Letno poročilo 2005

Laboratorij za biotehnologijo
Laboratory of Biotechnology
- Laboratorij za delo z mikroorganizmi
- Laboratorij za delo s celi~nimi kulturami
IZOBRA@EVANJE IN OBISKI / GOSTOVANJA
- Pet sodelavcev L12 je habilitiranih za
sodelovanje pri do- in podiplomskem {tudiju
Univerze v Ljubljani
- Diplomska dela v letu 2005: 8
- Doktorska dela v letu 2005: 1
- Gostovanje podiplomskega {tudenta Gorana
Miklu{evi~a iz Hrva{ke in podiplomske
{tudentke Kirsten Altenbach iz Velike Britanije
M. Man~ek Keber je za svojo doktorsko
disertacijo z naslovom: LPS-vezavni proteini:
analiza lastnosti in interakcij z endotoksinom
(mentor: R. Jerala), prejela kar dve nagradi:
- Krkino nagrado za doktorska dela (35. Krkine
nagrade 2005, Novo mesto, 28. 10. 2005)
in
- Nagrado Kemijskega in{tituta za izjemno
doktorsko delo (8. 12. 2005)
DOSE@EK ODMEVEN V MEDIJIH
^lanek raziskovalcev Kemijskega in{tituta
(Kombinacija antimikrobne aktivnosti in
nevtralizacije endotoksina z novimi oleoilamini,
z avtorji Mateja Zorko, Andreja Majerle, David
[arlah, Mateja Man~ek Keber, Barbara Mohar
in Roman Jerala), ki so ga objavili v reviji Antimicrobial
Agents and Chemotherapy so izbrali
za predstavitev v julijski {tevilki »ASM News«,
ki je glasilo najve~jega svetovnega profesionalnega
zdru`enja - Ameri{kega zdru`enja
mikrobiologov, ki zdru`uje preko 42,000
mikrobiologov s celega sveta. Tukaj predstavljamo
prevod teksta, ki ga je za ASM News
napisal David Holzman.
»Sepsa, ki je bil neposreden vzrok smrti
pokojnega pape`a Janeza Pavla II., je vodilni
vzrok smrti v oddelkih za intenzivno nego po
vsem svetu, ker zaenkrat ni na razpolago
u~inkovite specifi~ne terapije”, pravi Klaus
Brandenburg iz Leibnitzovega centra za
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- System for 2D gel electrophoresis with software
for data evaluation (Melanie)
- Laboratories for microbiology and cell culture
EDUCATION AND IMPORTANT VISITS
- Five members of the Laboratory of Biotechnology
participate as lecturers or demonstrators
at the under- and postgraduate level at
the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 8 BSc projects performed at the department
have been defended in 2005
- 1 PhD thesis
- Research visits of PhD students Goran
Miklu{evi~ from Croatia and Kirsten Altenbach
from United Kingdom
M. Man~ek Keber received for her PhD thesis:
LPS binding proteins: analysis of their properties
and interactions with endotoxin (mentor:
R. Jerala) two awards:
- Krka Prize for PhD thesis, awarded by the Krka
pharmaceutial company (Krka d.d., Novo
mesto, Slovenia), October 2005
- The National Institute of Chemistry Award for
Exceptional Doctoral Work, presented in December
2005
ACHIEVEMENT NOTED IN THE MEDIA
Paper by the researchers of L12 and L08 (Combination
of antimicrobial and endotoxin-neutralizing
activities of novel oleoylamines) by
Mateja Zorko, Andreja Majerle, David [arlah,
Mateja Man~ek Keber, Barbara Mohar and Roman
Jerala), recently published in Antimicrobial
Agents and Chemotherapy was selected for
presentation in the July issue »ASM News«,
which is the magazine of the largest professional
society – American Society for Microbiology,
with more 42,000 mikrobiologists from
the whole world. The text below has been written
for ASM News by David Holzman.
Sepsis, which was the immediate cause of the
death of Pope John Paul II, is the leading cause
of mortality in intensive care units, “because
almost no specific therapy is available,” says