2015 - Interdisciplinary Doctoral study in Oceanology, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Dissertation Thesis: Importance, biodiversity and dynamics of coccolithophorids in the coastal area of the north-eastern Adriatic Sea

2005 - Ecology, Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Diploma Thesis: Nanophytoplankton of the Rogoznica lake

• The ocean of the future: Will changed phytoplankton composition positively impact the biological carbon pump? - DOK - FUTURE OCEAN

  20.01.2026 - 19.01.2031

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• Interakcije u fikosferi kokolitoforida i implikacije za kruženje ugljika u oceanu - Cocco-Channel

  20.12.2024 - 19.12.2027 | 199,999.38 EUR

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• The ocean of the future: Will changed phytoplankton composition positively impact the biological carbon pump? - FUTURE OCEAN

  16.12.2024 - 15.12.2027 | 199,709.00 EUR

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• Decoding the influence of coccolithophore life cycle on the oceanic carbon cycle - GoCocco

  01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025 | 150,000.00 EUR

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• Physiological adaptations to ecological niches in coccolithophore haplodiplontic life cycle - Cocco-Next

  14.11.2022 - 13.11.2024 | 161,889.60 EUR

  CroRISIRB

• Assessment of Adriatic Algae Potential in Cogeneration Production of 3rd Generation Biofuel - A3-PICO-3G

  01.04.2017 - 31.03.2019 | 265,445.62 EUR

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Godrijan, J., Arapov, J., Skejic, S., Bužančić, M. 2023. Back to Basics: Revision of Coccolithophore Species List in the Adriatic Sea. Water (Switzerland), 15(3): 603

Godrijan, J., Drapeau, D. and Balch, W.M. 2022, Osmotrophy of dissolved organic carbon by coccolithophores in darkness. New Phytologist. 233:781-794.

Godrijan, J., Drapeau, D. and Balch, W.M. 2020, Mixotrophic uptake of organic compounds by coccolithophores. Limnology and Oceanography. 65:1410-1421

Godrijan, J., Young, J., Marić Pfannkuchen, D., Precali, R. & Pfannkuchen, M. (2018) Coastal zones as important habitats of coccolithophores: A study of species diversity, succession, and life-cycle phases. Limnology and oceanography, 63:1692-1710.

Hagino, K., Young, J.R., Bown, P.R.,Godrijan, J., Kulhanek, D.K., Kogame, K., Horiguchi, T. 2015. Re-discovery of a "living fossil" coccolithophore from the coastal waters of Japan and Croatia. Marine Micropaleontology, 116:28-37.

Godrijan, J., Marić, D., Tomažić, I., Precali, R., Pfannkuchen, M. 2013. Seasonal phytoplankton dynamics in the coastal waters of the north-eastern Adriatic Sea. Journal of sea research, 77:32-44.

Godrijan, J., Marić, D., Imešek, M., Janeković, I., Schweikert, M., Pfannkuchen, M. 2012. Diversity, occurrence, and habitats of the diatom genus Bacteriastrum (Bacillariophyta) in the northern Adriatic Sea, with the description of B. jadranum sp. nov. Botanica marina, 55(4):415-426.

Conference proceedings

• Abstract book of the 8th Central European Diatom Meeting / Ljubešić, Zrinka ; Godrijan, Jelena ; Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela (ur.). Zagreb: Hrvatsko Botaničko Društvo, 2014

Conference abstract

• Novak, Tihana ; Godrijan, Jelena ; Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela ; Djakovac, Tamara ; Medić, Nikola ; Ivančić, Ingrid ; Mlakar, Marina ; Gašparović, Blaženka | Global warming and oligotrophication synergy leads to greater phytoplankton lipid production // European journal of phycology, 54, S1, 2019. str. 31-117

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• Godrijan, Jelena; Pfannkuchen, Martin; Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela; Precali, Robert | Coccolithophore succession in the coastal waters of Rovinj, north-east Adriatic // Journal of nannoplankton research, 34, SI, 2014. str. 82-82

Unpublished conference paper

• Vuković, Borna Branimir; Vrana, Ivna; Fiket, Željka; Godrijan, Jelena | Establishing a novel methodology to estimate particulate inorganic carbon of coccolithophores by tracking calcification in vitro // Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 | Glasgow, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 22.02.2026-27.02.2026

• Horn, Robert; Gašparović, Blaženka; Godrijan, Jelena | Development and Optimization of an HILIC-LC-MS/MS Method for Marine Lipid Analysis: Application to the marine coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus // Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference GRC_2025 (Manchester (NH), SAD, 20.07.-25.07.2025) | Manchester (NH), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 20.07.2025-25.07.2025

• Gašparović, Blaženka; Horn, Robert; Godrijan, Jelena | Do Lipids Play a Key Role in Mitigating Global Change Through Carbon Transport to the Ocean Floor? // Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference GRC_2025 (Manchester (NH), SAD, 20.07.-25.07.2025) | Manchester (NH), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 20.07.2025-25.07.2025

• Chaux Frederic; Godrijan Jelena | Photosynthetic performances and photoprotection strategies in life cycle stages of the coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus // FEBS3+ Meeting: Exploring Molecular Frontiers | Pula, Hrvatska, 25.09.2024-28.09.2024

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• Milinković, Andrea; Penezić, Abra; Cvitešić Kušan, Ana; Bakija Alempijević, Saranda; Gluščić, Valentina; Žužul, Silva; Jakovljević, Ivana; Skejić, Sanda; Šantić, Danijela; Godec, Ranka et al. | Insights to the short-term atmospheric deposition impacts on the biology and chemistry of the sea surface microlayer in the Adriatic Sea coastal region // The European Geosciences Union 2023 (EGU23) General Assembly | Beč, Austrija, 23.04.2023-28.04.2023. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14624

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• Chaux Frederic; Godrijan Jelena | Photosynthetic performances and photoprotection strategies in life cycle stages of the coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus. // 8th European Phycological Congress | Brest, Francuska, 20.08.2023-26.08.2023

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• Milinković, Andrea; Penezić, Abra; Bakija Alempijević, Saranda; Cvitešić Kušan, Ana; Skejić, Sanda; Šantić, Danijela; Lehners, Carola; Striebel, Maren; Niggemann, Jutta; Žužul, Silva et al. | Impacts of biomass burning versus anthropogenic aerosol deposition on the surface layers in the central Adriatic Sea: A mesocosm study // SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022 | Kaapstad, Južnoafrička Republika, 25.09.2022-29.09.2022

• Giani, Michele ; Djakovac, Tamara ; Precali, Robert ; Supić, Nastjenjka ; Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela ; Godrijan, Jelena | Nutrients ratio trends in the northern Adriatic Sea and their potential effects on the ecosystem // Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research - IMBER IMBIZO IV | Trst, Italija, 26.10.2015-30.10.2015

• Godrijan, Jelena ; Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela | Toksični dinoflagelati zabilježeni tijekom ljeta 2010. godine u sjevernom Jadranu i njihov utjecaj po čovjeka // Znanstveni susreti 3. vrste | Zagreb, Hrvatska, 07.07.2011-08.07.2011

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• Marić Pfannkuchen, Daniela ; Godrijan, Jelena | Kolika je opasnost od amnezijskog trovanja za vrijeme cvjetanja dijatomeja iz roda Pseudo-nitzschia u sjevernom Jadranu? // Znanstveni susreti 3. vrste | Zagreb, Hrvatska, 07.07.2011-08.07.2011

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Master's thesis (university)

• Godrijan, Jelena | Nanofitoplankton Rogozničkog jezera / Viličić, Damir (mentor); Burić, Zrinka (neposredni voditelj) . | Zagreb, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb, 2005

Doctoral thesis

• Godrijan, Jelena | Značaj, bioraznolikost i dinamika kokolitoforida u obalnom području istočnoga dijela sjevernoga Jadrana / Precali, Robert (mentor). | Zagreb, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb, 2015

The International Nannoplankton Association

Past member:

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Phycological Society of America

British Phycological Society

Croatian Biological Society