SHORT CV

2014 – Master in Microbiology

Thesis “Photosensitizer effect in Aeromonas salmonicida Lipids”

2013 – Erasmus Trainee in Laboratory of Aquatic Toxicology-University of Eastern Finland

2012 – Banchelor in Biology

PhD student – University of Nova Gorica

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Research Fellow in Marie Curie Programme INTERFACES “Development of methods for detection of viruses in aquatic environments and their interactions with bacteria in biofilms”

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/interfaces/index.aspx

Supervisors: Valentina Turk, Maja Ravnikar, Ion Gutierrez (National Institute of Biology) 

Co-Supervisor: Matjaz Hren (Biosistemika) 

Study of changes in microbial community composition at micro-scale level in water environments and biofilms. The changes in microbial productivity and community structure together with inorganic nutrients, dissolved organic carbon will be followed using classical methods, as well as microscopic, molecular (FISH, DGGE, qPCR) and radiolabelled methods (C-14, H-3, P-33). New qPCR protocols will be performed to quantifying dominant bacterial group and viruses in water environments, including those that originate from anthropogenic activity.