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Dr. Radislav Sedlacek and his team from the Institute of Molecular Genetics has recently published new paper on gene targeting of Rosa26 locus using TALENs. Petr Kasparek, Michaela Krausova, Radka Haneckova, Vitezslav Kriz, Olga Zbodakova,Vladimir Korinek, Radislav Sedlacek. Efficient gene targeting of the Rosa26 locus in mouse zygotes using TALE nucleases. FEBS Letters. Published online: September 18,… Read more

We would like to kindly invite you for a meeting dedicated to laboratory animal welfare and the 3Rs under directive 2010/63/EU. The meeting will take place at IMG Prague on 28th August 2014. Preliminary program: 10:35 Introduction Jan Honetschläger (DVM, Head of the Animal Facility, Institute of Molecular Genetics) 10:40 Biosecurity Gianpaolo Milite (DVM, Consultant… Read more

Our colleague Pavel Stopka and his team from the Faculty of Science of Charles University has recently published two papers related to CCP/BIOCEV project. Klinovska K, Sebkova N2, Dvorakova-Hortova K. Sperm-egg fusion: a molecular enigma of Mammalian reproduction. Int J Mol Sci. 2014 Jun 13;15(6):10652-68. doi: 10.3390/ijms150610652. Dvorakova-Hortova K, Sidlova A, Ded L, Hladovcova D,… Read more

Genes, Genetics & Genomics (G3) symposium Our colleagues from the First Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague together with the Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion are organizing one-day symposium dedicated to recent discoveries on physiological as well as pathological cellular and molecular processes. The event will take place at the First… Read more

The EC FP7 funded INFRAFRONTIER-I3 project supports European customers with a free of charge mouse production service. A total of 30 KO mouse models will be produced by this service and will be made available to the wider community via EMMA. The second call supporting the production of 10 KO models is now open Application… Read more

We are supporting research projects with new fast transgenic mouse technology employing TAL effector nucleases – read more in Flemr M, Malik R, Franke V, Nejepinska J, Sedlacek R, Vlahovicek K, Svoboda P: A Retrotransposon-Driven Dicer Isoform Directs Endogenous Small Interfering RNA Production in Mouse Oocytes. Cell 2013; doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.10.001 / 155 (4) 807-816. Read more

Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec (BIOCEV) cordially invites you to “BIOCEV DAY” scientific conference on Tuesday 12th November 2013 from 9:00. Invited lectures by C. S. Rahman (University of Maryland, USA) P. Tomancak (MPI Dresden, Germany) D. Stainier (MPI Bad Nauheim, Germany) S. Kmoch (BIOCEV and… Read more

One of respectable research journals Oncogene, a member of Nature Publishing Group, recently published in its online version the article by Petra Bašová, Vít Pospíšil and co-authors from Dr. Tomáš Stopka’s research group at the Pathophysiology department, First Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. This research group is one of new incoming teams in the… Read more

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Czech node of the European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA) is offering free archiving of mutant mouse strains. EMMA is a non-profit repository for the collection, archiving (via cryopreservation) and distribution of relevant mutant strains essential for basic biomedical research. Cryopreservation of your strains offers many benefits: It is an inexpensive… Read more

The EC FP7 funded INFRAFRONTIER-I3 project (2013 – 2016) supports eligible customers with a free of charge mouse production service implemented as a Transnational Access (TA) activity providing a total of 30 access units. The access unit is defined by the production of a minimum of two heterozygous mice carrying the targeted gene allele of… Read more