Principle investigator

Dr. rer. nat. Slavica Janevska
Head
Phone: +49 3641 532-1188
Since 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 |
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'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), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster) |
2014-2017 |
PhD with honors (summa cum laude), Dept. Molecular Biotechnology of Fungi (Prof. Bettina Tudzynski), WWU Münster |
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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, WWU Münster |
2012 |
International research stay, University of Bristol, UK |
2008-2011 |
Bachelor of Science in Biosciences, WWU Münster |
2008 |
Abitur (A-levels), Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Oberhausen |
Janevska S, Ferling I, Jojić K, Rautschek J, Hoefgen S, Proctor RH, Hillmann F, Valiante V (2020) Self-protection against the sphingolipid biosynthesis inhibitor fumonisin B1 is conferred by a FUM cluster-encoded ceramide synthase. mBio 11: e00455-20
Janevska S, Güldener U, Sulyok M, Tudzynski B, Studt L (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: 3343-3362
Janevska S, Baumann L, Sieber CMK, Münsterkötter M, Ulrich J, Kämper J, Güldener U, Tudzynski B (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: 153-171
Niehaus E*, Kim H*, Münsterkötter M*, Janevska S*, Arndt B, Kalinina SA, Houterman PM, Ahn I, AlbertiI, Tonti S, Kim D, Sieber CMK, Humpf H, Yun S, Güldener U, Tudzynski B (2017) Comparative genomics of geographically distant Fusarium fujikuroi isolates revealed two distinct pathotypes correlating with secondary metabolite profiles. PLoS Pathog 13: e1006670
Janevska S, Arndt B, Niehaus E, Burkhardt I, Rösler SM, Brock NL, Humpf H, Dickschat JS, Tudzynski B (2016) Gibepyrone biosynthesis in the rice pathogen Fusarium fujikuroi is facilitated by a small polyketide synthase gene cluster. J Biol Chem 291: 27403-27420
*, Authors contributed equally