Based on competences of Dr. Lapanje and Dr. Rijavec, the Department is a partner in recently founded project ApPLAuSE (Alien PLAnt SpEcies) - from harmful to useful with citizens' led activities, lead by the City of Ljubljana. The Department tasks are focused in development of microbial technologies to obtain valuable chemical products from the IAPS.
Prof. dr. Borut Smodiš, dr. Radojko Jaćimović, and Lojze Gačnik attended the 7th International k0-Users' workshop, where the newest developments in k0 neutron activation analysis (k0-NAA) and related fields were presented.
Anja Stajnko and Janja Snoj Tratnik attended the 16th International Symposium of Trace Elements in Man and Animals (TEMA 16) which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from 26th to 29th June 2017 and was joined for the first time with the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans (ISTERH 2017) and Nordic Trace Element Society (NTES 2017).
The article "Platinum, palladium, rhodium, molybdenum and strontium in blood of urban women in nine countries" was chosen for TOP publication in December 2017.
Doris Potočnik and Bor Krajnc attended the workshop “Isoscape summer school” which was held in Fundazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all'Adige iin Italy, from 1st to 4th August, 2017. The main topic of workshop was GIS modelling using the data of stable isotope ratio of light elements.
The Universitat Rovira i Virgili is offering a PhD Fellowship position in the field of Nanoscience, Materials and Chemical Engineering
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Radio broadcast “Podobe znanja” hosted prof. dr. Nives Ogrinc on 25th of May 2018. The show was broadcasted at the national Slovenian radio station: Radio ARS.
By issuing Annex to the accreditation certificate LP-090, our department successfully passed external audit of its four methods accredited according to SIST EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005
Two of the IPSSC 2018 conference awards were received by students working at O-2: Tjaša Gornik and Staša Hamzić Gregorčič
The research work on the development and usage of structural alignment of mobile DNA elements, shortly sTRAST, to predict the transfer of antibiotic resistant genes to the potential bacterial hosts lead by the PI dr. Aleš Lapanje has been awarded at the biggest European microbiology conference FEMS2017.