To increase the influence and recognition of biophysics in Slovenia and enhance the collaborations among biophysicists as well as to improve the quality of your biophysicists' training we organized the first Slovenian days of Biophysics in november 2013. The core of this unformal meeting was the two round table discussions (Biophysics in industry and Where to go after PhD?), which were intended to create new perception of cooperation between biophysics and real sector as well as to expose new opportunities where and how to gain the R&D money, in addition to two poster sessions which aimed at unformal discussions about R&D problems between researchers and developer from industry.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The invention relates to specific nanoparticles, formulated molecular compositions containing them and use thereof. The invention further relates to a method for nanoparticles stabilization and encapsulation into the lipid vesicle, forming nanomagnetoliposomes and their use as unique simultaneously positive (T1) and negative (T2) targeted MRI contrast agents. The obtained bionanocomposites are capable of targeted delivery to the specific site or organ with its simultaneous MR monitoring in vivo. Such multifunctional nanoparticles/ nanomagnetoliposomes may be employed for in vivo medical diagnosis and/or treatment, e.g. tumoral diseases.
F.32 International patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 26994983Education of young experts requires special skills and have large socio-economic impact as well. Last year, a very creative process of supervising in the area of experimental biophyiscs converged into succesfully defended disertation of Iztok Urbančič in the field of Membrane domain response to external stimuli. Candidate developed two if the new hybrid methods and with the setup experimental systems reliably detected the biomembran phase response on temperature and biochemical composition in different local environments including living cell.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 271289088Until now thrombolysis was considered as a biochemical process, in which the role of blood flow through the clot was primarily in delivery of a thrombolytic agent in the clot, while the mechanical aspect of the blood flow and with it associated forces acting on the surface of the clot were largely neglected The later aspect was the main focus of the thesis. The candidate has clearly shown, first with experiments with optical microscopy on model blood clots and then with the appropriate mathematical model and computer simulations, that the impact of these forces is crucial for the successful outcome of thrombolysis. The forces of blood flow cause clot fragmentation, with the size and the frequency of the fragments being flow dependent. Therefore, the process of thrombolysis can also be considered as a kind of corrosion-erosion process.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 2556516The lecture was focused on the presentation of new approaches in teaching natural sciences with the emphasis on the ways in which we can develop a scientific way of thinking.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2555748