On 25-28 September 2024 10th Congress of the Genetic Society of Slovenia & 10th Meeting of the Slovenian Society for Human Genetics was held in Portorož, Slovenia. Miranda Mladinic and Jelena Ban participated as invited lecturers and scientific committee members for the best poster and Golden Chromosome awards.
Talk title: “Postnatal cortical development and regeneration in opossum (Monodelphis domestica): potential connection with neurodegenerative diseases”
On 9 July 2024 Jana Culej sucessfully defended her master’s thesis entitled “In vitro establishment and optimization of cortical cell cultures derived from Monodelphis domestica”. She sucessfully established opossum-derived primary meningeal fibroblasts. Well done, Jana!
On 24 May 2024, the 92nd ceremonial promotion of PhD students was held on the UNIRI Kampus. Zrinko Baričević was promoted together with 78 new UNIRI PhD Graduates. More information is available here.
For the second consecutive year we joined our forces with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka during 23rd Brain Awareness Week Rijeka by participating in several activities from 11-17 March 2024. On Monday, 11 March at Children’s house Rikard Benčić Jelena Ban performed a children’s play “What can our brain do?” and on Tuesday, 12 March at caffe bar “Iskra” she held a lecture for the broad audience entitled “Development, regeneration and neurodegeneration: the magic triangle”.
Full program is available here
We are proud to announce that on 27 October 2023 our PhD student Zrinko Baričević successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Identification, classification and quantification of the developing postanal cortex of Monodelphis domestica using an isotropic fractionator method”. Congrats!
The second consecutive UNIRI Career Days was held from 23-26 October 2023, supported by the UNIRI Alumni Network, the Careers Office of the University Counseling Center and the Student Union of the University of Rijeka. On Tuesday 24 October, Jelena Ban and Zrinko Baričević participated at the public discussion “My scientific career” lead by Prof. Igor Prpić, head of the UNIRI doctoral school and hosted by Nikoleta Zubić from UNIRI Career office.
Full program is available here
11th Open day of the Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka was held on April 25 2023 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, at University Kampus Trsat – Rijeka. LNM participated with a children’s play “What can our brain do?”, intended for the youngest participants.
Starting from 2023 LNM participated at the Brain Awareness Week in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka with joint events held from 13-19 March 2023.
Zrinko Baričević and Jelena Ban gave introductury lecture about brain inhabitants and their roles at the Children’s house Rikard Benčić in Rijeka.
Full program is available here
Zrinko Baričević attended the 6th International PhD Conference – Digitalization in Science and Society in Ljubljana, Slovenija. This is an international conference involving universities from Ljubljana, Graz and Rijeka, held annually at different locations each year. This year it was held on October 27 – 28, 2022. Zrinko gave a speech titled “Digitalization in life science: Teaching versus exposition” as a part of the main conference.
Miranda Mladinic and Jelena Ban participated as invited lecturers to the 9th Congress of the Genetic Society of Slovenia held on 28-30 September 2022 with following talks:
„Search for the molecules underlying neuroregeneration in opossum (Monodelphis domestica)“ by Miranda Mladinić, Antonela Petrović, Ivana Tomljanović and Jelena Ban
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„Expression and identification of transcription factors involved in postnatal cortical development in opossum (Monodelphis domestica)“ by Jelena Ban, Zrinko Baričević, Ivana Tomljanović and Miranda Mladinić
