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On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, our colleague Urša Čerček received the title PhD with a successful defence of her doctoral dissertation entitled »Effects of C9orf72 mutation associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia on protein expression«. She conducted her research work at the department, under the mentorship of prof. Boris Rogelj. Congratulations!

In December, as part of the annual meeting of the Biotechnology Program Group: Science for Health, we organized a minisymposi where the members of mrogram group presented our work in the form of short lectures. The program group represents a method of stable funding in Slovenia aand combines researchers from the Biotechnology Division, the Jožef […]

We announce the publication of our study in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. The study, led by Dr. Jerica Sabotič in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Structural Biology of the Jožef Stefan Institute and the BioLab at the IUBO of the University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de […]

The researchers in the team led by Dr. Jerica Sabotič, in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Structural Biology of the Jožef Stefan Institute, as well as researchers from the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana and the Hungarian University of Agriculture […]

At this year’s project proposal call from national research agency ARIS projects form our colleagues Tina Vida Plavec, Milica Perišić Nanut, Boris Rogej and Jerica Sabotič were selected for three-year financing. Additionally, also few project from our collaborative partners have been selected for financing. Congratulations!

On this year’s first call for projects within the Development Pillar (RSF) of the Jožef Stefan Institute project from colleague Milica Perišić Nanut was selected for four-year financing in the category of FUTURE projects.

Abida Zahirović, Borut Štrukelj and Aleš Berlec from the Department of Biotechnology at the Jožef Stefan Institute, in collaboration with colleagues from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ljubljana and the National Laboratory for Health, Environment and Food, have prepared a comprehensive article on approaches to the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection that […]

Urša Čerček from our department became the recipient of 2024 National Program for Women in Science, which promotes and supports research projects of female scientists in Slovenia. She has been awarded for her work in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases.Urša joins 49 previous scholarship recipients under the L’Oreal-UNESCO “For Women […]

Jerica Sabotič and Nika Janež from the Department of Biotechnology of the Jožef Stefan Institute, in collaboration with blue biotechnology experts who are members of the COST Action Network CA18238 Ocean4Biotech, have prepared a comprehensive guide for the use of bioassays for effective discovery of bioactive compounds, which has been published in the prestigious journal […]

The group of Inga Matijošyte from Life Sciences Center at the Institute of Biotechnology of Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, has developed a new substrate for the detection of laccase activity, Ferbamine. Laccases are versatile enzymes that catalyze oxidation reactions coupled to the reduction of molecular oxygen to water. They enable the degradation of lignin, […]