14-15 September 2023, Praha and on-line, Czech Republic / The scientific committee has selected the topic of rare diseases: experimental models & delivery of therapies as the main thematic focus of this year Conference. The keynote lectures were given by: The Conference provided again an excellent opportunity to support networking and interactions among the researchers,… Read more

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics organized a theoretical and practical seminar “Phenotyping technologies for working with mouse models” for first year students of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in April 2023. The students of the subject “Molecular and General Biology” met Jan Prochazka from Phenotyping Module, who gave a lecture on phenotyping of… Read more

Highlights of the Issue: The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics CCP preclinical services in a nutshell Focus on rare diseases: the Alliance for Rare Disease Research and Therapy is launched Open access to CCP services under transnational calls Full version of the e-Newsletter Read more

The researchers from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics contributed to a new book “Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine – Sex and Gender-Specific Biology in the Postgenomic Era” (4th Edition – April 17, 2023, Elsevier) with a chapter “CRISPR Technology and Its Role in Treating Rare Imprinting Diseases”. Read more

11 April 2023, CCP-BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic / Accela company in collaboration with the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics will present ORION Platform Multiplex Immunofluorescence Imaging. See details in the leaflet. Registration is free, but obligatory. Read more

12 – 15 November 2023, Houston, USA / This meeting will bring together scientists and technicians and will be hosted by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). The mission of the ISTT is to advance the science and technology used in the generation and analysis of transgenic animal models and stem cells for biomedical… Read more

13 September 2023, Vestec, Czech Republic / MRC Harwell and PHENOMIN-ICS are co-hosting at CCP Phenogenomics 2023 Prague, a workshop to learn more about the principles of analysis and validation of Genetically Altered animals.Topics covered:• Principles of allele validation• Validation of randomly integrated transgenes: Genotyping, copy counting, mapping• Validation of classically targeted alleles: PCR based… Read more

9 – 11 July 2023, Oxford, United Kingdom / The overarching theme and title of the conference are: The Power of Mouse Genetics: Opportunities for Genomic and Precision Medicine The annual IMPC meeting is an important international gathering to discuss and reflect on the vital role of mouse genetics in human genetics, and genomic and… Read more

The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory for work with highly infectious viruses and bacteria in the Czech Republic was opened on 9 March at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the BIOCEV centre). When it is fully operational, it will raise the level of Czech research… Read more

PhD student Miles Raishbrook from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics was awarded with the January Picture of the Month. Competition is organized by the Imaging Methods Core Facility at BIOCEV campus . Read more