• 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.
During faculty education recipient of the State Scholarship of the Republic of Croatia.

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, 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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Theses

Doctoral dissertation

• Šatović, E. (2013) 'Organization of repetitive DNA sequences in genomes of three bivalve species', doktorska disertacija, Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb.

Croatian Genetic Society
Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Croatian Chapter
IRB Barcelona Alumni Network
Native Oyster Restoration Alliance (NORA) Expert Database (area Genetics)
Society for Experimental Biology (2010 – 2014)