Research

Adriatic NMR Conference

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Lara Jurković was attended the fourth Adriatic NMR Conference held on September 22nd—24th, 2020 in Peroj, Croatia. She presented a poster by a title: “Dissolution kinetics of copper nanoparticles in model physiological fluids and dynamics of copper(II) complexes with chiral amino acids“.

18th Ružička Days “Today Science – Tomorrow Industry”, Best poster award

PhD student Ivana Hazdovac was attended an international conference 18th Ružička Days “Today Science – Tomorrow Industry” that traditionally was held in Vukovar, the native town of famous Croatian scientist and Nobel laureate professor Lavoslav Ružička, on September 16th – 18th 2020. She presented the part of project as poster…

PMF Doctoral Student Symposium 2020

Our PhD student Ivana Hazdovac was attending the symposium on 28th February 2020 at Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb. She presented our results as a poster with a title: Colloidal stability of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as a function of salinity, light strength (UV), natural organic matter and corona

Course on silver nanoparticles synthesis

Dr. Daniel Mark Lyons and Dr. Lara Jurkovic were held course on silver nanoparticles in Laboratory for Marine nanotechnology and Biotechnology, Rovinj. Silver nanoparticles coated with CTAB and PVP were synthesized with size in a range of 40 to 60 nm.

Workshop of sea urhins fertilization for high school students

Our researchers, Dr. Daniel Mark Lyons, Ivana Hazdovac and Dr. Lara Jurković, were held the workshop of sea urhins fertilization and embryo development for the students of Gimnazija Pula and their visitors from Assen. Everybody learned a lot and had a very nice time.

2nd year NanoEMC2 Meeting

The 2nd year NanoEMC2 Meeting was held 21st January 2020 at Center for Marine Research. We were discussing about new experiments and challenges.

Our researchers participated at Crofish, the Fisheries, Fishing Equipment, Aquaculture, Sport Fishing and Water Sports Fair

Crofish, the Fisheries, Fishing Equipment, Aquaculture, Sport Fishing and Water Sports Fair in Poreč is the only event of its kind held in Croatia. Our researchers Ivana Hazdovac and Dr. Lara Jurković was at the Crofish in the Žatika Sports Hall from 23rd to 25th November 2018 as a part of joint…

1st year NanoEMC2 Meeting

The meeting after 10 months of start up was held 9th of July 2019 in Rovinj at Center for Marine Research, Ruđer Bošković Institute. After successful and thorough discussion we took a picture:

First published article

Understanding the physico-chemical behaviour and toxicity of silver, copper and plastic NANOparticles as Emerging Materials of Concern in coastal waters

This project is a collaboration between the Center for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Department of Biology of the University of Zagreb and the Department of Natural and Health Sciences of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Research data coming soon………..