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Team: Students

  The House of Students

In Vivo Veritas

The night is dark and full of terrors…

Katja Leben

Field of study:

Biochemistry, MSc

Main contributions:

Calcium sensing system, ​cloning


Science crush:​

My love is uncovering the underlying mechanisms of immunological pathways, but lately I've started an exciting affair with synthetic biology.

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Hanging from a rock cliff, reading a book.

Rok Krese

Field of study:

Biotechnology, BSc

Main contributions:

Activation of cells with ultrasound

The Master of Coin.


Science crush:

Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Surfing, diving or travelling.

If we die, we'll die, but first we live.

Tjaša Plaper

Field of study:

Molecular and functional biology, MSc

Main contributions:

Protein retention and secretion from the cell


Science crush:

Imunology and microbiology

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Travelling, drinking a beer with my friends or enjoying a quiet moment in nature with my dog.

Nik Franko

Field of study:

Microbiology, BSc Biotechnology, MSc

Main contributions:

Novel regulated protein secretion system, novel split proteases, QC

...cloning quicker than you would expect for a man of that size.


Science crush:

Synbio problems, biotech entrepreneurship

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Collecting my thoughts in the gym or enjoying a chocolate gelato somewhere under the Mediterranean sun.

What do we say to the god of Wiki? Not today!

Lidija Magdevska

Field of study:

Computer science and mathematics, BSc

Main contributions:

Wiki design, debugging, modelling

Science crush:

Finding the invisible link between things

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

As I am. All or not at all.

Miha Gradišek

Field of study:

Electrical engineering, MSc

Main contributions:

Research and implementation of the system for ultrasonic stimulation

Sometimes a man has to make hard choices, choices that might look wrong to others, but you know are right in the long run.


Science crush:

Development of integrated circuits, research of biomedical influence of ultrasound on the observed tissue

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Photoshooting nature somewhere in the wilderness.

When it comes to war, she fights for the lab, when it comes to science, she doesn't choose sides.

Estera Merljak

Field of study:

Biochemistry, MSc

Main contributions:

Confocal microscopy, cloning.


Science crush:

In the mysterious plasmid masquerade mammalian cells disguise as tea pots and ghosts, humoring few chosen for confocal microscopy. Only your own imagination is the limit of synthetic biology.

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

A great lyric coloratura soprano.

Samo Roškar

Field of study:

Medicine, MD

Main contributions:

Novel split proteases and inducible secretion system

...the proteases hunter.


Science crush:

Think about the medical application.

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Cycling and thinking how to make it better.

I'm no Lady.

Nina Jerala

Field of study:

Medicine, MD

Main contributions:

Light inducible systems, light inducible split proteases, inducible logic gates


Science crush:

Physical anthropology, infectious disease, genetic engineering

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Going straight back to the lab. It's called the Stockholm syndrome.

Kosta Cerović

Field of study:

Medicine, MD

Main contributions:

Ultrasound (analysis and visualization) and Human Practices

From this time to the end of time, we are a free and independent kingdom.


Science crush:

She is not into science, otherwise cardiovascular research.

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

outside of the lab, wouldn't I? Probably training judo or enjoying sunny beaches in Montenegro.

They found some of my…experiments…too bold.

Arne Praznik

Field of study:

Biotechnology, MSc

Main contributions:

Constructs for logic operations


Science crush:

Nothing in particular. Everything in general.

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Coordinates -46.0569465, -165.49424850

Žiga Pušnik

Field of study:

Computer and information science, MSc

Main contributions:

Wiki design, modeling, software development

With me, lads! Wiki is not falling tonight.


Science crush:

Computational biology, machine learning

If I weren't in the lab I would be:

Lying on the beach and smiling to the sun.