Predrag Slijepcevic

Academic qualifications

• PhD in Radiation Biology, University of Sarajevo
• MSc in Radiation Biology, University of Sarajevo
• BSc in Veterinary Medicine, University of Sarajevo

Committee responsibilities

• Member of the School Research Committee
• Member of the Biosciences Research Committee

Other responsibilities

• Co-ordinator of PhD provision in Biosciences

Academic appointments

• October 2005, Senior Lecturer, Brunel University - present
• September 1998- September 2005, Lecturer (grade B), Brunel University
• 1995-1998, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of St-Andrews
• 1994-1995, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leiden
• 1992-1994, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
• 1988-1991, Research Assistant, University of Sarajevo

PhD supervision

Currently under supervision

• Hemad Yasaei, started in October 2005. Project title: “The role of Artemis in genomic instability and telomere maintenance”.
  
• Jayne Moquet (external student from Health Protection Agency) started in January 2005. Project title: “Mobile phone radiation effect on chromosomal aberrations in human cells”.

Completed

• Hiu-Pak Wong, Thesis title: "DNA double strand break repair and telomere maintenance in immortalized mammalian cells". Defended in August 2004.
• Erik Cabuy, PhD thesis title: Telomeres and telomerase in DNA damage response defective cells and brain tumours. Defended in March 2005.
• Suliman Al-Wahiby, PhD thesis title: Molecular cytogenetic analysis of telomeres in cells with mutant BRCA1 and BRCA1 genes. Defended in December 2005.
• Rhona Anderson (external student from MRC Harwell), PhD thesis title: Complex chromosome aberrations induced by densely ionizing radiation. Defended in December 2004.

Other responsibilities

Module oo-ordinator

• BB3201 Genomic Medicine
• BB5505 Genomic & Molecular Medicine

Research centres

• Brunel Institute for Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics (BICGP)
• Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms (CIIDM)

Professional activities or recognition

• Invitation to speak at 16 national/international research conferences in the last 6 years
• Five invited research seminars/lectures in the last 6 years.
• Reviewer for 8 Academic Journals.
• Reviewer of grant applications for BBSRC, SHERT (Scottish Hospital Endowment Trust), Association for International Cancer Research, MRC and Breast Cancer Campaign. 

Publications

Journal Papers

(2008) Slijepcevic, P., DNA damage response, telomere maintenance and ageing in light of the integrative model, Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 129 (1-2) : 11- 16

(2007) Nijnik, A., Woodbine, L., Marchetti, C., Dawson, S., Lambe, T., Liu, C., Rodrigues, NP., Crockford, TL., Cabuy, E., Vindigni, A., Enver, T., Bell, JI., Slijepcevic, P., Goodnow, CC., Jeggo, PA. and Cornall, RJ., DNA repair is limiting for haematopoietic stem cells during ageing, Nature 447 (7145) : 686- 690

(2005) Cabuy, E., Joksic, G., Newton, C., Woodbine, L., Koller, B., Jeggo, PA. and Slijepcevic, P., Accelerated telomere shortening and telomere abnormalities in radiosensitive cell lines, Radiation Research 164 (1) : 53- 62

(1994) Slijepcevic, P. and Natarajan, AT., Distribution of radiation-induced G1 exchange and terminal deletion breakpoints in Chinese hamster chromosomes as detected by G banding, International Journal of Radiation Biology 66 (6) : 747- 755