izv. prof. dr. sc. Sunčica Bosak

Teaching

undergraduate

• Microbial Ecology (40346) - Lecturer in charge
• Microbial Ecology (course held in English) (172459) - Lecturer in charge

graduate

• Field Course (92843) - Lecturer in charge
• Pelagic Microbiology (44553) - Lecturer in charge

doctoral

• Marine Microbial Ecology (194740) - Lecturer in charge

Biography

Researcher's national ID 301434

EDUCATION

2013 PhD The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Oceanology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geology Topic: The family Chaetocerotaceae from Adriatic Sea. Supervisors prof. Damir Viličić, UniZg,  and Diana Sarno, SZN, Italy

2006 Diploma (dipl. ing.) Biology (Ecology) University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology

EMPLOYMENT

February 2022 – now  Associate Professor University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology

2016 – 2022  Assistant professor University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology

2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology

2008 – 2013  Junior researcher, assistant University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

May 2019 MICROTURTLE TA project ASSEMBLE Plus H2020 programme; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy (2 weeks grant, with PhD student Klara Filek)

June 2017 “Documentation of P.T. Cleve material stored in Naturhistoriska riksmuseet.” SYNTHESYS EU TA grant in Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

February – May 2013 NOTCH (New insights on morphology and taxonomy of the planktonic diatom genus Chaetoceros) TA grant by ASSEMBLE (Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories) EU FP7 project

June/July 2011 BIOMARDI (Biodiversity of the marine diatoms: morphological and molecular characterization) TA  grant by EU FP7 project ASSEMBLE

MENTORING AND CO-MENTORING

2016 – 2024 12 Master Theses supervised (list available at CroRis profile)  PhD students – Klara Filek; Nov 2022; Title: „Diversity of diatom and bacterial communities associated with loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) Expected defense Dec 2024 – Lucija Kanjer; Title: Diversity of cyanobacteria in epibiotic microbial communities associated with sea turtles Postdoc: Marta Žižek, PhD (2021-2023) University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology; Co-promotor of 2 Msc Theses at University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science; Belgium

TEACHING 

2006-2016 (Teaching assistant – Biology, Ecology): Graduate and undergraduate courses Microbial Ecology; Pelagic Microbiology; Biological Oceanography; Protists;  Field course in biodiversity of protists and invertebrates; Microbiology

2016-now (Professor – Biology, Ecology) Microbial Ecology & Pelagic Microbiology (courses held in Croatian and in English) and Field Course for Ecology and Conservation Master Programme, Laboratory Practice, Doctoral study in Biology course: Marine Microbial Ecology

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology

2016/2017 & 2019-on

Guest lecturer at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Agronomy

COMMITMENTS IN THE INSTITUTION 

2024-2026 - Chair of Division of Botany

2022 – on Member of the Evaluation Committee for Graduation theses at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. Biology;

MEMBERSHIPS 

Currently member of Croatian Microbiological Society (since 2021) and Croatian Botanical Society

2023 - Scientific committee member - Slovenian Microbiome Network Symposium 2023; Maribor, Slovenija

2023 – Scientific committee member – 14th European Diatom Symposium, Meise; Belgium

2019 - Scientific committee member–12th Central European Diatom Meeting, Belvaux, Luxembourg

2019 - Organization committee member “7th European Phycological Congress”, Zagreb, Croatia

2009-2015 – participated as a member of organization committee at 5 conferences (10th Croatian Biological Congress; 8th Central European Diatom Meeting; 12th Croatian Biological Congress; 5th Croatian Botanical Symposium; 6th Balkan Botanical Congress.

CAREER BREAKS 

01.05.2021 – 01.11.2021 Maternity leave

Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database

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List of select publications

Filek, Klara; Vuković, Borna Branimir; Žižek, Marta; Kanjer, Lucija; Trotta, Adriana; Di Bello, Antonio; Corrente, Marialaura; Bosak, Sunčica Loggerhead Sea Turtles as Hosts of Diverse Bacterial and Fungal Communities // Microbial ecology, 87 (2024), 1; 79, 16. doi: 10.1007/s00248-024-02388-x

Matek, Antonija ; Bosak, Sunčica ; Šupraha, Luka ; Neeley, ; Neleey, Aimee ; Višić, Hrvoje ; Cetinić, Ivona ; Ljubešić​, Zrinka Phytoplankton diversity and chemotaxonomy in contrasting North Pacific ecosystems // PeerJ, 11 (2023), 14501, 30. doi: doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14501

Kanjer, Lucija ; Filek, Klara ; Mucko, Maja ; Majewska, Roksana ; Gračan, Romana ; Trotta, Adriana ; Panagopoulou, Aliki ; Corrente, Marialaura ; Di Bello, Antonio ; Bosak, Sunčica
Surface microbiota of Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles unraveled by 16S and 18S amplicon sequencing // Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 10 (2022), 907368, 16. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.907368

Ashworth, Matt P. ; Majewska, Roksana ; Frankovich, Thomas A. ; Sullivan, Michael ; Bosak, Sunčica ; Filek, Klara ; Van de Vijver, Bart ; Arendt, Michael ; Schwenter, Jeffrey ; Nel, Ronel  et al. Cultivating epizoic diatoms provides insights into the evolution and ecology of both epibionts and hosts // Scientific reports, 12 (2022), 15116, 11. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-19064-0

Filek, Klara ; Lebbe, Liesbeth ; Willems, Anne ; Chaerle, Peter ; Vyverman, Wim ; Žižek, Marta ; Bosak, Sunčica
More than just hitchhikers: a survey of bacterial communities associated with diatoms originating from sea turtles // FEMS microbiology, ecology, 98 (2022), 10; 1-15. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiac104

Van de Vijver, Bart; Robert, Käthe; Majewska, Roksana; Frankovich, Thomas A.; Panagopoulou, Aliki; Bosak, Sunčica Geographical variation in the diatom communities associated with loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). PLoS One, 15 (2020), 7; e0236513, 20 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0236513

Mejdandžić, Maja; Bosak, Sunčica; Nakov, Teofil; Ruck, Elizabeth; Orlić, Sandi; Gligora Udovič, Marija; Peharec Štefanić, Petra; Špoljarić, Igor; Mršić, Gordan; Ljubešić, Zrinka Morphological diversity and phylogeny of the diatom genus Entomoneis (Bacillariophyta) in marine plankton: six new species from the Adriatic Sea. Journal of Phycology, 54 (2018), 2;  275-298 doi:10.1111/jpy.12622

Bosak, Sunčica; Sarno, Diana The planktonic diatom genus Chaetoceros Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) from the Adriatic Sea. Phytotaxa, 314 (2017), 1;  1-44 doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.314.1.1

Bosak, Sunčica; Šupraha, Luka; Nanjappa, Deepak; Kooistra, Wiebe H.C.F.; Sarno, Diana (2015) Morphology and phylogeny of four species from the genus Bacteriastrum (Bacillariophyta). Phycologia, 54, 2; 130-148 doi:10.2216/14-62

Bosak, Sunčica; Pletikapić, Galja; Hozić, Amela; Svetličić, Vesna; Sarno, Diana; Viličić, Damir A novel type of colony formation in marine planktonic diatoms revealed by atomic force microscopy. PLoS One, 7 (2012), 9; e44851, 7 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044851

List of select projects

Uspostavni istraživački projekt HRZZ: Mikrobiom glavate želve (Caretta caretta): uvid u epizoičke i endozoičke zajednice (TurtleBIOME) UIP-2017-05-5635;  (2018-2023)

IP-2020-02-9524 ISLAND trapped waves as a driver of primary production (2021-2025) prof. dr. sc. Zrinka Ljubešić

Instalacijski istraživački projekt Hrvatske Zaklade za Znanost: “Bio-tracing Adriatic water masses (BIOTA)“, doc. dr. sc. Zrinka Ljubešić, PMF Zagreb;   (2014 – 2017)