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Are you interested in cutting-edge technologies, services, and expertise that can advance your research? Join us at the Core Facility Day Life Sciences and explore the opportunities offered by shared research infrastructures across Masaryk University.
Throughout the day, you will have the chance to learn about individual Core Facilities, their services, and expert teams ready to support your projects. The programme will include presentations, guided lab tours (including newly finished BioPharmaHub building), poster session of interesting user projects, and plenty of opportunities for informal discussions and networking.
Whether you are looking for specific technologies, new collaborations, or simply inspiration, come and discover how we can support your research.
Feel free to register for the Core Facility Day Life Sciences, which involves CEITEC, Preclinical Center, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Sport Studies, and the Institute of Computer Science.
Important dates
Registration launch date: 1 June 2026
Poster abstracts submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Registration deadline: 13 September 2026
Event takes place: 7 October 2026
Programme
8:30 Registration and check-in for Core Facility tours
8:35 – 9:25 First round of Core Facility tours
9:30 – 10:00 Plenary session (CEITEC Atrium)
- Welcome speech – Šárka Pospíšilová, Vice-rector for research and doctoral studies
- Research infrastructures at MUNI – Ondřej Hradil, Head of Department of Research Infrastructures, Rectorate
- MUNI booking system – tbc
- Preclinical Center – Aleš Hampl, Vítězslav Bryja, Preclin Center leadership
10:00 – 11:20 Parallel Sessions (CEITEC Atrium + Room 145)
Parallel Session 1 (Atrium)
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography | Josef Houser | CEITEC |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Josef Dadok National NMR Centre | Pavel Kadeřávek | CEITEC |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Tomography Core Facility | Jiří Nováček | CEITEC |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Core Facility Cellular Imaging | Milan Ešner | CEITEC |
Parallel Session 1 (Room 145)
| 10:00 – 10:20 | GMP Pilot Plant for Drug Formulations | Jan Gajdziok | Faculty of Pharmacy |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Centre of Excelence CREATIC and CZECRIN | Regina Demlová | Faculty of Medicine |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Centre of Chirurguc Anatomy | Marek Joukal | Faculty of Medicine |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Shared Genomics Tools Core Facility | Zdeněk Andrysík | Faculty of Medicine |
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 – 13:00 Parallel sessions (CEITEC atrium + room 145)
Parallel Session 2 (Atrium)
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Nanobiotechnology | Jan Přibyl | CEITEC |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Plant Sciences Core Facility | Petr Mokroš | CEITEC |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Proteomics | Zbyněk Zdráhal | CEITEC |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Czech Collection of Microorganisms | Luděk Sehnal | Faculty of Science |
Parallel Session 2 (Room 145)
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Genomics Core Facility | Boris Tichý | CEITEC |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Bioinformatics Core Facility (BioIT) | Vojtěch Bystrý | CEITEC |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Multimodal and Functional Imaging Laboratory (MAFIL) | Michal Mikl | CEITEC |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | MUNI Sports Lab | Tomáš Kalina | Faculty of Sports Studies |
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch + Poster session (CEITEC Atrium)
14:00 – 15:00 Parallel sessions (CEITEC atrium + room 145)
Parallel Session 3 (Atrium)
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14:00 – 14:20 |
RECETOX RI | Petra Růžičková | Faculty of Science |
| 14:20– 14:40 | CEPLANT | Dušan Kováčik | Faculty of Science |
| 14:40 – 15:10 | Preclinical centre (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science) | Head of Facilities of Preclinical Centre | Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science |
Parallel Session 3 (Room 145)
| 14:00– 14:20 | Biological Data Management and Analysis Core Facility | Radka Svobodová | CEITEC |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Institute of Computer Science | Luděk Matyska | Institute of Computer Science |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Institute of Computer Science | Matěj Antol | Institute of Computer Science |
15:00 Poster session
15:30 – 16:30 Second round of Core Facility tours
More information to come soon, including information about excursions.
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