As a molecular biology master's student, I am currently working on my thesis project in the Bilandžija group. I have always been fascinated by evolutionary biology and the mechanisms of adaptation, particularly in extreme environments.
I am deeply interested in integrating environmental factors as drivers of evolution with the molecular mechanisms that underlie these processes. This is the reason I joined this lab, where I'm able to explore the phenomenon of pigment loss in the isopods from the Proasellus genus and help decipher the evolutionary cause of the phenomenon.