Yearly Archives: 2020

The year is coming to the end and in many aspects the year 2020 has been much more virtual than previous years. Also, our daily communication including our meetings have gone virtual already since March! Although virtual and remote we can still conclude that it was also successful year. Wishing you all happy holidays and […]

Reputable journal Cancers (IF 6.64) published a paper by members of the department Mateja Prunk, Milica Perišić Nanut, Jerica Sabotič and Janko Kos entitled “Extracellular Cystatin F Is Internalised by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Decreases Their Cytotoxicity”. The article demonstrates that extracellular cystatin F after internalisation into cytotoxic T cells decreases their killing ability by […]

Urša Čerček received Faculty for Pharmacy student Prešern award 2020, awarded yearly for best student research work in the past year, for her interdisciplinary research study for master thesis entitled Effect of cold atmospheric pressure plasma on formation of stress granules in the selected stable cell line, which she made under the supervision of prof. […]

Reputable microbiological journal PLOS Pathogens (IF 6.2) published paper by members of the department Ana Mitrović, Jerica Sabotič, Milica Perišić Nanut, Emanuela Senjor and Janko Kos and colleagues from Faculty of Pharmacy published a review paper in discussing the role of cathepsins in coronavirus infection entitled: The role of cysteine peptidases in coronavirus cell entry […]

At this year’s project proposal call from Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) project submitted by our colleague Jerica Sabotič entitled “FunContrAPest: Novel Fungal Proteins as Biopesticides for Control of Challenging Invasive Alien Agricultural Pests” (J4-2543) was selected for three-year financing.The proposed project aims at developing new environmentally friendly biopesticides based on defense proteins from higher fungi […]

Researchers and students from our department received awards from Slovenian pharmaceutical company Krka at the 50th Krka Prizes for best postgraduate, undergraduate and high school research projects. Krka award:Neja KuretEffect of Lectin Kokaprin on Pathogenic and Probiotic BacteriaSupervisor: Anja Klančnik, PhDCo-supervisor: Jerica Sabotič, PhD Krka recognition for undergraduate and postgraduate research work:Urša Čerček,Effect of cold […]

The research groups of B3 – Biotechnology and F4 – Surface engineering both from Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, published an interdisciplinary research study: Motaln H, Čerček U, Recek N, Bajc-Česnik A, Mozetič M, Rogelj B. Cold atmospheric plasma induces stress granule formation via eIF2α – dependent pathway, Biomaterials Science (IF 6.2). The article reveals triggering […]

At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARRS project form our colleague Milica Perišić Nanut entitled “Cystatin F as a mediator of immunosuppression in glioblastoma microenvironment” (J3-2516) was selected for three-year financing. The project will study the role of protease inhibitor cystatin F in tumor immune evasion of glioblastoma multiforme with the […]

On Monday, July 6, 2020, our colleague Abida Zahirović received the title PhD with a successful defence of her doctoral dissertation entitled »Identification and characterization of major bee venom allergen Api m 1 mimotopes for development of specific immunotherapy«. She conducted her research work at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, under the […]

In the search for new antibacterial proteins from mushrooms, members of the Department of Biotechnology Jerica Sabotič, Jože Brzin and Janko Kos in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Biology discovered that L-amino acid oxidases (LAO) with strong antibacterial activity are present in mushrooms. These enzymes are otherwise known as an important component […]