The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "The influence of environmental factors on structural variations of the genome" by Ivan Pokrovec, mag. pharm., a doctoral student in Molecular Biosciences, will be held on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in the hall of the 3rd wing of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, starting at 2:00 p.m.

The doctoral thesis was written under the mentorship of Dr. Željka Pezer Sakač, a research associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute.
Committee for accepting the topic of doctoral thesis:

  1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Lidija Kalinić, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, President;
  2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Anamarija Štambuk, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, member;
  3. Dr. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo , scientific advisor at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, member;
  4. Dr. Martina Pavlek , research associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, substitute member;
  5. Dr. Branka Bruvo Mađarić, senior research associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, substitute member.