Bosiljka Tasic PhD

Bosiljka Tasic joined the Allen Institute in 2011 as one of the founding members of the Mouse Cell Types program to establish methods for studying cell-type-specific neuronal connectivity. She currently leads an effort toward a comprehensive molecular analysis of neuronal identity in the mouse visual system. Before joining the Allen Institute, Bosiljka completed her postdoctoral training with Liqun Luo at Stanford University, where she developed molecular genetic techniques for labeling and manipulation of specific neuronal populations or single neurons in Drosophila and mice and a new method for site-specific transgenesis in mice. Bosiljka received a Bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Belgrade (once Yugoslavia, now Serbia), and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with Tom Maniatis at Harvard University, where she studied mechanisms of vertebrate-specific protocadherin gene expression in the nervous system and their role in neuronal identity.