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Our PhD student Celeste Abreu is the first author of a new paper published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules titled:“Insights into stability, dimerisation, and… Read more: A new paper has been published in cooperation with an Italian laboratory of prof. Alba Silipo!

BSc. Jakub Jeníček from our laboratory has been awarded a Grant Agency of Charles University project to support our ongoing research into NK cell receptors’ structural… Read more: GA CU Grant Awarded to Our Lab

A new international project, titled Exploiting Molecular Mechanisms of Natural Killer Cell Recognition for Antitumor Therapy, has been launched with funding from the Ministry of Education,… Read more: A new four-year Czech-US project granted!

A new project, called Structural Immunology of NK Cell Recognition: From Tumour Evasion to Its Eradication, led by Ondřej Vaněk, has been awarded funding by the… Read more: New Czech Science Foundation project on structural immunology of NK cell recognition

In 2024, several Master’s and Bachelor’s theses from our laboratory were successfully defended. Notably, Kristýna Pazderová received a nomination for the Rector’s Award for her Master’s… Read more: Master’s thesis nominated for the Rector’s award!

Our research has been featured on the front cover of the JCI Insight journal (Volume 9, Issue 18, published on 24th September 2024). The image highlights… Read more: Our research featured on the JCI Insight journal’s cover

Postdoctoral researcher Ondřej Skořepa and PhD student Celeste Abreu from our laboratory participated in the 48th FEBS Congress, held in Milan, Italy, from 29 June to… Read more: Ondřej Skořepa and Celeste Abreu at the 48th FEBS Congress

On 30th May 2024, our research group leader Ondřej Vaněk presented at the 2nd Immunotherapy Day at ÚHKT, Prague, a conference dedicated to advancements in cellular… Read more: Invited talk at the 2nd Immunotherapy Day

Two of our promising young students, Celeste Abreu and Yuri Dubanych, have recently attended the Instruct-ERIC Biennial Structural Biology Conference in Cascais, Lisbon. Held on 23–24… Read more: Our students at the Instruct Biennial Conference in Portugal

From 21–23 March 2024, the annual XX. Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology and the 7th User Meeting of CIISB took place at Nový Zámek in Nové… Read more: Our group leader presents at XX. Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology

The Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry of Immune Recognition wishes you a prosperous and happy new year! Similarly to high-fidelity DNA polymerases such as Pfu, may we… Read more: PF 2024

The Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) has awarded funding to a POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP OUTGOING project of Ondřej Skořepa titled “A New Vision: Innovative Imaging Approaches… Read more: Czech Science Foundation Postdoc Individual Fellowship Granted to Ondřej Skořepa

The XXII. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists, held on November 14-15, 2023, in Brno, marked a significant presence and success for our laboratory. Among the… Read more: Our students at XXII. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists!

The Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) has awarded funding to an international research project dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of natural killer (NK) cell immune synapses.… Read more: Czech Science Foundation Grant Fuels Cutting-Edge Research on NK Cell Immune Synapses

< As stated in the official letter from the Board of the Czech Science Foundation, our completed project 18-10687S “New ligands for old receptors of human natural… Read more: Our grant project has been awarded with an “excellent” grade by the Czech Science Foundation!

Congratulations to Maxmilián Hejl and Nadezda Bragina, two of our Master’s students that have secured funding for their projects from the Grant Agency of Charles University… Read more: Two new projects have been approved by the Grant Agency of Charles University!

Ondřej Vaněk, head of the laboratory, spoke at the 25th Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function about the structure of the human NK cell NKR-P1:LLT1 receptor:ligand… Read more: Head of our laboratory as an Instruct-ERIC Webinar invited speaker!

Our research team, together with the team of Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and BIOCEV research centre in the Czech Republic, have… Read more: Our article in the Instruct-ERIC Scientific Highlights!

The Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry of Immune Recognition wishes you a structured and well-organized, productive new year!

The annual XXI. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists took place on 15-16th November 2022 in Brno for the first time after the Covid-19 outbreak. The… Read more: We are back! Our laboratory at the XXI. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists in Brno

A student of our laboratory has been accepted to attend the Joint Instruct-iNEXT Course: Integrating Structural Biology Techniques Training! This course introduced students to the fundamental… Read more: A Master’s student can also participate!

From the atom to NK cell: the story of an unexpected protein structure is the name of an article featured on the front page of the… Read more: Our new article is featured on the Faculty of Science website!

Congratulations to the team of researchers from our laboratory! The research directed by a team from our laboratory consisting of Jan Bláha, Barbora Kalousková, Ondřej Skořepa, Denis Cmunt, Samuel Pažický, Edita… Read more: A new publication in Nature Communications is out!

A master’s student of our laboratory, Kristýna Pazderová, has been accepted to present a poster at the Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference (IBSBC), titled “Changes in… Read more: Our student presenting a poster at Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference

Three laboratory members have been accepted to present their work at the COST Action INNOGLY annual meeting 2022. The leader of our team Ondřej Vaněk, accompanied… Read more: Presenting our work at INNOGLY Annual Meeting 2022

Yet another success for the Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry of Immune Recognition! A doctorate student, MSc. Barbora Kalousková, has defended her doctoral thesis named “Harnessing soluble… Read more: Defence of Doctoral thesis, another success