will offer a great opportunity for research communities to connect, to share knowledge, collaborate and learn from others' experiences.

Published Sep 28, 2022

Charity event Sport Unites

Start date Sep 27, 2022

After the successful first event Sport Unites with the intention to run the distance between Prague and Kiev to show support for Ukraine, there is another challenge. This time, as part of the European Week of Sport, we will be running from Kiev to Brussels on the UK FTVS athletics oval on Tuesday 27 September 2022. Throughout the day, you can take part not only in the relay run, but also in a varied accompanying programme. There is no age limit for runners, students, staff and the public can take part. The entry fee is free.

Published Sep 22, 2022

Multidimensional solid-state NMR spectroscopy for the study of protein structure

Jan Blahut and Zdeněk Tošner (NMR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry), together with colleagues from the Technical University of Munich, have published a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, which focuses on increasing the sensitivity of multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra used to study the structure of insoluble proteins.

Published Sep 21, 2022

From the atom to NK cell: the story of an unexpected protein structure

The discovery of a peculiar protein structure and the quest to confirm it led to the description of interacting receptor clusters on NK cells. The study by the research teams of Dr. Ondřej Vaněk from the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and Dr. Jan Dohnálek from the Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the center BIOCEV was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

Published Sep 19, 2022