dr. Barbara Gerič Stare

• Since 2005, researcher at the Plant Protection Department of Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova 17, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
• December 2003 - February 2004, visiting researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de médicine, Unité de Microbiologie, Avenue Hippocrate 54 90, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Michel Delmée)
• April - October 2001, visiting researcher at the Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 400 E. Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611, USA (Laboratory of Dr. Stuart Johnson and Dr. Dale Gerding)
• 1999 – 2003, young researcher at the Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Barbara Gerič Stare studied Biology at undergraduate level and Biomedicine - Microbiology at postgraduate level at the University of Ljubljana. She performed part of her PhD work on bacterium Clostridium difficile and its toxin genes as a visiting researcher at the Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and the Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté de médicine, Unité de Microbiologie. Her major interests and experiences are: molecular diagnostics, molecular phylogeny and effectors of the plant parasitic nematodes. She has been involved in several national and international research projects.

Research and expert work in the field of plant parasitic nematodes and other plant pathogens: identification with molecular methods, molecular phylogeny, variability and molecular evolution of parasitic factors (effectors) of plant-parasitic nematodes, plant-pathogen (virus, bacteria) and plant-pest (plant-parasitic nematodes) interactions, quality management systems.

• Mentor of the Year Award, finalist in 2020
• Organizer of the COST Fourth Annual Meeting: COST FA 1208: Sustain, 1.-3.March 2017, Bled, Slovenia (130 participants)
• Organizer of the international conference entitled Plant Health for Sustainable Agriculture, 11 – 12. May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia (250 participants)
• Organizer of the Agricultural Omics Course, 17^th-21^st February, 2014, Hinxton, UK (30 participants)
• Organizer of the Molecular Phylogenetics Workshop, 23^rd-25^th September, 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia (30 participants)
• Organizer of the 11^th Slovenian Conference on Plant Protection, 5^th-6^th March 2013, Bled, Slovenia (about 150 participants)
• Organizer of the Second COST 872 Annual Meeting, Exploiting genomics to understand plant-nematode interactions, 26th-29th May 2008, Postojna, Slovenia (about 120 participants)
• Award Futurum 2006 for young Ph. D. Scientists, 2006
• Krka Award for Ph. D. Thesis, 2004
• Young Investigators’ Award, Anaerobe Olympiad 2002 Meeting, Park City, Ut, USA, 2002
• Jesenko’s award for students of Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1999

• Scientific Council of the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (2014 - 2017 member, 2018 - 2021 member, 2022 - 2025 president)
• ESN – European Society of Nematologists
• DVRS – Plant Protection Society of Slovenia
• SMD – Slovenian Microbiology Society
• SBD – Slovenian Biochemistry Society

• ŽIBRAT, Uroš, GERIČ STARE, Barbara, KNAPIČ, Matej, SUSIČ, Nik, LAPAJNE, Janez, ŠIRCA, Saša. Detection of root-knot nematode Meloidogyne luci infestation of potato tubers using hyperspectral remote sensing and real-time PCR molecular methods. Remote sensing. 2021, vol. 13, iss. 10, pp. 1-21. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/10/1996.
• SUSIČ, Nik, JANEŽIČ, Sandra, RUPNIK, Maja, GERIČ STARE, Barbara. Whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics of two nematicidal bacillus strains reveals a wide range of possible virulence factors. G3. Mar. 2020, vol. 10, iss. 3, pp. 881-890,. DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400716.
• SUSIČ, Nik, KOUTSOVOULOS, Georgios D., RICCIO, Cristian, DANCHIN, Étienne G. J., BLAXTER, Mark L., LUNT, David H., STRAJNAR, Polona, ŠIRCA, Saša, UREK, Gregor, GERIČ STARE, Barbara. Genome sequence of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne luci. Journal of nematology. 2020, vol. 52, e2020-25, pp. 1-5. https://www.exeley.com/journal_of_nematology/doi/10.21307/jofnem-2020-025, DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2020-025.
• SUSIČ, Nik, ŽIBRAT, Uroš, SINKOVIČ, Lovro, VONČINA, Andrej, RAZINGER, Jaka, KNAPIČ, Matej, SEDLAR, Aleš, ŠIRCA, Saša, GERIČ STARE, Barbara. From genome to field-observation of the multimodal nematicidal and plant growth-promoting effects of Bacillus firmus I-1582 on tomatoes using hyperspectral remote sensing. Plants. 2020, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1-27. DOI: 10.3390/plants9050592.
• GERIČ STARE, Barbara, AYDINLI, Gökhan, DEVRAN, Zübeyir, MENNAN, Sevilhan, STRAJNAR, Polona, UREK, Gregor, ŠIRCA, Saša. Recognition of species belonging to Meloidogyne ethiopica group and development of a diagnostic method for its detection. European journal of plant pathology. 2019, vol. 154, iss. 3, pp. 621-633. DOI: 10.1007/s10658-019-01686-2.