• 2013. Ph.D.
  Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study of Molecular biosciences, Biology
  University of Osijek, University of Dubrovnik and Ruđer Bošković Institute
• 2006. M.Sc.
  University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Molecular Biology

2020 - 2024 Croatian Science Foundation: Satellite DNA evolution illuminated by high-throughput satellitome analyses of related species, team member and project co-author in the idea and in the proposal preparation

2015 - 2019 Croatian Science Foundation: Invertebrate centromere genomics, team member

2016 - 2018 Ministerio de economia y competitividad (Spanish Government): New epigenetic factors and mechanisms involved in the regulation of chromatin structure and function, team member

2014 - 2016 Agencia de gestio d’ajuts universitaris i de recerca (Catalan Government): Epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure and function, team member

2014 - 2017 NEWFELPRO (New International Fellowship Mobility Programme for Experienced Researchers) project: Functional contribution of embryonic histone H1 variant of Drosophila, dBigH1, to germline development, head of the project
2014 - 2016 outgoing phase at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) 
2016 - 2017 return phase at Ruđer Bošković Institute

2009 - 2010: Croatia-Italy bilateral project: Origin and evolution of satellite DNAs in two economically relevant Venerupis bivalve molluscs of the Adriatic Sea, team member

2007 - 2014 Ministry of Science, Education and Sports: Evolution, properties and functional interactions of satellite DNA sequences, team member

2013. Ruđer Bošković Institute's annual award for the best publication of a scientist who did not have a PhD at the time of the publication.

2021. Co-leader of the course “Structural Genomics” at Doctoral Study of Molecular Biosciences of University of Osijek, Ruđer Bošković Institute and University of Dubrovnik

Books and book chapters

Book chapters

• Šatović Vukšić, E. & Plohl, M. (2021) Satellite DNAs in Physiology and Evolution. U: Ugarković, Đ. (ur.) Satellite DNAs in Physiology and Evolution. Cham, Springer International Publishing, str. 57-83 doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74889-0.

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Journal articles

Scientific and review papers

• Šatović-Vukšić, E. & Plohl, M. (2023) Satellite DNAs—From Localized to Highly Dispersed Genome Components. Genes, 14 (3), 742, 22 doi:10.3390/genes14030742.

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• Oppert, B., Muszewska, A., Steczkiewicz, K., Šatović-Vukšić, E., Plohl, M., Fabrick, J., Vinokurov, K., Koloniuk, I., Johnston, J., Smith, T., Guedes, R., Terra, W., Ferreira, C., Dias, R., Chaply, K., Elpidina, E., Tereshchenkova, V., Mitchell, R., Jenson, A., McKay, R., Shan, T., Cao, X., Miao, Z., Xiong, C., Jiang, H., Morrison, W., Koren, S., Schlipalius, D., Lorenzen, M., Bansal, R., Wang, Y., Perkin, L., Poelchau, M., Friesen, K., Olmstead, M., Scully, E. & Campbell, J. (2022) The Genome of Rhyzopertha dominica (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae): Adaptation for Success. Genes, 13 (3), 13030446, 43 doi:10.3390/genes13030446.

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• Tunjić-Cvitanić, M., Pasantes, J., García-Souto, D., Cvitanić, T., Plohl, M. & Šatović-Vukšić, E. (2021) Satellitome Analysis of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas Reveals New Pattern of Satellite DNA Organization, Highly Scattered across the Genome. International journal of molecular sciences, 22 (13), 6798, 21 doi:10.3390/ijms22136798.

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• Šatović, E., Tunjić-Cvitanić, M. & Plohl, M. (2020) Tools and databases for solving problems in detection and identification of repetitive DNA sequences. Periodicum biologorum, 121-122 (1-2), 7-14 doi:10.18054/pb.v121-122i1-2.10571.

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• Tunjić Cvitanić, M., Vojvoda Zeljko, T., Pasantes, J., García-Souto, D., Gržan, T., Despot-Slade, E., Plohl, M. & Šatović, E. (2020) Sequence composition underlying centromeric and heterochromatic genome compartments of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. Genes, 11 (695), 695, 20 doi:10.3390/genes11060695.

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• Šatović, E., Luchetti, A., Pasantes, J., García-Souto, D., Cedilak, A., Mantovani, B. & Plohl, M. (2019) Terminal-Repeat Retrotransposons in Miniature (TRIMs) in bivalves. Scientific reports, 9, 19962, 10 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-56502-y.

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• Šatović, E., Font-Mateu, J., Carbonell, A., Beato, M. & Azorín, F. (2018) Chromatin remodeling in Drosophila preblastodermic embryo extract. Scientific Reports, 8 (10927), 10927, 8 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29129-8.

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• Šatović, E. & Plohl, M. (2018) Distribution of DTHS3 satellite DNA across 12 bivalve species. Journal of Genetics, 97 (2), 575-580 doi:10.1007/s12041-018-0940-x.

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• Šatović, E., Vojvoda Zeljko, T. & Plohl, M. (2018) Characteristics and evolution of satellite DNA sequences in bivalve mollusks. The European Zoological Journal, 85 (1), 95-104 doi:10.1080/24750263.2018.1443164.

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• Nanić, L., Škrobot Vidaček, N., Ravlić, S., Šatović, E., Huzak, M. & Rubelj, I. (2018) Mutual interactions between telomere heterogeneity and cell culture growth dynamics shape stochasticity of cell aging. Biogerontology (Dordrecht), 19 (1), 23-31 doi:10.1007/s10522-017-9736-2.

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• Šatović, E. & Plohl, M. (2017) Two new miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in the genome of the clam Donax trunculus. Genetica, 145 (4/5), 379-385 doi:10.1007/s10709-017-9973-y.

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• García-Souto, D., Mravinac, B., Šatović, E., Plohl, M., Morán, P. & Pasantes, J. (2017) Methylation profile of a satellite DNA constituting the intercalary G+C-rich heterochromatin of the cut trough shell Spisula subtruncata (Bivalvia, Mactridae). Scientific Reports, 7 (6930), 1-12 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07231-7.

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• Šatović, E., Vojvoda Zeljko, T., Luchetti, A., Mantovani, B. & Plohl, M. (2016) Adjacent sequences disclose potential for intra-genomic dispersal of satellite DNA repeats and suggest a complex network with transposable elements. BMC Genomics, 17 (977), 1-12 doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3347-1.

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• Luchetti, A., Šatović, E., Mantovani, B. & Plohl, M. (2016) RUDI, a short interspersed element of the V-SINE superfamily widespread in molluscan genomes. Molecular genetics and genomics, 291 (3), 1419-1429 doi:10.1007/s00438-016-1194-z.

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• Meštrović, N., Mravinac, B., Pavlek, M., Vojvoda-Zeljko, T., Šatović, E. & Plohl, M. (2015) Structural and functional liaisons between transposable elements and satellite DNAs. Chromosome research, 23 (3), 583-596 doi:10.1007/s10577-015-9483-7.

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• Šatović, E. & Plohl, M. (2013) Tandem repeat-containing MITEs in the clam Donax trunculus. Genome biology and evolution, 5 (12), 2549-2559 doi:10.1093/gbe/evt202.

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• Plohl, M., Petrović, V., Luchetti, A., Ricci, A., Šatović, E., Passamonti, M. & Mantovani, B. (2010) Long-term conservation vs. high sequence divergence : the case of an extraordinarily old satellite DNA in bivalve mollusks. Heredity (Edinburgh), 104 (6), 543-551 doi:10.1038/hdy.2009.141.

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• Petrović, V., Perez-Garcia, C., Pasantes, J., Šatović, E., Prats, E. & Plohl, M. (2009) A GC-rich satellite DNA and karyology of the bivalve mollusc Donax trunculus: a dominance of GC-rich heterochromatin. Cytogenetic and genome research, 124 (1), 63-71 doi:10.1159/000200089.

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Croatian Genetic Society
Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Croatian Chapter
IRB Barcelona Alumni Network
Society for Experimental Biology (2010 – 2014)