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Looking Back on 2025: BRT Newsletter
With 2025 now behind us, the BioResources & Technology (BRT) Division reflects on a year defined by collaboration, innovation, and global engagement. From new research outputs and international projects to academic milestones and community-building events, 2025 marked a period of steady progress across BRT’s research, education, and outreach activities.
Meet our new intern - Chin Hui Ween
To broaden and develop our teams’ collaborative skills while offering visiting students the chance to expand their scientific networks and gain cultural experiences, BRT encourages students to join our team for internship opportunities. These internships aim to facilitate idea exchange, foster professional growth, and create opportunities for collaboration. Meet the new intern joining our team from Malaysia, Chin Hui Ween (Vivian)!
Paper Published! Bridging behavior and policy: Determinants of household biogas adoption in West Java, Indonesia
Researchers from the Faculty of Tropical Agrisciences (FTZ) at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), including BRT Director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hynek Roubík, recently published an article in Fuels.
Biogas is increasingly recognized as a strategic component of Indonesia’s clean energy transition. However, despite significant potential, particularly in livestock-dense regions, household-level adoption remains limited. This study focuses on dairy farming households in West Java Province to examine the factors influencing biogas adoption.
Using data from 201 households, including both adopters and non-adopters, the research applies a binary logistic regression model to analyze the determinants of adoption. The study integrates socioeconomic variables such as income, livestock ownership, and electricity access with behavioral and institutional factors including fuel-cost pressure, perceived time savings, and participation in training.
BRT Project Spotlight: CZU mobiLAB 2.0
What if advanced molecular diagnostics could travel directly to where they are needed most?
The CZU mobiLAB 2.0 project is making this a reality. Developed as a modular molecular-biology laboratory, mobiLAB 2.0 enables high-precision scientific analysis using RT-qPCR directly in field and remote locations. This means that results no longer depend on distant laboratories, data can be generated, analysed, and interpreted on-site, in real time.
At its core, mobiLAB 2.0 is designed to accelerate decision-making in critical situations. Its speed and accuracy allow end-users to monitor research outcomes immediately, supporting faster responses in both scientific and applied contexts. One key example is the in-situ monitoring of African Swine Fever in high-risk areas. By enabling on-the-ground detection, the system supports rapid containment measures that can significantly reduce the spread and impact of outbreaks.
Meet our new intern - Marina Salel
To broaden and develop our teams’ collaborative skills while offering visiting students the chance to expand their scientific networks and gain cultural experiences, BRT encourages students to join our team for internship opportunities. These internships aim to facilitate idea exchange, foster professional growth, and create opportunities for collaboration. Meet the new intern joining our team from the United States, Marina Salel!
MCYR 2026 Awaits: Building on a Global Research Community
What does it mean to be part of a truly international research network?
At the Multidisciplinary Conference for Young Researchers (MCYR) 2025, the numbers tell a powerful story, one of global collaboration, diversity, and growing impact. As preparations have begun for MCYR 2026, last year’s edition shows why you should be part of the next one.
A Conference That Connects the World
MCYR 2025 welcomed 121 in-person participants, creating a dynamic and interactive environment for discussion, networking, and knowledge exchange at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences (FTZ), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague(CZU).
Beyond those physically present, the conference reached a much wider academic community, bringing together a total of 418 co-authors representing 126 universities across 37 countries and 5 continents.
