The last two months Tina Kolenc Milavec, a PhD student from the Department of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), spent at University Medical Center in Amsterdam, in the group of Febe van Maldegem. During the expert visit she learnt all about the Imaging Mass Cytometry, a relatively new…
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We are very grateful and happy to have a PhD student Maria Escrivá Conde from SU Stockholm on hands-on training at NIB. Maria came to train NIB researchers to set up the microscopy settings for In Situ Sequencing (ISS) methodology. Planning joint activities further plans for collaborative experiments focused around e.g. ISS methodology and spatial…
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From 12 to 14 December 2023, we continued to build excellence in the support services of the National Institute of Biology (NIB) when three colleagues from the corporate services (two from the project office and one from the institute library) travelled to Amsterdam, where they were hosted by the CutCancer project partner Amsterdam UMC (VUmc).…
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Tumours are complex mixture of a heterogeneous population of cells that possess distinct genetic, morphological, and phenotypic profiles, which can affect tumour development and therapeutic resistance. The success of cancer treatments relies on the comprehension of the heterogeneous and immune hostile tumour microenvironment (TME), further on providing additional possibilities to eliminate its tumour supportive role.…
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Dr. Van Maldegem from VUmc is one of the pioneers in using and developing Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) method for cancer research. IMC enables detailed and contextual characterisation of protein expression and is a mass spectrometry-based technique that allows for the immunostaining of up to 40 markers in a single tissue section. Tissue sections of primary…
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Sonja Žabkar and Katarina Fras underwent three-week hands-on training at Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, where they gained new knowledge on working and handling the in vitro cell co-culture lung model. They saw how to handle the co-cultures in the inserts, such as media change, treating the co-cultures with chemicals, establishing an air-liquid interface (ALI), where the cells are apically exposed to air, harvesting, and fixing the cells for further experiments. They also managed to touch the principles of micronucleus assay with fixed cells and its analysis on the Metafer system.
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The staff from the NIB Project Office, the Technology Transfer Office, the Public Relations Office, the Accountancy Department and the Human Resource Office attended the four-day training to gain new knowledge and share best practices to strengthen research management capacity and administrative skills with the main aim to expand the research and innovation capacity at NIB.
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Lecture within subject “Biochemistry of cancer initiation and progression”, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana
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The overarching aim of CutCancer is to improve the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in the field of 3D in vitro cancer research at the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia, through access to state-of-the-art technologies. We have prepared a seminar for master students that attend a course of Biochemistry in Cancer.
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