Speakers

Eric Daniel Glowacki
Research group leader | Bioelectronics Materials and Devices |
CEITEC BUT
Eric Glowacki completed his PhD in chemistry in 2013 at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, specializing in bioelectronic and flexible electronic devices. He continued as a postdoc in Linz (2013-2016), with research interest moving into the field of electrophysiology and especially optoelectronic stimulation of excitable cells. In 2016, he was awarded a Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellowship, which allowed him to start an independent research group at Linköping University in Sweden. His group has worked on devices for stimulation of the nervous system, as well as reactive oxygen species generation.
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Andrew David Miller
Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
Mendel University
The overall aim of his academic research work has been and continues to be
the design and creation of advanced therapeutics and diagnostics in the treatment of chronic diseases (such as cancer, diabetes, pain and some infectious diseases), through the application of chemistry and chemical biology approaches to the fields of nanomedicine and gene therapy. He founded the Imperial College Genetic Therapies Centre (GTC) in 1998, developed his career as an academic entrepreneur at King's College London (UK), and held a number of other professorial positions in leading universities around the World including Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) (Shanghai, China), and Nagoya University (MeiDai) (Nagoya, Japan). Since the beginning of 2017, he joined part-time the Veterinary Research Institute in Brno (Czech Republic), where he has been Director and Key Foreign Scientist (KFS) for OPVVV Project FIT. Nowadays, Prof Miller is focused on his latest position as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Mendel University in Brno.
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Jiří Sedmík
Research Specialist  |  Department of Histology and Embryology | Masaryk University
Jiri Sedmik completed his doctoral studies in the Irish scientist Mary O'Connell research group at CEITEC Masaryk University, where he investigated the role of RNA modification/editing in the brain and studied mutations in a specific gene called ADAR2 that cause epilepsy, mental retardation, and microcephaly. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scientist in the group of Dáša Bohačiaková from the Department of Histology and Embryology at the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University. His main research focuses on neuronal cells and cerebral organoids - a new and very promising research model for the study of Alzheimer's disease.
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Gabriel Demo
Junior research group leader | Structural Biology of Coupled Transcription-Translation  | CEITEC MU
Gabriel Demo earned his PhD. degree in biomolecular chemistry at the National Centre of Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, in Brno, where he specialized in the crystallography of proteins and their complexes with ligands. Dr. Demo continued his scientific career as a Postdoctoral researcher at the RNA Therapeutics Institute of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester, USA, working with Dr. Andrei Korostelev. His experience in protein-synthesis of biological systems earned him the prestigious ERC-CZ grant for the project entitled “Communication Between Transcription and Translation,” allowing him to establish his research group at CEITEC Masaryk University. Dr. Demo and his team aim at unveiling the possible connection between DNA transcription and translation processes in viruses, which could lead to new possibilities for preventing viral infections.
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Jan Macák
Group Leader | Advanced Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials | Advanced Materials Research Area Coordinator | CEITEC BUT
Jan Macák, an ERC starting grant awardee (2015), built his career as a material scientist exploring the methods of material preparation using electrochemistry with a particular interest in low-dimensional nanomaterials (nanotubes, nanofibers, nanowires and nanoparticles) and their application in biology, power engineering and catalysis. The main objectives of his research rely on the synthesis of new low-dimensional structures by various means and the necessary investigation of the structure-property relationship of these materials. 
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Research group leader | Plasma Technologies for Materials | CEITEC BUT
Lenka Zajickova has received a PhD in plasma physics from Masaryk University in Brno (Czechia). Her current research activities broadened to all dry thin-film depositions (chemical or physical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition), synthesis of carbon nanomaterials, and modification of polymer nanofibers. She develops the deposition and synthesis protocol for mainly biomedical applications (tissue engineering, drug delivery, wound dressing) and investigates the processes to understand them better. She is Assoc. Prof. at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, and leads the research group at CEITEC. Before, she gained research experience at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA). She is a specially appointed professor at Osaka University (Japan). She chairs the Technology Advisory Committees (TAC) for Atomic Layer Processing and co-chairs Plasma Processing TAC at the Society of Vacuum Coaters. She is a Czech representative at the Int. Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission for Plasma Physics.