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Information
about Slovenia
Information
about J. Stefan institute
About
myself
Department's
wine-tasting society.
Marko
Dolinar
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
Currently, I am involved in the research of cysteine proteinases. At
our department, recombinant cathepsins B, H, L and S are produced in E.
coli as insoluble proenzymes, isolated from bacteria, refolded and
activated. Mutants are prepared and the kinetics of substrate cleavage
and interaction with synthetic and physiological inhibitors are studied.
(Would you like to see the recombinant cathepsin group on a get together
party at the 4th Brdo Symposium in October 95? Here
we are! Left to right: Gregor Kopitar /cathepsin S/, myself,
Darja Barli"c Maganja /cathepsin L/ and Robert Kuhelj /cathepsin B/).
Our research is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the
Republic of Slovenia; the project entitled "Cysteine proteinases and their
endogenous inhibitors" is leaded by prof.
dr. Vito Turk, director of the J. Stefan
Institute and former head of Department. With his new duties he has
appointed me Acting head of Department (from July 4, 1996 to January 3,
1998). In the recent years, I was deeply involved in the organisation of
Brdo Symposia on protease inhibitors and biological control. Currently,
I am back in the lab, (still) trying to obtain mg amounts of recombinant
proteases, their inhibitors and preparing some interesting mutants.
For full description of the work at our department check the department's
profile or read the article
(in Slovenian language) I wrote for the Slovenian newspaper _Delo_(published
on March 28, 1997) and which presents the research topics of the department,
mainly through the perspective of recombinant DNA technology. My personal
scope of research is illustrated by the list
of publications.
Slovenia
and its towns:
Basic information about Slovenia
is available on the institute's WWW server. CIA
World Factbook 1996 contains some statistical and political data about
Slovenia, but there are some outdated facts and some errors in the review.
A view from abroad: SLOVE.
The President's homepage is
now on the net, too.
An interactive map of Slovenia
presenting some touristic highlights is also available.
From this page you can also assess information about Ljubljana,
the capital of Slovenia and the town where the influence of the architect
Plecnik is hard to oversee. Maribor
is our second largest town, and Celje
ranks third by its size. Description of these and other Slovenian
towns and places and tourist resorts is also available. By the way,
do you know the unique landmark of Slovenian countryside, the 'kozolec'
(hay-rack)?
Slovenians are passionated mountaineers. A description of the huts
all over Slovenian mountains is now available on WWW: Mountain
huts (in Slovenian language). The only Slovenian national park is Triglavski
narodni park in the hearth of the Julian Alps.
If you are interested in economy and business, check the WWW pages
of the Slovenian Chamber of Economy.
Searching for Slovenian relatives, friends or roots? Try Slovenians
Abroad, Searching
for Slovenes and Slovenians on
Internet sites. Also interesting is the quarterly Slovenian
magazine (in English), presenting articles on Slovenia and famous Slovenians.
You will find many interesting details on Slovenian history, distribution
of Slovenian first and last names etc. on the Genealogy
and Heraldry homepage.
Slovene
or Slovenian?, this shouldn't be a question. See why!
For those of you who prefer arts, here is a link to the Slovenian National
Gallery in Ljubljana. You might also be interested in Slovenian
stamps (1991 - present; comments in Slovenian).
Want to know some Slovenians? Sygma press provides portraits
of 32 Slovenians who might help you get an idea about who we are.
Jo"zef
Stefan Institute
The largest Slovenian research institute, it is composed of departments
from the fields of physics, chemistry, ceramics, biochemistry and molecular
biology, electronics and information technologies, environmental sciences,
reactor physics and engineering. It also harbours a technology park and
several support units. A full description
of the institute is provided by the institute's computer centre.
Department's Wine-Tasting
Society 
It is an informal group of people, mostly researchers
in biochemistry, who are interested in wines. The society meets several
times a year for tastings, organized as competitions. Since the members
do not pretend to be connoisseurs, we decided to note the wines with notes
between 0.0 and 5.0 (and not by criteria acknowledged by professional experts).
Check the reports from wine-tastings in the past
3 years on the Wine-Tasting
Society's Homepage.
You can find out more about Slovenian
wines, if you are interested.
Last updated January 22, 1998. This page has been accessed 
times since March 7, 1996.
You can reach me by: E-mail: Marko.Dolinar@IJS.SI
fax: +386 61 27 35 94
phone: +386 61 177 3900
mail:
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
J. Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia