About employee

prof. dr. sc. Višnja Besendorfer

Title: Full Professor
Public phone number:+385(0)1 4606 272
Internal phone number:6272
E-mail: E-mail
Department: Division of Molecular Biology
Graduation year:1984
mr.sc. graduation year:1989
PhD graduation year:1992
Employed in this institution since:1989

Teaching

undergraduate

graduate

integrated undergraduate and graduate

doctoral

Predmet

Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database (CROSBI)

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List of select publications

Mlinarec, J., Z. Šatović, N. Malenica, I. Ivančić-Baće, V. Besendorfer 2012. The evolution of the tetraploid Anemone multifida (2n = 32) and hexaploid A. baldensis (2n = 48) (Ranunculaceae) was accompanied by similar genomic changes: evidence for their common origin". Ann Bot 110: 703–712.

Mlinarec, J., Z. Šatović, D. Mihelj, N. Malenica, V. Besendorfer 2012. Cytogenetic and phylogenetics studies of diploid and polyploid members of the tribe Anemoninae (Ranunculaceae). Plant Biology 14: 525-536.

Malenica, N., S. Šimon, V. Besendorfer, E. Maletić, J. Karolglan Kontić, I. Pejić 2011. Whole genome amplification and microsatellite genotyping of herbarium DNA revealed the identity of an ancient grapevine cultivar. Naturwissenschaften 98: 763-772.

Russell A., R. Samuel, B. Rupp, M. H. J. Barfuss, M. Safran, V. Besendorfer, M. W. Chase 2010. Phylogenetics and cytology of a pantropical orchid genus Polystachya (Polystachyinae; Vandeae; Orchidaceae); evidence from plastid DNA sequence data. Taxon 59: 389-404.

Carović-Stanko, K., Z. Liber, V. Besendorfer, B. Javornik, B. Bohanec, I. Kolak, Z. Šatović 2010 Genetic Relations Among Basil Taxa (Ocimum L.) Based on Molecular Markers, Nuclear DNA Content and Chromosome Number. Plant Syst Evol. 1-2: 13-22.

Puizina J., T. Sviben, I. Krajačić-Sokol, V. Zoldoš-Pećnik, S. Siljak-Yakovlev, D. Papeš, V. Besendorfer 2008. Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of Abies alba genome and its relationship with other members of Pinaceae family. Plant Biology 10: 256-267

Mlinarec, J., M. Chester, S. Siljak-Yakovlev, D. Papeš, A.R. Leitch, V. Besendorfer 2009. Molecular structure and chromosome distribution of three repetitive DNA families in Anemone hortensis L. (Ranunculaceae). Chromosome Res 17: 331-346. 

Besendorfer V., I. Krajačić-Sokol, S. Jelenić, J. Puizina, J. Mlinarec, T. Sviben, D. Papeš 2005. Two classes of 5S rDNA unit arrays of the silver fir, Abies alba Mill: structure, localization and evolution. Theor. Appl. Genet. 110: 730-741.

Besendorfer V., M. Samardžija, V. Zoldoš, M.E. Šolić, D. Papeš 2002. Chromosomal organisation of ribosomal genes and NOR-associated heterochromatin, and NOR activity in some population of Allium commutatum Guss. (Aliaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 139: 99-108.

 

List of select projects

 Project leader - “Organization, function and mechanisms of plant genome evolution” - Ministry of Science, Education and Sport

 Co-worker on project - “Genome organization and phylogeny of Anemone (Ranunculaceae)” – collaborative Croatian-Austrian project

 Project leader - „Molecular phylogeny, genome size and chromosomal evolution in genus Polystachya Hooker (Orchidaceae)“ - FWF, Austria

 

Past employments

2014 - now - Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Molecular Biology, Croatia

2005 - 2014 – Associate Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Molecular Biology, Croatia

1999 - 2005- Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Molecular Biology, Croatia

1996 – 1999 – Senior Researcher, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Molecular Biology, Croatia

1985 – 1996 – Research  Assistant, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Molecular Biology, Croatia