Jure Piskur (1960 – 2014)

Birgitte Munch-Petersen; Zoran Gojkovic; Wolfgang Knecht

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2014.11.006

Volume 42 Issue 5

May 2015

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Jure Piskur (1960 – 2014)

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.11.006

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Department of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Roskilde 4000, Denmark
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The Department of Applied Yeast Research, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen 1799, Denmark
c
Department of Biology, Molecular Cell Biology & Lund Protein Production Platform, Lund University, Lund 22362, Sweden

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: wolfgang.knecht@biol.lu.se (Wolfgang Knecht)
Received Date: 2014-10-02
Accepted Date: 2014-11-21
Rev Recd Date: 2014-10-22

Available Online: 2014-12-10

Publish Date: 2015-05-20

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