Maja Katalinić

Zagreb, 31 October 1979

• 1998-2004 Faculty of Food and Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb. Diploma inBiotechnology-Biochemical Engineering. “Influence of flavonoids on Lck and Fyn tyrosine kinases using ELISA method with comparison of different substrates: Poly Glu:Tyr (4:1) and M3-01 peptide” [B.Sc. Thesis]. Supervisors: Donatella Verbanac, Dubravko Jelić and Vladimir Mrša.
• 2006-2011 Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. “Efficiency of bispyridinium oximes in reactivation of tabun inhibited cholinesterases” [Doctoral thesis]. Supervisor: Z. Kovarik.

interaction of cholinesterases with reversible and progressive inhibitors, antidotes for treatment of organophosphorus compounds, influence of OP/oximes on the cell level

• December 2006 “Ninth International Summer School on Biophysics: Supramolecular structure and Function” Rovinj, Croatia.
• November 2009 “New strategies for cloning and expression of protein complexes in E. coli and insect cells” Rehovot, Izrael
• December 2010 “Education in biochemistry and molecular biology” Opatija, Croatia.
• 2011-2012 postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia (EMBO fellowship, fellowship of the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund)

1. Katalinić, Maja; Maček Hrvat, Nikolina; Baumann, Krešimir; Morasi Piperčić, Sara; Makarić, Sandro; Tomić, Srđanka; Jović, Ozren; Hrenar, Tomica; Miličević, Ante; Jelić, Dubravko; Žunec, Suzana; Primožič, Ines; Kovarik, Zrinka (2016) A comprehensive evaluation of novel oximes in creation of butyrylcholinesterase-based nerve agent bioscavengers. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 310, 195-204.
2. Marš, Tomaž; Miš, Katarina; Pirkmajer, Sergej; Katalinić, Maja; Grubič, Zoran. The Effects of Organophosphates in the Early Stages of Human Muscle Regeneration. U: Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition; Gupta, Ramesh C. (ur.), London, Elsevier, 2014. Str. 751-760.
3. Katalinić, Maja; Miš, Katarina; Pirkmajer, Sergej; Grubič, Zoran; Kovarik, Zrinka; Marš, Tomaž (2013) The cholinergic and non-cholinergic effects of organophosphates and oximes in cultured human myoblasts. Chemico-Biological Interactions 203, 144-148.
4. Katalinić, Maja; Rusak, Gordana; Domaćinović Barović, Jelena; Šinko, Goran; Jelić, Dubravko; Antolović, Roberto; Kovarik, Zrinka (2010) Structural aspects of flavonoids as inhibitors of human butyrylcholinesterase. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 45 (1), 186-192.
5. Čalić, Maja; Lucić Vrdoljak, Ana; Radić, Božica; Jelić, Dubravko; Jun, Daniel; Kuča, Kamil; Kovarik, Zrinka (2006) In vitro and in vivo evaluation of pyridinium oximes: mode of interaction with acetylcholinesterase, effect on tabun- and soman-poisoned mice and their cytotoxicity. Toxicology 219, 85-96.

Member of the Executive Committee of the Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2013-2017)
Member of the Science and Society Committee of the Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Member of the Croatian Chemical Society
Member of the Croatian Toxicological Society