Mihaela Pavličev received a PhD in Ecology in 2003 from the University of Vienna. After PhD she worked in molecular phylogenetics at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, primarily on phylogenetic relationships in lizards and birds. During subsequent postdoctoral work in quantitative genetics, she worked on the structure and evolution of the genotype-to-phenotype map, first …
David Križaj is the John Frederick Carter Professor in Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Utah School of Medicine, currently also serving as the Director of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Utah. He completed graduate training at the New York University School of Medicine and postdoctoral fellow in retinal neurobiology at …
Dimitri Krainc is the Ward Professor and Chairman of the Davee Department of Neurology, Director of the Feinberg Neuroscience Institute and Director of the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He has dedicated his scientific career to studying molecular pathways in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration. Informed by genetic causes of disease, …
Dr. Janina Golob Deeb received her Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1996. Following graduation she completed a year of internship at the University of Ljubljana. She continued her education at Oregon Health Sciences University graduating with a certificate in Periodontology in 2000 and a Master in Science degree …
Professor David Sarlah obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at the University of Ljubljana. He carried out his undergraduate research with Prof. K. C. Nicolaou at Scripps Research and Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky at Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Scripps Research under the guidance of Professor K. C. Nicolaou, and was a …
Jernej Murn is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Riverside. He obtained his B.Sc. in chemistry/pharmacology from the University of Ljubljana in 2001 and his Ph.D. in molecular biology in 2006 at the CEA Laboratory for Functional Genomics in France and the University of Ljubljana. He pursued postdoctoral training at Cold Spring …
Boštjan Kobe received his BSc in chemistry from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD in biochemistry and biophysics from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at St. Vincent’s Institute in Melbourne, Australia, where he established his own laboratory at the end of …
Jernej Ule is a Van Geest Professor of Neurodegeneration research and Centre Director at the UK Dementia Research Institute (UKDRI) at King’s College London. He obtained his BSc at University of Ljubljana and Ph.D. in molecular neuroscience from the Rockefeller University in New York. In 2006 he started his own research group at the MRC …
Andrej Šali received his BSc degree in chemistry from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1987, working on the sequence-structure-function relationship of stefins and cistatins under the supervision of Professor Vito Turk; and his PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, in 1991, developing the MODELLER program for comparative modeling of protein structures under …