Asst. Prof. Kristina Gruden, Ph.D.
NIB Representative
Contact: kristina.gruden[at]nib.si
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National Institute of Biology
Department of Systems Biology and Biotechnology
Vecna pot 111
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
+386 1 423 33 88 ext. 258
Curriculum vitae
Associate professor dr. Kristina Gruden, has defended her PhD thesis
with the title 'Cysteine proteases from the gut of Colorado potato
beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata SAY): possible
application in biological control of the insect' at University of
Ljubljana in 1999. She has conducted short term postdoctoral stay at
Plant Research International in Wageningen, The Netherlands in 2000.
Already during her PhD she was combining the experiments on the gene
and protein level.
With the development of high troughput techniques for study of
biological problems she entered the field of systemic approaches during
her stay at Plant Research International in the area of
transcriptomics. She was project manager of two projects founded
by Slovenian research agency dealing with development of transcriptomic
tools (first one started in 2001), one of them is still ongoing, that
resulted in publication of some scientific papers. With the increased
capacity of DNA microarrays and real-time PCR technology she began with
the introduction of ‘easy to use’ bioinformatics system which included
also development of some tools needed for efficient data analysis. In
parallel, also the project (ARRS founded) for introduction of
proteomics tools was launched in 2004.
She is also project manager of several industry founded projects for
trancriptomics applications in drug development and drug
production.
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