Research areas

This page provides detailed overview of the research programmes, subcathegories and specific research activitis within research groups at the whole CEITEC. It is very much recommended to focus on the topics available via the links below.

Advanced Nano & Micro technologies
- Experimental biophotonics
  - Advanced software for batch processing of correlative imaging with quantitative phase and fluorescence
  - FAST-4D hiQPI Fast, Accurate, Scalable, Time-lapse 4D Holographic Incoherent-light-source Quantitative Phase Imaging
- Fabrication & characterisation of nanostructures
  - Nanoassemblies for magnetic delivery and controlled release of cancerostatic agents (NANOMAGIC)
- Development of methods & modelling
  - Pushing the Frontiers of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy & Next-Generation Anticancer Therapies Based on Metallodrugs
- Magneto-optical & THz spectroscopy
  - Frascan II_methods and applicaitons
  - Theoretical investigation of magnetic molecules supported on 2D materials and nanostructures using advanced quantum-chemical and molecular-mode
- Nanostructures at surfaces
  - Hybrid lipid–nanomaterial interfaces for studying interactions of nanoplastics with biological membranes
  - Tunable and robust charge injection layers
- Nanomagnetism & spintronics
- Quantum Molecular Magnetism
  - Molecular Magnetic Materials for Quantum Spin Control and Emerging Quantum Technologies
  - Magneto-structural properties and quantum phenomena in molecular materials
- Future energy
  - Additively Manufactured Sensors for Crop & Plant Health Monitoring
  - Single-Atom Catalysts for Sustainable Ammonia Production
- Advanced Electron MIcroscopy and Spectroscopy
  - Quantum Correlations in Free-Electron–Photon Interactions Theoretical Foundations and Experimental Protocols
Advanced Materials
- Advanced ceramic materials, polymers & composites
  - Development of multimaterial 3D printing using the digital light processing method
- Advanced low dimensional nanomaterials
- Advanced biomaterials
  - Light-programmable 3D-bioprinted cardiac patches for on-demand oxygen delivery after myocardial infarction
- Plasma technologies
  - Laser- and Plasma-Assisted Dry Synthesis of Graphitic Micro-Patterns for Bioactive Cell Interfaces
  - Pushing Plasma-Enhanced CVD beyond Its Conformality Limit or Towards Strong Gradients
- High performance materials for industry
- Bioelectronics materials and devices
Industrial Cybernetics
- Advanced instrumentation and methods for materials characterization
  - LIMA LIBS Integrated Mineral Analyzer for Automated Mineralogy and Quantitative Elemental Prediction
  - 4D in-vivo X-ray microCT for longitudinal imaging of coral biomineralization and skeletal dynamics
- Cybernetics and robotics
- X-ray tomography
- 3D printing & manufacturing
- Automotive applications of robotics
- Machine learning

Structural Biology
- Structural virology
- RNA biology & regulation
- Glycobiochemistry
- Protein-protein and protein-membrane interaction
  - Design Principles of Fusogenic Proteins for Lipid Vesicles
  - Lipid nanoparticles in drug delivery
- Non-coding genome
- Protein structure and dynamics; protein-DNA interactions
  - Structural Basis of Pathological Tau Recognition and Early Aggregation in Tauopathies
- Coupled transcription & translation, translational control
  - Translation Control
- Phase separation in transcriptio
Genomics & Proteomics of Plant Systems
- Cytogenomics
  - Retrogene Evolution in Brassicaceae The Roles of Genomic Context and Polyploid History
- Functional genomics, proteomics
  - Method development in palaeoproteomics
- Molecular, cell and developmental biology of plants
  - RNA-associated mechanisms in Polycomb-mediated epigenetic silencing
- Hormonal crosstalk
- Chromatin complexes
- Production biology
- Biomolecular condensates
- Telomere biology and evolution
- Stress in plant system
  - Regulation of drought stress memory and resilience in Brassica napus plants
  - How Whole-Genome Triplication Shaped Desert Adaptation in Brassiceae

Molecular Medicine
- Novel natural therapies against colorectal cancer progression associated with structural diversity of bacterial lipopolysaccharides in the intestine
- Medical genomics
  - Integrating Osteological and Biomolecular Evidence to Investigate Chromosomal Aneupleudies in Past Populations
- Molecular oncology of solid tumors
  - Next-Generation Anticancer Therapies Based on Metallodrugs
- Transcriptional regulation of inherited disease
- RNA quality control
- RNA and immunity
- Microenvironment of immune cells
- Functional genomics
- Cancers of the blood
- RNAi screening
Brain & Mind Research
- Behavioural, societal neuroscience
- Applied neuroscience
- Multi-modal and functional neuroimaging
  - Development of advanced MRI techniques for functional brainmapping
- Stress and transgenerational inheritance
  - Tracing Brain Disease Back to Developmental Decisions
- Deep brain stimulation
Molecular Veterinary Medicine
- Molecular microbiology
  - Breaking the Resistance–Virulence Trade-off in Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli
  - Beyond Resistance: Decoding the Hidden Functions of Plasmids in Bacterial Pathogens
- Animal immunogenomics
- Animal cytogenomics
- Mammalian reproduction
  - Advanced Proteomic Approaches in Mammalian Oocytes and Early Embryos
- Non-model vertebrate species