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úterý, 9. listopadu 2021

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Webinars for Early Career Researchers: Academic Integrity & Online Presence

úterý, 9. listopadu, 10.00 » 11.00
Globální událost
This webinar is designed primarily for doctoral students, but everyone who is interested in scholarly communication is welcome.

Ethics and academic integrity play a crucial role in the scientific endeavor and are aimed at ensuring the trustworthiness and reliability of scientific results. This webinar includes academic integrity concepts and tips, such as avoiding plagiarism. Promoting one’s research activities is another important part of an academic career over the long term. This webinar provides tips for early career researchers in showcasing their activities.

What is scientific misconduct, and how does one avoid it?Publication Ethics: what is important to keep in mind when publishing an article or designing a project in order to avoid possible breaches of academic integrity?Online tools for making scientific work more visible.Author identifiers (ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID) and how to use them effectively.

Computational microbiology – from extreme environments to biotechnology

úterý, 9. listopadu, 18.30 » 20.00
Globální událost
The development of sequencing technologies resulted in tremendous progress in microbial ecology (including microbiology of extreme environments) and environmental biotechnology. It is directly related to the technological and conceptual leap in bioinformatics, which has become one of the most dynamically developing fields of biology. However, in environmental researches, and in particular in environmental microbiology, there is still a lot to be discovered and optimized, especially when analyzing data, coupling them with metadata, and developing novel tools for studying microbial biodiversity. In our researches, we focused on genomic analyzes of plasmidomes and metaplasmidomes of extreme environments, identifying genes of an adaptive value, and analyzing the range of horizontal gene/plasmid transfer. In addition, thanks to in-depth genomic analysis of psychrotolerant bacteria, we managed to create biological systems that use selected strains as microbial factories for producing various secondary metabolites (dyes, siderophores, and surfactants), which then we used for producing novel environmental technologies. An important aspect of our research is also the development of novel tools (including bioinformatic ones) for environmental analyses. We developed a set of novel primers for screening of antibiotic resistance genes; LCPDb-ARG - literature-based, manually-curated database of PCR primers for the monitoring of antibiotic resistance genes in various environments and MAISEN – the system for semiautomatic annotation of bacterial genomes.

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