Dr. Michal Šíma is an Associate Scientist at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences. He received a B.Sc. in Parasitology, an M.Sc. in Parasitology, and a Ph.D. in Parasitology from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, in 2009, 2011, and 2016, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University. He focuses on studying the impact of air pollution and manufactured nanoparticles on human health, mainly at the transcriptomic level.
Dr. Pavel Rossner is the Head of the Department of Nanotoxicology and Molecular Epidemiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences. He received an M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, and Virology from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, in Prague in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is a Chairperson of the Czech and Slovak Environmental Mutagen Society and a member of the Czecho-Slovak Biological Society. His research interests include DNA, PCR, cell culture, Western blot analysis, immunofluorescence, proteins, RNA, genomics, next-generation sequencing, and transcriptomics.
