Momir Futo
Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine of the Catholic University of Croatia. He graduated in 2002 from the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Zagreb as a biology teacher. As a DAAD scholarship holder, he earned his PhD in evolutionary biology in 2016 at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Germany, defending a dissertation titled “The role of microbes as mediators of immune memory in insects” with magna cum laude honours.
Before employment at Catholic University of Croatia, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Applied Computing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, where he collaborated on the HRZZ project "Phylostratigraphy of gene gain and loss" and was employed as a doctoral student at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, microbiology, Lyme disease, phylotranscriptomics, black soldier fly, biocontrol
COURSES:
Cells and tissues (Medical physics, Medical biology, Medical chemistry, Medical biochemistry I)
Microbiology and pathophysiology
Evolutionary medicine
Evolutionary psychology
Research in biomedicine and healthcare 5
PROJECTS:
- Tick-Talk: Check if your tick is infected! Citizen science project on Lyme disease pathogens – HKS, active, project leader
- Molecular detection of Lyme disease causative agents directly from ticks – HKS, completed, project leader
- Molecular regulation of cyclical changes in cervical mucus and application of cervical mucus knowledge to improve women's reproductive health – HKS, active, collaborator
- Investigation of the GABA signalling pathway in mucus production and inflammatory processes of the human endocervix – HKS, completed, collaborator
- Impact of low magnetic and gravitational fields on simple organisms (LIMGRA) – ESA, completed, collaborator
- Advanced methods and technologies in data science and cooperative systems (DATACROSS) – Center of Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems, completed, collaborator
- Phylostratigraphy of gene gain and loss (PhyLoss) – HRZZ, completed, collaborator
- COST Action CA22140: Improved Knowledge Transfer for Sustainable Insect Breeding (Insect-IMP) – COST, active, MC member
- COST Action CA23127: Group on Insect Nutrition: To Open Nutritional Innovative Challenges (GIN-TONIC) – COST, active, MC member
