Dr. Zeljka Smit-Mcbride is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science. Her research interests include age-related diseases, functional genomics, and regulation of gene expression at the levels of microRNA.

Positions at UC Davis

• Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science

Major Research Papers

Sin, Tzu-Ni & Kim, Sangbae & Li, Yumei & Wang, Jun & Chen, Rui & Chung, Sook & Kim, Soohyun & Casanova, M. Isabel & Park, Sangwan & Smit-McBride, Zeljka & Sun, Ning & Pomerantz, Ori & Roberts, Jeffrey & Guan, Bin & Hufnagel, Robert & Moshiri, Ala & Thomasy, Sara & Sieving, Paul & Yiu, Glenn. (2023). A Spontaneous Nonhuman Primate Model of Myopic Foveoschisis. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science. 64. 18. 10.1167/iovs.64.1.18. 

Smit-McBride, Zeljka. (2020). MicroRNA Affymetrix microarray probe labeling from ocular fluids v1. 10.17504/protocols.io.bc7pizmn. 

Smit-McBride, Zeljka & Nguyen, Anthony & Yu, Alfred & Modjtahedi, Sara & Hunter III, Allan & Rashid, Saadia & Moisseiev, Elad & Morse, Lawrence. (2020). Unique molecular signatures of microRNAs in ocular fluids and plasma in diabetic retinopathy. PLOS ONE. 15. e0235541. 10.1371/journal.pone.0235541. 

Acker, Natalie & Smith, Harold & Devine, Claire & Oltjen, Sharon & Tsiropoulou, Sofia & Smit-McBride, Zeljka & Lange, Karen & Blacque, Oliver & Matsubara, Joanne & Gordus, Andrew & Golden, Andy & Vogel, Bruce. (2021). A complement factor H homolog, heparan sulfation, and syndecan maintain inversin compartment boundaries in C. elegans cilia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118. e2016698118. 10.1073/pnas.2016698118.