Michal Cifra, Ph.D.

Research interests:

Bioelectrodynamics, bioelectromagnetics, nanosensors, microtubules, biological electron excited states and ultraweak photon emission, biosignals.

Professional activities:

Membership

• IEEE / IEEE Czechoslovak chapter
• OSA
• SPIE
• Radioengineering society
• URSI
• CSBS - Czechoslovak biological society

International research experience:

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

Education:

• PhD., 2009, Radioelectronics, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia 
• Ing. (M.Sc.), 2006, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Current research projects:

• Nanosecond electric pulses for modulation of microtubule dynamics
• Photonic biosignals: measurement and characterization

Selected past projects:

• Measurement and Analysis of Local Electric Oscillations and Optical Emission of Biomolecular Nanostructures

Awards and honors:

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

Selected publications:

1. Neda Rafieiolhosseini, Michaela Poplová, Pezhman Sasanpour, Hashem Rafii-Tabar, Mahsa Rafiee Alhossaini, Michal Cifra: Photocount statistics of ultra-weak photon emission from germinating mung bean, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology, vol. 162, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.06.001
2. Ondrej Krivosudský and Michal Cifra: Microwave absorption by nanoresonator vibrations tuned with surface modification, A Letters Journal Exploring the Frontiers of Physics,115, 2016 doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/115/44003
3. Rosilene Cristina Rossetto Burgos, Kateřina Červinková, Tom van der Laan, Rawi Ramautar, Eduard P.A. vanWijk, Michal Cifra, SlavikKoval, RuudBerger, Thomas Hankemeier, Jan van der Greef: Tracking biochemical changes correlated with ultra-weak photon emission using metabolomics, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology,vol. 163, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.08.030
4. V. Procházka, M. Cifra, P. Kulha, T. Ižák, B. Rezek and A. Kromka: Influence of non-adherent yeast cells on electrical characteristics of diamond-based field-effect transistors,Applied Surface Science, in press, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.05.003
5. O. Kučera and M. Cifra: Radiofrequency and microwave interactions between biomolecular systems. Journal of Biological Physics, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s10867-015-9392-1
6. Ondrej Kucera, Katerina Cervinkova, Michaela Nerudova and Michal Cifra: Spectral Perspective on the Electromagnetic Activity of Cells. Spectral Perspective on the Electromagnetic Activity of Cells, vol. 15, issue 6, 2015. doi: 10.2174/1568026615666150225103105
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Cifra, M. "Electrodynamic eigenmodes in cellular morphology ", BioSystems, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 356–366, 2012
12. 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 
13. Cifra, M., Fields, J. Z., Farhadi, A., "Electromagnetic cellular interactions", Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, vol 105, no. 3, p. 223-246, 2011 
14. 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 
15. 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 
16. 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 
17. Cifra, M., "Study of electromagnetic oscillations of yeast cells in kHz and GHz region", PhD Thesis, 2009, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 
18. 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 
19. 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 
20. 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 
21. 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
22. 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 

Invited Lectures:

• 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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