Extramural
- 2004-2007 NSF - Novel Roles of Urea in Amphibian
Hibernation - $300,000 (with Jon Costanzo,
Miami University)
- 1999-2002 NSF - Course, Curriculum and Laboratory
Improvement - $71,000 (with Kip McGilliard,
EIU)
Intramural
- 2004 EIU Council on Faculty Research Award ($4,000)
- 2004 EIU College of Sciences Seed Award ($1,000)
- 2004 EIU Undergraduate Honors Research Award ($250)
- 2003 EIU Undergraduate Honors Research Award ($250)
- 2003 EIU Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology
Award ($3,000)
- 2002 EIU Instructional Technology Enhancement Award ($24,000)
- 2002 EIU Council on Faculty Research Award ($3,000)
- 2002 EIU Technology Enhanced and Delivered Education Grant
($6,000)
- 2002 EIU Faculty Development Grant ($600)
- 2002 EIU
Faculty Development Mini-Grant ($300)
- 2002 EIU College of Sciences Travel Award ($300)
- 2002 EIU Undergraduate Honors Research Award ($250)
- 2001 EIU Redden Fund for Undergraduate Teaching Improvement ($1,500)
- 2001 EIU Undergraduate Honors Research Award ($250)
- 2001 EIU
Special Project Award for Summer ($2,500)
- 2000 EIU College of Sciences Travel Award ($300)
- 2000 EIU Visiting Scholar Award ($600)
- 2000 EIU Undergraduate Honors Research Award ($250)
- 2000 EIU Faculty Development Grant ($500)
- 2000 EIU College of Sciences Seed Award ($500)
Recent
Publications
Andjus,
R.K., Dzakula, Z., Marjanovic, M. and Zivadinovic, D. (2002) Kinetic
properties of the enzyme-substrate system: a basis for immediate
temperature compensation. J.Theor.Bio. 217 (1): 33-46.
Andjus, R. K., Zivadinovic, D. and Marjanovic, M. (2004) Effect of
temperature on regular and modified rhythms in the European ground
squirrel under free-running conditions. In Life in the Cold (eds.
B. Barnes and H. Carrey). University of Alaska, Fairbanks, pp.361-370.
Andjus, R. K., Dzakula, Z. and Marjanovic, M. (2005) Equilibrium of
nucleotides in dogfish brain. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (in press).
Zivadinovic, D., Marjanovic, M. and Andjus, R. K. (2005) Some components
of hibernation rhythms. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. (in press).
Marjanovic, M., Zivadinovic, D., Dzakula, Z. and Andjus, R. K. (2005)
Mechanisms of immediate temperature compensation as revealed by
experiments with brain synaptosomes from rat and ground squirrel.
Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. (in press).
Recent
Invited Presentations
22nd
International Symposium on Biophysics, October 9-13, 2004, Sv.Stefan,
Serbia and Montenegro
Life in the Cold, 12th International Hibernation Symposium,
July 25-August 1, 2004, Fairbanks, Alaska
Experimental
Biology, April 19-23, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana
6th Annual Meeting of Midwest Physiological Societies, June 5-7, 2001,
Madison, Wisconsin
Poster
Presentations
Possible Role of Phosphodiesters
in Cold Tolerance. 2005
Potential Roles of Urea and Phosphodiesters in Eggs of the Antarctic Naked
Dragon Fish (Gymnodraco acuticeps). 2005
Carlson, J. M., Wright, N. C., DeVries, A. L., Lawrence, B. A. and
Marjanovic, M. (2004) Differences and similarities in freeze avoidance in
eggs of the naked dragonfish (Gymnodraco acuticeps) and the
frostfish (Microgadus tomcod). Life in the Cold. 12th International
Hibernation Symposium, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Marjanovic, M. (2004) Kinetic properties of the enzyme-substrate system: a
basis for immediate adaptation to low temperature in mammals. 22nd
International Symposium in Biophysics, Sv. Stefan, Serbia and Montenegro.
Carlson, J. M., Wright, N. C., DeVries, A. L., Lawrence, B. A. and
Marjanovic, M. (2004) Freeze avoidance in eggs of the naked dragonfish (Gymnodraco
acuticeps) and the frostfish (Microgadus tomcod). Frontiers of
Biomedical Imaging Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Andjus, R.K., Zivadinovic, D. and Marjanovic, M. (2003) Circannual
rhythmicity: hibernation and longevity. 33rd Annual Meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana.
