About us
I am Polonca Stefanic, an assistant professor at the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana. In the summer of 2021 I organized the first summer school in bioinformatics, which took place at the Biotechnical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana, in July (19-23.7.2021).
I have extensive experience in B. subtilis quorum sensing, but now my biggest passion resides in kin discrimination and its consequences on the survival, horizontal transfer and evolution of this species. I am also involved in a project investigating Bacillus strains as potential plant growth promoters (PGP), where we isolate and test new strains for PGP and biocontrol activity against different bacterial pathogens. Besides, I take part in an inter-species interaction project, where we test the ability of Bacillus species to act against Campylobacter in different setting. Always open to new collaborations and enjoy visiting research labs as a foreign scholar. Recently I started introducing bioinformatics to my work and through collaborations I have met many excellent teachers and experts in the field, allowing me to invite them to the school as lecturers.
Together with Zunanja povezava na External link todr. Mikael Lenz StrubeOpen in new window Odpira se v novem oknu we are hosting the Summer school in bioinformatics. His research is focused on the prevention of post weaning diarrea in pigs, mainly through prebiotics and other non-medical methods. He is furthermore interested in carbohydrate chemisty, enzymology, the microbiota of the intestines and advanced statistical analysis. He has numerous publications related to NGS, metagenomics and comparative genomic.
Where are we?
Summer school in bioinformatics 2024 will be held in a beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the Biotechnical faculty of the University of Ljubljana.