Researchers of the program groups organized in June 2012 the 9th International Symposium on Anaerobic Microbiology ISAM. Thirty-six participants from 15 countries discussed a number of topics in the field of anaerobic microbiology. Special emphasis has been devoted to the integration of science and profession. As microbiology as a science links interdisciplinary with other disciplines (especially in science, medicine and engineering) in solving scientific and technical problems, the symposium attended by experts from various fields (microbiologists, doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, biotehnologists, food technologists and biologists) attended the symposium. Seven plenary lectures of prominent lecturers, 29 lectures and 34 posters were presented by participants from Slovenia, neighboring countries as well as other European and overseas countries.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 280104448Members of the scientific program group organized 7th Congress of Slovenian Microbiological Society, which was held between 20th and 22nd September 2017 in Bled. All-together, 186 participants from 26 different Slovenian and Croatian institutions attended the congress and presented their work in 45 scientific talks (18 of which were from invited speakers) and 91 posters. Eight sections covered all the main fields of research in microbiology, including bacteriology, mycology, microbial physiology and biochemistry, industrial microbiology, microbial ecology, food microbiology, immunology, microbial genetics, genomics and proteomics, taxonomy and evolution. A special section was dedicated to young researchers (up to two years after finishing their PhD) to present their work. The last day was prepared as an international section covering different aspects of Virology.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 291719424In this patent, we have developed an innovative process of transformation of waste beer yeast into biogas in a UASBtype bioreactor. UASB bioreactors usually metabolise only dissolved organic substances, but our innovative process allows the addition of up to 3% of waste yeast into brewery waste water, which increases the production of biogas by an average of 40%. Laško, who is the owner of the patent, produces so much heat from the biogas that covers 60% of the heat demand in the production of beer .The process has been tested at laboratory, pilot and industrial scale. In the development of the process were used traditional engineering and new microbialbiotechnological approaches, where we have applied the expertise from the field of anaerobic microorganisms.
F.33 Slovenian patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 3220872• Omega 3 enriched chicken meat – producer Perutninarstvo Pivka, certificate of higher quality awarder by the minister of agriculture Mr. Dejan Židan • Omega 3 enriched eggs – producer Jata Emona, Omega + trademark, higher quality certificate • Eggs enriched with vitamins, minerals and omega 3 fatty acids – producer Jata Emona, Zlato jajce trademark • Omega 3 enriched pork, producer Panvita, Pigi trademark
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 3407240I have presented a decade of research focusing on the bacteria from the Bacteroidetes phylum. It all started with the development of a fast and efficient system for gene introduction and expression hitherto not available for the genus Prevotella. Soon afterwards it was realized that the fundamental process of mRNA translation initiation was different in this phylum which was shown bioinformatically as well as using in vitro reporter assays. Later we noted the correlation between the predicted gene expression and the presence of translation initiation signals in Bacteroidetes genomes. When examining these correlations between genomes of various Bacteroidetes we've found out that the groups of genomes with similar translation initiation signals usage corresponded to groups of organisms inhabiting similar/same habitats or sharing similar life-styles. We concluded therefore that adaptation to an ecological niche doesn't involve only gene repertoire but also the tuning of expression signals in inter-gene regions.
B.04 Guest lecture
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