Best Master / PhD thesis award 2024

On Friday, March 21, 2025, the committee awarded prizes for the Best IMIC diploma / dissertation thesis 2024. We appreciate each participant for their outstanding presentation and hard work. Every single talk was excellent! This year 8 participants have signed up.

We would like to thank the authors of all nominated theses.

Best PhD Thesis Award 2024
Cristian Villena Alemany (IMIC supervisor: Michal Koblížek)
Ecology of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in freshwaters

Best Master Thesis Award 2024
Eliška Filipová (IMIC supervisor: Pavla Bojarová)
Escherichia coli cell factory for the production of oligosaccharides

Michaela Lichvárová (IMIC supervisor: Adriana Osičková)
Investigation of the acyltransferase RtxC interaction with the Kingella kingae toxin RtxA

Carlos A. Espinosa-Viñals (IMIC supervisor: Peter Šebo)
Structure-function relationships and vaccinal use of the RTX domain of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin

Adéla Wennrich (IMIC supervisor: Vít Hubka)
One Health approach to understand emerging zoonotic pathogens in the Trichophyton benhamiae complex

Zuzana Pavlíková Čapková (IMIC supervisor: Leoš Valášek)
Interplay between the tRNA anticodon stem and small ribosomal proteins forming the decoding site during stop codon readthrough

Terezie Prilepskaja (IMIC supervisor: Leoš Valášek)
Analysis of mutual interactions of the human multifactor complex components in translation initiation

Lenka Mészárošová (IMIC supervisor: Petr Baldrian)
Environmental drivers of the development of microbial communities during primary succession