This year, to celebrate Earth Day, the Botanical Garden of SCI MUNI prepared an engaging program on the theme Poison or Cure?, and once again, we were part of it! Children and adults alike had the opportunity to try out games, quizzes and learn interesting facts as well as the latest insights from scientific research.
This year, we once again joined the Earth Day celebrations at the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, where visitors could learn many interesting facts about various substances found in plants, their possible uses, or potential dangers.
At booth 13, the Department of Biochemistry was represented by students from the Secondary Metabolites and Molecular Physiology research groups, who introduced visitors to the healing effects of plants as part of the so-called “Herbal Clinic”.
Earth Day was organized in cooperation with volunteers from the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University, including those from the Botanical Garden, the Institute of Physics and Plasma Technology, the Institute of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Experimental Biology, the Institute of Botany and Zoology, RECETOX, the Association of Natural Scientists of Masaryk University in Brno, the Friends of the Faculty of Education Association at MUNI, and the South Moravian Museum in Znojmo.
Lenka Jurasová together with Zdenka Vilhanová and Marko Mećava, students of the Department of Biochemistry MUNI SCI, achieved great success in this year’s Start Your Business competition. Their innovative projects received recognition from the expert jury and were awarded funding for further development.
Over 1000 students visited the Open Days of the Faculty of Science of MU this year, which took place on Saturday 27 and Tuesday 30 January at the University Campus in Bohunice and at the Kotlářská campus. The doors of our institute were of course open too!
