Lijana Fanedl is a teaching assistant of microbiology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She obtained her PhD in microbiology in 2012, studying the impact of raw kidney beans on bifidobacteria from rat small intestine at the Biotechnical Faculty. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology at the Biotechnical Faculty. Her research interests include studying diversity of gut microbiota, microbial identification, ananaerobic degradation of difficult-to-degrade substrates for biogas production, and investigating the effects of plant extracts on reducing methane production in ruminants. She is currently a member of the Slovenian Microbiological Society.