The COST action is heavily related to the content of the project and enables a more efficient international collaboration with researchers who also work in this field. In Ljubljana in November 2015 we have organised and executed the first meeting of the COST action, which was very well received. With the researchers involved in the action we later prepared and sent through an application for a joint EU project. With these organisation we have already starded collaborating in the form of short scientific exchanges (FERA, UK, UPV, Spain).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Maja Ravnikar has become a member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal, the Journal of Virological Methods (IF=1.508). The journal publishes quality research articles, review articles and meta-analysis from the field of human, animal and plant virology and other viruses that have an impact on the advancement of medicine, veterinary medicine and agriculture. The journal focuses on development, optimisation and validation of novel techniques and tools intended for studying different aspects of viruses.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
We have introduced the results of the project on several invited lectures in Slovenia and abroad. Firstly, as part of the congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society in 2014, in an invited lecture titled: New methods of diagnostics enable new discoveries in epidemiology and diversity of viruses in waters (Maja Ravnikar, COBISS.SI-ID 3210063) and later in the context of the 6th Croatian microbiologcal congress, which had an international attendance.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 3917391During the project we have presented our results on several national and international conferences related to the field of virology (COBISS.SI-ID 4017999, COBISS.SI-ID 3903055), microorganism detection (COBISS.SI-ID 3684431), plant pathology (COBISS.SI-ID 4017999), evolution and ecology (COBISS.SI-ID 31530457) and others.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 3684431The first droplet-digital-PCR-based absolute quantification of “flavescence dorée” phytoplasma, agent of a quarantine phytoplasma yellows in grapevine was performed. It was shown that the assay could be used for quantification and quality control of DNA based on in-house reference materials typically used in diagnostics and metrological laboratories. This new tool has great potential for monitoring phytoplasma kinetics, such as there relationship with the progress of an infection, and variations of the phytoplasma titer through the season and screening plants for resistance.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
COBISS.SI-ID: 3174991