2nd General meeting Maristem, Banyuls (France)
Bionanoteam attended the 2nd General meeting on Maristem cost action in Banyuls (France) (November 28-30). Maristem is called: Stem cells of marine/aquatic invertebrates: from basic research to innovative applications. The goal of this action is to foster the study of MISCs by strengthening the European research community, and to integrate it with biomedical disciplines for innovative applications.
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Bionanoteam celebrates the 10th Anniversary
Prof. Drobne funded Bionanoteam in 2008. The exact date for registration of the research group was 12.11. 2008. To pay tribute to this event bionanoteam met and discussed past and future events and shared happy memories with colleagues involved in nanoscience research.
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2nd EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety (29.10.2018)
Damjana Drobne (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Emeric Frejafon (INERIS, France) chaired a 2nd EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety. The 2nd EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety is an event bringing together nanosafety experts, from Asian and European countries. The purpose of this event is to get insights on actual and future human and environmental nanosafety research, to then discuss in the breakout ...
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Bionanoteam attended Pandora 3 rd annual meeting, Tubingen (22-25.10.2018)
Bionanoteam attended Pandora 3 rd annual meeting and scientific course “the immune system of plants”. The meeting was held at the University of Tübingen. Pandora is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Innovative Training Network funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The project is called Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms.
prof. Drobne and Dr Diana Boraschi, ...
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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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A visit to Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen (China), September 2018
Prof. Damjana Drobne visited Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen (China). The purpose of this visit was to plan future joint research work in the field of nanosciences. This visit is financed with bilateral exchange grant (ARRS-China).
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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.,
and ...
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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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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.
