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A team of students from the Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology called Generation Mendel has won gold medal and was nominated for Best Environment Project at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) global competition. Students from FIT, twins Petr and Pavel Kohout and Gabriela Chmelařová as an advisor, are also part of the winning team who came up with the design for a solution for cleaning water from blue-green algae. For more information, read the article. 

One of this year's winners presented with the Josef Hlávka Award for talented students was Simeon Borko from FIT. He received the award for his work on the EnzymeMiner project which he described in his Bachelor's thesis and in a publication in the international journal Nucleic Acids Research. EnzymeMiner is a computational tool that enables automated mining and annotation of diverse enzyme sequences and thus serves as an aid in finding suitable enzymes for research and industry. The prestigious award of the Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových (Foundation of Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka) is presented annually to talented students and graduates or young researchers under the age of 33. The award is regularly presented on the eve of the Velvet Revolution anniversary at Josef Hlávka Chateau in Lužany u Přeštic, but this year the ceremony did not take place due to the epidemic. 

Anna Silnova from FIT and her colleagues wrote the best expert student article. They won the Jack Godfrey's Best Student Paper Award at the Odyssey conference - the most prestigious event in the field of automatic speaker and language recognition. Originally, it was supposed to be held in Tokyo, but due to current situation, it took place online at the beginning of November. You can read the award-winning article on probabilistic embeddings for speaker diarization HERE.