New ARIS projects at the department

  • 12.November, 2023
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At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARIS postdoctoral project from colleague Emanuela Senjor was selected for two-year financing. Additionally, also few project from our collaborative partners have been selected for financing.

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Department at SBD congress

  • 10.November, 2023
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Members of the department at congress of Slovenian biochemical society (SBD) in Portorož this September that we attended in larger number. At the congress we were very active and presented our work as oral presentations or as posters. The congress was also an excellent opportunity for networking and connecting with other researchers in the field […]

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Cathepsin inhibitors nitroxoline and its derivatives inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection

  • 25.August, 2023
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Colleagues Ana Mitrović and Janko Kos from department in collaboration with colleges from Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana and ICGEB in Trieste published the paper in journal Antiviral Research (IF = 10.103) entitled »Cathepsin inhibitors nitroxoline and its derivatives inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection«. In paper the authors demonstrated that selective cathepsin B inhibitors, such as […]

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Change in FUS protein involved in early onset of FTD

  • 25.April, 2023
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Researchers from the department prof. dr. Boris Rogelj, assist. prof. dr. Helena Motaln and young researcher Urša Čerček, together with colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands discovered change in FUS protein involved in early onset of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). By synthesizing and validating a specific detector (antibody) for the modified last amino acid of FUS […]

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NMR in microbial glycobiology

  • 20.January, 2023
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Join us at the mini-symposium on NMR in microbial glycobiology, which will be held on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 10:00 a.m at the Jozef Stefan Institute, in the main Institute lecture hall, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana. We organize this event together with prof. Anja Klančnik from Biotehnical Faculty. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a […]

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