David Sarlah received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Ljubljana in 2006 and his Ph.D. from the Scripps Research Institute in 2011. Following a postdoctoral stay at ETH Zürich, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 2014. His research interests span from the synthesis of complex, biologically active natural products and the …
Jernej Murn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at University of California, Riverside. Prior to joining UC Riverside as faculty in 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital where he trained with Yang Shi in epigenetics and RNA biology. Prof. Murn completed his Ph.D. in molecular biology …
Boštjan Kobe received his BSc degree in chemistry at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at St. Vincent’s Institute in Melbourne, Australia, where he also started his own laboratory at the end of 1997. In …
Jernej Ule is a 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 Laboratory of …
Andrej Sali 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 …
Klementina Fon Tacer is an assistant professor of reproductive biology and oncology at TTU SVM, working in the field of comparative cancer biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and germ cell differentiation. Klementina received her D.V.M. from the Veterinary Faculty and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, both at the University of Ljubljana. After postdoctoral research at …
Dr. Gregor Gorjanc is a Group Leader (Professor) at The Roslin Institute (University of Edinburgh). He is also affiliated with the Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Security (University of Edinburgh), the Centre for Statistics (University of Edinburgh) and the Biotechnical Faculty (University of Ljubljana). He studied Animal Science (engineer) and Genetics (PhD) at the …
Nives Dolšak is the Stan and Alta Barer Professor in Sustainability Science and the Director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. Between 2012 and 2018, she served as a visiting professor at Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She received her Joint Ph.D. from School of Public & Environmental Affairs and the …
Alenka Poplin is an Associate Professor of Geoinformation Science at the Community and Regional Planning department at Iowa State University. She holds a PhD in geoinformation science from Vienna University of Technology, a Master of Business Administration from Clemson University and a Master of Surveying from the University of Ljubljana. She is also the director …
