Activities of the Institute
Short-term work placement at the Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, December 2024
In the pre-Christmas period, Assistant Professor Michal Miko was actively involved in the teaching process at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Medicine (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Collegium Medicum), where he led practical exercises for foreign students (general medicine and dentistry programmes) at the local Department of Histology and also participated in a pre-clinical PBL (problem-based learning) seminar. At the same time, he introduced our department to Polish colleagues.
This trip is important for comparing different approaches in the teaching process and for gaining inspiration for innovations in teaching at both departments.
In conclusion, we can proudly say that the level of teaching of our subjects in Bratislava is in no way inferior to that of the famous Jagiellonian University.
Success of PhD student Mgr. Feitscherová, November 2024
On the occasion of the Students' Day, on 18 November 2024, from the hands of the Rector of Comenius University in Bratislava, prof. JUDr. Marek Števček, DrSc., also received an award from a full-time PhD student of the Institute of Histology and Embryology of the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, Mgr. Claudia Feitscherová. The topic of her research is the distribution of immune cells within selected organs of the reproductive system and their influence on fertility. She conducts her research using immunohistochemistry methods. She has published her previous research results in 8 indexed scientific outputs, including journals such as Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology or Experimental Biology & Medicine. She is also fully involved in the teaching activities of the training institute, as well as in the promotion of human anatomy, histology and embryology in the framework of scientific popularization events such as the European Researchers' Night.
Congratulations Claudia, we are happy for your success and fingers crossed for the finalisation of your dissertation!
11th Baltic Morphology Meeting 2024, November 2024
The traditional Anatomical Congress of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia was held this year at the Institute of Anatomy and Anthropology (Anatomicum) of Riga Stradiņš University, in the capital of Latvia. Among the invited lecturers were prof. Andreas Winkelmann, Head of the Institute of Anatomy at Bradenburg Medical School (Germany), prof. Michal Polguj, Head of the Institute of Anatomy at the Medical University of Lodz (Poland), prof. Dainius Pauža, Head of the Institute of Anatomy at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Lithuania), prof. David Kachlík, Head of the Institute of Anatomy at the 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, as well as Prof. Ivan Varga from Bratislava. In his lecture, Prof. Varga presented the results of immunohistochemical research on uterine Natural Killer cells in relation to implantation and recurrent miscarriages, which he carries out together with his PhD student, Lenka Lapides, M.D., and the Head of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, prof. Pavel Babál.
