2012.    Doctoral degree, “Structural analysis of single amino acid polymorphisms”, University College London, United Kingdom, supervisor: Prof. Andrew C. R. Martin
2005.   Undergraduate degree, Division of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

2021-2025: "Exploring Interactions Between Regulatory Variants in Human Disease Context, IntRegVar" (UIP-2020-02-1623)
2022-2023: "Genomic context analysis of clinically-relevant disease-associated variants in zinc finger proteins (mis-ZFs)" (Croatian-German bilateral with dr. Davor Lessel's group)
2023-2025: "Artificial intelligence for smart healthcare and medicine, AI4Health.Cro" (DIGITAL-2021-EDIH-01-101083735)

Journal articles

Scientific and review papers

• Raos, D., Oršolić, D., Mašić, S., Tomić, M., Krasić, J., Tomašković, I., Gabaj, N., Gelo, N., Kaštelan, Ž., Kuliš, T., Bojanac, A., Barešić, A., Ulamec, M., Ježek, D. & Sincic, N. (2022) cfDNA methylation in liquid biopsies as potential testicular seminoma biomarker. Epigenomics, 14 (23), 1493-1507 doi:10.2217/epi-2022-0331.

  doiwww.futuremedicine.com

• Čipčić Paljetak, H., Barešić, A., Panek, M., Perić, M., Matijašić, M., Lojkić, I., Barišić, A., Vranešić Bender, D., Ljubas Kelečić, D., Brinar, M., Kalauz, M., Miličević, M., Grgić, D., Turk, N., Karas, I., Čuković-Čavka, S., Krznarić, Ž. & Verbanac, D. (2022) Gut microbiota in mucosa and feces of newlydiagnosed, treatment-naïve adult inflammatorybowel disease and irritable bowel syndromepatients. Gut microbes, 14 (1), e2083419, 21 doi:10.1080/19490976.2022.2083419.

  doiwww.tandfonline.comdoi.orgfulir.irb.hr

• Meštrović, T., Matijašić, M., Perić, M., Čipčić Paljetak, H., Barešić, A. & Verbanac, D. (2021) The role of gut, vaginal, and urinary microbiome in urinary tract infections: from bench to bedside. Diagnostics, 11 (1), 7, 12 doi:10.3390/diagnostics11010007.

  doidoi.orgfulir.irb.hr

• Matijašić, M., Meštrović, T., Čipčić Paljetak, H., Perić, M., Barešić, A. & Verbanac, D. (2020) Gut Microbiota beyond Bacteria—Mycobiome, Virome, Archaeome, and Eukaryotic Parasites in IBD. International journal of molecular sciences, 21 (8), 2668, 21 doi:10.3390/ijms21082668.

  doiwww.mdpi.com

• Barešić, A., Nash, A., Dahoun, T., Howes, O. & Lenhard, B. (2020) Understanding the genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders: the potential role of genomic regulatory blocks. Molecular Psychiatry, 25 (1), 6-18 doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0518-x.

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• Lessel, D., Gehbauer, C., Bramswig, N., Schluth-Bolard, C., Venkataramanappa, S., van Gassen, K., Hempel, M., Haack, T., Baresic, A., Genetti, C., Funari, M., Lessel, I., Kuhlmann, L., Simon, R., Liu, P., Denecke, J., Kuechler, A., de Kruijff, I., Shoukier, M., Lek, M., Mullen, T., Lüdecke, H., Lerario, A., Kobbe, R., Krieger, T., Demeer, B., Lebrun, M., Keren, B., Nava, C., Buratti, J., Afenjar, A., Shinawi, M., Guillen Sacoto, M., Gauthier, J., Hamdan, F., Laberge, A., Campeau, P., Louie, R., Cathey, S., Prinz, I., Jorge, A., Terhal, P., Lenhard, B., Wieczorek, D., Strom, T., Agrawal, P., Britsch, S., Tolosa, E. & Kubisch, C. (2018) BCL11B mutations in patients affected by a neurodevelopmental disorder with reduced type 2 innate lymphoid cells. Brain, 141 (8), 2299-2311 doi:10.1093/brain/awy173.

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• Panek, M., Čipčić Paljetak, H., Barešić, A., Perić, M., Matijašić, M., Lojkić, I., Vranešić Bender, D., Krznarić, Ž. & Verbanac, D. (2018) Methodology challenges in studying human gut microbiota – effects of collection, storage, DNA extraction and next generation sequencing technologies. Scientific reports, 8, 5143, 13 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23296-4.

  doiwww.nature.com

• Leskovar, D., Kraljević, I., Panek, M., Kunović, A., Meštrović, T., Perić, M., Čipčić Paljetak, H., Matijašić, M., Barešić, A., Vranešić Bender, D., Brinar, M., Turk, N., Oroz, V., Crnčević Urek, M., Kalauz, M., Kufner, V., Brajša, K., Ergović, G., Ljubas Kelečić, D., Grgić, D., Karas, I., Rogić, D., Banić Marko, Krznarić, Ž. & Verbanac, D. (2018) Vitamin D in patients with irritable bowel syndrome – status and modulation factors. Medix (Zagreb), 14 (132), 201-219.

• Leskovar, D., Meštrović, T., Barešić, A., Kraljević, I., Panek, M., Čipčić Paljetak, H., Perić, M., Matijašić, M., Rogić, D., Barišić, A., Ljubas Kelečić, D., Vranešić Bender, D., Krznarić, Ž. & Verbanac, D. (2018) The Role of Vitamin D in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Assessing Therapeutic and Preventive Potential of Supplementation and Food Fortification. Food technology and biotechnology, 56 (4), 456-463 doi:10.17113/ftb.56.04.18.5805.

  doihrcak.srce.hr

• Northey, T., Barešić, A. & Martin, A. (2017) IntPred: a structure-based predictor of protein–protein interaction sites. Bioinformatics, 34 (2), 223-229 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx585.

  doiacademic.oup.com

• Harmston, N., Ing-Simmons, E., Perry, M., Barešić, A. & Lenhard, B. (2015) GenomicInteractions: An R/Bioconductor package for manipulating and investigating chromatin interaction data. Bmc genomics, 16, 963, 9 doi:10.1186/s12864-015-2140-x.

  doibmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com

• Harmston, N., Barešić, A. & Lenhard, B. (2013) The mystery of extreme non-coding conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368 (1632), 20130021, 12 doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0021.

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• Izarzugaza, J., Hopcroft, L., Baresic, A., Orengo, C., Martin, A. & Valencia, A. (2011) Characterization of pathogenic germline mutations in human Protein Kinases. BMC bioinformatics, 12 (S4), S1, 10 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S4-S1.

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• Barešić, A., Hopcroft, L., Rogers, H., Hurst, J. & Martin, A. (2010) Compensated Pathogenic Deviations: Analysis of Structural Effects. Journal of Molecular Biology, 396 (1), 19-30 doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2009.11.002.

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Conference proceedings papers

Scientific conference proceedings papers

• Gajović, S., Furić Čunko, V., Mitrečić, D., Barešić, A., Murselović, T. & Kostović-Knežević, L. (2007) Analysis of Stam2 function in mouse brain: expression pattern and brain morphology studies.. U: Proceedings of 8th Multinational Congress on Microscopy.

• Barešić, A., Furić Čunko, V., Mitrečić, D., Mavrić, S., Belovari, T., Kostović-Knežević, L. & Gajović, S. (2007) Microscopy in the brain phenotype analysis of mice with gene trap modification of Stam2 gene.. U: Proceedings of 3rd Serbian Congress for Microscopy.

Theses

Doctoral dissertation

• Baresic, A. (2012) 'Structural analysis of single amino acid polymorphisms', doktorska disertacija, Faculty of Life Sciences, Div of Biosciences, Structural and Molecular Biology, London.