Marija Dubackic

My name is Marija Dubackic and I was born in SFRY in 1991. I received master’s degree in Theoretical and Experimental physics at Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade. My thesis was in statistical physics and it was about adsorption of self-avoiding walks on fractal lattice.

I am a PhD student at Lund University and a member of SwedNESS project since the first of September 2017. I will be doing neutron scattering on co-assembly of amyloid-forming peptides and proteins with lipid molecules. The aim of my research is to investigate driving forces, aggregation kinetics and factors that determine the composition, structure and physical-chemical properties of these co-aggregates.

University: Lund University
Thesis title: Alpha-synuclein: amyloid fibrils and interactions with lipid membranes

Publications

Comparing alpha-synuclein fibrils formed in the absence and presence of a model lipid membrane: A small and wide-angle X-ray scattering study. M. Dubackic, S. Linse, E. Sparr and U. Olsson, Front. Soft. Matter, 21 January 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsfm.2021.741996

α-Synuclein Interaction with Lipid Bilayer Discs. M. Dubackic, U. Liu, E.G. Kelley, C. Hetherington, M. Haertlein, J.M. Devos, S. Linse, E. Sparr, U. Olsson. American Chemical Society (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01368

On the cluster formation of alpha-synuclein fibrils. M. Dubackic, I. Idini, V. Lattanzi, Y. Liu, A. Martel, A. Terry, M. Haertlein, J. M. Devos, A. Jackson, E. Sparr, S.Linse, U. Olsson, Front Mol Biosci (2021) Oct 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.768004

Amyloid β 42 fibril structure based on small-angle scattering. V. Lattanzi, I. André, U. Gasser, M. Dubackic, U. Olsson, S. Linse. National Academy of Sciences (2021) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112783118