Prof. Dr. Nina Gunde - Cimerman

Chair of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
	Večna pot 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana
	Office z.2.20
	+ 386 (0) 1 423-33-88
	nina.gunde-cimerman@bf.uni-lj.si
BIOGRAPHY   Education University Diploma 1983, Bf, University of Ljubljana. M. Sc. 1987, BF, University of Ljubljana. Ph. D. 1993, BF, University of Ljubljana. Post-doctoral Education 1986 (8 months), University of Tulane and USDA, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA;  advisor prof. dr. Kenneth Erlich Teaching Positions Assistant of Industrial Microbiology, 1993–1996. Assistant Professor of  Industrial Microbiology, 1996-2002 Associate professor of Microbiology, 2002- Professional Positions Head of  Infrastructural centre MZKI at the National Institute of Chemistry 1995- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms Editor of the European Culture Collection Newsletter 1995– Member of the executive board of the European Culture Collection Organisation Chair of the  Education and Capacity Building committee and member of the Endangered Culture Collections committee of the  World Federation for Culture Collections Slovenian represenatative of the following international organizations: European Federation for Biotechnology, section for Environmental Microbiology, Section for Biodiversity, BioNET – EuroLoop, GBIF Awards Krka award for Ph.D. thesis 1994 Boris Kidrič Foundation Award for research accomplishments 1990 (together with coworkers).
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS   Graduate Program UL MF Microbiology and parasitology Microbiological methods Graduate Program UL BF Conservation of biological genetic resources Undergraduate programs at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana Microbiology  (CHEMISTRY major) Undergraduate Program UL BF Fundamentals of Microbiology (BIOLOGY major) Microbiology (BIOLOGY major) Industrial microbiology (BIOLOGY major) Pathogenic microbes (BIOLOGY major) Identification and taxonomy (MICROBIOLOGY major) Undergraduate Program UL PF Microbiology  (BIOLOGY and CHEMISTRY major)
RESEARCH INTERESTS (More information at SICRIS)   Research Fields  Studies of genomic variability and physiological adaptation of halophilic and psychrophilic fungi Development of classic and molecular methods for identification of microorganisms Involvement of fungi in post-traumatic osteomyelitis Biosurgery with Lucillia serricata larvae Participation in Current Research Projects Slovenia – Denmark: Fungi of the genera Penicillum and Aspergillus  isolated from extremely saline waters. Slovenia – Portugal: Biodiversity of microfungi in the salterns Slovenia – Germany: Fungi in saline environments European program Large Scale Facility (LSF): Extromophilic yeast like fungi in coastal Arctic environment Selected publications (For complete bibliography click COBISS) GUNDE-CIMERMAN, N., ZALAR, P., DE HOOG, S., PLEMENITAŠ, A. (2000). Hypersaline waters in salterns: natural ecological niches for halophilic black yeasts. FEMS microbiol. ecol. 32, 235-240. MÉJANELLE, L., LOPEZ, J.F., GUNDE-CIMERMAN, N., GRIMALT, N., JOAN, O. (2001). Ergosterol biosynthesis in novel melanized fungi from hypersaline environments. J. lipid res. 42, 352-358. ZALAR, Polona, DE HOOG, G. S., GUNDE-CIMERMAN, Nina. (1999). Trimmatostroma salinum, a new species from hypersaline water. V: DE HOOG, G. S. (ur.). Ecology and evolution of black yeasts and their relatives, Studies in Mycology, 43:57-62. CIMERMAN, Matej, GUNDE-CIMERMAN, Nina, ZALAR, Polona, PERKOVIĆ, Tatjana (1999). Femur osteomyelitis due to a mixed fungal infection in a previously healthy man. J. clin. microbiol., 37 (5): 1532-1535. GUNDE-CIMERMAN, Nina, ZALAR, Polona, PETROVIČ Uroš, TURK Martina, KOGEJ Tina, de HOOG Sybren, PLEMENITAŠ Ana (2003). Fungi in the salterns. In. Halophilic microorganisms and their environments (ed. Ventosa A.), Springer Verlag, In press.