Based on competences of Dr. Lapanje and Dr. Rijavec, the Department is a partner in recently founded project ApPLAuSE (Alien PLAnt SpEcies) - from harmful to useful with citizens' led activities, lead by the City of Ljubljana. The Department tasks are focused in development of microbial technologies to obtain valuable chemical products from the IAPS.
Doris Potočnik and Bor Krajnc attended the workshop “Isoscape summer school” which was held in Fundazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all'Adige iin Italy, from 1st to 4th August, 2017. The main topic of workshop was GIS modelling using the data of stable isotope ratio of light elements.
The release of the Special issue in JSS related to 22nd ISEB symposium held in Piran in 2015
Janja Vidmar and Eva Kranjc from the Department of environmental sciences participated the 3rd International conference NANOAPP 2017 which was organised in Bled, Slovenia from 14th – 18th June 2017.
Radmila Milačič, Tea Zuliani and Janja Vidmar attended the celebration that marked the 70th anniversary of the Institute for Biological Research Siniša Stanković (IBISS), University of Belgrade in Serbia.
Jožef Stefan Institute and 11 other European partners will develop new modular educational and training tools in nuclear and radiochemistry. The project is coordinated by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover and will last 3 years.
Visit of members of the Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology at National Institute of Biology
The spring school was organized for national stakeholders to get acquainted with the potential of isotope and elemental analyses for determination of authenticity, geographical origin and production practice (conventional vs. organic) of foods of plant and animal origin.
Prof. dr. Radmila Milačič, assist. prof. dr. Tea Zuliani, Janja Vidmar and Gregor Pavec attended the Second Slovenian congress on waters where the importance of the protection of water eco-systems was emphasized and the effectiveness and deficiency of the water management in Slovenia was critically evaluated.
From 27.-31.3. 2017 Marko Štrok attended the IAEA Regional Workshop on Source Montioring in Paks, Hungary. The aim of the workshop was to exchange experience among participants in monitoring of gaseous and liquid discharges from nuclear facilities, hospitals and laboratories. Part of the workshop was also visit to Nuclear Power Plant Paks.
Three students from O2 department, Janja Vidmar, Gorazd Koderman Podboršek and Gregor Pavec, participated on a three-day training on LA-ICP-MS, which was organized from 8. 3. to 10. 3. 2017 at IPREM, Pau, France. The training was carried out under the supervision of dr. Christophe Pecheyran and was part of the exchange of scientists within the EU MASSTWIN project.