NCBR Seminars - update 11/14/13
National Center for Biomolecular Research
and
Central Europen Institute of Technology, Masaryk University
NCBR Seminar – CB060
FACULTY OF SCIENCE, MASARYK UNIVERSITY
Fall semestr 2013/2014
Teacher prof. RNDr. Vladimír Sklenář, DrSc.
Dates and time:
Group meetings - individual for each group, managed by group leaders, every week
NCBR seminars room – A11, room 205, pavilion A11, 14.00
Special	
  CEITEC	
  Structural	
  Biology	
  seminar	
  series	
  –	
  A11,	
  room	
  132,	
  14:00
Chemistry seminars - pavilion A11, room 132, 14.00
Mendel Lectures – Mendel’s Museum, Mendel Square, 17.00
The seminar is open to all colleagues and students of Masaryk University.
19. September Group meetings only	
  
	
  
26. September Professor	
  Jean-­‐Louis	
  Mergny	
  (Special	
  SB	
  seminar	
  series)	
  
	
  University	
  of	
  Bordeaux,	
  France	
  
	
  Quadruplexes	
  are	
  everywhere…	
  but	
  where	
  exactly	
  
	
  host	
  Michaela	
  Vorlíčková	
  
3. October PhD students	
  
Martin Babinský
Application of NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Modelling to Study
(Supra-) Molecular Structure and Interactions
Jan Novotný
Biocompatible xanthine scaffold for DNA quadruplexes
10. October PhD students
Josef Pasulka
Study of protein-RNA complexes by computational methods
Pavel Brázda
The Role of RNA Polymerase II Modifications in Cotranscriptional RNA Processing
Tomasz Kabzinski
Structural basis for the dual role of Nrd1 in transcription termination and RNA
processing
Mendel Lecture
Michael Rosbash
Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Lecture cancelled
16. October Special lectures (optional participation) pavilion A11, room 306
Peter Baumann
Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City, USA
10:00-12.00
Nucleic Acid Research - a brief history of experiments, discoveries and
anecdotes
16:00-18:00
Hybridization, ploidy and unisexual reproduction in vertebrates
17. October Charalampos	
  Kalodimos	
  (Special	
  SB	
  seminar	
  series)
Rutgers	
  University,	
  USA	
  
NMR	
  of	
  large	
  proteins:	
  Molecular	
  chaperones?	
  
Host	
  Kostas	
  Tripsianes	
  
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Mendel Lecture
Peter Baumann
Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City, USA
Biogenesis and Regulation of Telomerase
24. October PhD students
Dominika Hroššová
By looking for U, we found the NEXT factor
Dmytro Ustianenko
The key players of the mammalian cytoplasmic ncRNA	
  degradation
Mendel Lecture
Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Grabbing the cat by the tail: How a viral molecular motor packages DNA
31. October Jan Preisler
Professorship lecture
Desorption Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful Tool for Analysis of Molecules and
Elements
	
  
7. November Professor	
  Dr.	
  Walter	
  Rossmanith	
  
	
   	
   	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  	
  Medical	
  University	
  of	
  Vienna	
  
	
   	
   Human	
  mitochondrial	
  RNase	
  P	
  and	
  its	
  multiple	
  faces	
  
	
   	
   Host	
  Štěpánka	
  Vaňáčová	
  
14. November PhD students
Jakub Štěpán
Study of BsoBI Endonuclease by Molecular Dynamics
Rakesh Aithal
Role of Spo11 protein in meiotic recombination initiation
	
  
21. November Petr	
  Svoboda	
  
Institute	
  of	
  Molecular	
  Genetics,	
  Academy	
  of	
  Sciences	
  of	
  the	
  Czech	
  Republic,	
  Prague	
  
The	
  real	
  RNAi	
  -­‐	
  a	
  Tale	
  of	
  Naughty	
  Mice	
   	
  
Host	
  Štěpánka	
  Vaňáčová	
  
Mendel Lecture
Kay Hofmann
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany
A Common Evolutionary Basis for Cell Death Pathways in Animals, Plants and
Fungi
28. November PhD students – Introduction of new PhD students
Ivana Poštulková
Martin Novák
Structure and Interactions in Modified Quadruhelical DNA
Sophia Bazzi
Lucie Slepáková
Rafael Szabla
Miroslav Krepl
Molecular dynamics simulations of protein/RNA complexes
Miodrag Milovanovic
Biosensors for characterisation of wine
5. December Markéta	
  Munzarová	
  
	
   	
   Habilitation	
  lecture	
  
	
   	
   Relationships	
  between	
  Structure	
  and	
  Magnetic	
  Properties	
  in	
  Biomolecular,	
  
Inorganic,	
  and	
  Bioinorganic	
  systems	
  
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12. December PhD students – Introduction of new PhD students
Milan Zachrdla
Structure and dynamics of subunits determining specificity of bacterial RNA
polymerase
Eliška Šmiřáková
Towards deciphering the CTD code
Petr Stadlbauer
Lukáš Bednařík
Bioinformatic analysis of the transcriptome and RNAome of eukaryotic cells
Tomáš Racek
Empirical methods for charge calculations and their parameterization
Stanislav Geidl
Lukáš Hanušovský
Pavel Janoš
QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations of glycosyltransferases
Jan Oppelt
19. December Felix	
  A.	
  Rey	
  (Special	
  SB	
  seminar	
  series)	
  
Pasteur	
  Institute,	
  Paris,	
  France	
  
Title	
  to	
  be	
  announced	
  
Host	
  Pavel	
  Plevka