(2024)
Incorporation of the histone variant H2A.Z counteracts gene silencing mediated by H3K27 trimethylation in Fusarium fujikuroi.
Epigenetics Chromatin 17(1),
7.
Dr. Slavica Janevska
(Epi-)Genetic Regulation of Fungal Virulence · Head +49 3641 532-1188 slavica.janevska@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum vitae
Professional Career
| 2023 | Junior research group leader, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute - (Leibniz-HKI), Jena |
| 2022 | Postdoc, junior research group Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses (Dr. Vito Valiante), Leibniz-HKI, Jena |
| 2019-2022 | Visiting researcher (fellowships from the German Research Foundation and the Foundation van Wijck-Stam-Caspersfonds), Dept. Molecular Plant Pathology (Prof. Martijn Rep), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 'The role of histone modifications in Fusarium oxysporum pathogenicity' | |
| 2018-2019 | Postdoc, junior research group Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses (Dr. Vito Valiante), Leibniz-HKI, Jena |
| 2017 | Postdoc, Dept. Molecular Biotechnology of Fungi (Prof. Bettina Tudzynski), University of Münster |
| 2014-2017 | PhD with distinction (summa cum laude), Dept. Molecular Biotechnology of Fungi (Prof. Bettina Tudzynski), University of Münster |
| Dissertation 'Exploring the biosynthesis and regulation of novel secondary metabolite gene clusters in Fusarium fujikuroi via a combination of bioinformatic, molecular and chemical approaches' | |
| 2011-2014 | Master of Science in Biotechnology, University of Münster |
| 2012 | International research stay, University of Bristol, UK |
| 2008-2011 | Bachelor of Science in Biosciences, University of Münster |
| 2008 | Abitur (A-levels), Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Oberhausen |
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
| 2024 | Early Career Editor for 'Fungal Genetics and Biology' |
| 2024 | Member of the 'Genetics Society' |
| 2023 | Editor for 'Fungal Biology' of the British Mycological Society |
| 2023 | Member of the 'Association for General and Applied Microbiology' (VAAM) |
| 2023 | Associate member of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Balance of the Microverse' |
| 2023 | Faculty member of the 'Jena School for Microbial Communication' (JSMC), the Excellence Graduate School of the FSU Jena |
| 2023 | Associate member of the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 124 – FungiNet 'Pathogenic fungi and their human host: Networks of interaction' |
| 2022 | Research grant 'FusInfect' funded by the Free State of Thuringia and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF) |
| 2022 | LIFE TALENT Fund of the FSU Jena (collaboration with Dr. Matthew Agler, Plant Microbiosis) |
| 2021 | WSC Fund for extension at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2018 | DFG Research Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2012 | 'PROMOS' DAAD Scholarship for research stay at the University of Bristol, UK |
Topics
Publications
(2024)
The spatial organization of sphingofungin biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus and its cross-interaction with sphingolipid metabolism.
mBio 15(3),
e0019524.
(2024)
Facilitation of symplastic effector protein mobility by paired effectors is conserved in different classes of fungal pathogens.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 37(3),
304-314.
(2022)
Biosynthesis of the sphingolipid inhibitors sphingofungins in filamentous fungi requires aminomalonate as a metabolic precursor.
ACS Chem Biol 17(2),
386-394.
(2020)
Self-protection against the sphingolipid biosynthesis inhibitor fumonisin B1 is conferred by a FUM cluster-encoded ceramide synthase.
mBio 11(3),
e00455-20.
(2019)
Biochemical and mechanistic characterization of the fungal reverse N-1-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase DMATS1Ff.
ACS Chem Biol 14(12),
2922-2931.
(2019)
Mitogen-activated protein kinase cross-talk interaction modulates the production of melanins in Aspergillus fumigatus.
mBio 10(2),
e00215-19.
(2018)
Elucidation of the two H3K36me3 histone methyltransferases Set2 and Ash1 in Fusarium fujikuroi unravels their different chromosomal targets and a major impact of Ash1 on genome stability.
Genetics 208(1),
153-171.
(2018)
Set1 and Kdm5 are antagonists for H3K4 methylation and regulators of the major conidiation-specific transcription factor gene ABA1 in Fusarium fujikuroi.
Environ Microbiol 20(9),
3343-3362.
(2018)
Secondary metabolism in Fusarium fujikuroi: strategies to unravel the function of biosynthetic pathways.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 102(2),
615-630.
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