24. 3. 2025
Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Microbiology of the CAS represents the largest scientific body extensively exploring life cycles, molecular mechanisms and regulatory systems of various microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast, fungi and algae) as well as mammalian cell lines with respect to basic research questions as well as their prospective practical exploitation in medicine and industry.
the largest in the Czech Republic
Our Institute in numbers
The Institute of Microbiology (IMIC) is currently the largest institute in the Czech Republic that comprehensively studies the properties of microorganisms, from basic research to their practical use in industry, medicine and many other fields.
700
employees
25
laboratories
160+
research projects
1962
year of foundation
Upcoming events
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Speaker: Juliane Bubeck-Wardenburg
Day of Immunology
We invite you to the Day of Immunology 2025 celebration, jointly organized by the Czech Immunological Society (CIS), Czech Young Immunologists (CYI), and…
Science Fair 2025
The Science Fair is the largest science popularization event in the Czech Republic, organised annually since 2015 by the Czech…
Latest publications
Oecologia. 2024; 205(3-4); 725-737
Effects of individual traits vs. trait syndromes on assemblages of various herbivore guilds associated with central European Salix
Communications Biology. 2024; 7(September 2024); 1083
Differential effects of 40S ribosome recycling factors on reinitiation at regulatory uORFs in GCN4 mRNA are not dictated by their roles in bulk 40S recycling
Plant and Cell Physiology. 2024; 65(7); 1103-1114
The Role of FtsH Complexes in the Response to Abiotic Stress in Cyanobacteria
FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2024; 100(4); fiae032