Invited speakers

There will be, in total, 7 invited speakers at the CEITEC PhD Retreat with talks divided into 3 panels.

Innovations in Genomics and Biomedicine

Jan Černý
Chemical wars
Group Leader, Head of Department of Cellular Biology
Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Charles University Prague
[homepage]

Cristina Ruedell Reschke
Locked nucleic acid antagomirs as therapy for epilepsy
Senior postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physiology & Medical Physics
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
[ResearchGate]

Nature Inspired Materials and Biosensing

Stefan Baudis
Lithography-based 3D printing of biocompatible polymers
Senior Scientist
Technische Universität Wien
[ResearchGate]

Roman Gröger
Understanding plasticity of bcc metals via computer simulations and experiments
Multiscale Modelling and Measurements of Physical Properties research group leader, CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic
Institute of Physics of Materials ASCR, Brno
[ResearchGate] [homepage]

Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Food

Petr Hořín
Host genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases
Animal Immunogenomics research group leader, CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic
Dept. of Animal Genetics Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic
[MU homepage]

Helene Robert Boisivon
The plant hormone auxin and its importance for seed and embryo development in Arabidopsis
Hormonal Crosstalk in Plant Development research group leader, CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic
[ResearchGate]

Extra talk - Ethics in research

Renata Veselská
Don’t Panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Research Ethics
Professor, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
[homepage]