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11 April 2023, CCP-BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic / Accela company in collaboration with the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics will present ORION Platform Multiplex Immunofluorescence Imaging. See details in the leaflet. Registration is free, but obligatory. Read more

12 – 15 November 2023, Houston, USA / This meeting will bring together scientists and technicians and will be hosted by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). The mission of the ISTT is to advance the science and technology used in the generation and analysis of transgenic animal models and stem cells for biomedical… Read more

13 September 2023, Vestec, Czech Republic / MRC Harwell and PHENOMIN-ICS are co-hosting at CCP Phenogenomics 2023 Prague, a workshop to learn more about the principles of analysis and validation of Genetically Altered animals.Topics covered:• Principles of allele validation• Validation of randomly integrated transgenes: Genotyping, copy counting, mapping• Validation of classically targeted alleles: PCR based… Read more

9 – 11 July 2023, Oxford, United Kingdom / The overarching theme and title of the conference are: The Power of Mouse Genetics: Opportunities for Genomic and Precision Medicine The annual IMPC meeting is an important international gathering to discuss and reflect on the vital role of mouse genetics in human genetics, and genomic and… Read more

The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory for work with highly infectious viruses and bacteria in the Czech Republic was opened on 9 March at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the BIOCEV centre). When it is fully operational, it will raise the level of Czech research… Read more

PhD student Miles Raishbrook from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics was awarded with the January Picture of the Month. Competition is organized by the Imaging Methods Core Facility at BIOCEV campus . Read more

V předvečer Světového dne vzácných onemocnění dne 27. února 2023 uspořádalo České centrum pro fenogenomiku při Ústavu molekulární genetiky AV ČR s partnery diskusi předních odborníků k tématům vzácných onemocnění v prostorách Magenta Experience Centre na Praze 4. Cílem akce bylo představit široké veřejnosti problematiku vzácných onemocnění z pohledu vědců v základním výzkumu, lékařů a pacientských organizací a vznik… Read more

Applications for innovative proposals to harness canSERV´s unified oncology services launches this week. A first of its kind, the largest European-wide consortium of research infrastructures is offering free-of-charge transnational access to cutting-edge services to develop breakthrough personalised cancer treatments. The complexity of cancer requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach, integrating patient- and tumour-specific information at different… Read more

Human Diseases Models Morphological Phenotyping (MorphoPHEN) consists of an integrated and interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Joint Master. It is conceived to alleviate the real shortage of experts in morphological mouse phenotyping, which is needed to generate a positive impact of preclinical biomedicine and improve human translatability (from the bench to the bedside). MorphoPHENis a one-year Erasmus… Read more

More than ten million sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had to be examined by an international team of scientists to find universal weaknesses of coronaviruses that do not change even with frequent mutations and the emergence of new variants. Analysis of patient samples then revealed rare antibodies that block all previously known SARS-CoV-2 variants, as… Read more