www.ceitec.eu Funded under FP7 project, The ERA Chair Culture as a Catalyst to Maximize the Potential of CEITEC´ (reg. no. 621368). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692298. MU LSS – Thursday, 16:00, A11/132, University campus Bohunice Mendel Lectures – Thursday, 17:00, Refectory of the Augustinian Abbey, Mendel Museum LIFE SCIENCES 2018 seminar series FEBRUARY 22/02/2018 Phil Selenko Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, DE NMR as a Discovery Tool in Cell Biology Hosted by: Lukáš Žídek MARCH 01/03/2018 David Rueda Imperial College London, UK From Single Molecules to Single Cells: Imaging Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions Hosted by: Lumír Krejčí 06/03/2018 Tuesday Elena Conti Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, DE The RNA Exosome-Ribosome Connection: Coupling Synthesis to Degradation Hosted by: Štěpánka Vaňáčová 15/03/2018 Andrew deMello ETH Zurich, CH Microfluidics for Ultra-HighThroughput Biology: Droplets & Photons Hosted by: Zbyněk Prokop 22/03/2018 Stephen O´Rahilly University of Cambridge, UK The Causes and Consequences of Human Obesity, Lessons from Genetics Hosted by: Mary O´Connell 29/03/2018 Cristina Reschke Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, UK MicroRNA Targeting for the Treatment of Epilepsy: the Journey to Preclinical Development Hosted by: Milan Brázdil APRIL 05/04/2018 Glenn King University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU Thinking Outside the Box: Could Spiders Provide a New Generation of Eco-Friendly Insecticides? Hosted by: Stanislav Pekár 12/04/2018 Vincenzo Costanzo IFOM - Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, IT Molecular Mechanisms of Replication Fork Protection Hosted by: Lumír Krejčí 19/04/2018 Tom Misteli National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, US The Cell Biology of the Genome Hosted by: Eva Bártová 26/04/2018 Donald Hilvert ETH Zurich, CH Hosted by: Jiří Damborský MAY 03/05/2018 Mark Ptashne Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, New York, US The Logic Of Gene Regulation Hosted by: Liam Keegan 10/05/2018 Erik Sahai Francis Crick Institute, London, UK Novel Mechanisms of Cancer – Stroma Crosstalk and Implications for Therapy Hosted by: Víťa Bryja 17/05/2018 Steven Brenner Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Alachua, US Artificial Genetics and Evolution in the New Millennium Hosted by: Judit and Jiří Šponer 24/05/2018 Anthony Davis University of Bristol, UK Biosupramolecular Chemistry: Towards Anion and Carbohydrate Receptors with Biomedical Applications Hosted by: Ondřej Jurček Design and Evolution of Efficient Artificial Aldolases