Tajana Amsel Zelenika

Personal information: Research Associate Tajana Amšel Zelenika PhD, DVM; born 1967, Zagreb, Croatia, t_amsel-zelenika@veinst.hr ID number of scientist: 235470 Identification number of MSES, RCRO Work experience: In 1996 starts as a junior research assistent in the project “Modern tehnology and alternative breeding and feeding birds“. In 2003 she become Senior Assistant and 2011 Resarch Associate in the scientific area of biomedicine and health, scientific field of veterinary medicine, scientific branch of veterinary public health and food safety. From 2006 until today she has the positon of Quolity manager in CVI - Poultry Centre. From 2007. she is a Depute chair for Laboratory for virology and serology, and from 2015 she is also Depute Head of Department of Croatian Veterinary Institute - Poultry Centre. From June 1, 2019. she is Head of Department of Croatian Veterinary Institute - Poultry Centre. Education: She enrolled the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb and ends it in 1993. In 2000 she finished scientific postgraduate studies in the field „Microbiology and epizootiology“ at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb with Master´s thesis under the title „Detection of Infectious bursal disease virus antigen and histopathological changes of bursa of Fabricius in broilers after vaccination with attenuated vaccines against Infectious bursal disease“. She defended her Doctors thesis in 2004 under the title „The pathogenesis of Infectious bursal disease in broiler chickens differently infected with intermediary and very virulent virus“. Training: Instituto Zooprofilactico Sperimentale dell` Abruzzo e del Molise „Giuseppe Caporale“, Teramo, Italy, FAO and Veterinary Specialized Institute „Kraljevo“, Kraljevo, Serbia, Chemgineering, Zagreb, Croatia; Croatian Accreditacion Agency, Center of Technology Transfer, Zagreb, Croatia, “Genera d.d.” Kalinovica, Croatia. Research projects: Tajana Amšel Zelenika took part in two scientific projects accepted and supported by the Ministry of Scinece, Education and Sports of Croatia: 1. „Modern tehnology and alternative breeding and feeding birds“ (0048005, the principal investigator Ankica Nemanič, PhD ) 2. „The role of nitric oxide in cardiovaskular diseases in poultry (048-0531863-0464, the principal investigator Marina Tišljar, PhD). 3. ”Novel molecular mechanisms for new therapeutic approaches - Interactions of microRNAs and Hedgehog-GLI Signalling Pathway in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma (MIRnaGLI)” (IP-06-2016, the principal investigator Sonja Levanat, PhD) Memberships in science organization and bodies: Tajana Amšel Zelenika is a member of: Croatian Microbiological Society; World Veterinary Poultry Association (Croatian Branch); World`s Poultry Science Association (Croatian Branch);. Papers (3 papers relevant for the project proposal): 1. Tišljar, Marina; Jovanov Milošević, Nataša; Grabarević, Željko; Mišić, Marija; Savić, Vladimir; Artuković, Branka; Džaja, Petar; Amšel Zelenika, Tajana; Seiwerth, Sven; Severin, Krešimir; Semple-Rowland, Susan: Are poultry and other birds sufficiently represented as animal models in biomedical reserach of some human diseases in croatia? 2nd Symposium of Croatian Laboratory Animal Science Association with international participation. Experimental animals in scientific research Zagreb, October 10, 2014.. Zagreb : CroLASA, 2014. 110-111 2. Jurinović, Luka; Savić, Vladimir; Balenović, Mirta; Lisičić, Duje; Amšel Zelenika, Tajana: Isolation of paramyxovirus type 1 (PMV-1) from pigeon in Croatia in 2008. Symposium of Veterinary Science and Profession, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagreb, 2009, Book of Abstracts Veterinary Science and Profession, Kozačinski, L. ; Maltar-Strmečki, N. ; Štoković, I. (ur.). 40-41 (ISBN: 978-953-6062-73-7). 3. Tišljar, Marina; Bauer, Antun; Vranešić, Đuro; Savić, Vladimir; Krivec, Gabrijela; Šimpraga, Borka; Amšel Zelenika, Tajana; Balenović, Mirta; Herak-Perković, Vlasta; Nemanič, Ankica: „meat spots" in eggs of commercial layer hens : a sporadic finding or a sign of infection, 11th Ljudevit Jurak International symposium on comparative pathology : book of abstracts / Krušlin, Božo ; Belicza, Mladen (ur.). - Zagreb : Academ. Of Medical Sciences Of Croatia , 2000. 24-24 (ISBN: 953-97282-2-3). Scientometrics: Her scientific involvement resulted in more than 64 scientific and professional papers. Additional information: member of the Scientific Committee Symposium “Poultry days” with international participation (2005., 2007., 2009., 2011., 2013., 2015., 2017. 2019.). Tajana Amšel Zelenika is an expert in application of chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay on fertilized chicken eggs.