Denis Kutnjak

Denis Kutnjak is employed at the National Institute of Biology (NIB), Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Ljubljana. He is leading a research unit Microbiology within the Department. His research interests include studies on diversity, evolution and epidemiology of viruses. He uses modern and classical virological tools to study viromes of plants, animals and environmental samples. He is specialized in the use of high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics in virology and is transferring those skills also into other fields, such as virus diagnostics in plants and wastewater, as well as into studies focusing on environmental DNA.