Assist. Prof. Anja Kovanda, Ph.D., Clinical Laboratory Geneticist

I'm working in diagnostics and research at the Clinical Institute of Genomic Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia, and in education at the Faculty of Medicine and the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The main focus of my work are rare diseases and prenatal/preventive genetics, optical genome mapping (OGM), long-read sequencing (LRS), solving hard-to-amplify regions with PCR, special DNA and RNA structures and mutations, expansion disorders, FSHD, Parkinson's disease, microbiology, virology, infection-related cancers, host-pathogen interactions, drug resistance, and evolution.