New cell wall teichoic acid (WTA) from Listeria innocua ŽM39 was characterized including the analysis of its biosynthesis genes by members of Department Nika Janež and Jerica Sabotič in collaboration with Anja Klančnik and Meta Sterniša from Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, with Barbara Bellich, Paola Cescutti and Roberto Rizzo from University of Trieste, and […]
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You can simultaneously test antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity against Salmonella by analysing their growth curve. Jerica Sabotič, in collaboration with Meta Sterniša and Anja Klančnik from the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, described this simple approach in the International Journal of Food Microbiology and filed a patent application.This simple approach, called Simba, was […]
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Members of department Ana Mitrović and Janko Kos with coworkers’ form Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and coworkers from Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana published the paper in journal Cellular and Molecular Life Science (IF = 9.261) entitled “Evaluation of novel cathepsin-X inhibitors in vitro and in vivo and their ability to improve […]
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On 1 January 2022, we started our work under a new research programme entitled Marine and Microbial Biotechnology, led by Dr Ana Rotter from the National Institute of Biology and in collaboration with Prof Nina Gunde Cimerman from the Biotechnical Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. The research programme focuses on marine and related extreme […]
Read More In December 2021, we started working on a new project funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNS), entitled: “Bactericidal nanoblades: a proof-of-concept approach for bimodal chemo-mechanical eradication of persistent biofilms”. The proposed project will verify a new concept for the eradication of persistent bacterial biofilms by combining mechanical […]
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