Projects

• Validacija biomarkerjev za diagnostiko goveje tuberkuloze
• Strengthening capacity in the field of pork safety and quality in the small Food business operators
• New non-regulated mycotoxins in cereals: risk assessment and possibility of reduction by extrusion processing

• Sustainability in pork production with immunocastration
• Preventing the Extinction of the Dinaric-SE Alpine Lynx Population Through Reinforcement and Long-term Conservation
• ART-REM (Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and regenerative medicine (REM)
• Infrastructure for promoting metrology in food and nutrition
• Investigation of Traditional Cheese Production Tecnology and Standards in the Light of European Union (2019-1-TR01-KA202-077415)          

Applicative Research Projects

• Management strategies and control of Salmonella Infantis infections in broiler flocks
• Rising the competitve position of Slovenian cattle farming by controlling paratuberculosis in dairy cattle herd
• Genotyping of the American foulbrood causative agent as a tool to determine the transmission routes of the disease
• Detection of type A influenza viruses in environmental samples, feed and animal bedding and development of an algorithm for the diagnosis of influenza in pig
• Technological innovations to improve animal welfare in poultry and pigs

Basic Research Projects

• Identification and characterization of pathogens of infectious diseases with the method of next generation sequencing
• Time-lapse intra-vital imaging of immune response after electrochemotherapy induced in situ vaccination and interleukin-12 gene therapy boost
• Role of estrogens in active brain feminisation; and development of a novel hormone implant, mimicking estrous cycle 
• Improving immune response of animals against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and Clostridium perfringens toxins with chicken egg yolk antibodies
• Use of probiotics to control contamination of poultry farms with campylobacters and salmonella
• Plasma decontamination of mycotoxins and inactivation of fungi in food industry
• Protein complexes from the fungal genus Pleurotus, new bio‐ pesticides for controlling Colorado potato beetle and western corn rootworm
• Rezistomi probiotičnih in starterskih kultur kot potencialni dejavnik tveganja za širjenje odpornosti proti antibiotikom
• Celice beta med razvojem in remisijo z dieto povzročene sladkorne bolezni

Other National Projects

• Development of Advanced Cellular Therapies to Treat Dementia in Dogs
• Cell transplantation into murine brain as a model for brain damage treatment
• Isolation, characterisation and posible uses of exosomes from mesenchymal stem cells for advanced treatments of dogs
• Wildlife park 3

Office for Research and International Cooperation

Head: mag. Petra Gruden
Email: petra.gruden@vf.uni-lj.si
             
Tel.: 01 4779 852