Bionanoteam attends the 13th Croatian Biological Congress
Bionanoteam attended the 13th Croatian Biological Congress and presented 4 posters and 1 lecture. The presentations were on he effects of nanoparticles on the immune response of isopods, the biokinetics of Ag NPs in terrestrial isopods, cellular neurotoxicity of Ag NPs and the effecst of Magnelli phase TiO2 on cells. Anita Jemec Kokalj gave a lecture on the DaNa2.0. knowledge Base.
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SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting
Bionanoteam attended the SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, from 7th to 11th May 2017.
Three posters were presented:
Behavioral tests with terrestrial crustacean Porcellio scaber as fast screening tool for agricultural application - an example of carbonized materials by Madžarić et al.,
Polyethylene microbeads evidently affect the Lemna minor root growth and root cell viability by Kalčikova et al.,
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Bionanoteam joined an international team of experts working within the DaNa project
DaNa is an umbrella project aiming at collecting and evaluating scientific results in an interdisciplinary approach with scientists from different research areas, such as human and environmental toxicology, biology, physics, chemistry, and sociology.
You can find relevant information about the project at: http://www.nanopartikel.info/en/projects/completed-projects/dana
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Prof. Drobne received Jesenko Prize for lifetime achievements
Biotechnical Faculty honoured Prof. Dr. Damjana Drobne by awarding her Jesenko Prize in order to recognise her lifetime achievements. In particularly, her implementation of a new line of research; e.g. nanobiology and nanotoxicology, was honoured. Also, her contribution to doctoral studies at the Biotechnical Faculty is highly appreciated. Prof. Dr. Damjana Drobne is by no doubt a renowed researcher, both ...
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Visit to Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council
Prof. dr. Damjana Drobne participated in the official visit of the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor to Iran for the opening of the Slovenian embassy in Teheran. During the visit, the Memorandum of Understanding on Scientific Cooperation between Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), Ljubljana, the ...
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Visit to the Iowa State University
In October 2016, prof. dr. Damjana Drobne visited the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, USA. On October 25th, 2016, she gave a lecture entitled “Nanoparticle neurotoxicity and neurotoxicity assessment: examples form EU projects.”
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Visit to Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. dr. Damjana Drobne visited the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Xiamen: On August 31st 2016 she gave a lecture entitled "Nanoparticle internalistion, bioaccumulation and food chain transfer." The visit was within the bilateral agreement of Inter-governmental Science & Technology Cooperation between China and Slovenia (BI-CN/14-15-006).
On September 1st 2016 she gave a lecture entitled "Update on nanoparticle safety: ...
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2nd Nanosafety Forum for Young Scientists
Sara Novak and Neža Repar attended the 2nd Nanosafety Forum for Young Scientists held in Visby (Gotland, Sweden) from 15th to 16th September 2016. Sara had an oral presentation entitled “The effect of Ag NPs on crustacean digestive gland is interplay of shape, size and dissolution of particles: a FTIR study” and Neža presented a poster “Highly reactive oxygen plasma ...
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Exchange visit at the Western University of Health Sciences
Neža Repar received an Ad Futura scholarship for studying abroad and visited the Western University of Health Sciences in California, USA. She worked in the research group of Professor Yiling Hong for three months. Her research group is mainly focused on human pluripotent stem cell neuronal differentiation and on the use of neuronal cells as a model for nanotoxicity testing.
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Young Scientist Award for Veno Kononenko at CROTOX 2016
Veno Kononenko received the Young Scientist Award for his abstract at the 5th Croatian Congress of Toxicology - CROTOX 2016.
The Executive Committee of the Croatian Society of Toxicology awarded his work entitled »Phototoxicity of mesoporous TiO2+Gd microbeads with the potential for cancer diagnosis and treatment.«
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Bionanoteam is a research group at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana.
Founded in 2008 by Prof. Damjana Drobne, Bionanoteam currently consists of 4 experienced researchers, 3 PhD candidates, and a number of graduate and undergraduate students. Damjana is a Professor of Zoology and Professor of Toxicology from University of Ljubljana. With over twenty years of research experience, she is the founder and principal investigator of Bionanoteam.
