Many congratulations to Martin and Pavlina for getting married, and all the best from the entire Chobotix team on your common journey!
Yearly Archives: 2014
Great success of our students in SVK Student Scientific Competition!
Great success of our undergraduate students in SVK Student Scientific Competition! 7 places in this years’ chemical engineering experimental section go to members of the Chobotix group: Marie, Damian, Matěj and Peter bring home bronze from their respective sections, Denisa and Jakub take silver and Viktorie has won her section. Excellent job, everyone!
Langmuir paper on chemotactic droplets
In collaboration with Martin Hanczyc from the University of Southern Denmark, Chobotix group members Jitka Čejková and Matěj Novák have published a paper on the chemotactic movement of droplets in the prestigious journal Langmuir. Their fascinating research was also featured on the phys.org website and in the Czech daily Lidove Noviny, among many other media.
Čejková J., Novák M., Štěpánek F., Hanczyc M., “Dynamics of chemotactic droplets in salt concentration gradients”, Langmuir 30, 11937–11944 (2014)
Poster Awards for Anna and David
Congratulations to Anna Pittermannová for winning the best poster award at the Bioencapsulation 2014 conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, for her work on microfluidic production of alginate microparticles, and to David Smčka for winning the best poster award at the Particulate Processes in the Pharmaceutical Industry conference in Potsdam, Germany, for his work on granulation process scale-up. Well done, you two!
Robert and Martina join the group
A very warm welcome to Martina Živčáková who joins our group as MSc student, and Róbert Lehocký, who starts a PhD project on the subject of injectable nano particle depot systems.

Chobotix members at autumn conferences
Our group members are attending quite a few conferences in Europe and The United States this autumn. Here’s the list of all of them including the names of all contributions. We will gladly answer any of your questions during the presentations if you happen to be there.
ECIS 2014 – 7.-12.9., Limassol, Cyprus
– the 28th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society
- Jitka Čejková – Mimicking of Cell Chemotaxis by Oil Droplets
- Matěj Novák – Chemotactic Movement of Oil Droplets in Salt Gradients
- Marek Šoltys – Composite Lipid/Fe3O4/SiO2 Mesoparticles for Controlled Release of Active Substances
- Martin Ullrich – Control of Release and Enzymatic Reaction Progress Inside Magnetic Liposome Microgels
Skin Forum 14th Annual Meeting – 4.-5.9., Prague, Czech republic
- Lucie Vidlářová – Lipid-based Nanoparticles for Delivery of Lipophilic Actives for Dermal Application
Particulate Processes in the Pharmaceutical Industry IV – 14.-18.9., Potsdam, Germany
- František Štěpánek – Keynote lecture – Remote control of in-situ drug production and release using chemical robots
- David Smrčka – Scale-up of pharmaceutical granulation with respect to structure-dissolution
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ISIC19 – 16.-19.9. – Toulouse, France
- Jan Holaň – Design and Control of Co-crystallization Processes with Regard to Particle Size Distribution
Bioencapsulation 2014 – 17.19.9., Bratislava, Slovakia
- Jitka Čejková – Mimicking of spore behaviour by encapsulation of cells into gel microparticles
- Martin Jakubec – Spray Drying Particles Preparation for In Situ Production of Unstable Substances
- Anna Pittermannová – Synthesis of alginate microparticles using microfluidics device
CESPT 2014 – 18.-20.9., Porotorž, Slovenia
– 10th Central European Symposium on Pharmaceutical Technology
- Kateřina Punčochová – Investigation of Dissolution Mechanisms by Imaging Methods – LECTURE
Preclinical Imaging Users’ Meeting 2014, 14.-15.10., Ettlingen, Germany
- Michaela Gajdošová
- Nina Sarvašová
AAPS 2014 – 2.-6.11., San Diego, USA
– Annual Meeting and Exposition
- Martin Jakubec – Spray Drying Particles Preparation for In Situ Production of Unstable Substances
- Kateřina Punčochová – Investigation of Dissolution Mechanisms by Imaging Methods
- Lucie Vidlářová – Lipid Nanoparticles for Topical Delivery of Lipophilic Actives
2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit – 30.11-5.12., Boston, USA
- Michaela Gajdošová – The Use of MRI as a Characterization Technique for Polymer Swelling Quantification
- Anna Pittermannová – Comparison of Microfluidics Strategies in the Preparation of the Alginate Microparticles
- Nina Sarvašová – The Use of MRI Technology for Studying the Adhesion of Microparticles
Viola and Ondrej are PhDs
Matej, Damian and Martin defend their BSc theses
Congratulations to Matej Novak, Damian Gorny and Martin Pospisil for successfully defending your BSc theses and passing the state examination. The first phase of university education is behind you but a higher level still awaits 🙂
Wedding day for Petra
Congratulations to Petra Haufová and Petr Goluch for getting married. Enjoy your wedding day and all the best for your common journey from the entire Chobotix team!
Jakub, Petra and Jan are BSc
Many congratulations to Jakub Dvořák, Petra Janská and Jan Sopoušek who successfully defended their bachelor theses and passed their state examinations. Enjoy your new bachelor titles, keep up the good work and lots of luck in the next years.