Date of Birth: August 15th, 1979.
Place of Birth: Varaždin, Croatia
Contact Address
Anita Kriško
Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences
Mestrovicevo setaliste bb
21000 Split
Croatia
Tel: +385 21 555 604
Fax: +385 21 555 605
E-mail: anita.krisko@medils.hr
Anita Kriško is heading a research group in Biophysics and Bioinformatics and Bacterial Cells at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences since March 2007.
Anita was born in 1979 in Varaždin, Croatia. From 1997 to 2001 she studied molecular biology at the Department of Biology at University of Zagreb. In 2001, she obtained Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb for the work made at Rudjer Boskovic Institute on human low density lipoproteins. She graduated with maximum GPA (5.0). Between 2001 and 2005 Anita was a PhD student at Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb working of lipid-protein interactions and ligand binding properties of human low density lipoproteins. During that period she stayed at University of Southampton, Karl-Franzens University in Graz and Free University of Brussels where she made parts of her PhD thesis. In addition, she was in charge of practical course in Molecular Biophysics at Faculty of Science of University of Zagreb and she was immediate supervisor to four BSc theses. She obtained her PhD in July 2005. Her PhD was awarded by Rotary Club Varaždin as the best PhD in 2005.
Anita Kriško was a postdoctoral fellow at Ruđer Bošković Institute and Equipe de Bioinformatique Genomique et Moleculaire, Université Denis Diderot – Paris 7, since obtaining her PhD until the end of February 2007. She was working in the field of protein-protein interactions with a special emphasis on the oligomerization properties of small heat shock proteins. In 2006 she was awarded with UNESCO-L’Oreal fellowship ‘For Women in Science’.
Intermediately, Anita obtained French Government fellowship in 2004 and stayed in Equipe de Bioinformatique Genomique et Moleculaire, Université Denis Diderot – Paris 7. She worked on constructing a theoretical model of human apolipoprotein B100.
Currently, her research is focused on analysis of proteomes in search of patterns that reveal different adaptations to extreme environments in microorganisms. She is in particular interested in macromolecular structure, structure-function relationship in macromolecules and supramolecular assemblies, protein-protein interactions, and protein interaction networks. In addition, her ambition is to combine theoretical and experimental approaches in the study of robustness of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.