Yearly Archives: 2021

The article “The Influence of Probiotics on the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes Ratio in the Treatment of Obesity and Inflammatory Bowel disease”published in the journal “Microorganisms” by our colleagues Spase Stojanov, Aleš Berlec and Borut Štrukelj has achieved a new milestone.The journal announced the most downloaded articles for 2020, where the article of our colleagues is on the […]

International research consortium Project MinE, in which prof. dr. Boris Rogelj from our department is the scientific expert for Slovenia, published the largest genome-wide association study to date on the genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), increasing the number of known genes associated with this severe disease to 15.Researchers from the international consortium of […]

We finally managed to organize to take a group photo of the members of the department with almost all people present in front of our building next to the statue of Jožef Stefan. As almost always, some co-workers are unfortunately still missing.

Among this year´s Krka Prize winners for special research achievements is a researcher from our department, Dr. Abida Zahirović, who received the special prize for her PhD thesis entitled Identification and characterization of major bee venom allergen Api m 1 mimotopes for development of specific immunotherapy. She conducted her research under the mentorship of Assoc. […]

Nika Janež, Jerica Sabotič (corresponding) and co-workers recently published a review of current advances on how Listeria monocytogenes organises its surface for biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces in the food sector (DOI 10.1111/1751-7915.13847). Insights into the molecular structure of bacterial surfaces can provide new ideas and directives for the development of new antimicrobial strategies to […]

A Biosafety Level 2 (BSL2) laboratory has been established in the Department of Biotechnology for for simultaneous work with bacteria and eukaryotic cell lines enabling interdisciplinary research in the field of microbiology and cell biology. The facilities, equipment and materials are currently being used for the analysis of bacteria-host interactions, bacterial glycobiology and biofilm research […]

At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARRS projects form our colleagues Boris Rogej and Ana Mitrović were selected for three-year financing. Additionally, also few project from our collaborative partners have been selected for financing.

On Monday, September 20, 2021, our colleague Tina Vida Plavec received the title PhD with a successful defence of her doctoral dissertation entitled »Surface display of tumor antigen binders on Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 and evaluation of their binding to selected human tumor cell lines«. She conducted her research work at the department, under the mentorship […]

Janja Božič, Helena Motaln, Anja Pucer Janež and Lara Markič headed by prof. dr. Boris Rogelj and in collaboration with researchers from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, identified protein interactions of factors that can cause neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) if they accumulate in the wrong […]

A paper »Targeting of fluorescent Lactococcus lactis to colorectal cancer cells through surface display of tumour-antigen binding proteins« was published in Microbial Biotechnology by members of the department Tina Vida Plavec, Ana Mitrović, Milica Perišić Nanut, Borut Štrukelj, Janko Kos and Aleš Berlec. Safe multifunctional cancer cell targeting bacteria Lactococcus lactis were developed to target […]