Marta Balog

Job position October 1st, 2013 – October 1st, 2019: Teaching assistant and researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Laboratory for Neurobiology, University of J. J. Strossmayer Osijek, Croatia: -Participation in teaching curriculum of two university programs: medicine and medical laboratory diagnostics at following courses: Medical Biology, Neuroscience and 3 elective courses. -Associate at scientific project supported by Croatian Science Foundation titled ˝Pathophysiological consequences of lipid rafts changes˝. October 1st, 2019 – today: Postdoctoral researcher and senior teaching assistant, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Laboratory for Neurobiology, University of J. J. Stros smayer Osijek, Croatia: -Participation in teaching curriculum of two university programs: medicine and medical laboratory diagnostics at following courses: Medical Biology, Biology, Neuroscience and 3 elective courses. -Associate at scientific project supported by J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia titled ˝The influence of high-calorie diet and antidiabetics on molecular basis of memory of obese Sprague-Dawley rats. ˝ -Associate at scientific project supported by Croatian Science Foundation titled ˝Pathophysiological consequences of lipid rafts changes. ˝ -Principal investigator of a scientific project funded by Croatian bank – Zagrebačka bank. Project title: ˝StressMe – Differences between male and female stress. ˝ Mobilities, awards and achievements November 2019. audience award for the best scientific project titled StresMe (Differences between male and female stress) by Zagrebačka banka - the leading bank in Croatia July 2019. ERASMUS KA1 scholarship for specialization at Department of Physiology, La Laguna University (Tenerife, Spain) in the field of neurodegeneration under supervision of prof. Raquel Marin Cruzado. February 2019 - FELASA - ICLAS - Laboratory Animals Ltd Scholarship to attend a 14th FELASA conference, Prague, Czech Republic. February 2019 – Youth Travel Grant Award from FEBS for attending a conference Sphingolipid Biology: Sphingolipids in Physiology and Pathology, Cascais, Portugal September 2018 – ERASMUS KA1 scholarship for research stay at Department of Physiology, La Laguna University (Tenerife, Spain) – specialization in lipid raft analysis and neurodegeneration under supervision of prof. Raquel Marin Cruzado. June 2016 – ERASMUS KA1 scholarship for stay at Department of pharmacodynamics and biopharmacy, University of Szeged, Hungary – studies of chronic stress and diabetes under supervision of prof. Robert Gaspar. 2016. – University of California - Irvine, USA – ˝Medal for Special Achievements˝ for the scientific contribution, Summer School on Stress workshop, Osijek, Croatia 2016. – Secretary of Summer School on Stress international workshop in Osijek December 2014. – ˝Bohdan Malaniak Cedars Sinai Medical Centre RECOOP Young Scientists Travel Grant – Research stay at Department of pharmacodynamics and biopharmacy, University of Szeged, Hungary – development of chronic stress protocol in rats under supervision of prof. Robert Gaspar. 2013-2016. Associate editor and translator of a D. Purves book: Neuroscience, 5th edition. Book was published in 2016. by Croatian publisher Medicinska naklada. 2012-today – Member of Brain Awareness Week Organizing Committee Research area: chronic stress connection to neurodegeneration, connection of lipid rafts content changes and neurodegeneration, lipid rafts signaling in the brain, metabolic disease and diabetes, gender difference to chronic stress response in the brain, rat model of chronic stress, epigenomics, glycomics, proteomics – big data science. Publications Co-author: Kalasz et al. Croat. Med J. 2014. 55; 239-249. Co-author: Blažetić et al. Croat. Med. J., 55; 228-238. 2015. Auhtor: Balog et al. Coll. antropol. 39; 385-392. 2015. Author: Balog et al. Croat. Med. J. 2015. 56; 104-113. Co-author: Ivić et al. Croat. Med. J. 2016. 57; 194-206. -Participation at over 30 international conferences with 15 lectures and over 20 poster presentations. Memberships FENS - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Croatian Society for Neuroscience CroLasa - Croatian Laboratory Animal Science Association HDBMB – Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Croatian Society for Morphology