Contact: maja.setinc@inantro.hr , Telephone: +38515535121

 

Work experience

2024 – currently: Postdoc, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb

2020 – 2024: PhD student, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb

 

Education and obtained academic levels

2024 – PhD in the field of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

  • dissertation titled „Biological determinants of longevity in a Croatian oldest-old population“

2019 – MSc in Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

  • graduating thesis titled „Cloning of the ligand Jagged1 and its effect on the proliferation of lymphocytes“

2016 – BSc in Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

 

Scientific work

Participation in research projects

2024 – 2028: Biological, sociocultural and psychological determinants of nutritional status until (BiCePs_Nutrition) – internal project of the Institute for Anthropological Research

2024 – 2028: Applied bionathropology in the study of ancient and contemporary populations in the Republic of Croatia (BioAntroPoP)– internal project of the Institute for Anthropological Research

2018 – 2023: Health, Cultural, and Biological Determinants of Longevity: Anthropological Perspective on Survival in Very Old Age (HECUBA) – project financed by Croatian Science Foundation (IP-01-2018-2497)

 

Important work

  • Šetinc, Maja; Celinšćak, Željka; Bočkor, Luka; Zajc Petranović, Matea; Stojanović Marković, Anita; Peričić Salihović, Marijana; Deelen, Joris; Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana. The role of longevity-related genetic variant interactions as predictors of survival after 85 years of age. Mechanisms of ageing and development, 219 (2024), 111926; 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2024.111926
  • Šetinc, Maja; Celinšćak, Željka; Bočkor, Luka; Ćorić, Tanja; Kolarić, Branko; Stojanović Marković, Anita; Zajc Petranović, Matea; Peričić Salihović, Marijana; Smolej Narančić, Nina; Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana. Genetic scores for predicting longevity in the Croatian oldest-old population. PLoS One, 18 (2023), 2; e0279971, 22. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279971
  • Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana; Celinšćak, Željka; Šetinc, Maja; Bočkor, Luka; Stojanović Marković, Anita; Zajc Petranović, Matea; Peričić Salihović Marijana; Deelen, Joris; Janićijević, Branka; Smolej Narančić, Nina. So different but equal: 33 longevity genes’ loci in the Roma and in the general population of Croatia. Anthropologie (Brno), 61 (2023), 1; 1-28.  doi:10.26720/anthro.22.04.29.1
  • Šetinc, Maja; Zajc Petranović, Matea; Slivšek, Goran; Mijač, Sandra; Celinščak, Željka; Stojanović Marković, Anita; Bišof, Vesna; Peričić Salihović, Marijana; Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana. Genes Involved in DNA Damage Cell Pathways and Health of the Oldest-old (85+). Genes, 14 (2023), 9; 1806, 16. doi: 10.3390/genes14091806
  • Celinšćak, Željka; Zajc Petranović, Matea; Šetinc, Maja; Stojanović Marković, Anita; Peričić Salihović, Marijana; Zeljko, Hrvojka Marija; Janićijević, Branka; Smolej Narančić, Nina; Škarić-Jurić, Tatjana: Pharmacogenetic distinction of the Croatian population from the European average. Croatian medical journal, 63 (2022), 2; 117-125. doi:10.3325/cmj.2022.63.117

 

Scientific interests

Genetic background of ageing and longevity, healthy ageing, telomeres, ADME genes, growth and development, population genetics

 

Skills

proficiency in laboratory methods for nucleic acid and protein analysis, cloning, use of the Crispr-Cas9 system for introducing point mutations, determination of relative telomere length, cell culture, cytotoxicity and viability tests, statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data (frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms, gene linkage, anthropometric and health-related data)

 

Educations

2022 – scientific visit to the laboratory of Dr Joris Deelen at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing (Cologne, Germany)

2022 – University of Oxford Research Integrity Course

 

Acknowledgements and grants

2024 – recipient of the award of the National programme L’Oréal-UNESCO „For Women in Science“ for 2024

2022 – recipient of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Scientific Exchange Grant