photo: Tamino Petelinšek, STA

 

 

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

 

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