Marija Drikic,
Researcher
Marija Drikic is a PhD candidate at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary (Canada). She is focusing on the development of novel detection platforms for bovine infectious diseases. She developed a split trehalase reporter enzyme and applied it for the detection of different analytes such as total and antigen specific antibodies. She is currently optimizing the methods for the detection of Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) in cattle samples. Previously, she obtained MSc in Functional genomics at University of Trieste (Italy) where she specialized in molecular biology of viruses. In 2012, she participated in iGEM competition held by MIT as a member of a student team. Marija published 4 manuscripts and participated in different domestic and international conferences.
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