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Biography

Education and qualification

2008, University in Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty PhD

1999, University in Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, BSc

Work experience

1999-present: Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University in Ljubljana

Organisation of scientific meetings and memberships of scientific societies

2008 – today Member of organizing committee and editor of book of abstract at 5th Slovenian Symposium on Plant Biology with International Participation, Slovenia

1998 – today Member of the: Slovenian Society of Plant Biology, Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology and Biological Society of Slovenia

Acting as reviewer and editor

1998 – today reviewer for Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, Applied Soil Ecology, International Journal of Phytoremediation, Science of Total Environment, Frontiers in Microbiology, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Science and Pollution, Plant and Soil, Symbiosis, Fungal Ecology, Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Scientific Reports, Plant Science, Soil Research, etc.

1998 – today reviewer of projects for COST (EU), National Science Foundation (USA) and National Science Centre (Poland)

2021 – today academic editor for Agriculture

2023 – today chief editor for Acta Biologica Slovenica


Work Experience

Education and qualification

  • 2008, University in Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty PhD

  • 1999, University in Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, BSc


Work experience

  • 1999-present: Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University in Ljubljana


Supervision of graduate students and teaching activities

  • 2008 – today Supervision of BSc students, BF, UL, Slovenia: 10

  • 2008 – today Supervision of PhD students, BF, UL, Slovenia: 3

  • 1998 – today, practical work and lectures for BSc courses in Biology and Biotechnology and PhD in Biosciences, BF, UL, Slovenia


Organization of scientific meetings and memberships of scientific societies

  • 2008 – today, Member of the organizing committee for Slovenian Symposiums on Plant Biology with International Participation, Slovenia

  • 1998 – today, Member of the: Slovenian Society of Plant Biology, Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology and Biological Society of Slovenia



Membership

  • Slovenian Society for Plant Biology
  • Slovenian Biological Society


Research Fields

  • Interactions of plants with microbes (endophytes, mycorrhiza, rhizosphere)
  • Environmental microbiology (metagenomes)
  • Plant physiology in plants under stress (biotic, environments enriched with heavy metals)


Selected Bibliography

  • BOČAJ, Valentina, PONGRAC, Paula, FISCHER, Sina, LIKAR, Matevž. 
    De novo transcriptome assembly of hyperaccumulating Noccaea praecox for gene discovery. Scientific data. 2023, vol. 10, article no. 856, str. 1-7, ilustr. ISSN 2052-4463. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02776-x#Abs1, DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02776-x.
  • REGVAR, Marjana, LIKAR, Matevž, PILTAVER, Andrej, KUGONIČ, Nives, SMITH, Jane E. Fungal community structure under goat willows (Salix caprea L.) growing at metal polluted site: the potential of screening in a model phytostabilisation study. Plant and soil2010, 330: 345-356. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0207-7.
  • LIKAR, Matevž, VOGEL-MIKUŠ, Katarina, POTISEK, Mateja, HANČEVIĆ, Katarina, RADIĆ, Tomislav, NEČEMER, Marijan, REGVAR, Marjana. Importance of soil and vineyard management in the determination of grapevine mineral composition. Science of the total environment. 2015, 505: 724-731. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.057.
  • LIKAR, Matevž, REGVAR, Marjana. Isolates of dark septate endophytes reduce metal uptake and improve physiology of Salix capreaL. Plant and soil 2013, 370: 593-604. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1656-6.
  • LIKAR, Matevž, GRAŠIČ, Mateja, STRES, Blaž, REGVAR, Marjana, GABERŠČIK, Alenka. Original leaf colonisers shape fungal decomposer communities of Phragmites australis in intermittent habitats. Journal of fungi 2022, 8: 1-14. DOI: 10.3390/jof8030284.