REGISTRATION
08:30 – 09:00
OPENING OF THE 10th COLLOQUIUM OF GENETICS
Boštjan Markelc
09:00 – 09:15
OPENING LECTURE
Chair: Boštjan Markelc
09:15 – 09:45
Sleeping beauty transposon system: towards gene therapy for rare blood disorders
Karen Vanhoorelbeke, KU Leuven, Belgium
09:15 – 09:45
ANIMAL GENETICS, HUMAN GENETICS
SHORT LECTURES
Chairs: Simon Horvat, Uroš Petrovič, Simona Kranjc Brezar,
Damjan Glavač
09:45 – 11:15
Genomic structure of the Lipizzan horse population from the Lipica stud:
Tamara Ferme
09:45 – 10:00
Advancing Spatial Transcriptomics in Complex Tissues: A Xenium Workflow for Skeletal Muscle
Irma Zeljković
10:00 – 10:15
Development of experimental models to assess the efficacy of electrochemotherapy in osteosarcoma
Saša Kupčič
10:15 – 10:30
GOREVERSELOOKUP: phenotype-to-gene discovery via reverse gene ontology analysis
Aljoša Škorjanc
10:30 – 10:45
AI-driven design of mini-ush2a and gene electrotransfer for mutation independent therapy of Usher syndrome type 2
Lucija Malinar
10:45 – 11:00
Radiotherapy induces activation of tumor endothelium and formation of high endothelial venules, supporting anti-tumor immune response
Iva Šantek
11:00 – 11:15
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING – PART I
11:15 – 11:45
MICROBIAL GENETICS, PLANT GENETICS
SHORT LECTURES
Chairs: Marjanca Starčič Erjavec, Jernej Jakše, Nataša Štajner
11:45 – 13:15
Mosaic: a highly heterogeneous Saccharomyces cerevisiae outbred population to unveil the genetic basis of natural diversity
Neža Škofljanc
11:45 – 12:00
The role of tisB in protecting Escherichia coli against environmental threats
Lena Brezovnik
12:00 – 12:15
Virus-induced cahnges in miRNA expression in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
Katja Jamnik
12:15 – 12:30
Glucosinolate profiling of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) lines and hybrids reveals predictive power of parental phenotypes
Primož Fabjan
12:30 – 12:45
A phased genome resource for potato cultivar Désirée
Tim Godec
12:45 – 13:00
Trait-linked DNA markers reveal enhanced pathogen resilience in composite populations of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Eva Plestenjak
13:00 – 13:15
LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING – PART II
13:15 – 14:30
CLOSING LECTURE
Chair: Damjan Glavač
14:30 – 15:00
Modeling the tumor microenvironment and response to treatment of aggressive cancers
Barbara Breznik, NIB, Slovenia