Eight participants from the National Institute of Biology (NIB) attended a three-day workshop on genotoxicity at Swansea University in June 2024, hosted by Prof. Dr. Shareen Doak. The workshop focused on sharing knowledge and best practices in laboratory techniques, project applications, and genotoxicological research as part of the CutCancer project. Participants explored advanced equipment for…
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Is there something better and more satisfying than passing on knowledge to younger generations? Seeing their eyes shine while you talk about all the things you have already done and things that still need to be revealed and explored? As part of the EU CutCancer_twinning project Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology hosted Bachelor…
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Barbara Breznik presented research work at the EACR congress in Rotterdam (10-13 June) in a form of poster presentation. She presented work, entitled »Utilizing translational platform GlioBank to identify novel molecular signatures of glioblastoma progression«. Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most lethal solid tumors in humans. Currently, GBM is considered incurable and there is…
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Air Protection 2023, Mlini, Dubrovnik, Croatia NOVAK, Matjaž, KOLOŠA, Katja, ROZMAN, Iza, ŠENTJURC, Tjaša, ŽEGURA, Bojana https://huzz.hr/Zbornik/Zbornik_sazetaka_za_web.pdf
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EUROTOX2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia ŠTERN, Alja, ŽABKAR, Sonja M., ROZMAN, Iza, SÁENZ HERNÁNDEZ, A., MORENO-MALDONADO, A. C., FUENTES, J. A., GOYA, G. F., ŽEGURA, Bojana https://cdn2.me-qr.com/pdf/17475359.pdf
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National Institute of Biology was proud to welcome prof. Krzysztof Wrzesinski from 21 to 24 May 2024, co-founder and CSO of CelVivo ApS and Extraordinary Professor at Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health, The North-West University, South Africa, and a member of Advisory board of CutCancer project. Prof. Wrzesinski obtained his PhD…
Read articleIn May, Brain tumour meeting 2024 was held in Berlin. It was a brilliant event with great talks about brain cancer cell’ plasticity, brain metastases, tumour microenvironment, and the role of immune system in brain tumours. We are proud of PhD student Tina Kolenc Milavec, a member of our group, who attended the meeting with…
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From 29th to 31st of May 2024 the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (IPS) Student’s conference took place. This is an annual event that aims to bring together PhD student of IPS and give them the opportunity to present their research to peers in various research areas. Tim Ravnjak gave an oral presentation with the…
Read articleopen access: https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-1380 Enfield KSS, Colliver E, Lee C, Magness A, Moore DA, Sivakumar M, Grigoriadis K, Pich O, Karasaki T, Hobson PS, Levi D, Veeriah S, Puttick C, Nye EL, Green M, Dijkstra KK, Shimato M, Akarca AU, Marafioti T, Salgado R, Hackshaw A; TRACERx consortium; Jamal-Hanjani M, van Maldegem F, McGranahan N, Glass…
Read articleopen access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2024.110977 Sanz-Sagué B, Sáenz-Hernández A, Moreno Maldonado AC, Fuentes-García JA, Nuñez JM, Zegura B, Stern A, Kolosa K, Rozman I, Torres TE, Goya GF The applications of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as biocatalysts in different biomedical areas have been evolved very recently. One of the main challenges in this field is to design affective…
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