Marina Grabar, PhD Student

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA

Name: Marina Grabar Branilović

Date of birth: July 18th 1984.

Place of birth: Čakovec, Croatia

Address: Štrukovec 126, Selnica

Mob: +385 91 975 44 67

E-mail:

WORKING EXPERIENCE

01st August 2007 – present

Assistant, Laboratory for Çhemical and Biological Crystallography, "Rudjer Boskovic" Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

EDUCATION

2008 – present Ph.D. study in Physics:Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Zagreb, Croatia

2002 – 2007B.Sc. study in Physics: Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Zagreb, Croatia

1998 – 2002High school: "Gimnazija Čakovec", Čakovec

AWARDS

2003 – 2007Scholarship for talented students by Republic of Croatia

SCIENTIFIC FIELD OF INTEREST

Biophysics, Medical physics, Molecular modelling, Computational techniques in Biophysics

COMPUTER SKILLS

Great experience in working with computers using diverse programs that run under Windows operating system (MS Office, Photoshop, VMD) or Linux/Unix operating system (Insight II, Amber, vmd, xmgrace). Basic skill in programming using FORTRAN, C, C++, Phyton.

MEMBERSHIP

2009. – present Croatian Biophysical Society

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2010 – 2011 assistant, course "Initial Physical lab 1” and “Initial Physical lab 2”, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

PUBLICATIONS

List of publications (CC cited journals)

1)Groger, Kathrin; Baretić, Domagoj; Piantanida, Ivo; Marjanović, Marko; Kralj, Marijeta; Grabar, Marina; Tomić, Sanja; Schmuck, Carsten.
Guanidiniocarbonyl-pyrrole-aryl conjugates as nucleic acid sensors: switch of binding mode and spectroscopic responses by introducing additional binding sites into the linker. // Organic & biomolecular chemistry. 9 (2011) ; 198-209

2) Tumir, Lidija-Marija; Grabar, Marina; Tomić, Sanja; Piantanida, Ivo.
The interactions of bis-phenanthridinium – nucleobase conjugates with nucleotides: adenine conjugate recognizes UMP in aqueous medium. // Tetrahedron. 66 (2010) , 13; 2501-2513

Congress Communications

1)Marina Grabar, Lidija-Marija Tumir; Ivo Piantanida; Sanja Tomić, Molecular modelling of bisphenanthridinium-nucleobase conjugates,MATH/CHEM/COMP 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 16-21, 2008, Book of Abstracts / Graovac, Ante (ur.), Zagreb, 2008. 20 (poster).

2)Marina Grabar, Lidija-Marija Tumir; Ivo Piantanida; Sanja Tomić, Molecular modelling of bisphenanthridinium-nucleobase conjugates, From Solid State To BioPhysics IV, Cavtat, Croatia, June 6 - 13, 2008, Book of Abstracts / Forró, László; Pavuna, Davor (ur.), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008. (poster and short oral presentation).

3)Marina Grabar, Lidija-Marija Tumir; Ivo Piantanida; Sanja Tomić, Bisphenanthridinium-nucleobase conjugates – molecular modelling and spectroscopic approach, EMBO Young Scientists Forum, Zagreb, Croatia, June 15-17, 2009, Book of Abstracts /Vlahoviček, Kristian (ur.), Zagreb, 2009. 22 (poster)

4)Marina Grabar, Lidija-Marija Tumir; Ivo Piantanida; Sanja Tomić, Computational and spectroscopic study of intercalators and their interaction with nucleotides, The 3rd Adriatic Meeting on Computational Solutions in the Life Sciences, Primošten, Croatia, September 1 -5, 2009, Book of Abstracts / Tomić, Sanja; Smith, David; Došlić, Nađa; Wade, Rebecca, Janežič, Dušanka, Ramek, Mihael, Primošten, 2009. 56 (poster)

5)Grabar, Marina; Tumir, Lidija-Marija; Piantanida, Ivo; Tomić, Sanja, Computational approach to specificity of intercalators toward nucleotides, Tenth international summer school on biophysics - supramolecular structure and function, Rovinj, Croatia, September 19 – October 1, 2009, Book of Abstracts / Pifat-Mrzljak, Greta (ur.), Rovinj, 2009. 105 (poster)

6)Grabar, Marina; Tomić, Sanja; Tumir, Lidija-Marija; Piantanida, Ivo; Crnolatac, Ivo; Deligeorgiev, Todor; Vasilev, Alexey; Kaloyanova, Stefka, InteractionofphosphoniumcyaninedyeswithDNA, FourthHumboldtConferenceonComputationalChemistry, Varna, Bulgaria, July 12-15 2010, BookofAbstracts /Pajeva, Ilza; Vayssilov, Georgi;Mineva, Tzonka (ur.), Varna, 2010. 62 (poster)

7)Grabar, Marina; Tomić, Sanja; Tumir, Lidija-Marija; Piantanida, Ivo; Crnolatac, Ivo, Molecularmodellingofphosphoniumcyaninedyes in complex with DNA, The 5th Central European Conference - Chemistry towards Biology, September 8-11 2010, BookofAbstracts /Tomić, Sanja; Maksić, Zvonimir; Salopek-Sondi, Branka; Vianello, Robert, Abramić, Marija (ur.) , Primošten, 2010, 85 (poster)