As part of the CutCancer project, a Flow cytometry course for researchers and technicians was organised from 17-18. June 2025. The course was organised by Thermo Fisher Scientific and Omega. The instructors were Vincent Van Averbeke; Field Application Scientist – Flow Cytometry from Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Lea Vukanović from Omega. The Flow Cytometry Course…
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We are pleased to share that our PhD student Simona Katrin Galun has recently completed another one-month research visit to the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden. The training took place between May and June 2025 at the Mats Nilsson lab. This was her second visit to the Nilsson lab, where she had previously…
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Jure Povšin a,b, Timotej Sotošek a,b, Metka Novak a, Barbara Breznik a* a National Institute of Biology, Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia b Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 113 Večna pot, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Read more
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At the EEMGS 2025 congress in Bratislava (June 2–6), Bojana Žegura presented research from the CutCancer project, including an oral presentation on the genotoxicity of MFe₂O₄ magnetic nanoparticles in a 3D HepG2 model, and two posters addressing genotoxic and inflammatory effects of PAHs in a lung co-culture model, and cellular responses to non-genotoxic carcinogens…
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Tina Kolenc Milavec, a PhD student from the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), spent last two months at University Medical Center in Amsterdam, in the group of Febe van Maldegem. During her first expert visit last year she learnt all about the Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC),…
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Last Thursday, 17th of April, our institute had the pleasure of hosting a group of enthusiastic primary school students from Ribnica for a day full of science, discovery, and fun. The visit began with an interactive workshop where the kids took part in hands-on lab tasks. They practiced pipetting, identified microscopic images of cells and…
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