On November 14, 2024, all CIISB management bodies met to listen to the current status of the research infrastructure and its core facilities at CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and Institute of Biotechnology.
The meeting was held in hybrid mode as most of our SAB members are foreign renowned researchers. Altogether, SAB members, Executive Committee members, Supervisory Board members, and CF Heads were informed about the latest achievements (user publications, open access applications, educational activities, etc.), upcoming evaluations from MEYS and Instruct-ERIC, and current financing by national and Horizon projects. All 10 CF Heads presented their services portfolio, future plans in equipment upgrade and method development, and significant user cases.
Memorial Conference of Prof. Vladi Sklenář, CIISB father-founder followed this meeting.
The Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility of CEITEC MU is very happy to announce the installation of a new cutting-edge instrument that will assist in the characterization of macromolecular complexes. Mass photometer TwoMP (Refeyn) is designed to precisely determine the molecular mass of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules in a broad range of sizes.
On October 4, 2024, Professor Josef Dadok, the founder of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in Czechoslovakia and a prominent figure in the field internationally, died in the United States at the age of 98. Professor Dadok worked in Brno in the 1950s and 1960s, where he led the development of the first NMR spectrometers at the Institute of Instrumentation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, later mass-produced by the national company Tesla Brno, making Czechoslovakia one of the world leaders in this field.