Ing. Michal Cifra, Ph.D.

Oblasti vědeckého zájmu:

Bioelektrodynamika, bioelektromagnetizmus, nanosenzory, mikrotubuly, biologické elektronové excitované stavy a ultraslabá emise fotonů, biosignály.

Profesní činnost:

Membership

• IEEE / IEEE Czechoslovak chapter
• OSA
• SPIE
• Radioengineering society
• URSI
• CSBS - Československá biologická společnost

Zahraniční stáže:

2013: Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, 1 month

2010: Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window Scholarship, UNICAMP - Campinas, Brazil, 1 month

2006 - 2010: International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany, 3 months total

2005: Leonardo Da Vinci project Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology & ELCAT, GmbH, 3 months

2004: Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship, RWTH Aachen - Institute of High Frequency Technology, 1 semester

Vzdělání:

• PhD., 2009, Radioelektronika, Katedra elektromagnetického pole, Fakulta elektrotechnická, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Česká republika
  
•  Ing. (M.Sc.), 2006, Biomedicínské inženýrství, Fakulta elektrotechnická,  Žilinská univerzita, Slovensko

Současné výzkumné projekty:

• Fotonické biosignály: měření a charakterizace

Vybrané předchozí projekty:

• Měření a analýza lokálních elektrických oscilací a optické emise biomolekulárních nanostruktur

Ocenění a vyznamenání:

2014 - European molecular biology laboratory Advanced Training Centre Corporate Partnership Programme Fellowship

2009 - Diploma from Natural Sciences section of 13th International Student Conference of Electrical Engineering - POSTER

2008 - URSI Young Scientist Award

2008 - Scholarship from foundation of Rectorate of the Czech Technical University in Prague

2007 - Stanislav Hanzl's foundation Scholarship

2007 - Scholarship from Hlávka foundation

2007 - Scholarship from foundation of Rectorate of the  Czech Technical University in Prague

2007 - Scholarship from Czechoslovak section of IEEE

2006 - Student scientific competition - diploma, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Vybrané publikace:

1. D. Havelka, M. Cifra and O. Kučera: Multi-mode electro-mechanical vibrations of a microtubule: In silico demonstration of electric pulse moving along a microtubule. Applied Physics Letters , vol. 104, no. 24, 2014. doi: 10.1063/1.4884118
2. M. Cifra and J. Pospíšil: Ultra-weak photon emission from biological samples: Definition, mechanisms, properties, detection and applications. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Link
3. D. Havelka, O. Kučera, M.A. Deriu and M. Cifra: Electro-acoustic behavior of the mitotic spindle: a semi-classical coarse-grained model. PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.008650
4. O. Kučera and M. Cifra: Cell-to-Cell Signaling Through Light: Just a Ghost of Chance? Cell Communication and Signaling, vol. 11, no. 87, 2013. doi: 10.1186/1478-811X-11-87 
5. D. Havelka, O. Kučera, M.A. Deriu and M. Cifra: Electro-acoustic behavior of the mitotic spindle: a semi-classical coarse-grained model. PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 1, 2014. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086501
6. O. Kučera and M. Cifra: Cell-to-Cell Signaling Through Light: Just a Ghost of Chance? Cell Communication and Signaling, vol. 11, no. 87, 2013. doi: 10.1186/1478-811X-11-87
7. F. Scholkmann, D. Fels and M. Cifra: Non-chemical and non-contact cell-to-cell communication: a short review. Am J Transl Res, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 586-593, 2013. PMCID: PMC3786266
8. Cifra, M. "Electrodynamic eigenmodes in cellular morphology ", BioSystems, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 356–366, 2012
9. Havelka, D., Cifra, M., Kučera, O., Pokorný, J., Vrba, J., "High-frequency electric field and radiation characteristics of cellular microtubule network ", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 286, no. 1, p. 31-40, 2011
10. Cifra, M., Fields, J. Z., Farhadi, A., "Electromagnetic cellular interactions", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, vol 105, no. 3, p. 223-246, 2011
11. Pokorný, J., Vedruccio, C., Cifra, M., Kučera, O., "Cancer physics: Diagnostics based on damped cellular elasto-electrical vibrations in microtubules", European Biophysics Journal, vol. 40, no. 6, 747-759, 2011
12. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Havelka, D., Kučera, O., "Electric field generated by axial longitudinal vibration modes of microtubule", BioSystems, vol. 100, no. 2, p. 122 - 131, 2010
13. Kučera, O., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., "Technical aspects of measurement of cellular electromagnetic activity", European Biophysics Journal, vol. 39, no. 10, p. 1465-1470, 2010
14. Cifra, M., "Study of electromagnetic oscillations of yeast cells in kHz and GHz region", PhD Thesis, 2009, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
15. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Kučera, O., "Vibrations of electrically polar structures in biosystems give rise to electromagnetic field: theories and experiments", In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2009, Moscow, Russia, August 18-21. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2009, p. 138 - 142. ISSN 1559-9450
16. Jelínek F., Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Vaniš, J., Hašek, J., Šimša, J., Frýdlová, I., “Measurement of electrical oscillations and mechanical vibrations of yeast cells membrane around 1 kHz”, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 223 - 232, 2009
17. Cifra, M., Pokorný, J., Jelínek, F., Hašek, J., "Measurement of Yeast Cell Electrical Oscillations around 1 kHz", In Proceedings of Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 2-6. Cambridge: The Electromagnetics Academy, 2008, p. 780-784. ISSN 1559-9450
18. Van Wijk, E., Van Wijk, R.,Cifra, M., “Spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission from human hands varies diurnally”, In Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6633 Biophotonics 2007: Optics in Life Science, Jürgen Popp, Gert von Bally, Editors, 2007, Jul. 3, 66331J Cifra, M., Van Wijk, E., Koch, H., Bosman, S., Van Wijk, R., “Spontaneous Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Human Hands Is Time Dependent”, Radioengineering, 2007, Vol. 16, n. 2, p. 15-19, ISSN 1210-2512
19. Cifra, M., “Measurement of spontaneous photon emission from the human body: technical aspects, parameters, time and temperature dependent fluctuations of photon emission”, master degree thesis, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic

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Přednášky:

• Biophysical and medical aspects of electromagnetic cellular interactions, 2012, Biophysical Aspects of Complexity in Health and Disease, Lugano, 18-19 May 2012, Switzerland
• Role of organized water in coherence of cellular electrodynamics, 2011, Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, Mount Snow Resort, Vermont, 20-23 October 2011, USA
• Bioelectrodynamics of cellular organization and interactions, 2011, Electromagnetic fields and Quantum phenomena in the Biological Systems, Poznań, 20 May 2011, Poland
• Role of electromagnetic field in cellular organization and interactions, 2010, Summer School on Biophotonics and Applications of Biophotons, International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany
• Elektromagnetické (EM) pole buněk: role mikrotubulů a mitochondrií, 2009, Microbiology Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Ultra weak photon emission (UPE) from living organisms: aspects of integrative biophysics, 2008, Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

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