We are proud to present all who entrusted their education into our hands
All thesis are available on the repository of the Department of Biotechnology
PhD programmes:
2021/2022
Ivana Tomljanović, PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Biotechnology
Thesis title: “Protein changes in the neonatal opossum spinal cord during the period when regeneration stops being possible”
Mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović
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Graduate programmes:
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2021/2022
2020/2021
Ileana Merdžo, Masters student from University of Trieste, with MSc in organic-biomolecular chemistry
Thesis title: “ Identification and role of enzymes involved in the epigenetic mechanisms regulating neuroregeneration in the opossum spinal cord“
Mentor: prof. Bruna Scaggiante, Co-mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović
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Marta Pongrac, MSc in Biotechnology in medicine
Thesis title: “In vitro regeneration of primary cell cultures of cortex from postnatal grey short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica”
Mentor: J. Ban, Co-mentor: M.Mladinić Pejatović
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Carla Marion, MSc in Drug Research and Development
Thesis title: “Quantification of expression of markers of the central nervous system of postantal opossums (Monodelphis domestica)”
Mentor: J. Ban
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Perina Šiljeg, MSc in Biotechnology in medicine
Thesis title: “Identification of cortex cells during postnatal development of M. domestica”
Mentor: J. Ban
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Matea Ivaničić, MSc in Biotechnology in medicine
Thesis title: “Silencing of ATF3 in primary cortical cultures derived from neonatal opossum Monodelphis domestica”
Mentor: M. Mladinić Pejatović, Co-mentor: J. Ban
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2019/2020
Helena Kusturin, MSc in Biotechnology in medicine, University of Rijeka, Department of Biotechnology
Thesis title: “Validation of immunohistochemical markers on Monodelphis domestica cortical tissue cells”
Mentor: J. Ban
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2018/2019
Sanja Mikašinović, masters student from Department of biotechnology, University of Rijeka, with MSc in Biotechnology in medicine.
Thesis title: “Expression of stem cell markers in primary cell cultures and fresh-fixed tissue preparations deriving from nervous tissue of postnatal opossums”
Mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović, Co-mentor: J. Ban
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Tomaž Bembi , Masters student from Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, with MSc in Medical Biotechnology
Thesis title:”Fabrication of micropatterned substrates for neonatal opossum neurons alignment and differentiation”
Mentor: prof. Marco Lazzarino, Co-mentor: prof. Jelena Ban
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2017/2018
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Masters transfer student from Cergy-Pontoise, France, with MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Microenvironment, University of Cergy-Pontoise.
Member of laboratory: from 15.1. 2018. to 15.7.2018.
Thesis title: “Identification of the different stage of neuronal cells in the cortex of the neonatal opossum”
Mentor: Jelena Ban, Co-mentor: Miranda Mladinić Pejatović
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Undergraduate programme “Biotechnology and drug research”:
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2021/2022
2021/2022
Jana Culej: “Neural stem cells“ (mentor: J. Ban)
2020/2021
Dominik Ivandić: “Cortical plasticity in multilingual individuals” (mentor: J. Ban)
2019/2020
Katarina Vagaja: “The roles of epigenetic modifications in embryonic and adult neurogenesis” (mentor: J. Ban)
2018/2019
Diana Dragičević: “Nanotechnology in neuroscience” (mentor: J. Ban)
Marta Pongrac: „Classification and identification of central nervous system glia“ (mentor: J. Ban)
Antonela Hršak: „The most recent strategies in the development of therapies for the treatment of
nerve tissue injuries“ (mentor: Miranda Mladinić Pejatović)
2017/2018
Josip Mihalac (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Lea Biličić (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović).
2016/2017
Eni Tomović (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Desiree-Željka Brkić (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Petra Linić (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Sanja Mikašinović (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Lidija Stošić (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Katarina Sučić (mentor: prof. M. Mladinić Pejatović)
Klaudija Hrvatin (mentor: J. Ban)
Lea Radošević (mentor: J. Ban)
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