dr. Eva Praprotnik

2010-2014: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (Koper, Slovenia), B.Sc. in Conservation Biology. Graduation thesis: Population size estimate for cave shrimps Troglocaris antophthalmus sontica (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) in Vipavska jama.

2016: I attended Training School for Sandfly sampling and identification and Leishmania infantum diagnosis in hosts and vectors. Murcia Veterinary School, Murcia (Spain)

2014-2017: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (Koper, Slovenia), Master’s degree in Nature Conservation. Graduation thesis: First record and phylogeny of the Phlebotomus (Transphlebotomus) mascittii Grassi, 1908 in Slovenia

2018-2024: Doctoral study program Biosciences, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Doctoral dissertation: Use of three-way interactions between pests, microbes and plants to protect maize (Zea mays L.) and potato (Solanum tuberosum L., 1753) against soil herbivory.

2019: I visited the Department of Plant Protection of Agroscope institute (Reckenholz, Switzerland) for conducting joint experiments.

2022-today: ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 Internal Auditor of Laboratory Quality Management Systems (Slovenia)

2023-today: Phytosanitary service, Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection (Slovenia)

2023: I attended SPRING Project – Regional Taxonomy Volunteers Course for collecting good quality data to assess the status and trends of pollinator species. CREA-AA, Bologna (Italy)

2024: I attended HTS workshop for the EUPHRESCO Tephrifade project on molecular techniques towards diagnostics of Tephritidae. NIVIP, Wageningen (Netherlands)

Conferences and seminars:

Attended 16 national or international scientific conferences with a lecture (10) or a poster (7).

• Fly4IPM - The use of unmanned aerial vehicles for precise application of pesticides, biostimulants and biocontrol agents for sustainable agriculture and integrated pest management (CRP V4-2428, national project).
• Adaptation of wine yeasts to climate change (ARRS J4-4552)
• EXCALIBUR - Exploiting the multifunctional potential of belowground biodiversity in horticultural farming (H2020 817946).
• Q-ENTRY (V4-2003) Implementation of rapid molecular tests for the identification of quarantine pests, disease agents, and plant damage.
• New management practices for mitigating abiotic and biotic stresses in maize under changing climate conditions (ARRS L4-1840, national project)
• ECOBREED – Increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of organic crop breeding (H2020-SFS-2016- 2017, project nr. 771367-2)
• BIOVINE – Exploit biodiversity in viticultural systems to reduce pest damage and pesticide use, and increase ecosystems services provision (CORE Organic Cofund, project nr. 631-2/2017/3).
• LIKE - Living on the Karst Edge Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Slovenia – Croatia
• VectorNet: A European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, transmitting human and animal disease agents.

2018-today: Agricultural institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia (PhD Student, Researcher)

2018: Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation, Izola, Slovenia (Nature conservation consultant)

Entomology; ecology; biological control; plant-microbe-pest interactions

• Zois scholarship (Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia)
• Award for excellent study achievements (University of Primorska)
• Slovenian Society of Plant Biology scholarship (Slovenian Society of Plant Biology)
• Award of the Science Council of the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia for a significant scientific research achievement by a young researcher (Agricultural Institute of Slovenia)

• TRKOV, Domen, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, LIPEJ, Lovrenc. Salinity tolerance of non-native heterobranch sea slug Haloa japonica Pilsbury, 1895. Malacologia. 2024, vol. 66, no. 1/2, str. 115-126. DOI: 10.4002/040.066.0105.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, VONČINA, Andrej, ŽIGON, Primož, KNAPIČ, Matej, SUSIČ, Nik, ŠIRCA, Saša, VODNIK, Dominik, LENARČIČ, David, LAPAJNE, Janez, ŽIBRAT, Uroš, RAZINGER, Jaka. Early detection of wireworm (Coleoptera: Elateridae) infestation and drought stress in maize using hyperspectral imaging. Agronomy. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 1, art. 178, 22 str. DOI: 10.3390/ agronomy13010178.
• REINBACHER, Lara, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, RAZINGER, Jaka, BACHER, Sven, GRABENWEGER, Giselher. Influence of wireworm diet on its susceptibility to and control with the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) in laboratory and field settings. Journal of economic entomology. 2023, vol. 116, no. 1, str. 108-118. DOI: 10.1093/jee/toac198. 
• REINBACHER, Lara, BACHER, Sven, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, GRABENWEGER, Giselher. Standard non-target tests for risk assessment of plant protection products are unsuitable for entomopathogenic fungi : a proposal for a new protocol. Journal of soils and sediments : protection, risk assessment and remediation. 2021, vol. 21, iss. 6, str. 2357–2368. DOI: 10.1007/s11368-021-02919-w.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, LONČAR, Jernej, RAZINGER, Jaka. Testing virulence of different species of insect associated fungi against yellow mealworm (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and their potential growth stimulation to maize. Plants. 2021, vol. 10, iss. 11, str. 1-17. DOI: 10.3390/plants10112498.
• RAZINGER, Jaka, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, SCHROERS, Hans-Josef. Bioaugmentation of entomopathogenic fungi for sustainable Agriotes larvae (wireworms) management in maize. Frontiers in plant science. 2020, vol. 11, article no.535005, str. 1-10.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, ZUPAN, Sara, IVOVIĆ, Vladimir. Morphological and molecular identification of Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi, 1908 populations from Slovenia. Journal of medical entomology. 2019, vol. 56, iss. 2, str. 565-568. DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjy176.
• JUGOVIC, Jure, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, BUŽAN, Elena, LUŽNIK, Martina. Estimating population size of the cave shrimp Troglocaris anophthalmus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) using mark-release-recapture data. Animal biodiversity and conservation. 2015, 38, 1, str. 77-86,
• KOREN, Toni, PRAPROTNIK, Eva, ZDEŠAR, Marko. A contribution to the knowladge about the distribution of Anthaxia nigrojubata incognita (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Croatia. Entomologia Croatica. 2014, vol. 18, no. 1-2, str. 13-16.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, RAZINGER, Jaka, TRDAN, Stanislav. Pahljačniki (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) kot gospodarsko pomembni škodljivci in možnosti njihovega zatiranja z entomopatogenimi glivami. Acta agriculturae Slovenica. 2022, vol. 118, no. 1, str. 1-10, DOI: 10.14720/aas.2022.118.1.2476.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, RAZINGER, Jaka, TRDAN, Stanislav. Primerjava tradicionalnih in sodobnih metod za določanje gospodarsko pomembnih vrst strun (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Acta agriculturae Slovenica. 2021, vol. 117, no. 1, str. 1-11. DOI: 10.14720/aas.2021.117.1.1909.
• PRAPROTNIK, Eva, NARAT, Mojca, RAZINGER, Jaka. Imunski sistem žuželk in njihov imunski odziv na entomopatogene glive = Insect immune system and their immune response to entomopathogenic fungi. Folia biologica et geologica. 2019, letn. 60, št. 2, str. 71-83.