Welcome to the Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry
of Immune Recognition
About us
Our research group is interested in cell-cell recognition processes, i.e., how the immune cells, for example, NK cells, recognize by receptors expressed on their surface the target proteins expressed on the surface of healthy cells or of the tumour, virally infected, or stressed cells. We are interested firstly in the structure-function relationship, using a wide range of modern methods of research of protein structure, their properties and interactions, and secondly, how we could transfer the gained knowledge into a practical level, besides other things by designing artificial protein constructs which would help the immune cells to recognize better and eliminate the target cells.
Our research
News
Two new projects have been approved by the Grant Agency of Charles University!
Congratulations to Maxmilián Hejl and Nadezda Bragina, two of our Master’s students that have secured…
Head of our laboratory as an Instruct-ERIC Webinar invited speaker!
Ondřej Vaněk, head of the laboratory, spoke at the 25th Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets…
Our article in the Instruct-ERIC Scientific Highlights!
Our research team, together with the team of Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy…