On 29 September 2021 Matea Ivaničić successfully defended her master’s thesis titled: “Silencing of ATF3 in primary cortical cultures derived from neonatal opossum Monodelphis domestica”.

Prof. Miranda Mladinić participated at the 8^th Croatian neuroscience congress organized by Croatian Society for Neuroscience held on 24-25 September 2021 with the talk entitled “Opossum Monodelphis domestica in research of neuroregeneration and neurodegeneration”.

On 9 September 2021 our first LNM PhD student Antonela Petrović successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled: “Revealing molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in neuroprotection and neuroregeneration after central nervous system injury”. Her PhD defence was part of the “3^rd PhD days” hosted by the Department of Biotechnology, with the participation of distinguished guests. More about this memorable event can be found here.

On 27 July 2021 our MSc students Carla Marion and Perina Šiljeg successfully defended their master’s theses entitled “Quantification of expression of markers of the central
nervous system of postnatal opossums (Monodelphis domestica)” and “Identification of cortex cells during postnatal development of M. domestica”, respectively. 

On 23 July 2021 Marta Pongrac successfully defended her master’s thesis titled: „In vitro regeneration of primary cell cultures of cortex from postnatal grey short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica“ in front of the committee composed of Assoc. Prof. Ivana Munitić, Assoc. Prof. Dinko Mitrečić, Prof. Miranda Mladinić Pejatović (co-mentor) and Assist. Prof. Jelena Ban (mentor).