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The European Night of Researchers in Košice was held in the Optima Shopping Center on September 29. Our Institute – the Institute of Animal Physiology – also participated in this event. RNDr. Dobroslava Bujňáková, Ph.D. and her colleagues MVDr. Lívia Karahutová, Ph.D., MVDr. Lucia Štempelová, Ph.D., and Ing. Ľudmila Hamarová, Ph.D., of the Laboratory of…
The team of authors composed of Ing. Kristína Šimoničová, PhD., Ing. Ľuboš Janotka, PhD., Ing. Helena Kavcová, Ing. Zdena Sulová, DrSc., prof. Ing. Albert Breier, DrSc., Mgr. Lucia Messingerová, PhD. received the SAS award in the category of Top Journal Publications for the publication entitled Different mechanisms of drug resistance to hypomethylating agents in the…
The celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Slovak Academy of Sciences culminated on June 23-24, 2023 with the public event “Weekend with SAS.” We are delighted to have been a part of this significant occasion. At our booth, you played a sperm-themed memory game and learned more about reproductive cells and…
The jubilee celebrations of the largest scientific institution in Slovakia will also involve the presentation of its research topics and the results of individual institutes. After the pandemic break, the Weekend with SAS event will take place again, on June 23 and 24, 2023, this time, however, it will be held at Námestie M.R. Štefánika…
From May 31st to June 2nd, 2023, the XLIV Medical Biophysics Days, an international conference, took place at the SAV Academia Congress Center in Stará Lesná. The conference aimed to present new findings and trends in the field of biophysics and the teaching of biophysics at universities. Our colleague, Matúš Tomko, PhD., actively participated in…
From May 3rd to May 5th, 2023, the FENS Regional Meeting 2023 (FRM 2023) took place at the Congress Center of Hotel Salgados Palace in Algarve, Portugal. The aim of this symposium was to bring together researchers from around the world and provide the latest insights from various areas of neuroscience. Our institute had active…
The ERA-NET NEURON Foresight Symposium “Bidirectional Brain-Body Interactions” took place on Wednesday, 10th May 2023, organised within the ERA-NET NEURON Cofund2 project (Horizon 2020, European Neuroscience Research Funding Network). The Slovak Academy of Sciences, in particular the Department of International Cooperation, was one of 35 partners from 30 countries involved in the preparation of this…
Our colleagues Dr. Ruslan Paliokha and MMedSc. Eliyahu Dremencov, DrSc. have co-authored a review on Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its role in perinatal depression published in Drug Discovery Today. Perinatal depression, with its detrimental effects on maternal and infant health, is the most common psychiatric complication of pregnancy. There is an urgent need for…
An article on metaplasticity and catastrophic forgetting in artificial neural networks, on which our colleague Matúš Tomko worked as a co-author, is featured on the cover of the September edition of Trends in Neurosciences. Artificial neural networks suffer from so-called catastrophic forgetting, when they continually learn multiple tasks in sequence. Our brains are capable of…
Get to know the science of the Centre for Biosciences of SAS If you think hens are just an egg factory, we will convince you this is not true. Did you know that lipids are essential to our lives, can even be useful, and that quail can help us fight cancer? Would you like to…