Kristijan Jovanoski
Kristijan Jovanoski
BBiomed(Hons), MPhil Melb, DPhil Oxon
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Dr Kristijan Jovanoski is a neuroscientist investigating fundamental mechanisms of learning and memory in the Waddell Group at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. Kristijan presented his latest findings on how dopamine systems can create reward seeking despite adverse consequences in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster at the Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines (2023). These results have recently been published in Nature.
Previously, Kristijan read for a Bachelor of Biomedicine (Neuroscience with Honours in Biochemistry) and a Master of Philosophy (Physics) at the University of Melbourne, then for a Doctor of Philosophy (Neuroscience) at Magdalen College, the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. During his DPhil, Kristijan was also co-President of the Oxford Neuroscience Society Cortex Club from 2016 to 2017.
Key publications
Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences.
Journal article
Jovanoski KD. et al, (2023), Nature, 623, 356 - 365
Magnesium efflux from Drosophila Kenyon cells is critical for normal and diet-enhanced long-term memory.
Journal article
Wu Y. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
Recent publications
Striking parallels between the dopaminergic systems of flies and mammals
Chapter
Jovanoski KD. and Waddell S., (2025), 32, 287 - 303
Publisher Correction: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences.
Journal article
Jovanoski KD. et al, (2023), Nature, 624
Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences.
Journal article
Jovanoski KD. et al, (2023), Nature, 623, 356 - 365
Magnesium efflux from Drosophila Kenyon cells is critical for normal and diet-enhanced long-term memory.
Journal article
Wu Y. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
platform to view huntingtin exon 1 aggregation flux in the cell reveals divergent influences from chaperones hsp40 and hsp70.
Journal article
Ormsby AR. et al, (2013), J Biol Chem, 288, 37192 - 37203

