First Antarctic samples from the new Long-Term Ecological Monitoring (LTEM) program have arrived in Prague 🇦🇶
We’re proud to be part of the Czech Antarctic Research Programme together with Masaryk University and to lead LTEM, delivering key long-term data on ecosystem change. 🌍🔬
The 2025 Živa Awards highlight a success for our faulty! Our researchers and students excelled across the following categories:🔹 Vojen Ložek Award 🔹 Jan Suda Award 🔹 Special Award of Živa Magazine 🔹 Purkyně Award 🔹 Antonín Frič Award
Proud of our faculty's impact on science popularization! 🌿🧬
The first FameLab Academy has a winner! 🏆 Marie Lexová won, supported by UK Rector Jiří Zima, Dean Vladimír Krylov, and UK Ambassador Matt Field. 🇬🇧🧪
A huge congrats to the new generation of science communicators! 👏🔬
Our study was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Paper Award by the @bigearthdata1.bsky.social at @tandfresearch.bsky.social !
I am grateful for this recognition to the editorial board, reviewers and my co-athors!
Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
@sciencecharles.bsky.social
The Bedřich Hrozný Award 🏆 for creative achievement has this year been awarded to Professor Ivan Čepička and PhD candidate Marek Valt for an outstanding discovery 🔬 that significantly advances our current understanding of the evolution 🌱🧬 of eukaryotic organisms.
Congratulations!
The Faculty of Science invites you to an online information session on European Research Council (ERC) grants.
📅 21 April 2026 | 13:00–14:00 CET
💻 Online (link will be shared with registered participants)
🗣️ Held in English
More info here: 1url.cz/FeNmQ
We invite you to a special lecture by visiting Professor Marek Mlodzik, Ph.D., from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, on new insights into Wnt signaling, its mechanisms, and its role in development and disease pathogenesis.
🎓 Norbert Baris (Petr Beier Group) has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Generation and Reactivity of Fluoroalkylated Nitrenes" at the @sciencecharles.bsky.social.
Congratulations! 🎉
#IOCB #IOCBPrague #PhDjourney #PhDatIOCB
🔬 Team of Prof. Tomáš Obšil (Charles University) and Dr. Veronika Obšilová (Czech Academy of Sciences) revealed how cyclin Y and 14-3-3 activate kinase CDK16 🧬 Published in Nature Communications 📰
Dean Vladimír Krylov met with student Julie Zelingerová, who represented our faculty and the Czech Republic in curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan & Cortina. We’re proud of her dedication, balancing elite sport with studies, and outstanding representation! 🥌
We have 4 new fully funded PhD programs available in our group in Prague @sciencecharles.bsky.social!
Join us for cutting-edge research into nanomaterials using state-of-the-art Machine Learning approaches, with international collaborations.
Details on the projects below! 👇
🏆 Great success for young scientists from the Faculty of Science, @unikarlova.cuni.cz ! At the Werner von Siemens Awards, our researchers won 4 awards, including Best Master’s and Best Doctoral Thesis, plus two more top-10 placements. Congratulations to all awardees! 👏🔬🎓
🎓 Jiří Zima, former Dean of Faculty of Science, was inaugurated as the new Rector of @unikarlova.cuni.cz. He got the rector’s insignia in the Great Hall of Karolinum. We wish him lots of success! 👏
PhD students and postdocs in life sciences are invited to a career workshop with Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge).
📅 17 March | ⏰ 10:30–12:00
📍 Room CH2, Hlavova 8
Practical advice on building a research career, paths in academia & industry, and using your strengths for professional growth.
🏆 Studentský velemlok 2024/2025 Awards winners announced!
At the Faculty of Science ball, students honored their favorite teachers:
🧬 Dana Holá | ⚗️ Anna Kubíčková | 🌍 Lenka Krajňáková | ⛰️ Martin Lanzendörfer | 🎖️ SKAS Award: Radim Kuba (First Aid courses).
Huge congrats! ✨
New interactive maps from the SYRI project reveal regional differences in premature mortality across Czechia 📊
Where are these deaths most common, how many years of life are lost?
The public map portal was developed with the participation of researchers from our faculty.
syri.natur.cuni.cz
Listen to the secret of the ears! 🤫
Long-term data from fish otoliths reveal how climate-driven aridity is reshaping reservoir food webs - signalling major shifts in aquatic ecosystems. Read more about this new study examining tiny fish ear bones! 🦴🐟
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🔬🧬 Join us for another exciting seminar hosted by the Department of Cell Biology!
Graphical abstact of the original paper. source: original paper
From #detection to #destruction in one device 💊⚡ A free-standing boron-doped #diamond electrode enables sensitive sensing of #venlafaxine and desvenlafaxine—even in river water—then achieves ~97% degradation in 20 min, showcasing a #3D-printed detect-and-degrade platform.
🔗 buff.ly/7AIlfRB
(MK)
Prof. Milan Matolín received the Gold Medal of @unikarlova.cuni.cz on 26 Feb from Rector Jiří Zima for his key role in founding nuclear geophysics in Czechoslovakia and educating generations of experts. 👏🎓🔬✨
Are you interested in mountain hydrology and looking for a PhD position? If so, let's join our SnowHydro team at @sciencecharles.bsky.social in Prague and be focused on tracking snowmelt water through mountain catchments.
For information on how to apply, look at: natur.cuni.cz/en/geography...
Join us for a seminar by Assoc. Prof. Václav Veverka (IOCB Prague) on How Structural Biology Transformed Modern Molecular Biology 📍 Viničná 7, Lecture Hall Photochemistry 🗓 3.3.2026 ⏰ 14:50–16:30. Open to all – see you there!
🌍🏆 Doctoral student Bianka Mičke from our faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz achieved outstanding results at the World Ice and Snow Sailing Championship (WISSA 2026), earning 4 podiums in wing sailing: 🥇Course Race & GPS Speed, 🥈Slalom & Marathon, representing the Czech Republic with excellence. 👏
President Petr Pavel took part in a friendly debate at Faculty of Science at @unikarlova.cuni.cz about the war in Ukraine and Czechia’s role. Held on the invasion’s anniversary, students and academics joined in for an open discussion in a positive, welcoming atmosphere 🌍🎓
Study in English at the Faculty of Science, @charlesuni.cuni.cz – submit your application by the end of February!
Bachelor’s degree programme "Science": 1url.cz/verD4
Follow-up Master’s degree programmes: 1url.cz/3erDd
#research #chemistry
C7-Sulfonamide functionalization of 7-deazaadenosines: sangivamycin analogues with Haspin inhibitory activity
(Štefek, Dejmek, Šála) – @chemcomm.rsc.org: doi.org/10.1039/D5CC...
@iocbprague.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz @czechacademy.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social
At an event on responsible leadership in higher education organized by NKC – gender & science at the British Embassy Prague 🎓, Anna Bull (The 1752 Group) spoke on accountability and safety.
Faculty of Science was represented by Vice-Dean Jitka Žurmanová and Ombudsperson Nikola Burkovská 🤝
Grassland, illustrative picture. Source: freepik.com
How will drought reshape #grassland life under climate change? 🌾🌍 New work shows #drought strongly shifts plant #microbiomes, especially #bacteria. Elevated CO₂ can partly buffer losses, revealing species-specific strategies that shape resilience from roots to leaves.
🔗 buff.ly/1TxurUJ
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