Awards and Competitions

The company Leica, producing advanced microscope technology, opens a competition every year, where scientists enter interesting photographs created by microscopic technology. Out of these pictures a jury of experts chooses 12 photographs, which will be shown in the company calendar for the next year.  Out of a huge number of competing photographs, there are also two pictures by two PhD students - Lucie Nováková and Kristína Kovačovicová - representing the CEITEC Veterinary Research Institute, which have been selected.

For her excellent results during her doctoral programme in the field of general and molecular genetics, Terezie Mandáková from CEITEC MU received the Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for excellent students and graduates in study programmes. The award ceremony took place on 21 November 2013 in the hall of the National Museum of Education of J. A. Komenský.

Students from the Genetics and Reproduction Department, Martin Šodek and Thuraya Awadová from the Martin Anger laboratory (CEITEC VRI) participated in the competition Huygens Image Contest 2012 organized by the company SVI.

EMBO today announcedJiří Friml of the Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB and Ghent University, Belgium and Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic as the winner of the 2012 EMBO Gold Medal. Friml receives the award for defining how the plant hormone auxin functions to regulate plant development. He was also recognized for showing how the auxin-governed molecular processes optimise adaptation of plant development and growth to ever-changing environmental conditions.

A member of the Molecular Medicine research programme and doctoral student at Masaryk University, Marek Mráz, received an award from the Minister of Education for his excellent results in the area of leukaemia research. The award ceremony took place on 24 November 2011 in the Great Mirror Hall at the Ministry of Education.