Research centres
As part of the project of ”Promoting Research at Tertiary Education Institutions”, high quality research and scientific centres were established at faculties, serving as basic material and scientific springboards, which co-ordinate the scientific potential for research in which the faculty employees have achieved significant international success.
Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine
The recently established the Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine (IMTM), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University in Olomouc is one of the most influential research projects carried out in the Czech Republic. The IMTM's mission is basic and translational biomedical research with the goal to understand the underlying causes of cancer and infectious diseases and to develop future human medicines and diagnostics.
Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University, Olomouc
Hněvotínská 5, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
www.imtm.cz
Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnical and Agricultural Research
The Centre has become a part of the existing university complex on Šlechtitelů Street where modern infrastructure was constructed—four new buildings for individual research programmes. New facilities enable concentration of all participat- ing worksites into a single campus, consolidation of the research teams, and equipping them with state-of-the-art equipment. Research carried out at the Centre puts emphasis on inter-disciplinarity and includes the following programmes:
- Protein biotechnology
- Plant biotechnology
- Chemical biology and genetics
- Novel materials and methods for plant breeding
- Phytofarm and genetic resources of vegetables, medicinal, aromatic and culinary plants
Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research
Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc
Šlechtitelů 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
www.cr-hana.eu
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM)
The main objective of the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) of the Faculty of Sciences at Palacký University in Olomouc is the regular transfer and development of high-tech technologies into medicinal, industrial and environmental practice, and the participation of the Centre within prestigious international networks and consortia. RCPTM focuses predominantly on top research in the area of metal oxide nanoparticles for catalytic and magnetic applications, carbon nanostructures, metal nanoparticles for antimicrobial and water treatment technologies, coordination chemistry, photonics, new instrumentation in optics and analytical chemistry.
Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials
Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc
Šlechtitelů 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
www.rcptm.com
Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
The Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts is a research centre of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacký University, Olomouc.
The Centre is involved in the study of patristic, medieval and renaissance texts with the aim firstly to prepare editions of as yet unpublished Latin manuscripts linked with the Czech lands and secondly to make important works of European Christian culture available to the Czech professional as well as the general public. The Centre was formed as an interdisciplinary team made up of classical and medieval Latin philologists, philosophers, theologians and historians.
Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacký University, Olomouc
www.centrum-texty.upol.cz
Research Centre for Optics
The Research Centre for Optics is a research project, the main purpose of which is to establish a basis for development of modern optics in Czech Republic. This topic has been investigated systematically since 1960 at Palacký University at the Department of Optics, Faculty of Sciences, and Laboratory of Optics, which was in the year 1984 transformed into the Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacký University and Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences. In the framework of this project, a new link of the research potentials of PU and Inst. of Physics, which is represented by its Division of Optics in the project, has been established.
Research is concentrated on the fields of quantum optics, fundamental aspects of quantum theory, quantum theory of measurement, quantum cryptography, quantum information and quantum computing. Also methods of classical optics are used and new results are expected in the framework of holography, statistical optics and development of sensors and optical materials.
Research Centre for Optics
Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc
Av. 17. listopadu 50, 772 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
http://rco.upol.cz
Joint Laboratory of Optics
The Joint Laboratory of Optics is joint research centre of Palacký University in Olomouc and Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Our division closely collaborates with two another Palacký University sections, Research Centre for Optics and the Department of Optics of Faculty of Science, in classical, nonlinear and quantum optics and also participates in education process of Palacky University undergraduate and graduate students.
The Joint Laboratory of Optics
Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc
tř. 17. listopadu 50, 772 07 Olomouc, Czech Republic
http://jointlab.upol.cz/
Laboratory of Growth Regulators
Laboratory of Growth Regulators is a joined facility of Palacký University, Olomouc and Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Research programme of the laboratory is aimed primarily at small molecules that regulate cell division cycle, proliferation and growth of both plant and animal cells. Namely cytokinins and cytokinin-derived purine inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases belongs to the most intensively studied compounds.
Laboratory of Growth Regulators
Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc
Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
http://rustreg.upol.cz/
Centre for Kinanthropology Research
The Centre for Kinanthropology Research at the Faculty of Physical Culture of Palacký University fosters research of physical activity and inactivity in relation to the lifestyle of the population in the Czech Republic. It is organized as an interdisciplinary team of researchers and faculty members. The Centre is an important coordinating and consulting platform within the Central European region in the field of physical activity monitoring.
The Centre for Kinanthropology Research
Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University, Olomouc
tř. Míru 115, 771 11 Olomouc
www.vzpa.upol.cz/en
