A5033446321- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Enzyme Production and Characterization
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Identification and Quantification in Food
University of Ljubljana
2010-2023
Biotechnical Educational Centre Ljubljana
1998
<i>Aim:</i> To evaluate the influence of wheat bran and oat on oxidative stress induced by a high proportion fat in diet. <i>Methods:</i> Forty-eight growing pigs were penned individually after an adaptation period divided into four groups. All groups received isocaloric daily rations composed basal diet which was then supplemented with: starch (controls; CONT), linseed oil (OIL), bran, or bran. The experimental lasted 14-days. evaluated measuring malondialdehyde...
Abstract Estrogenic activity has been detected in aquatic ecosystems across the world. However, there is a lack of such data for Slovenian wastewaters and surface waters. The monitoring program effluents discharged into waters does not require that emissions natural synthetic estrogens environments be assessed controlled. In our study, we potential estrogenicity wastewater samples from three treatment plants using yeast estrogen screen assay (YES assay). Due to high inhibition growth...
Anaerobic digestion, despite its preferable use as a treatment for high organic matter polluted waste streams, is susceptible to inhibitors, salt included. Therefore, two different experiments were conducted observe the responses of bacterial and archaeal communities hypersaline environments. In first experiment, was added gradually, while in second rapidly (so-called shocks performed). The results gradual addition showed recovery methane production after concentration decreased. NaCl 28.2...
Microalgae biomass has a great potential in search for new alternative energy sources. They can be used as substrate the biogas production anaerobic digestion. When using microalgae, efficiency of this process is hampered due to resistant cell wall. In order accelerate hydrolysis wall and increase we applied two different pretreatments – biological thermal under mesophilic thermophilic conditions. During pretreatment incubated microalgae with hydrolytic bacteria Pseudobutyrivibrio...
Agriculture is a source of emissions the greenhouse gas methane into environment. These can be reduced by appropriate storage animal slurry and manure, with proper fertilization processing organic agricultural waste biogas, where captured used as an energy source. Biogas renewable that produced microbial anaerobic digestion in biogas plants. As substrate plants using different types biomass such manure slurry, crop residues, spoilt silage, from food industry biodegradable industrial...
Abstract The huge amounts of keratin-rich waste generated daily by various industries, slaughterhouses, and processing plants need to be properly managed. Most keratin degradation-related research focuses on from bird feathers, but a vast minority sheep wool, which also presents serious environmental problem. In this article, we describe the isolation, identification, characterization new keratinolytic microorganisms capable wool degradation soil enriched with keratin. We isolated four...
Soil samples were obtained from Slovenian industrial region Šaleška dolina and aqueous leachates prepared. The toxicity genotoxicity potential of these fractions have been evaluated by in vitro bioassays. Freshwater test (PROTOXKIT FTM) with a ciliate protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila, comet assay using Caco-2 HepG2 cell lines performed. Biological data completed through chemical analyses. It has shown that physico-chemical analyses alone may not be sufficient to characterize soil hazards....
A bacterial model system (Pseudomonas putida DSM 50026) was used in this research to assess toxicity of the environmentally relevant concentrations mercury species (MeHg and Hg(II)) that represent important pollutants aquatic ecosystems at sites industrial or mining activities. In addition direct monitoring growth, we also analyzed fatty acid profiles exposed non-exposed cultures determine possible toxic effects manifested on membrane level. The results showed exposure P. Hg(II) 0.2–200 µg/L...
Using a different growth medium greatly improves distinction of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens and Pseudobutyrivibrio xylanivorans strains by the cellular fatty acids aldehydes profilesA total 11 ruminal currently assigned to were cultivated in two media, rumen fluid containing M2 short-chain acid (SCFA) M330, their methyl esters (FAME) dimethylacetals (DMA) analyzed using gas chromatography.A comparison FAME/DMA compositions revealed that difference SCFA contents induced pronounced quantitative...