Jasna Omersel was born in 1981 in Celje. In 2000, she started her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of pharmacy (University of Ljubljana), where she graduated in 2006, obtained the State Pharmacist Certification issued by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia and commenced postgraduate education in the field of Clinical Biochemistry (postgraduate program Biomedicine). Between 2006 and 2010 she was active as a researcher in the Laboratory of Immunology, at the University Medical Center Ljubljana. She received a scholarship from the Society for Development of Rheumatology Slovenia and a one year scholarship of the World Federation of Scientists (WFS). In March 2010 she obtained a position of a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Chair of Clinical Biochemistry. She graduated in January 2011 with the doctoral thesis: Posttranslational modifications of immunoglobulins as a cause of autoimmunity, under the supervision of prof. Borut Božič.
She supervises the practical laboratory work as part of courses: Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Biomedical Analysis, Work with Biological Samples, and Immunology in Laboratory Diagnostics at under- and postgraduate level.
Her research interests includes the study of mechanisms and molecular changes responsible for triggering of autoimmune reactions leading to various autoimmune diseases such as antiphospholipid syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease.
Membership: Slovenian Pharmaceutical Society, Slovenian Biochemical Society. |