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The team of Bioelectrodynamics at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR focuses on research in the field of high-frequency and photonic bio-signals. Activities of the team cover development of experimental equipment for measurement, measurement itself, as well as theoretical description of mechanisms generating signals measured. In radio-frequency band we are dealing with measurement of very weak electromagnetic cellular signals. For these measurements we are developing micro- and nano-structure sensors with low-noise preamplifiers and electromagnetic shielding. In optical region we focus experimentally on non-thermal emission of photons from cellular cultures. Experimental work in both bands is followed with modeling of biophysical processes which generate electromagnetic filed at cellular, primarily supra-molecular, level.
May 2013 - Members of our group gained important experience with hydrodynamics on Sázava river.
April 2013 - Honorata Nawrocka-Bogusz from University of Medical Science, Poznan (Poland), joined our team for an internship again.
February 2013 - Our proposal for 3 year project Photonic Biosignals: Measurement and Characterization which we submitted together with Dept. of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, has been accepted by Czech Science Foundation.
January 2013 - Kateřina Červinková defended her diploma thesis (graduated with honors) and will join our team as a postgraduate student.
December 2012 – Ondřej Kučera defended his dissertation “Cellular Nanoelectromechanics” at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Congratulations!
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October 2012 – Our group co-organized the conference Fields of the Cell which took place in Basel, Switzerland, on October 6-7, 2012.
September 2012 – Michal Cifra attended ICT Proposers' Day . Event took place in Warsaw, Poland, on September 26-27, 2012.
August 2012 – Final versions of two recent theoretical papers were published: doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.06.003, doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.04.009.
July 2012 – Michal Cifra has been featured in the interview in the Slovak national Economy journal, Hospodárske Noviny. PDF from online version is also available.
July 2012 – This year's series of theoretical papers continues with contribution by Michal Cifra, doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.06.003.
June 2012 – Honorata Nawrocka-Bogusz from University of Medical Science, Poznan (Poland), joined our team for an internship again.
May 2012 – New paper by O. Kučera and D. Havelka, “Mechano-electrical vibrations of microtubules—Link to subcellular morphology”, is available on-line doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.04.009.
May 2012 – Michal Cifra delivered a speech at TEDx conference in Bratislava, Slovakia.
April 2012 – New paper concerning cancer physics written by J. Pokorný is available on-line doi: 10.1063/1.3699057.
March 2012 – Honorata Nawrocka-Bogusz from University of Medical Science, Poznan (Poland), joined our team for an internship.
Honorata, Ondrej and Michal on a trip to Sychrov castle.
January 2012 – Štěpánka Říhová graduated with honors from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Congratulations!
December 2011 – Our papers in European Biophysics Journal were available for free until December 31, 2011 (doi:10.1007/s00249-010-0597-8, doi:10.1007/s00249-011-0688-1).
December 2011 – Proceedings of the 9th International Fröhlich’s Symposium, Electrodynamic Activity of Living Cells, EDALC11, were published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
November 2011 - Our lab participated in the Week of Science and Technology, the most extensive scientific festival in Czechia.
October 2011 - We opened new dark-room for ultra-weak photon emission experiments.
August 2011 - New publication concerning high-frequency electric field and radiation characteristics of cellular microtubule network is now availabe.
July 2011 - Our group co-organized the 9th International Fröhlich’s Symposium, Electrodynamic Activity of Living Cells, EDALC11.
From the left: J. Pokorný, J. Tuszynski, O. Kučera, M. Cifra, S. Hameroff and A. Bandyopadhyay at the symposium closing dinner in the brewery Pivovarský dům, Prague.
June 2011 - Dr. Pokorny's paper was listed in Additional Papers of Note for June by the National Cancer Institute, Physical Sciences-Oncology (USA).
May 2011 - Comprehensive review on Electromagnetic cellular interactions co-authored by Michal Cifra was published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
December 2010 - Diploma thesis Electromagnetic field of the microtubular system of a cell by Daniel Havelka was awarded the Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2010.
