CIPKeBiP is connecting the top available expertise, knowhow, and technology of Slovenian research laboratories in protein science, thus emphasizing biomedical relevance of the applied project (priority health and life sciences). The Centre includes ten partner institutions from central and northeastern region of Slovenia, among them five industrial entities. We are focused on specific biological issues of high scientific relevance and of high biomedical (infectious diseases, signaling pathways) and environmental (adaption mechanisms of extremofiles) importance.
D.02 Establishment of a research centre, laboratory, study course, association
COBISS.SI-ID: 0000000Dr. Tom Turk was invited to co-edit a special issue of Toxicon on cnidarian toxins and venoms. In the special issue 20 papers were published covering the research of this interesting group of animals and their toxins between 1990 and 2009.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 0000001. Organization and leading of the national infrastructural centre for surface plasmon resonance aimed to study the kinetics of molecular interactions. The centre is an integral part of the network of infrastructural centres at the University of Ljubljana. 2. Organization and leading of the laboratory for high-throughput yeast genetics at JSI. The laboratory is of a national importance since it provides experimental platform for national research projects ranging from computer to environmental sciences and an applicative/industrial project on drug discovery.
D.07 Presiding over a centre/laboratory
COBISS.SI-ID: 0000000Dr. Igor Križaj was re-elected in 2009 as the Secretary of European Section of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) and as a member of the IST Council. The IST was founded in 1962 by a group on scientists and clinicians interested in advancing the science of toxinology. The purpose of the IST is to advance knowledge on the properties of toxins and antitoxins and to bring together scholars interested in these substances through a common Society. The IST is divided into three regional sections, European, Pan American and Asia-Pacific. Today the Society gathers several hundreds members.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
COBISS.SI-ID: 00000001. Dr. Gregor Anderluh is a member of the Editorial Board of Analytical Biochemistry (ISSN: 0003-2697) which impact factor (2008) is 3.088. AB is one of the leading journals in the fields of analytical chemistry (14/70) and biochemical methodology (21/65). 2. Dr. Igor Križaj is a member of the Editorial Board of Toxicon (ISSN: 0041-0101) which impact factor (2008) is 2.460. Toxicon is the leading toxinology journal, it is among the leading journals in the field of toxicology (26/75) and in the upper half of the journals in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy (94/216).
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 1835012