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Uroš Petrovič Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Jozef Stefan Institute Jamova 39 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia tel.: +386 1 477 32 50 fax: +386 1 477 35 94 email: uros.petrovic{at}ijs.si University Education: Undergraduate: Biology 1997, Isolation of xerophilic microfungi from Anapurna mountains. Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (supervisor: Prof. Nina Gunde-Cimerman) PhD: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2001, Mechanisms of adaptation to changes in environmental salinity in a halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii. Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (head of the lab: Prof. Ana Plemenitaš) Positions: 2016- Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2013- Associate Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007- Principal Investigator, Jožef Stefan Institute 2006-2013 Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2005-2011 Assistant Professor, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2002-2007 Post-doctoral fellow, Jožef Stefan Institute 1997-2001 Graduate student, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Visiting scientist: 2010-2011 University of Toronto (with Igor Stagljar & Charlie Boone) 2009 University of Toronto (with Igor Stagljar) 2004, 2006 University of Graz, Austria (with Sepp Kohlwein) 2001, 2003 University of California, San Francisco, USA (with Joe DeRisi) 2001 University of Göteborg, Sweden (with Anders Blomberg) Research interests: Please, see the Yeast Functional Genomics and Phenomics group research description. Media coverage of the Petrovič group research (December 2014). Collaborations: Klaus Natter, University of Graz, Austria Blaž Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Tomaž Curk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Johan Thevelein, KU Leuven and VIB and GlobalYeast, Belgium Jonas Warringer, Anders Blomberg, University of Göteborg, Sweden Igor Stagljar, University of Toronto, Canada Charlie Boone, Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto, Canada Florian Bauer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Corey Nislow, University of British Columbia, Canada Amy Caudy, University of Toronto, Canada Joe DeRisi, University of California at San Francisco, USA Evolva Genialis Teaching: Functional Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Yeast genetics @ University of Ljubljana Bibliography: PubMed Ceterum censeo, deljenje raziskovalnih točk s številom avtorjev je potrebno ukiniti!