2000 - 2006
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, B.Sc., ecology
2010 - 2015
Ph.D. studies in Molecular Biosciences (University of Osijek, University of Dubrovnik and Ruđer Bošković Institute)

2022 - 2024 Adris Foundation project "Systematics, taxonomy, and protection of cave spiders of the Rhodinae subfamily". Team: Martina Pavlek PI, team members: Iva Čupić research collaborator, Miquel Arnedo research collaborator.

2021 - ongoing: ERGA Croatia (European Reference Genome Atlas)

2015 - ongoing: core project "Evolution in caves". Team: Martina Pavlek PI, Iva Čupić research collaborator, Nikola Pischiutta master student.

2017 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher on a HiddenLife project, Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions Individual Fellowship, University of Barcelona, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/749867

2015 June– 2016 September, European Social Fond project “Genome evolution of subterranean animals” HR.3.2.01-0015. Team: Martina Pavlek PI, team members: Marko Lukić PhD student; Tanja Vojvoda Zeljko postdoctoral resercher.

2020 Systematics Research Fund award by the The Linnean Society & Systematics Association for the project "Tracing back the origins of Dinaric cave-dwelling Dysderidae spiders"

2020 SYNTHESYS+, IL-TAF-8269, European commission award for the project "Do Levantine and Dinaric cave-dwelling spiders share their evolutionary history?"

2017 100 000 MSCA FELLOWS AWARD for the od HiddenLife project, European Commission, European Researchers' Night, Brussels

2016 Annual prize of Society of university teachers and the other scientist in Zagreb

Arachnids―part of the Medical entomology course at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb, Croatia

Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Formenti, G., Bista, I., Berg, P. R., Bleidorn, C., Bombarely, A., Crottini, A., Gallo, G. R., Godoy, J. A., Jentoft, S., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-López, M. J., Secomandi, S., … Zammit, G. and The European Reference Genome Atlas Consortium (M. Pavlek) (2023). How genomics can help biodiversity conservation. Trends in Genetics, 39(7), 545–559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005

Milano, F., Borio, L., Komposch, C., Mammola, S., Pantini, P., Pavlek, M., & Isaia, M. (2022). Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the north-western Dinarides. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e87261

Pavlek, M., Gauthier, J., Tonzo, V., Bilat, J., Arnedo, M. A., & Alvarez, N. (2022). Life-history traits drive spatial genetic structuring in Dinaric cave spiders. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.910084

Mammola, S., Pavlek, M., Huber, B. A., Isaia, M., Ballarin, F., Tolve, M., Čupić, I., Hesselberg, T., Lunghi, E., Mouron, S., Graco-Roza, C., & Cardoso, P. (2022). A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01316-3

Formenti G., Theissinger K., Fernandes C., Bista I., Bombarely B., Bleidorn B., Ciofi C., Crottini A., Godoy J.A., Höglund J., Malukiewicz J., Mouton A., Oomen R.A., Paez S., Palsbøll P.J., Pampoulie C.,  .Ruiz-López M. J. , Svardal H.,  Theofanopoulou C., de Vries J., Waldvogel A.M., Zhang G., Mazzoni C.J., Jarvis J.E., Bálint M., and The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium (Pavlek, M) (2022): The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37(3), 197-202. (IF 2020 17.712, Five Year 20.694; CiteScore 22.3)

Pavlek, M. & Mammola, S. (2020) Niche-Based Processes Explaining the Distributions of Closely Related Subterranean Spiders. Journal of Biogeography, 48(1), 118–133.

Platania, L.*, Pavlek, M.*, Arnedo, M. (2020) Testing the monophyly of the ground-dweller spider genus Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) with the description of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 18(7), 688-707. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1776786

Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Culver, D.C., Deharveng, L., Ferreira, R.L., Fišer, C., Galassi, D.M.P., Griebler, C., Halse, S., Humphreys, W.F., Isaia, M., Malard, F., Martinez, A., Moldovan, O.T., Niemiller, M.L., Pavlek, M., Reboleira, A.S.P.S., Souza-Silva, M., Teeling, E.C., Wynne, J.J., Zagmajster, M. (2019) Scientists' warning on the conservation of subterranean ecosystems. BioScience, 69 (8), 641-650.

Pavlek, M., Gelfand, Y., Plohl, M., Meštrović, N. (2015) Genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats inTribolium castaneumgenome reveals abundant and highly dynamic tandem repeat families with satellite DNA features in euchromatic chromosomal arms. DNA Research, 22 (6), pp. 387-401.

Meštrović, N.*,Pavlek, M.*, Car, A., Castagnone-Sereno, P., Abad, P., Plohl, M. (2013) Conserved DNA Motifs, Including the CENP-B Box-like, Are Possible Promoters of Satellite DNA Array Rearrangements in Nematodes. PLoS ONE, 8 (6), art. no. e67328.

Atlas

• Jalžić, Branko ; Bedek, Jana ; Bilandžija, Helena ; Cvitanović, Hrvoje ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Gottstein, Sanja ; Kljaković Gašpić, Fanica ; Lukić, Marko ; Ozimec, Roman ; Pavlek, Martina et al. | Atlas špiljskih tipskih lokaliteta faune Republike Hrvatske. Zagreb: Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo ; Državni zavod za zaštitu prirode, 2010

• Jalžić, Branko ; Bedek, Jana ; Bilandžija, Helena ; Bregović, Petra ; Cvitanović, Hrvoje ; Čuković, Tamara ; Ćukušić, Anđela ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Đud, Lana ; Gottstein, Sanja et al. | Atlas špiljskih tipskih lokaliteta faune Republike Hrvatske, svezak 2. Zagreb: Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo, 2013

Monografija (stručna)

• Ozimec, Roman ; Bedek, Jana ; Gottstein, Sanja ; Jalžić, Branko ; Slapnik, Rajko ; Štamol, Vesna ; Bilandžija, Helena ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Kletečki, Eduard ; Komerički, Ana et al. | Crvena knjiga špiljske faune Hrvatske. Zagreb: Ministarstvo kulture i medija Republike Hrvatske ; Državni zavod za zaštitu prirode, 2009

• Marguš, Drago ; Barišić, Teo ; Bedek, Jana ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Gracin, Joso ; Hamidović, Daniela ; Jalžić, Branko ; Komerički, Ana ; Lukić, Marko ; Marguš, Marija et al. | Tajne podzemlja. Šibenik: Nacionalni park Krka, 2012

• Jalžić, Branko ; Čuković Malenica, Tamara ; Mihoci, Tamara ; Bedek, Jana ; Bilandžija, Helena ; Bregović, Petra ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Jalžić, Vedran ; Komerički, Ana ; Kovač Konrad, Petra et al. | Caves of the island Mljet in pictures and words / Špilje i jame otoka Mljeta u slici i riječi. Zagreb: Nacionalni park Mljet ; Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo, 2021

• Bregović, Petra ; Mišerić, Ivana ; Bedek, Jana ; Ćukušić, Anđela ; Čupić, Iva ; Delić, Teo ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Hlebec, Dora ; Komerički, Ana ; Lukić, Marko et al. | Skriveni životinjski svijet Baraćevih špilja (The hidden animal life of Barać Caves). Karlovac: Javna ustanova Baraćeve špilje, 2022

• Jalžić, Branko; Bedek, Jana; Bregović, Petra; Bilandžija, Helena; Cindrić, Kristijan; Crnčan, Petar; Cvitanović, Hrvoje; Ćukušić, Anđela; Čuković Malenica, Tamara; Dražina, Tvrtko et al. | Atlas špiljskih tipskih lokaliteta faune Republike Hrvatske svezak 3. Zagreb: Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo, 2022

Priručnik

• Marguš, Marija ; Bedak, Jana ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Gracin, Joso ; Jalžić, Branko ; Komerički, Ana ; Lukić, Lukić ; Marguš, Drago ; Miculinić, Kazimir ; Mihelčić, Goran et al. | Speleološki vodič Nacionalnog parka 'Krka'. Šibenik: Nacionalni park Krka, 2013

Atlas

• Atlas špiljskih tipskih lokaliteta faune Republike Hrvatske. Svezak 3. / Jalžić, Branko ; Bregović, Petra ; Kutleša, Petra et al. (ur.) | Zagreb: Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo, 2022

Izvorni znanstveni rad

• Pavlek, Martina ; Ozimec, Roman | New cave-dwelling species of genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) for Croatian fauna // Natura Croatica, 18 (2009), 1; 29-37

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• Meštrović, Nevenka ; Pavlek, Martina ; Car, Ana ; Castagnone-Sereno, Philippe ; Abad, Pierre ; Plohl, Miroslav | Conserved DNA Motifs, Including the CENP-B Box- like, Are Possible Promoters of Satellite DNA Array Rearrangements in Nematodes // PLoS One, 8 (2013), 6; e6732-1-e6732-. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067328

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• Pavlek, Martina ; Gelfand, Yevgeniy ; Plohl, Miroslav ; Meštrović, Nevenka | Genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats in Tribolium castaneum genome reveals abundant and highly dynamic tandem repeat families with satellite DNA features in euchromatic chromosomal arms // Dna research, 22 (2015), 6; 387-401. doi: 10.1093/dnares/dsv021

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• Andersen, Trond ; Baranov, Viktor ; Hagenlund, Linn Katrine ; Ivković, Marija ; Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen ; Pavlek, Martina | Blind flight? A new Troglobiotic Orthoclad (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Lukina Jama – Trojama cave in Croatia // PLoS One, 11 (2016), 4; 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152884

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• Pavlek, Martina ; Carles, Ribera | Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species // European Journal of Taxonomy, 262 (2017), 1-27. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2017.262

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Ribera, Carles ; Pavlek, Martina ; Isaia, Marco | A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe // Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research, 56 (2017), 3; 301-316. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12201

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Culver, David C. ; Deharveng, Louis ; Ferreira, Rodrigo L. ; Fišer, Cene ; Galassi, Diana M. P. ; Griebler, Christian ; Halse, Stuart ; Humphreys, William F. et al. | Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems // Bioscience, 69 (2019), 8; 641-650. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biz064

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• Lukić, Marko ; Delić, Teo ; Pavlek, Martina ; Deharveng, Louis ; Zagmajster, Maja | Distribution pattern and radiation of the European subterranean genus Verhoeffiella (Collembola, Entomobryidae) // Zoologica scripta, 49 (2019), 1; 86-100. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12392

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Angyal, Dorottya ; Balázs, Gergely ; Blick, Theo ; Brustel, Hervé ; Carter, Julian ; Ćurčić, Srećko ; Danflous, Samuel ; Dányi, László et al. | Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β-diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe // Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 286 (2019), 1914; 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1579

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Angyal, Dorottya ; Balázs, Gergely ; Blick, Theo ; Brustel, Hervé ; Carter, Julian ; Ćurčić, Srećko ; Danflous, Samuel ; Dányi, László et al. | Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae) // Biodiversity data journal, 7 (2019), e38492, 15. doi: 10.3897/bdj.7.e38492

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• Vojvoda Zeljko, Tanja ; Pavlek, Martina ; Meštrović, Nevenka ; Plohl, Miroslav | Satellite DNA‑like repeats are dispersed throughout the genome of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas carried by Helentron non‑autonomous mobile elements // Scientific reports, 10 (2020), 1; 15107, 12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71886-y

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• Pavlek, Martina ; Mammola, Stefano | Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders // Journal of biogeography, 48 (2020), 1; 118-133. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13987

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• Platania, Leonardo ; Pavlek, Martina ; Arnedo, Miquel | Testing the monophyly of the ground-dweller spider genus Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) with the description of three new species // Systematics and biodiversity, 18 (2020), 7; 688-707. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1776786

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• Huber, Bernhard A. ; Pavlek, Martina ; Komnenov, Marjan | Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula // European Journal of Taxonomy, 752 (2021), 1-60. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2021.752.1391

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Meierhofer, Melissa B. ; Borges, Paulo A.V. ; Colado, Raquel ; Culver, David C. ; Deharveng, Louis ; Delić, Teo ; Di Lorenzo, Tiziana ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Ferreira, Rodrigo L. et al. | Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems // Biological reviews, 97 (2022), 4; 1476-1510. doi: 10.1111/brv.12851

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba ; Arabesky, Valeria ; Barrales-Alcalá, Diego Alejandro ; Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn ; Benamú, Marco Antonio ; Bird, Tharina L. ; Bogomolova, Maria ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Chatzaki, Maria et al. | An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites // Scientific data, 9 (2022), 1; 109, 12. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6

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• Mammola, Stefano ; Pavlek, Martina ; Huber, Bernhard A. ; Isaia, Marco ; Ballarin, Francesco ; Tolve, Marco ; Čupić, Iva ; Hesselberg, Thomas ; Lunghi, Enrico ; Mouron, Samuel et al. | A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders // Scientific data, 9 (2022), 1; 236, 13. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01316-3

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• Lukić, Marko ; Fišer, Cene ; Delić, Teo ; Bilandžija, Helena ; Pavlek, Martina ; Komerički, Ana ; Dražina, Tvrtko ; Jalžić, Branko ; Ozimec, Roman ; Slapnik, Rajko et al. | Subterranean Fauna of the Lukina Jama–Trojama Cave System in Croatia: The Deepest Cave in the Dinaric Karst // Diversity, 15 (2023), 6; 726, 19. doi: 10.3390/d15060726

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• Pavlek, Martina ; Gauthier, Jérémy ; Tonzo, Vanina ; Bilat, Julia ; Arnedo, Miquel A. ; Alvarez, Nadir | Life-history traits drive spatial genetic structuring in Dinaric cave spiders // Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 10 (2022), 910084, 16. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.910084

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• Milano, Filippo ; Borio, Luca ; Komposch, Christian ; Mammola, Stefano ; Pantini, Paolo ; Pavlek, Martina ; Isaia, Marco | Species conservation profiles of the endemic spiders Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Alps and the north-western Dinarides // Biodiversity data journal, 10 (2022), e87261, 340. doi: 10.3897/bdj.10.e87261

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• Ramírez, Martín J. ; Wolff, Jonas O. ; Jäger, Peter ; Pavlek, Martina ; Pérez‐González, Abel ; Magalhaes, Ivan ; Michalik, Peter | Geometric regularity in webs of non‐orb‐weaving spiders // Ecology and evolution, 13 (2023), 3; e9839, 15. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9839

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• Medina, Maria J.; Antić, Dragan; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Borko, Špela; Fišer, Cene; Lauritzen, Stein‑Erik; Martín, Jose L.; Oromí, Pedro; Pavlek, Martina; Premate, Ester et al. | Temperature variation in caves and its significance for subterranean ecosystems // Scientific reports, 13 (2023), 20735, 9. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-48014-7

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• (CAWEB) Mammola, S.; Graco-Roza, C.; Ballarin, F.; Hesselberg, T.; Isaia, M.; Lunghi, E.; Mouron, S.; Pavlek, Martina; Tolve, M.; Cardoso, P. | Functional convergence underground? The scale-dependency of community assembly processes in European cave spiders // Global ecology and biogeography, 33 (2024), 5; e13840, 14

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Pregledni rad (znanstveni)

• Meštrović, Nevenka ; Mravinac, Brankica ; Pavlek, Martina ; Vojvoda-Zeljko, Tanja ; Šatović, Eva ; Plohl, Miroslav | Structural and functional liaisons between transposable elements and satellite DNAs // Chromosome research, 23 (2015), 3; 583-596. doi: 10.1007/s10577-015-9483-7

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• (European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium) Formenti, Giulio ; Theissinger, Kathrin ; Fernandes, Carlos ; Bista, Iliana ; Bombarely, Aureliano ; Bleidorn, Christoph ; Ciofi, Claudio ; Crottini, Angelica ; Godoy, Jose A. ; Hoglund, Jacob et al. | The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics // Trends in ecology & evolution, 37 (2022), 3; 197-202. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008

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• (ERGA (The European Reference Genome Atlas)) Theissinger, Kathrin ; Fernandes, Carlos ; Formenti, Giulio ; Bista, Iliana ; Berg, Paul R. ; Bleidorn, Christoph ; Bombarely, Aureliano ; Crottini, Angelica ; Gallo, Guido R. ; Godoy, José A. et al. | How genomics can help biodiversity conservation // Trends in genetics, 39 (2023), 7; 545-559. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005

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Pismo (znanstveno)

• Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes ; Bernard, Enrico ; da Cruz Júnior, Francisco William ; Piló, Luis Beethoven ; Calux, Allan ; Souza-Silva, Marconi ; Barlow, Jos ; Pompeu, Paulo S. ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Mammola, Stefano et al. | Brazilian cave heritage under siege // Science, 375 (2022), 6586; 1238-1239. doi: 10.1126/science.abo1973

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Kratko priopćenje

• Mammola, Stefano ; Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba ; Arabesky, Valeria ; Barrales-Alcalá, Diego Alejandro ; Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn ; Benamú, Marco Antonio ; Bird, Tharina L. ; Bogomolova, Maria ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Chatzaki, Maria et al. | The global spread of misinformation on spiders // Current biology, 32 (2022), 16; R871-R873. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026

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Izvještaj

• Mišur, Ivan ; Kurečić, Tomislav ; Talaja, Matea ; Pavlek, Martina | Izvještaj s projekta: Nastavak speleoloških istraživanja jame Meduze na Sjevernom Velebitu // Speleološki klub Željezničar. 2015.

2021 ERGA (The European Reference Genome Atlas), country council representative

2019 Systematics association

2019 International Biogeography Society

2017 Research Institute of Biodiversity (IRBio - Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat), University of Barcelona

2017 CAWEB (European cave spiders’ network)

2016 International Society for Subterranean Biology

2015 International Society of Arachnology

2014 European Society of Arachnology

2012 Croatian Arachnological Society Narcis Damin

2003 Croatian Biospeleological Society (member, vice-president)

2010 - 2014 Society for Experimental Biology

IUCN Spider & Scorpion Specialist Group