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29 November 2022, Zoom meeting / Advancing Research on Epidemic-Prone Diseases: ISIDORe Calls and Services to Support Researchers Read more

Global and European Infrastructures IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER Towards the Deciphering of Gene Functions for Human Health 18 October 2022, 13:00 – 15:00  Hybrid event (Brno, Czech Republic + Zoom) European and world-wide research infrastructures such as IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER will provide comprehensive resources to unravel gene function in physiology and disease. These infrastructures are used… Read more

6 – 7 October 2022, Prague, Czech Republic / The meeting of Working Groups and the Management Committee of the COST Action “Improving biomedical research by automated behaviour monitoring in the animal home-cage” took place at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy in Prague. Read more

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. More information here. Svante Pääbo from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, uses research services of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, and was a keynote speaker at… Read more

11 October 2022, Vestec, Czech Republic / BIOCEV DAYS 2022, annual scientific conference with poster session. It will be held from 10 to 12 October in the BIOCEV Center. This conference will offer a great opportunity for research communities to connect, to share knowledge, collaborate and learn from others’ experiences. The session Functional genomics chaired… Read more

10 October 2022, Prague, Czech Republic / On the occasion of the Week of Innovations, Radislav Sedlacek, director of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics will participate in a panel discussion on ethics and innovation. The perspective of innovation in the discussion includes the entire breadth of fields: digital technology, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, the field of… Read more

On the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, on September 12, 2022, diplomats from the EU member states at the Council of the EU visited the BIOCEV center. This visit followed the excursion of the informal EU Council of Research Ministers, which took place on 21 July 2022.The aim was… Read more

19 – 20 October 2022, BIOCEV, Vestec / 2-day course introducing participants to Python is organized by the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (IMG CAS). In recent years, Python has become the most popular programming language thanks to a simplified syntax (easy to learn for beginners) and an extremely large ecosystem of libraries and packages. Genomic… Read more

A new issue of the CCP e-newsletter has been released. Highlights of the Issue: CCP Phenogenomics Conference on Rare Diseases: Experimental Models & Delivery of Therapies Towards precision medicine and gene therapy – AV21 Strategy Programme of the Czech Academy of Sciences coordinated by the Institute of Molecular Genetics ICRI 2022 satellite event: Global and… Read more

15-16 September 2022, Vestec, Czech Republic / Accela in collaboration with the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics organizes a workshop on intravital microscopy (IVIM technology). Explore a technology that enables you to directly observe the movement of live cells that make up living tissue in vivo. With this technique, it is possible to distinguish an individual cell… Read more