About Us

WELCOME TO OUR DIATOM COLLECTION

The Croatian National Diatom Collection is established in 2018 by algology group of Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, on the initiative of Associate Professor Marija Gligora Udovič and Professor Zlatko Levkov. The main goal in creating our collection was to permanently preserve valuable diatom specimens from our Laboratory and to enable on-demand access of information to any interested researcher. We see this collection as a crown result of our decades-long researches about diatoms. Our studies have different focuses and application. Sometimes we sample diatoms where no one is looked before just to see which diatoms are there. Often we find new diatom species in those habitats, and after we describe it, we can now preserve it in our collection. Other times we sample diatoms in same locations year after year and season after season to observe changes in communities on those locations. And those changes can tell us a lot about changes in the environment and consequently about the health of the observed ecosystem. Those diatom specimens are now forever preserved in the collection to come back to it whenever we want and observe their beauty once again.

WHO WE ARE

Science and education.

Diatoms are an important part of our ecosystems.

We will never stop learning, researching and educating.

OUR DIATOM EXPERTISE

Education 100%
Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Evolution 100%
Ecology and Application 100%
Molecular Methods 80%

MEET OUR TEAM

MARIJA GLIGORA UDOVIČ

Associate Professor, founder of the Collection

ANĐELKA PLENKOVIĆ MORAJ

Full time Professor, head of the Laboratory

DAMIR VILIČIĆ

Professor Emeritus

ZRINKA LJUBEŠIĆ

Associate Professor

SUNČICA BOSAK

Assistant Professor

PETAR ŽUTINIĆ

Assistant Professor

MAJA MUCKO

PostDoc

ANTONIJA KULAŠ

PhD student

KLARA FILEK

PhD student

MARTA ŽIŽEK

PostDoc

LUCIJA KANJER

PhD student

MARTINA GALEKOVIĆ

Laboratory Technician

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