This is the Way
We are happy to share that Nataliya Korol from the Uzhhorod National University is visiting the University of Rijeka and the DeShPet lab at the Department of Biotechnology thorugh the University of Rijeka internationalization project. We are looking forward to a great start of a new collaboration!
Daniela and Goran visited Prof. Javier Montenegro at CiQUS – Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials in Santiago de Compostela. Daniela gave an overview of the DeShPet project and participated in the commette of the PhD defence of Ivan Gallego. 
Povodom svjetkog dana voda i sa ciljem skretanja pozornosti na važnost očuvanja okoliša, u srijedu 23.03. i petak 25.03.2022. na Odjelu za Biotehnologiju održana je radionica za učenike srednje talijanske gimnazije na temu polimera i mikroplastika u moru. Radionicu za dvije grupe od po 13 učenika su osmislile i vodile doc. dr. sc.
Daniela Kalafatović i Patrizia Janković. Događaj je medijski popraćen u dnevnim novinama “La voce del popolo” i na radio Rijeka, u emisiji “Notiziario”.
After completing his master thesis in the group, Marko Babić became member of our chemistry branch of DeShPet team. Marko joined us through HRZZ Young Researchers’ Career Development Project. Good luck 🙂
Congrats to Erik and Goran for publishing their results on using transfer learning in Knowledge-Based Systems (IF 8.038) in collaboration with Ivan Štajduhar. If you are interested in reading the paper you can find it here.
This month Daniela participated as speaker to the PhD CAREER CAFÉ organized by the by the PhD School at the University of Rijeka, where she shared, alongiside with other colleagues, her experiences during the PhD and post-doc. The program was intended for postgraduate students accross all disciplines at the University of Rijeka.
In this paper, published in Chemical Science (IF 9.825), Ana Pina and colleagues discuss the discovery of phosphotyrosine-binding oligopeptides with supramolecular target selectivity through biopanning strategy.
This work is a collaboration of the Rein Ulijn Group from the Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY and Cecilia Roque laboratory at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon. I am happy that I could participate in this great research as part of the Ulijn lab crew during my post-doc in New York.
Daniela and Goran participated at the Peptide expression training at the ITQB Nova in Lisbon, where we wisited out project member Ana Sofia Pina.
We spent two weeks learning about the methods to express peptides, phage display and had a series of valuable discussions with the director of the institute Prof. Soares and other ITQB members about new possible collaborations and research directions.
Read about Daniela’s research directions and reasons of her choice to join the University of Rijeka in an article about the “Returning scientists – Brain Gain” to contribute to the regional and Croatian science development, from the local newspaper Novi List.
Patrizia presented a poster entitled Minimalistic peptide-based virus mimeics at the Systems Chemistry 21 Virtual Symposium. We enjoyed valuable discussions at the gathertown platform, making this conference feel like a real (on-site) one.
