#research #structuralbiology #antifungalresearch Structural characterization and inhibition of carbonic anhydrase from Candida parapsilosis (Dostál et al., Vrábel, Heidingsfeld, Pichová) – Journal of Structural Biology: X: doi.org/10.1016/j.yj... @iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

The annual Photogenic Science exhibition, showcasing awarded photos taken by @czechacademy.bsky.social of their day-to-day research, is on view at our headquarters on Národní Street in Prague until 30 January 2026 (free admission). Details & winning photos ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

⚖️ Dana Plavcová is the first ombudsperson in the history of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In her new role, she focuses on preventing inappropriate conduct and supporting respectful communication and equality across all our institutes. Details ➡️ bit.ly/4oZriow

#new_paper: TYRAY-Functionalized alginate bioinks for 3D bioprinting support stem cell culture and endothelial network formation @pubs.acs.org: 3D bioprinting doi.org/10.1021/acsb...

#new_paper: Aminolyzed polycaprolactone nanofiber scaffolds with visible light-activated sterilization for tissue engineering applications @pubs.acs.org: nanofiber scaffolds doi.org/10.1021/acs....

#research #analyticalchemistry #electroseparation Recent Developments in Capillary and Microchip Electroseparations of Peptides (2023–mid 2025) (Václav Kašička) – ELECTROPHORESIS: doi.org/10.1002/elps... @iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🧠 Can the gut affect how well multiple sclerosis treatment works? New Czech research says yes. 📄 Ocrelizumab transiently alters microbiota and modulates immune response depending on treatment outcome; Coufal, S. et al. iScience (2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Even eighty years after the end of World War II, the overlooked past of the many thousands of Czechoslovaks who served in the German army is still coming to light. www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

📚 A new book by Michael Hauser is being published, devoted to Alain Badiou’s philosophical response to the transitional period between the old and the new: Badiou’s Ontology of the Present: Society, Economy, and Culture in Transition (Bloomsbury Publishing) ▪️https://bit.ly/49jHFqz

🔥 WE ARE HIRING! 🔬Join Filip Šenigl and dive into the world of somatic hypermutation, DNA repair, and transcriptional kinetics! Work with cutting-edge methods (CRISPR/Cas9-degron, CUT&RUN, integration libraries) and contribute to high-impact immunology research. www.img.cas.cz/group/jiri-h...

#research #virology #antivirals Targeting the Rift Valley Fever Virus Polymerase: Resistance Mechanisms and Structural Insights (Kráľ, Konvalinka, Demo & Kožíšek)–@acs.org InfectDis: doi.org/10.1021/acsi... @iocbprague.bsky.social #1LFUK @czechacademy.bsky.social #MUNI @ceitec-cellimcf.bsky.social

We continue uncovering hidden Batrachium diversity with the discovery of an extremely rare diploid hybrid combination, newly found in the Czech Republic. @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Call for Abstracts 📣 I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February, "Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾 Please share widely! #Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory philevents.org/event/show/1...

#new_paper: Tannic and boric acid crosslinked glycerol–citrate polyesters: Structural, mechanical and biological performance @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: Polyesters, performance doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

📄🦠 Bimodal expression of Type 3 Secretion System 2 enables cooperative virulence among intracellular Salmonella Typhimurium M. Pospíšilová, A. Dreus, P. Matheova, J. Schmidtova, B. Pravdova, M. Blazikova, M. Capek, O. Cerny Laboratory of Bacterial Virulence PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

#new_paper: Cryopolymerization in the presence of sucrose as a way to control morphology, conductivity and mechanical properties of polyanilinepoly (vinyl alcohol) cryogels @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: Cryopolymerization, cryogels doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

Nonbenzenoid graphene nanoribbons 🧪 ⚛️ 〰️ Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we demonstrate the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with 5 and 7 membered rings 🔬 👨‍💻 @fzuavcr.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social 👇 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c13211

🚨 New publication in Leukemia! The germline JAK2-R1063H variant drives risk of thrombosis and accelerates leukemic transformation. Our data highlight its impact on stem cell aging and disease progression. ​ 👏Great work by Veronika Zimolová, Lucie Láníková et al

🇱🇺 In Luxembourg, Petr Zelenka’s Elegance of the Molecule opened a window into the moment when a scientific idea first takes shape — inspired by discoveries of Czech chemist Antonín Holý. It’s a reminder for Europe’s innovators to keep an eye on the new stories emerging in Czechia. #TechTransfer

Fiscal austerity, inflation, inequality: Stephanie Ettmeier, PhD, CERGE-EI Assistant Professor, explains why looking beyond #aggregates is crucial for economic #research and #policy. 👉 blog.cerge-ei.cz?p=4964

Scholars from our Masaryk Institute and Archives will help make key UN documents on refugee policy in post-communist Europe accessible. The Institute has established a strategic cooperation with the Archives of @unhcr.org. Press release ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/media/pre...

💎 This device is used to prepare “quantum-grade” nanodiamonds — it creates special “NV centers” inside the particles, which are useful in advanced diagnostics. #IOCB team led by Petr Cigler recently published a new method that produces these particles significantly faster ► www.uochb.cz/en/news/744

🔴 We invite you to the Science Communication 360° conference, which we are organizing with @czechacademy.bsky.social and @scicomhub.bsky.social. 📆 February 5, 2026 📍 Jinonice Campus 💬 The main topic will be Institutions and systems that strengthen science communication. 👉 komunikacevedy360.cz/en/

A New Take on the Climate Crisis: An ERC Consolidator Grant Heads to the Czech Academy of Sciences People, animals, and climate change – these connect the INVANISH project, which has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant, brought to our Institute of Ethnology by Deborah Nadal. #ERCCoG

The 66th session of the Academy Assembly, the supreme self-governing body of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is currently underway at the National House Vinohrady in Prague. CAS President Radomír Pánek warned that the share of state spending on science has dropped to an unprecedented 0.5% of GDP.

#research #crystalmaterials Cooperative Halogen Bonding and π–π Stacking Interactions as Drivers of Polymorphism (Małecki, Moskwa, Dopieralski, Szafert) – ChemPhysChem: doi.org/10.1002/cphc... @chemistryviews.bsky.social @wileychemistry.bsky.social #uniwroclaw @iocbprague.bsky.social

Hydrophobic nucleoside phosphoramidites for solid-phase synthesis of hypermodified oligonucleotides. Our new paper published in RSC Advances doi.org/10.1039/D5RA... @iocbprague.bsky.social @akademievedcr.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social

π-radical coupling 🤝 🧪 ⚛️ Now in @jacs.acspublications.org, we shed light on selective C-C coupling reactions mediated by π-radicals without requiring surface catalytic contributions 🔬 👨‍💻 @maleminore.bsky.social @fzuavcr.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c12864

🧪 IOCB Prague is playing a central role in the creation of #TaverenTherapeutics, a new biotechnology company developing a novel method with the potential to treat #cancer. 1/ #UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague #AVCR #chemie #chemistry #ceskaveda #transfer #onkologie

Our lab’s first paper is out! 📢 A multi-year effort resulted in the checklist of fungi for #Honduras — a major milestone that is the starting point for future research. Congratulations to Libelje on publishing the first chapter of her #PhD! doi.org/10.3897/myco... #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

🎙 Behind the injection that could help end the #HIV epidemic stands Czech virologist Tomáš Cihlář, Vice President of Virology at Gilead Sciences, who began his scientific journey at IOCB Prague. #czechscience #iocb #iocbprague #aids #gilead #lenacapavir

#new_paper: HSP90-mediated stress resilience in male gametophyte of Arabidopsis thaliana @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: Heat stress, Pollen development, Male gametophyte, Arabidopsis thaliana, HSP90 knockdown, Genetic stability, Cellular integrity doi.org/10.1016/j.st...

Geology doesn’t just rock, it also raves. 👀 Don’t miss this epic journey through our planet’s past. 🪨🌏🦐🦕🐍🦣 📍 9 December 2025 in Punctum (Prague) punctum.cz/event/tecton...

Moving to a foreign country can be stressful. For 20 years now, EURAXESS Czech Republic has been guiding researchers & their families through it all, from visa formalities to settling into a new environment. To date, it has supported more than 10,000 researchers. More ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

Plants race too! Just belowground. #Taproot stays put, #bulbsdives down, #tubers scatter in all directions, but the hypogeogenous #rhizome and a #rootsprouter take the gold for lateral spread ▶️ 1url.cz/ZJ57D #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #art #lateralspread @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Hana Polášek-Sedláčková @hanasedlackova.bsky.social from our Institute of Biophysics is one of 28 group leaders who just became @embo.org Young Investigators for the next four years. #LifeSciences www.avcr.cz/en/media/pre... Details ➡️ www.embo.org/press-releas...

Excited to share our latest paper showing how heat stress halts DNA replication and mitosis in barley roots! 🌡️🌱 #PlantScience #HeatStress #Barley www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

🔬 Phys.org features new research from Tomáš Slanina’s group, which developed a “stick and glue” method enabling much more precise tracking of biomolecules inside living cells. Read more ► phys.org/news/2025-11... #IOCBPrague #chemistry #biochemistry #research

Yesterday, the AV21.ai programme shared key outcomes across the Czech Academy of Sciences. Prof. Barbara Zitová (UTIA) highlighted projects from high-voltage line inspection to digital restoration 📷 © Alexandr Dejneka – FZU, ČR, LinkedIn #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #UTIA #AV21 #Research

The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans alike used fragrant balms, oils, and perfumes in rituals, medicine, and cosmetics. Now, more than 2,000 years later, researchers in Prague are “reviving” these ancient scents. Read more in the 2025 English issue of A / Magazine ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

🧵1/5 Excited about our new paper in PRSB! @royalsocietypublishing.org Can AI make research on avian brood parasitism easier? YES! We show that AI model can identify conspecific parasitic eggs better than an average ornithologist. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 Barn swallow – our study species.

🔬 Our new study shows that mitochondrial respiration is essential for early tumour growth. Cancer cells can import mitochondria from nearby cells to restore pyrimidine synthesis and proliferate. A key vulnerability: DHODH — its loss fully blocks tumour growth. 📄 Cancer Research | 1url.cz/wJOxT

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Industrial Conflicts and Industrial Resilience in Modern and Contemporary History Organised by: Historický ústav AV ČR a Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR www.hiu.cas.cz/udalosti/ind...

Proud of this collaboration - our third paper on cisPT! Loved this one the most: a beautiful mix of high-res, low-res, and computational approaches. Grateful for this long-standing, truly fruitful team effort. Congrats to everyone!

ARDUQ 5A expedition is in full swing. Our fieldwork in Nejd plateau in southern Oman is focused on collecting samples for paleoenvironmental, micro-morphological, geochemical and OSL dating analyses from the excavated stratified Palaeolithic sites. @czechacademy.bsky.social @icarehb.bsky.social

Perennial #herbs don’t “wake up” in spring out of nowhere. Their #renewalbuds preform leaves and even flowers months before we see any green. More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/VJOhA 🌱 #budpreformation #FunctionalEcology #SpringTiming #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

#research #DNAdamage Mechanistic insights into alcohol-induced DNA crosslink repair by Slx4–Xpf–Ercc1 nuclease complex in the Fanconi anaemia pathway (Havlikova, Dejmek, Huskova, Allan, Boura, Nencka & Silhan) – CommBiology: doi.org/10.1038/s420... @iocbprague.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Did you know that royal termite pairs can survive for several decades? And that there are termite colonies right in the center of Prague, numbering in the tens of thousands? 👀 More in our feature on bugs, published in this year’s English issue of our A / Magazine ➡️ www.avcr.cz/en/news-arch...

New on the belowground blog: Renewal buds and phenology plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...