by Manca Žitnik | Sep 8, 2025 | 2025
Polymers are indispensable in modern society, but they have surface properties that often make their use difficult. Namely, they are hydrophobic, have poor wettability and poor adhesion properties. In this lecture, I will reveal how plasma treatment of polymer...
by Manca Žitnik | Jun 16, 2025 | 2025, Uncategorized
Mucin-domain glycoproteins are densely O-glycosylated and play key roles in a host of biological functions. However, their dense O-glycosylation remains enigmatic both in glycoproteomic landscape and structural dynamics, primarily due to the challenges associated with...
by Manca Žitnik | May 14, 2025 | 2025
Control loops exist in nature, in social systems and in technology. Among other things, the control loop ensures that the human body maintains its temperature, that the company achieves its goals through certain measures and that the radiator heats the room to an...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 23, 2025 | 2025
Oriented intergrowths are common in both natural minerals and synthesized functional materials. Examples include contact, cyclic, and interpenetration twins, as well as epitaxial intergrowths of structurally related phases. In my lecture, I will present various...
by Manca Žitnik | Apr 9, 2025 | 2025
Many proteins can bind to RNA and in this way form granules in cells, whose changes are a characteristic phenomenon in many neurodegenerative diseases. I will describe our recent research showing that some proteins can attract their own mRNAs into granules when they...
