Marija Zanic Profiled in The Reporter
For Marija Zanic, Ph.D., who joined Vanderbilt University’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology as an assistant professor last August, the journey from her home country took a more circuitous route — from cell biology to theoretical physics and back again.
Zanic’s dissertation explored string cosmology, which describes the fundamental structure of the universe. Today she is an expert on the microtubule, a fundamental structure that makes up the cytoskeleton of the cell.