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On Friday, we celebrated the acceptance of our FireProt ASR 2.0 manuscript in Briefings in Bioinformatics and the award of a new GAČR grant supporting our collaboration with Aleksandra Marsavelski's team.🥂 📷 Irena Halikova

Our team member, 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀, attended the conference Quitel 2026 in Coimbra, Portugal, last week! Sergio presented our work on CAVER, CaverDock, and Caver Web in an invited plenary lecture and an oral presentation, highlighting their applications in protein tunnel analysis and ligand transport.

Summer barbecue at Loschmidt Laboratories! 🍔🔥 A big thank you to Irena Halikova and everyone involved in organizing this wonderful event! We enjoyed delicious food, refreshing drinks, and great conversations with colleagues. 📷 Karolina Sedlackova

We were pleased to welcome 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗸𝗶 from the University of Zagreb for 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗶’s defense and to show her around our lovely city of Brno. Thank you for your visit, Aleksandra! We look forward to many more opportunities to work together.🤝✨ 📸 Stanislav Mazurenko

The names of our newest PhD graduates have appeared on the "Walk of Fame" in front of the red Campus building. ✨ We are proud of their achievements and wish them all the best on their next journey! 🚀

🎓 Congratulations to 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗞𝗼𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, Machine Learning for Computational Protein Design, at @recetox.bsky.social, Masaryk University! His work applies state-of-the-art ML to protein engineering. #PhD #MachineLearning #ProteinEngineering

🏆 Congratulations to our doctoral students! At the @recetox.bsky.social 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, Daniel Pluskal's poster on engineering Renilla reniformis GFP ranked among the top three posters, and Martin Sitte successfully passed his doctoral state examination.🎓👏

🏆 Success for high school students at Loschmidt Laboratories! Monika Dlouhá won 🥈 2nd place and Amálie Steklá 🥉 3rd place in Molecular Biology at the national SOČ competition in Olomouc. Congratulations to the students and their supervisors! 👏🔬 #MolecularBiology #STEM #YoungScientists #SOC

Summer Starts with Beach Volleyball! 🏐☀️ The first beach volleyball match of the summer took place this Monday, bringing together players from Pavel Dvořák’s Microbial Bioengineering Laboratory and the Loschmidt Laboratories. Many thanks to Martin Sitte for organizing this event!

🔥 Last Friday, we celebrated a major milestone as 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗶 and 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 earned their PhDs! Despite the chilly weather, we enjoyed a great BBQ, good conversations, and a toast to their achievements. 🍖🍻 Congratulations and best wishes for the future! ✨🎉 📸 Sarka Nevolova

🏆 Great success at ISBC & ISLS 2026 in Rayong, Thailand! 🎉 In a highly competitive field, 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗱𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘃𝗮 received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award and 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲 the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award. 👏 Congratulations to both!

🏆 Congratulations to 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗸 of Loschmidt Laboratories on receiving the 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 from the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University! During his PhD at @recetox.bsky.social, he develops computational methods for Alzheimer’s disease research.🧠 #Excellence #PhD #Research #AlzheimersDisease

🔬 Our PhD student Pavel Kohout spent a month at Chalmers University 🇸🇪 in the Zelezniak Lab, exploring whether molecular dynamics and ML-based methods (SAMt, BioEmu, BBFlow) can explain experimental observables. Supported by #CLARA. 📸 Pavel Kohout #ResearchInternship #ComputationalBiology

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗶 on successfully defending her PhD thesis, Integrating Machine Learning with Structural Protein Analysis! Her work bridged structural biology, ML, and explainable AI, resulting in 3 publications and an invited conference talk. 👏🔬 #PhDDefense #MachineLearning

Secondary school student Amalie Stekla won three awards at the Conference of Young Life Scientists 2026 for her research on bioluminescence in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis. 🥇 Audience Award 🥇 1st Place (Chemistry–Physics–Informatics) 🌍 Main Prize (100,000 CZK) Congratulations!

🎉 Our paper on EnzymeMiner 2.0 has been accepted in Nucleic Acids Research (@narjournal.bsky.social)! 🔬 The free web server automates enzyme mining and characterization from large protein databases, helping identify promising candidates for experimental testing. #Bioinformatics #Enzymes #NAR

🎓 Congratulations to 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 on earning his PhD! His thesis, Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics in the Study of Thrombolytics, marked the successful completion of his doctoral studies, which included 13 publications, international research stays, and outstanding scientific achievements. 👏🔬

🧬 Scientists from Loschmidt Laboratories & IT4Innovations developed AggreProt — an AI tool that identifies protein “sticky” regions causing aggregation. Published in Communications Chemistry. Supported by CLARA. 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #AI #Biotech #ProteinEngineering

🏆 Congratulations to our team leader, 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗮𝗿, on receiving the MU Rector’s Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for Young Scientists Under 40! 🎉👏 🔬 David is a leading expert in protein engineering, molecular modeling & bioinformatics. 📸 Martin Indruch #Science #Research #Excellence

Congrats to our PhD student Hana Faldynova! 🎉 She won the Student Award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 25th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Young Researchers and Students 2026 in Trest. 🏆 Her talk on ultra-high-throughput screening of dehalogenases received the most audience votes. 👏

Congratulations to 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮 on successfully defending her PhD thesis at Masaryk University under the supervision of Martin Marek. 👏 Excellent science, a great defense, and an inspiring example of balancing research with motherhood. 💙🚀 #PhD #WomenInScience #Biochemistry #StructuralBiology

🥂 Today, we celebrated 6 newly accepted publications, major awards, and the amazing teamwork behind them at the Loschmidt Laboratories. Congrats to all authors and awardees — and thanks to Sergio for marking 13 years at MU with a delicious Marlenka cake. 🍰

Today’s 𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜 𝗗𝗮𝘆 at Loschmidt Laboratories featured two guided excursions introducing visitors to proteins, protein engineering, and bacterial protein preparation. Thanks to Martin Havlasek and Magdalena Votapkova for leading the tours! 👏 📸 Sarka Nevolova

Our new paper, “Taurine inhibits apolipoprotein E4 aggregation,” has been accepted in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 🎉📄 We show that taurine reduces ApoE4 aggregation and shifts it toward a less harmful ApoE3-like profile, opening new perspectives for neurodegenerative disease therapies. 🧠🔬

Our senior researcher Sérgio Marques will give a talk focused on fast computational analysis of protein tunnels at the 49th International Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expression (𝗤𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲). The congress will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, from 5–10 July 2026. 🌍🧪

As part of Environmental Excursions, students from the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University visited Dukovany NPP, Respono waste sorting & composting, a biogas plant in Velesovice, and Brno’s central composting site 🌱⚡ 📸 Michal Vasina #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability #FieldTrip

Our team (Marek, Sitte, Sedlackova & Kursit) carried out two missions at ESRF in Grenoble. 🔬 They optimized microcrystals of bioluminescent proteins and collected diffraction data to advance structural insights relevant to bioluminescence and Alzheimer’s research. 🧬 Plus—stunning Alpine views 🏔️

Our spring outreach seminar at Bowling Brno, Apr 24 🎳🔬 Talks covered Alzheimer’s pathology, staphylokinases for stroke, ML in drug discovery, and luciferase mechanisms. Great discussions + networking with MOU & MU Faculty of Medicine 🤝 Some even tried adventure golf ⛳ 📸 Kaja Sedlackova

Monika Rosinska from @loschmidtlab.bsky.social is speaking about EnzymeMiner to “make protein better” loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/enzymeminer/