7 Apr

I consider doctoral students as colleagues learning to conduct independent research, says Vice-Dean Paleček

At the beginning of February, Jan Paleček was appointed Vice-Dean for Doctoral Studies. “I would like to lead the programmes toward successful reaccreditation and improve what can still be improved,” says Paleček. In the interview, he also highlights the importance of soft skills, which will benefit graduates in their future careers, and describes the challenges brought about by the amendment to the Higher Education Act and its impact on doctoral studies.

Tereza Horáková received GA MU Support for Outstanding Master Theses

Master's student Bc. Tereza Horáková from Biochemistry, specialization on Genomincs and Proteomics has received funding from the university program GA MU Support for Outstanding Master Theses 2026. Tereza is working on telomere dynamics during long-term cultivation of Arabidopsis thaliana calli in the research group Laboratory of functional genomics and proteomics under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Miloslava Fojtová. Only the best 30 projects received financial support. Congratulations!

12 Mar

Seventeen doctoral students from Masaryk University have received the Brno PhD Talent award – and twelve of them work in our faculty

A total of seventeen students from Masaryk University have received the Brno PhD Talent award, twelve of whom work in our faculty. This year, 151 doctoral students from Brno universities applied for the scholarship, the highest number in the competition's sixteen-year history. Congratulations to all the awardees!

12 Feb

I was afraid of programming before the semester started, but fortunately that’s taken into account in Bioinformatics, says a first-year student

Štěpán Kubíček studies Bioinformatics at Masaryk University, a joint degree programme of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Informatics. “In my final year of secondary school, I wasn’t completely sure what I actually wanted to study,” he explains. He has always enjoyed natural sciences and was also drawn to working in research, so he chose a field that allows him to combine both. Thanks to the possibility of specialization starting as early as the second semester, he believes Bioinformatics is suitable both for enthusiasts of natural sciences and for those who are more interested in programming.