I am a teaching assistant at FRI. My research is focused on bioinformatics, where machine learning methods play a key role in knowledge discovery from large biological data sets.
Office Hours:
Wednesday 10:00, room DK1-3.
Courses:
Laboratory:
Projects
Current Projects
- Advanced Analytics for Extremely Large European Databases, European Project (Framework Programmes), 318633, 2012−2015
- CARE-MI - Cardio repair european multidisciplinary initiative, European Project (Framework Programmes), 242038, 2010−2015
- Artificial intelligence and inteligent systems, Research Programme, P2-0209, 2009−2014
- Growth and defense trade-offs in multitrophic interaction between potato and its two major pests, Basic Research and Application Project, J4-4165, 2011−2014
- Functional genomics of potato-PVY interactions, Basic Research and Application Project, J1-4268, 2011−2014
- Functional genomics of cholesterol homeostasis: the role of lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase in development of metabolic disorders, Basic Research and Application Project, J7-4053, 2011−2014
- Combination of next generation sequencing and metagenomic analysis in the diagnostics of severe hop stunting, Basic Research and Application Project, J4-4153, 2011−2014
- CLIP - Mapping functional protein-RNA interactions to identify new targets for oligonucleotide-based therapy , International Project, ERC (2010) A/203738, 2010−2013
Closed Projects
- A next-generation analytics toolbox for integrated high-throughput genomic data analysis, Bilateral Collaboration Project, BI-US/11-12-020, 2011−2012
- Modeling the transcriptome, Basic Research and Application Project, Z7-3665, 2010−2012
- Data and knowledge integration methods for network systems biology, Basic Research and Application Project, J2-2197, 2009−2012
- Knowledge technology approaches in drug discovery: analysis and experiment planning in high-throughput genetics, Basic Research and Application Project, L2-1112, 2008−2010
- Computational Phenomics, Basic Research and Application Project, J2-9699, 2007−2009
Selected publications
- Characterizing the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43, Tollervey JR, Curk T, Rogelj B, Briese M, Cereda M, Kayikci M, Konig J, Hortobágyi T, Nishimura AL, Zupunski V, Patani R, Chandran S, Rot G, Zupan B, Shaw CE, Ule J. Nature Neuroscience, 14(4):452-458, 2011.
- iCLIP - Transcriptome-wide Mapping of Protein-RNA Interactions with Individual Nucleotide Resolution, Konig J, Zarnack K, Rot G, Curk T, Kayikci M, Zupan B, Turner DJ, Luscombe NM, Ule J. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 50:2638, 2011.
- SNPsyn: detection and exploration of SNP-SNP interactions, Curk T, Rot G, Zupan B. Nucleic Acids Res, 39 (Suppl 2). W444-9, 2011.
- miR669a and miR669q prevent skeletal muscle differentiation in postnatal cardiac progenitors, Crippa S, Cassano M, Messina G, Galli D, Galvez BG, Curk T, Altomare C, Ronzoni F, Toelen J, Gijsbers R, Debyser Z, Janssens S, Zupan B, Zaza A, Cossu G, Sampaolesi M. J Cell Biol, 193:1197-1212, 2011.
- iCLIP predicts the dual splicing effects of TIA-RNA interactions, Wang Z, Kayikci M, Briese M, Zarnack K, Luscombe NM, Rot G, Zupan B, Curk T, Ule J. PLoS Biology, 8 (10). e1000530, 2010.
- Inference of the Molecular Mechanism of Action from Genetic Interaction and Gene Expression Data, Mattiazzi M, Curk T, Krizaj I, Zupan B, Petrovic U. OMICS A journal of Integrative Biology, 14(4):357-367, 2010.









