Marko Bajic

Marko Bajic is a Health Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since July 2022, specializing in the development of amplicon-based assays for malaria surveillance, training laboratory personnel in NGS lab work, and analyzing results. Prior roles include serving as an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on Targeted Amplicon Deep Sequencing (TADS) for antimalarial mutation surveillance and parasite origin evaluation, and as an APHL Bioinformatics Fellow developing TADS protocols. Marko's academic background includes a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University, where research focused on chromatin regulation in plant differentiation and stress response, as well as experience as a Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, working on creating transgenic zebrafish models for neurodegenerative disease research. Marko holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.