The project leader was the chair of the scientific and organizing committee of the 12th Symposium on Bacterial Genetics and Ecology (BAGECO-12) which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 9-13 June 2013. BAGECO meetings are held biannually and have developed into one of the most important international conferences on bacterial ecology, with attendance limited to 300 participants and only one session so that participants can hear all the talks. A major motivation of the BAGECO meetings is to open new conceptual avenues leading to better understanding of the ecology and evolution of bacteria in the environment including molecular mechanisms of their interactions that are important for their survival and ecosystem functions. Further details are available at http://www.bageco2013.org . To chair this event is an honor and also indicates that the project leader is well respected in the field of microbial ecology. The symposium was a success with more than 300 researchers attending the conference, which further opened the doors for collaborations with best research groups in the world.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 4259448The achievement involves a series of invited lectures in China that were financed by Chinese research council. The proposed project leader lectured on quorum sensing at several of the most eminent Universities of China: the Shanghai Jiaotong Univerzi; the China Agricultural University, Bejing [COBISS.SI-ID 4065656], at the Nanjing Agricultural University, Department of Plant Pathology [COBISS.SI-ID 4066168]; and at the international conference: "Simposium on Biological Control of Plant Diseases, Nanjing, May 16, 2010. Nanjing, 2010, as an invited lecturer [COBISS.SI-ID 4067448]. The achievement shows the international importance of the project leader research work and its appeal to other eminent research institutions abroad.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4065656This achievement represents an invited to lecture given by prof. I. Mandič-Mulec at the Department of Biology, University of Groningen on quorum sensing. This lecture laid the ground long term collaboration, participation in an international course "New frontiers in microbial ecology: Master course on microbial ecology, December 13, 2010, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Groningen: University of Groningen, 2010. [COBISS.SI-ID 3889016] and as the long term invited lecturer in the Master program of the Groningen university within the course "Microbial Ecology" and in the international school "New Frontiers in Microbial Ecology".
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 3776376IMM was a guest lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, where she presented the latest results of this project, covering recent publication in PNAS. She also contributed as a member of the thesis committee of REN, Dawei. Synergistic interactions in multispecies biofilms : PhD thesis. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Section for Microbiology, 2014. 51 str., [93] str. pril., ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 4375928]
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 4375672At this invited lecture given by prof. I. Manič-Mulec and the international conference “Power of microbes in industry and environment” we presented our latest results foccusing on the life of Bacillus subtilis in soil and rhizosphere with emphasis on social life and biopesticide potential. We also presented our results on the distribution of ecotypes and pherotypes and how they connect to various interesting traits of B. subtilis that are important for biopesticide activity. We also discussed our latest results on swarming and on the regulatory link of the quorum sensing system between primary and secondary metabolism, which contributes to the evolutionary stability of QS.
B.04 Guest lecture
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