Ivana Celic, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone
504-988-5921
Office Address
Room 744, Louisiana Cancer Research Center, 1700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112
School of Medicine
Department
Biochemistry Molecular Biology
Tulane Center Aging
Ivana Celic

Biography

Education & Affiliations 

B.S., University of Zagreb, Croatia 
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Biography 

Dr. Celic received Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, working under guidance of dr. Jef Boeke. She completed her post-doctoral training in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She continued her research career as a Research Scientist at the Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Johns Hopkins campus. In 2013, dr. Celic started her position as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Tulane University School of Medicine.

Research

Mammalian retrotransposons in development and disease.

Contributions

Research 

Dr. Celic research focuses on repetitive genomic elements, called LINE1 retrotransposons and their contribution to cancer, aging and infertility.

Publications

Zhang X, Celic I, Mitchell H, Stuckert S, Vedula L, Han JS (2024) Comprehensive profiling of L1 retrotransposons in mouse. Nucleic Acid Research 52(9):5166-5178. 
Celic, I, and Han JS (2022) Experimental systems for the study of non-LTR (LINE) retrotransposons. Retrotransposons and Human Health and Disease: p57-75. 
Horn AV*, Celic I*, Dong C, Martirosyan I, Han JS (2017) A conserved role for the ESCRT membrane budding complex in LINE1 retrotransposition. PLOS Genetics 13(6). 

Complete list of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/collections/mybibliography/