Open day at the Department of Biotechnology – 2022 edition

After two years, the Department of Biotechnology finally opened its doors to children and
broader audience. Zrinko Baričević and Jelena Ban participated with their microscopy session
“Glowing cells” and children’s play “What can our brain do?”. With over 1000 visitors, of which
700 were children and students, the 2022 edition was the most successful one so far! More info can be found here!

Brain Awareness Week 2022

This year’s Brain Awareness Week opened up with the introductory lecture by doc. dr. sc. Jelena Ban and mag. biotech. Zrinko Baričević, titled “Brain Assembly: development through the opossum model” („Sastavljanje mozga: razvoj kroz model oposuma“), which gave insight into basal brain functions and its composition, answering questions such as: how many cells are in the human brain?; How do neurons, astrocytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes function?; What is their role and how do they cooperate?

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This lecture, together with all other from BAW 2022 are available at the Department of Biotechnology YouTube channel!

PhD Thesis defence: Antonela Petrović

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 “3rd PhD days” hosted by the Department of Biotechnology, with the participation of distinguished guests. More about this memorable event can be found here.