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Groups: IMTM, LEM, METABOLOMICS, STAFF, SUPERVISOR

About me

Lukáš Najdekr obtained his PhD in medical genetics after studying biochemistry at the Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). During his PhD, he interned at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (CA, USA). After PhD, he moved to Rick Dunn’s Metabolomics Group at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), where he also participated as a lecturer at the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre (BMTC). Nowadays, he is back at his alma mater as a head of the Metabolomics Core Facility at the Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic). His research focuses on clinical metabolomics and lipidomics, the application of LCMS, and their potential applications in medicine. 

Journals

BEGER, R., R. GOODACRE, C. JONES, K. LIPPA, O. MAYBORODA, D. O´NEILL, L. NAJDEKR, I. NTAI, I. WILSON, W. DUNN
Analysis types and quantification methods applied in UHPLC-MS metabolomics research: a tutorial. Metabolomics. 2024, 20(5), 95, ISSN: 1573-3882, PMID: 39110307,  PDF.
NASH, W., J. NGERE, L. NAJDEKR, W. DUNN
Characterization of Electrospray Ionization Complexity in Untargeted Metabolomic Studies. Analytical Chemistry. 2024, ISSN: 0003-2700, PMID: 38917347.  PDF.
KVASNIČKA, A., L. NAJDEKR, D. DOBEŠOVÁ, B. PISKLÁKOVÁ, E. IVANOVOVÁ, D. FRIEDECKÝ
Clinical lipidomics in the era of the big data. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 2023, 61(4), 587-598, ISSN: 1434-6621, PMID: 36592414,  PDF.

Master mentorship

Pokorná Natálie

Development and validation of LC/MS assay for analyses of fat-soluble vitamins

Status: Graduated from 2021 to 2023.

Kantorová Kateřina

Metabolomic Analysis of Plasma Samples from Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

Status: Ongoing from 2025.

Bachelor mentorship

Machálková Markéta

Untargeted metabolomics of T-lymphoblastic leukemia cells affected by quinolinone derivative

Status: Graduated from 2011 to 2013.

Šťastná Veronika

Metabolomic analysis of mouse plasma using aminopropyl column and TripleQ-MS

Status: Graduated from 2011 to 2013.

Mádrová Lucie M.Sc

Analysis of lipids in blood stains for the diagnosis of inherited metabolic disorders

Status: Graduated from 2011 to 2013.

Open positions

2 Biomarkers: Identification and validation
Project: Application of untargeted lipidomics and metabolomics as a tool for generating hypotheses in personalized medicine
Supervisors: Najdekr Lukáš Ph.D.
Available: 1
Intended for: Doctoral training
Summary: 1 place in full-time study
Project: Applied lipidomics approach in the search for new clinical biomarkers and elucidation of the structure of unknown lipid species
Supervisors: Najdekr Lukáš Ph.D.
Available: 1
Intended for: Doctoral training
Summary: 1 place in full-time study
2 Molecular and Translational Medicine
Project: Use of open-source software approaches for analysis of metabolomic and lipidomic clinical data
Supervisors: Najdekr Lukáš Ph.D.
Available: 1
Intended for: Doctoral training
Project: Isolation and analysis of membrane lipid rafts using a non-targeted metabolomics and lipidomics approach
Supervisors: Najdekr Lukáš Ph.D.
Available: 1
Intended for: Doctoral training