Life Sciences Seminar Series

Spring 2017

February

Julius Brennecke, IMBA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
WHEN: February 23, 2017, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

March

Ada Yonath, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
WHEN: March 2, from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Viktor Jirsa, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes,  Aix-Marseille Université, France
WHEN: March 9, 2016, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Peter Donnelly, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford / Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, UK
WHEN: March 16, 2017 from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
WHEN: March 23, 2017 from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Thomas Marlovits, IMBA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
WHEN: March 30, 2017 from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.
 

April

Dolf Weijers, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
WHEN: April 6, 2017, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz, Germany
WHEN: April 13, 2017, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

David Tollervey, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
WHEN: April 20, 2017, from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Thomas Carell, Department of Chemie, LMU Munich, Germany
WHEN: April 27, 2017, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

May

Javier Martinez, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
WHEN: May 4, 2017 from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Jeremy Green, King's College, London, UK
WHEN: May 11, 2017, from 16:00
WHERE: Seminar room 132, pavilion A11, University Campus Bohunice, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Paul Modrich, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, USA
WHEN: May 18, 2017, from 17:00
WHERE: Mendel Museum of Masaryk University, Mendel Square, Brno
More information can be found HERE.

Vítězslav Bryja, Faculty of Science - bryja@sci.muni.cz, MU Life Science Seminar Series coordinator

Ľubomíra Anderková, Applied Neurosciences, CEITEC MU - lubomira.anderkova@ceitec.muni.cz

Jiří Damborský, Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Faculty of Science  MU - jiri@chemi.muni.cz

Lumír Krejčí, ICRC and Faculty of Medicine - lkrejci@med.muni.cz

Mary O´Connell, ERA Chair, Molecular Medicine, CEITEC MU - mary.oconnell@ceitec.muni.cz

Stanislav Pekár, Dept. of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science MU - pekar@sci.muni.cz

Karel Říha, Genomics and Proteomics of Plant Systems, CEITEC MU - karel.riha@ceitec.muni.cz

Vladimír Sklenář, Structural Biology, CEITEC MU and Faculty of Science vladimir.sklenar@ceitec.muni.cz

Administrator contact:

Lucie Nesvadbová, Faculty of Science - lus@sci.muni.cz

MU Life Sciences Seminar (MU LSS) program is created for the Life Sciences academic community in Brno and is fully dependent  on the collaboration and co-participation of individual scientists across faculties and institutes.

MU LSS committee would like to encourage you to nominate speakers for MU LSS series: autumn 2018/spring 2019.
The deadline for nominations for autumn 2018 is November 15, 2017.
The speakers for autumn 2018 will be decided at the beginning of December 2017, you will be informed about the results.

Who can be a suitable candidate?  For example any of the following:

• Leader of your field
• Somebody who inspired you by a talk at the international meeting
• Person who changes paradigm by combining various approaches
• Scientist who recently published breakthrough results in the top tier journals
• Pioneer of your field
• Somebody you always wanted to meet bud was shy to ask
• Respected colleague with whom you consider to collaborate

For an example of the quality and topics of the previous speakers you can go to our web pages. Please indicate clearly if you want to have your nominee considered only for Mendel Lectures. If you have question and/or want to nominate, send the name and contact address of scientists whom you would like to nominate with a short justification to lus@sci.muni.cz.

Please note, that if your nomination is selected by the MU LSS Committee and speaker accepts to come to Brno, then MU LSS Committee expects your assistance during the guest´s visit. The MU LSS will fully cover accommodation per 2 nights and travel costs including per diems of selected speakers.

Thank you very much for your cooperation and we are looking forward to receive your nominations.

MU LSS Committee