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Uros Petrovic

Full Professor (Genetics, Molecular Biology) and PI (Functional Genomics, Biotechnology)
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[HTML][HTML] Yeast as a cell factory: current state and perspectives

M Kavšček, M Stražar, T Curk, K Natter, U Petrovič - Microbial cell factories, 2015 - Springer
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the oldest and most frequently used microorganisms
in biotechnology with successful applications in the production of both bulk and fine …

Yeasts from temperate forests

…, ES Naumova, D Opulente, JJ Peña, U Petrovič… - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Yeasts are ubiquitous in temperate forests. While this broad habitat is well‐defined, the yeasts
inhabiting it and their life cycles, niches, and contributions to ecosystem functioning are …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide localization study of yeast Pex11 identifies peroxisome–mitochondria interactions through the ERMES complex

…, F Leitner, SD Kohlwein, B Zupan, U Petrovič - Journal of molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pex11 is a peroxin that regulates the number of peroxisomes in eukaryotic cells. Recently, it
was found that a mutation in one of the three mammalian paralogs, PEX11β, results in a …

Microarray data mining with visual programming

T Curk, J Demsar, Q Xu, G Leban, U Petrovic… - …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Visual programming offers an intuitive means of combining known analysis and visualization
methods into powerful applications. The system presented here enables users who are not …

Next‐generation biofuels: a new challenge for yeast

U Petrovič - Yeast, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Economic growth depends strongly on the availability and price of fuels. There are various
reasons in different parts of the world for efforts to decrease the consumption of fossil fuels, …

Cellular responses to environmental salinity in the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii

U Petrovicˇ, N Gunde‐Cimerman… - Molecular …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The development of crop plants with increased salt tolerance necessitates the study of
naturally salt‐tolerant eukaryotic species. We studied the bio‐synthesis of glycerol as a …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic analysis and targeted improvement of the complex trait of high acetic acid tolerance in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

…, J Kokošar, M Štajdohar, T Curk, U Petrovič… - Biotechnology for …, 2016 - Springer
Background Acetic acid is one of the major inhibitors in lignocellulose hydrolysates used for
the production of second-generation bioethanol. Although several genes have been …

[HTML][HTML] Democratized image analytics by visual programming through integration of deep models and small-scale machine learning

…, J Hartman, H Wang, R Bellazzi, U Petrovič… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of biomedical images requires computational expertize that are uncommon
among biomedical scientists. Deep learning approaches for image analysis provide an …

Scan-o-matic: high-resolution microbial phenomics at a massive scale

…, S Stenberg, S Omholt, U Petrovič… - G3: Genes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The capacity to map traits over large cohorts of individuals—phenomics—lags far behind
the explosive development in genomics. For microbes, the estimation of growth is the key …

Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle

…, C Taccioli, J Schacherer, U Petrovič… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Domestication of plants and animals is the foundation for feeding the world human population
but can profoundly alter the biology of the domesticated species. Here we investigated the …