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Neža Orel

• Boris Petelin

SHORT CV

2011-2014: Bachelor's study of Environmental Sciences (1st level)., School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica. Bachelor thesis "Impact of pollutant mixture on microbial community in seawater from Gulf of Trieste", mentor prof. dr. Valentina Turk, co-mentor: dr. Tinkara Tinta.

2014-2017: Master's study of Environmental Sciences (2nd level)., School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica.. Master thesis "Response of the microbial community to a mixture of hazardous compounds, mentor prof. dr. Valentina Turk.

2018-2019: Professional Associate at Marine biology station Piran.

October 2019: I am in the PhD program at School of Environmental Sciences (University of Nova Gorica). I work as young researcher at the Marine biology station Piran under supervision of prof. dr. Valentina Turk, where I study potential pathogenic microorganisms in marine environment.

DRUGE AKTIVNOSTI

IZBRANE (NOVEJŠE) OBJAVE

Celotni seznam moje literature iz zbirke Cobiss

David Stanković

• Andrej Rojec

Timotej Turk Dermastia

• Boris Petelin

SHORT CV

I was born on the 23.11.1992 in Ljubljana, where I finished high school at Gimnazija Poljane. After graduating I began with my studies of biology at the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. During my studies I have participated in many workshops and seminars where I deepened my knowledge of life sciences. In the last year of my bachelor’s degree I was accepted to a student exchange in Perth, Australian lead by the European-Australian Network. I spent 5 months in Perth at Edith Cowan University, fulfilling my assignments towards my degree in Biology. Upon returning to Slovenia I started working at the Marine Biology Station in Piran on a student project where we developed a method for fast identification of fish species in food products. Work on this project had lead me to continue my education in marine biology so I applied and was accepted to St Andrews University in Scotland on a Masters course in Ecosystem-based management of marine systems. I spent a year in Scotland and graduated in November 2016 with a thesis titled Investigating immigration as a driver of population growth in the New Caledonian humpback whale breeding grounds using paternity analysis. After finishing my masters, I continued my studies on a PhD programme of Ecotechnology at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and started working as PhD candidate at the Marine biology station in Piran, where I was involved in studies of harmful algal blooms and the phytoplankton composition of the Slovenian sea, molecular methods for the detection and identification of these organisms and advanced bioinformatic analyses. I obtained my PhD in October 2021 with the dissertation titled Diversity, Ecology And Sensing Of The Toxic Diatom Pseudo-Nitzschia In The Gulf Of Trieste. Already during my PhD I started investigating a new research field, namely viruses infecting diatoms. In October 2022 I received funding for my postdoctoral project Diatom viruses and their role in organic matter cycling in the coastal seas. Details are available at https://projects.nib.si/diavir.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

I frequently write for popular science magazines and websites, where I try to bring my scientific interest to the general public and even children. For my science communication excellence I received the Prometheus of Science award in 2018 and along with other members of the In the Swirl of Change Symposium organizing committee also in 2021.  I was the winner of the 2019 ScienceSlam contest (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2415422218692959). I am a member of the executive board of the Slovenian Natural History Society and a member of the Council for Antarctic and Arctic Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (https://www.sazu.si/svet-za-raziskave-antarktike-in-arktike). I was also a co-chair and founding member of the young scientist leg of the Euromarine network (OYSTER https://euromarinenetwork.eu/oyster/).

SELECTED (NEWER) PUBLICATIONS

1. TURK DERMASTIA, Timotej, VASCOTTO, Ivano, FRANCÉ, Janja, STANKOVIĆ, David, MOZETIČ, Patricija. Evaluation of the rbcL marker for metabarcoding of marine diatoms and inference of population structure of selected genera. Frontiers in microbiology. Mar. 2023, vol. 14, str. 1-21, ilustr. ISSN 1664-302X. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1071379, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1071379. [COBISS.SI-ID 143697411]

2. TURK DERMASTIA, Timotej, DALL’ARA, Sonia, DOLENC, Jožica, MOZETIČ, Patricija. Toxicity of the Diatom Genus Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) : insights from toxicity tests and genetic screening in the Northern Adriatic Sea. Toxins : Elektronski vir. 2022, vol. 14, iss. 1, str. 1-17, ilustr. ISSN 2072-6651. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/14/1/60/htm, https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=137126, DOI: 10.3390/toxins14010060. [COBISS.SI-ID 94153219]

3. TURK DERMASTIA, Timotej, CERINO, Federica, STANKOVIĆ, David, FRANCÉ, Janja, RAMŠAK, Andreja, TUŠEK-ŽNIDARIČ, Magda, BERAN, Alfred, NATALI, Vanessa, CABRINI, Marina, MOZETIČ, Patricija. Ecological time series and integrative taxonomy unveil seasonality and diversity of the toxic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia H. Peragallo in the northern Adriatic Sea. Harmful algae. Mar. 2020, vol. 93, 101773, str. 1-20, ilustr. ISSN 1568-9883. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568988320300536?via%3Dihub, https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=11205, DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2020.101773. [COBISS.SI-ID 40469253]

 Link to COBISS, a Slovenian database containing all my publications

Ivano Vascotto

• Boris Petelin

SHORT CV

I was born on the 22th June 1990 in Trieste, where I lived and studied. I graduated at Guglielmo Oberdan High School and then I proceeded my studies in the University of the Studies of Trieste (UNITS). In 2015 I have complete bachelor studies in Science and Technologies for the Environment and Nature, so my background at this formation level is in natural science. My bachelor final report: Dinamiche a mesoscala di pico-e nanoplancton al largo di Baia Terra Nova (Mare di Ross, Antartide) was the result of the time I spent during a trainee in OGS institute in Trieste. I graduate at Master’ degree level two years later again in Trieste. This time I graduated in Environmental Biology with a thesis titled: Functional redundancy of seagrasses in Mediterranean lagoons: carbon, oxygen and nutrient cycles. My master thesis was conducted in the IFREMER institute of Sete (France) during a mobility period of six month financed by the Erasmus+ program. In October 2018 after a mobility period of six months financed by the FVG’s founding program EURES, I started working as young researcher at the National Institute of Biology. I am conducting here the research work for the PhD program of Eco-technology at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

SELECTED (NEWER) PUBLICATIONS