Dr Marija Kiska

Research Officer

Frazer Institute
Faculty of Medicine
m.kojic@imb.uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 36913

Overview

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Kojic, Marija, Maybury, Mellissa K., Waddell, Nicola, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Addala, Venkateswar, Millar, Amanda, Wood, Scott, Pearson, John V., Hansford, Jordan R., Hassall, Tim and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2023). Efficient detection and monitoring of pediatric brain malignancies with liquid biopsy based on patient-specific somatic mutation screening. Neuro-Oncology, 25 (8), 1507-1517. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad032

  • Garcia-Lopez, Jesus, Ahmad, Shiekh Tanveer, Li, Yiran, Gudenas, Brian, Kojic, Marija, Manz, Friedrik, Jonchere, Barbara, Mayasundari, Anand, Pitre, Aaron, Hadley, Jennifer, Paul, Leena, Batts, Melissa, Pfister, Stefan, Waszak, Sebastian, Bianski, Brandon, Tinkle, Christopher, Orr, Brent, Rankovic, Zoran, Robinson, Giles, Wainwright, Brandon, Kutscher, Lena, Lin, Hong and Northcott, Paul (2023). ELP1 GERMLINE DEFICIENCY SENSITIZES THE GRANULE NEURON LINEAGE TO SHH MEDULLOBLASTOMA AND EXPOSES NOVEL THERAPEUTIC VULNERABILITIES. CARY: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.

  • Garcia-Lopez, Jesus, Ahmad, Shiekh Tanveer, Li, Yiran, Gudenas, Brian, Kojic, Marija, Manz, Friedrik, Jonchere, Barbara, Mayasundari, Anand, Pitre, Aaron, Hadley, Jennifer, Paul, Leena, Batts, Melissa, Pfister, Stefan, Waszak, Sebastian, Bianski, Brandon, Tinkle, Christopher, Orr, Brent, Rankovic, Zoran, Robinson, Giles, Wainwright, Brandon, Kutscher, Lena, Lin, Hong and Northcott, Paul (2023). MDB-23. ELP1 GERMLINE DEFICIENCY SENSITIZES THE GRANULE NEURON LINEAGE TO SHH MEDULLOBLASTOMA AND EXPOSES NOVEL THERAPEUTIC VULNERABILITIES. Neuro-Oncology, 25 (Supplement_1), i67-i67. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad073.255

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Publications

Journal Article

  • Kojic, Marija, Maybury, Mellissa K., Waddell, Nicola, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Addala, Venkateswar, Millar, Amanda, Wood, Scott, Pearson, John V., Hansford, Jordan R., Hassall, Tim and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2023). Efficient detection and monitoring of pediatric brain malignancies with liquid biopsy based on patient-specific somatic mutation screening. Neuro-Oncology, 25 (8), 1507-1517. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad032

  • Garcia-Lopez, Jesus, Ahmad, Shiekh Tanveer, Li, Yiran, Gudenas, Brian, Kojic, Marija, Manz, Friedrik, Jonchere, Barbara, Mayasundari, Anand, Pitre, Aaron, Hadley, Jennifer, Paul, Leena, Batts, Melissa, Pfister, Stefan, Waszak, Sebastian, Bianski, Brandon, Tinkle, Christopher, Orr, Brent, Rankovic, Zoran, Robinson, Giles, Wainwright, Brandon, Kutscher, Lena, Lin, Hong and Northcott, Paul (2023). MDB-23. ELP1 GERMLINE DEFICIENCY SENSITIZES THE GRANULE NEURON LINEAGE TO SHH MEDULLOBLASTOMA AND EXPOSES NOVEL THERAPEUTIC VULNERABILITIES. Neuro-Oncology, 25 (Supplement_1), i67-i67. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noad073.255

  • Vo, Tuan, Balderson, Brad, Jones, Kahli, Ni, Guiyan, Crawford, Joanna, Millar, Amanda, Tolson, Elissa, Singleton, Matthew, Kojic, Marija, Robertson, Thomas, Walters, Shaun, Mulay, Onkar, Bhuva, Dharmesh D., Davis, Melissa J., Wainwright, Brandon J., Nguyen, Quan and Genovesi, Laura A. (2023). Spatial transcriptomic analysis of Sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma identifies that the loss of heterogeneity and promotion of differentiation underlies the response to CDK4/6 inhibition. Genome Medicine, 15 (1) 29, 29. doi: 10.1186/s13073-023-01185-4

  • Kojic, Marija, Abbassi, Nour E. H., Lin, Ting-Yu, Jones, Alun, Wakeling, Emma L., Clement, Emma, Nakou, Vasiliki, Singleton, Matthew, Dobosz, Dominika, Kaliakatsos, Marios, Glatt, Sebastian and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2023). A novel ELP1 mutation impairs the function of the Elongator complex and causes a severe neurodevelopmental phenotype. Journal of Human Genetics, 68 (7), 445-453. doi: 10.1038/s10038-023-01135-3

  • Gaik, Monika, Kojic, Marija, Wainwright, Brandon J and Glatt, Sebastian (2023). Elongator and the role of its subcomplexes in human diseases. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 15 (2) e16418, e16418. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202216418

  • Gaik, Monika, Kojic, Marija, Stegeman, Megan R., Öncü‐Öner, Tülay, Kościelniak, Anna, Jones, Alun, Mohamed, Ahmed, Chau, Pak Yan Stefanie, Sharmin, Sazia, Chramiec‐Głąbik, Andrzej, Indyka, Paulina, Rawski, Michał, Biela, Anna, Dobosz, Dominika, Millar, Amanda, Chau, Vann, Ünalp, Aycan, Piper, Michael, Bellingham, Mark C., Eichler, Evan E., Nickerson, Deborah A., Güleryüz, Handan, Abbassi, Nour El Hana, Jazgar, Konrad, Davis, Melissa J., Mercimek‐Andrews, Saadet, Cingöz, Sultan, Wainwright, Brandon J. and Glatt, Sebastian (2022). Functional divergence of the two Elongator subcomplexes during neurodevelopment. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 14 (7) e15608, e15608. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202115608

  • Adolphe, Christelle, Millar, Amanda, Kojic, Marija, Barkauskas, Deborah S., Sundstrom, Anders, Swartling, Fredrik J., Hediyeh-zadeh, Soroor, Tan, Chin Wee, Davis, Melissa J., Genovesi, Laura A. and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2021). SOX9 defines distinct populations of cells in SHH medulloblastoma but is not required for Math1-driven tumour formation. Molecular Cancer Research, 19 (11), 1831-1839. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-21-0117

  • Genovesi, Laura A., Millar, Amanda, Tolson, Elissa, Singleton, Matthew, Hassall, Emily, Kojic, Marija, Brighi, Caterina, Girard, Emily, Andradas, Clara, Kuchibhotla, Mani, Bhuva, Dharmesh D., Endersby, Raelene, Gottardo, Nicholas G., Bernard, Anne, Adolphe, Christelle, Olson, James M., Taylor, Michael D., Davis, Melissa J. and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2021). Systems pharmacogenomics identifies novel targets and clinically actionable therapeutics for medulloblastoma. Genome Medicine, 13 (1) 103, 103. doi: 10.1186/s13073-021-00920-z

  • Kojic, Marija, Gawda, Tomasz, Gaik, Monika, Begg, Alexander, Salerno-Kochan, Anna, Kurniawan, Nyoman D., Jones, Alun, Drożdżyk, Katarzyna, Kościelniak, Anna, Chramiec-Głąbik, Andrzej, Hediyeh-Zadeh, Soroor, Kasherman, Maria, Shim, Woo Jun, Sinniah, Enakshi, Genovesi, Laura A., Abrahamsen, Rannvá K., Fenger, Christina D., Madsen, Camilla G., Cohen, Julie S., Fatemi, Ali, Stark, Zornitza, Lunke, Sebastian, Lee, Joy, Hansen, Jonas K., Boxill, Martin F., Keren, Boris, Marey, Isabelle, Saenz, Margarita S., Brown, Kathleen ... Wainwright, Brandon J. (2021). Elp2 mutations perturb the epitranscriptome and lead to a complex neurodevelopmental phenotype. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 2678, 2678. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22888-5

  • Genovesi, Laura A., Puttick, Simon, Millar, Amanda, Kojic, Marija, Ji, Pengxiang, Lagendijk, Anne K., Brighi, Caterina, Bonder, Claudine S, Adolphe, Christelle and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2020). Patient derived orthotopic xenograft models of Medulloblastoma lack a functional blood brain barrier. Neuro-Oncology, 23 (5), 732-742. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa266

  • Waszak, Sebastian M., Robinson, Giles W,, Gudenas, Brian L., Smith, Kyle S., Forget, Antoine, Kojic, Marija, Garcia-Lopez, Jesus, Hadley, Jennifer, Hamilton, Kayla V., Indersie, Emilie, Buchhalter, Ivo, Kerssemakers, Jules, Jäger, Natalie, Sharma, Tanvi, Rausch, Tobias, Kool, Marcel, Sturm, Dominik, Jones, David T. W., Vasilyeva, Aksana, Tatevossian, Ruth G., Neale, Geoffrey, Lombard, Bérangère, Loew, Damarys, Nakitandwe, Joy, Rusch, Michael, Bowers, Daniel C., Bendel, Anne, Partap, Sonia, Chintagumpala, Murali ... Pfister, Stefan M. (2020). Germline elongator mutations in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma. Nature, 580 (7803), 396-401. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2164-5

  • Brighi, Caterina, Reid, Lee, Genovesi, Laura A., Kojic, Marija, Millar, Amanda, Bruce, Zara, White, Alison L., Day, Bryan W., Rose, Stephen, Whittaker, Andrew K. and Puttick, Simon (2020). Comparative study of preclinical mouse models of high-grade glioma for nanomedicine research: the importance of reproducing blood-brain barrier heterogeneity. Theranostics, 10 (14), 6361-6371. doi: 10.7150/thno.46468

  • Brighi, Caterina, Reid, Lee, White, Alison L., Genovesi, Laura A., Kojic, Marija, Millar, Amanda, Bruce, Zara, Day, Bryan W., Rose, Stephen, Whittaker, Andrew K. and Puttick, Simon (2020). MR-guided focused ultrasound increases antibody delivery to nonenhancing high-grade glioma. Neuro-Oncology Advances, 2 (1) vdaa030, 1-12. doi: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaa030

  • Kojic, Marija, Gaik, Monika, Kiska, Bence, Salerno-Kochan, Anna, Hunt, Sarah, Tedoldi, Angelo, Mureev, Sergey, Jones, Alun, Whittle, Belinda, Genovesi, Laura A., Adolphe, Christelle, Brown, Darren L., Stow, Jennifer L., Alexandrov, Kirill, Sah, Pankaj, Glatt, Sebastian and Wainwright, Brandon J. (2018). Elongator mutation in mice induces neurodegeneration and ataxia-like behavior. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 3195, 3195. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05765-6

  • Kojic, Marija and Wainwright, Brandon (2016). The many faces of elongator in neurodevelopment and disease. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 9 (NOV2016) 115, 115. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2016.00115

Conference Publication

  • Garcia-Lopez, Jesus, Ahmad, Shiekh Tanveer, Li, Yiran, Gudenas, Brian, Kojic, Marija, Manz, Friedrik, Jonchere, Barbara, Mayasundari, Anand, Pitre, Aaron, Hadley, Jennifer, Paul, Leena, Batts, Melissa, Pfister, Stefan, Waszak, Sebastian, Bianski, Brandon, Tinkle, Christopher, Orr, Brent, Rankovic, Zoran, Robinson, Giles, Wainwright, Brandon, Kutscher, Lena, Lin, Hong and Northcott, Paul (2023). ELP1 GERMLINE DEFICIENCY SENSITIZES THE GRANULE NEURON LINEAGE TO SHH MEDULLOBLASTOMA AND EXPOSES NOVEL THERAPEUTIC VULNERABILITIES. CARY: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.

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