Institute employee Vesna Jaki Tkalec, DVM, assistant (internal status: junior researcher) and Manager of the Laboratory for Food and Animal Feed Microbiology of the Veterinary Institute Križevci, a branch of the Croatian Veterinary Institute, successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Dokazivanje gena za virulenciju i mecA gena sojeva vrste Staphylococcus aureus izdvojenih u rutinskoj dijagnostici mastitisa krava” (Evidence of a gene for virulence and the mecA gene in strains of the species Staphylococcus aureus isolated in routine diagnosis in mastitis in cows) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb on 26 April 2013, thereby receiving the academic title of doctor of science (PhD).

Sincere congratulations to Dr. Vesna Jaki Tkalec!