Michal Hocek 🇨🇿 🇪🇺 🌍 🍷🧬🧪
@hocekm
Professor and group leader at IOCB ASCR and at the Charles University Prague. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, nucleic acids. Widower, father of two daughters.
Congratulations to the winners of the @ChemEurJ & #ChemBioChem Poster Prizes at the recent @SCNAC2025 - and many thanks to the jury for their hard job making a choice among all the stellar posters! Kudos to Lessandro De Paepe, Tania Sanchez Quirante & Qiyang Zhang! 👏
The 19SCNAC culminated yesterday with lectures on DNA damage, RNA modofications, oligonucleotide therapeutics and G4. Thanks to all participants for great presentations and see you in 2028 for the 20SCNAC !




Beer party at the 19SCNAC conference. Informal discussions and good company.




Great first day of the 19SCNAC conference in Cesky Krumlov.




Natalia Kuprikova has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled Enzymatic synthesis of hypermodified DNA bearing anionic or cationic functional groups. PhD No. 48 from the Hocek group. Congratulations! @IOCBPrague @science_charles


Our newest paper on enzymatic incorporation of 2-substituted adenine nucleotides into RNA and their use for RNA labeling has been published in @chembiochem : doi.org/10.1002/cbic.2… @IOCBPrague @Akademie_ved_CR @science_charles

Our newest paper on enzymatic synthesis of hypermodified DNA bearing functional groups mimicking amino acid side chains in enzyme active sites just published in @ChemEurJ . doi.org/10.1002/chem.2… @IOCBPrague @VSCHT @science_charles @Akademie_ved_CR

Ara Manzanillo. Reintroduction station for great green macaw



