Aleksandar Vojta

Aleksandar Vojta obtained his Ph.D. (dr. rer. nat.) in 2006 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, in the field of cell biology, with a focus on protein import into chloroplasts. He came back to Croatia and was working from 2007 to 2012 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, where he obtained his second Ph.D. in Veterinary sciences. He joined Zoldoš Lab in 2012 working as a senior researcher on Horizon2020 Regional Potential Project Integra-Life. In 2015, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, where he teaches courses in Cell biology, Genetic engineering, Genetics and Population genetics for undergraduate and graduate students of Master’s degree in Molecular Biology. His main research focus is a design of molecular tools for epigenome editing and gene regulation based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology and development of a transient system HEK293FreeStyle for IgG production.

vojta@biol.pmf.hr