Researchers Assist. Dr. Polonca Štefanič, Assist. Prof. Dr. Barbara Kraigher and Prof. Dr. Ines Mandić-Mulec from the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, and their colleagues from Harvard University were the first in the world to show that strains of Bacillus subtilis bacteria produce kin discrimination. That means that only swarms of the most closely related bacteria strains interact. The research and its findings were presented in the renowned PNAS magazine. Descriptions of kin discrimination in microorganisms are very rare, and no study of kin discrimination in sympatric bacteria populations has been conducted so far.
The Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, received its third international excellence award with AMBA accreditation . It is the only faculty in the wider region to become part of an elite group of international schools holding triple accreditation, i.e. the international EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA accreditations. This achievement places it among top one percent of business and economics schools in the world.
Researchers from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Jelena Vasiljević, Danaja Štular, Assist. Prof. Dr. Brigita Tomšič, Prof. Dr. Jožef Medved and Prof. Dr. Barbara Simončič in cooperation with researchers from the Institute of Chemistry developed a new procedure to produce multi-functional highly durable inorganic-organic hybrid sol-gel film to achieve simultaneous superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning, antimicrobial activity and improved thermal stability of polymer substrates. The sol-gel film is extremely important for the production of high-tech technical textile products with protective properties and high added value.
Within the scope of the September working meeting of University of Ljubljana representatives at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, the University of Ljubljana signed an agreement on mutual cooperation between the universities. It is ELTE’s desire to deepen cooperation and establish cooperation with other University of Ljubljana Members, particularly to increase the number of exchange professors and students between the universities.
