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My Meeting with Václav Havel

20 Dec 2011

Recollection of Honorary President of the CAS Prof. Rudolf Zahradník
At the very beginning, there was the Na zábradlí Theatre. As a member of the audience, I could look into the author’s mind for the first time. I tremendously appreciated the numerous announcements of Charter 77 on various topics, which weighed heavily on democrats in oppressed Czechoslovakia; it was said that it was he who significantly contributed to their wording. After the second miracle of my life (the first was the end of the world war), after the collapse of the cheekiness called real socialism, I saw V. H. for the first time with my own eyes. It was at a restaurant boat anchored on the River Vltava, where he invited about fifteen researchers and artists for a discussion and dinner in 1991…

New Laboratories for Polymer Research Named after Otto Wichterle

4 Nov 2011

The scientists of the Otto Wichterle Centre of Polymer Materials and Technologies (CPMT OW) Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (ÚMCH) of the Academy of Sciences of the CR are beginning to work in new laboratories. They were ceremonially opened on Thursday, 3rd November 2011 within the Open House Days of the Institutes (3–4 November), which are in the programme of the Science and Technology Week (STW) festival. On this occasion, the director of the institute František Rypáček emphasised the fundamental importance of polymers for modern man. They have penetrated into electronics, pharmacy and medicine and are becoming indispensible for us.

The Discovery of the Principle of Timing the Activation of Memories in the Brain

30 Sep 2011

A Publication of a Czech Neurophysiologist in the Journal Nature
 
How is the relevant memory activated in the brain? An answer is provided by a just published work in the specialised journal Nature (Theta-paced flickering between place-cell maps in the hippocampus). Doctor Karel Ježek from the Institute of Physiology of the CAS in cooperation with a team of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU) and the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA), led by Prof. Edvard Moser, discovered a method allowing the detailed description of the process of the activation of memory on the level of individual neurons.

Discussions on Wheat Improvement in Paris

16 Sep 2011

A Significant Contribution by a Czech Laboratory
 
The International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement (IRIWI) held its first meeting on Thursday, 15 September 2011 in Paris at a meeting of the G20 group, associating the most advanced economies of the world. Distinguished scientists, directors of research organisations, food-industry experts and politicians gathered there. The initiative coordinates worldwide research leading to the improvement of better varieties of wheat. The aim is to increase their crop yields and avert a food crisis. Also Czech scientists from the Institute of Experimental Botany (ÚEB) of the Academy of Sciences of the CR and Centre of the Haná Region for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research cooperate within the IRIWI.

Profesor Holý celebrated his 75th birthday in the new laboratories

2 Sep 2011

On Thursday, 1 September 2011 at 10 A.M., the reconstructed building of biochemistry of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, dedicated to Prof. Antonín Holý, who celebrated his birthday that day, had its grand opening. The Jubilee celebrant attended the opening of the peak laboratories in person despite a serious illness. President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR Prof. Jiří Drahoš wished Prof. Holý particularly plenty of good health and emphasised that ‘besides the basic conditions like genius, intuition and luck, exceptional results of scientific work are always based on systematic and long-term basic research’.

Astronaut Andrew Feustel in the Czech Republic

10 Aug 2011

American astronaut Andrew Feustel, who has been in Earth’s orbit twice and who took the character Krteček (Little Mole) on the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour, received the highest award of the CAS De scientia et humanitate optime meritis from the hand of President of the Academy of Sciences of the CR prof. Jiří Drahoš on 1 August 2011. Andrew Feustel was here in the Czech Republic at the invitation of the CAS, in cooperation with the Astronomical Institute of the CAS, the American Centre of the Embassy of the USA in the CR and the Czech Space Office.

Czech researcher Professor Blanka Říhová has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011

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4 Mar 2011

Professor Blanka Říhová from Czech Academy of Sciences has been nominated for European Inventor Award 2011 in lifetime achievement category. Blanka Říhová, currently Head of Department of Immunology and Gnotobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000 – 2007, Director of the Institute of Microbiology in Prague, Czech Republic), and her team have, in close collaboration with the team of professor Karel Ulbrich, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic strived to develop a more targeted treatment with positive results.

IOCHB at EXPO 2010

26 Oct 2010

An exposition of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry CAS at the international fair EXPO 2010 belongs, without a doubt, to the biggest lures of the event in Shanghai. It presents an international success of prof. Holý's team in a treatment of AIDS. The growing interest of visitors in the exposition led to an organization of a special scientific seminar which will take place on 23.9. 2010 in the Expo forum and which will be presenting Czech science, especially a research at the Institute of organic chemistry and biochemistry.

Membrane lipids and cytoskeleton dynamics are intimately interconnected in plant cells

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21 May 2010

Membrane lipids and cytoskeleton dynamics are intimately interconnected in the eukaryotic cell, but only recently have the molecular mechanisms operating at this interface in plant cells been addressed experimentally.

XXXVI. Academy Assembly

15 Apr 2010

The Academy Assembly, the highest body of the CAS responsible for the topmost priority decisions related to the CAS, held its XXXVI Meeting in the Municipal House in Vinohrady on April 22, 2010. Professor Drahoš, in his presidential remarks to the assembly, summed up his views:

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