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Research area
- Antioxidants and pro-oxidants (ROS) and redox regulation;
- Hydroxyl radical;
- Biochemical mechanisms of abiotic stress response in plants (PAR, UV-B radiation and drought);
- Primary and secondary metabolites;
- LEA proteins.
Skills
- HPLC (determination of primary and secondary metabolites),
- Antioxidant activity, EPR, Biochemistry techniques: Protein Purification, Homogenization, Differential Centrifugation, Protein assays, Ligation and transformation, Enzyme Kinetics and Electrophoresis (native, SDS and IEF).
- EPR,
- Biochemistry techniques:
- Protein Purification,
- Homogenization,
- Differential Centrifugation,
- Protein assays,
- Ligation and transformation,
- Enzyme Kinetics and
- Electrophoresis (native, SDS and IEF).
Work experience:
- 2019–present: Research Fellow (Research Assistant Professor), Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade;
- 2012–2019: Research Assistant, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade;
- 2011–2012: Research Trainee, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade.
Education:
- 2010–2018: PhD in Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade;
- 2008–2010: MSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade;
- 1999–2008: Diploma in Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade.
Awards and certificates:
- Scholarship provided by the DAAD foundation programme for Research Internship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany (July – September, 2009)
Other professional activities
Courses taught:
- Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture (part-time), undergraduate courses.
Editorial and Reviewer’s activity (journals, books, projects):
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Memberships:
- UV4Plants International Association
- COST Action: CA18210 – Oxygen sensing a novel mean for biology and technology of fruit quality.
- Cost Action FA0906 – UV4growth
- Serbian Plant Physiology Society
- Serbian Biochemical Society
- Serbian Society for Mitochondrial and Free Radical Physiology (SSMFRP)
Current:
- 2020–2022: Participant in the PROMIS project: “LEAPSyn-SCI: Proteins represented in late embryogenesis: structural characterization and interaction with α-synuclein”, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (RS). https://leapsynsci.com/
- 2020–2022: Participant in the Bilateral project between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Slovenia: “Application of silicon to mitigate oxidative stress and improve the resistance of barley exposed to ultraviolet radiation and drought”, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MPNTR), RS and the Slovenian Research Agency.
- 2019–2021: Participant in the Bilateral Project between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia: “Investigating the regulatory role of TROL proteins in electron distribution in the UV-B-induced mechanism of flavonoid and anthocyanin accumulation in the leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana plants”, funded by the MPNTR, RS and the Croatian Science Foundation.
- 2019–2020: Participant in the Bilateral Project between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Germany: “Barley genotypes with different tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress: Do redox signals from chloroplasts participate in the trade-off strategy”, funded by MPNTR, RS and DAAD.
Past:
- 2011–2019: Participant in III43010 “Modulation of antioxidative metabolism in plants for improvement of plant abiotic stress tolerance and identification of new biomarkers for application in remediation and monitoring of degraded biotopes”, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia.
- 2011–2014: Participant in “Investigation of the effect of the plant biofilters in the areas of high pollution in the city of Belgrade”, funded by Secretariat for Environmental protection, City of Belgrade, Serbia
- 2011–2014: Participant in “The application of bio-indicators of oxidative stress in plants”, funded by Secretariat for Environmental protection, City of Belgrade, Serbia.
- Živanović B, Milić Komić S, Tosti T, Vidović M, Prokić Lj, Veljović Jovanović S (2020) Leaf Soluble Sugars and Free Amino Acids as Important Components of Abscisic Acid—Mediated Drought Response in Tomato. Plants 9(9):1147. DOI: 10.3390/plants9091147
- Živanović B, Vidović M, Milić Komić S, Jovanović Lj, Kolarž P, Morina F, Veljović Jovanović S (2017) Contents of phenolics and carotenoids in tomato grown under polytunnels with different UV-transmission rates. Turk. J. Agric. For. 41:113−120. DOI: 10.3906/tar-1612-56
- Milić Komić S, Bogdanović Pristov J, Popović-Bijelić A, Zakrzewska J, Stanić M, Kalauzi A, Spasojević I (2016) Photo-redox reactions of indole and ferric iron in water. Appl Catal B: Environ 185:174–180. DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.12.018
- Vidović M, Morina F, Milić Komić S, Vuleta A, Zechmann B, Prokić Lj, Veljović Jovanović S (2016) Characterisation of antioxidants in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic leaf tissues of variegated Pelargonium zonale. Plant Biol 18:669–680. DOI: 10.1111/plb.12429
- Vidović M, Morina F, Prokić L, Milić-Komić S, Živanović B, Veljović Jovanović S (2016) Antioxidative response in variegated Pelargonium zonale leaves and generation of extracellular H2O2 in (peri)vascular tissue induced by sunlight and paraquat. J. Plant Physiol. 206:25–39. DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.07.017
- Vidović M, Morina F, Milić S, Albert A, Zechmann B, Tosti T, Winkler JB, Veljović Jovanović S (2015) Carbon allocation from source to sink leaf tissue in relation to flavonoid biosynthesis in variegated Pelargonium zonale under UV-B radiation and high PAR intensity. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 93:44–55. DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2015.01.008
- Vidović M, Morina F, Milić S, Zechmann B, Albert A, Winkler JB, Veljović Jovanović S (2015) Ultraviolet-B component of sunlight stimulates photosynthesis and flavonoid accumulation in variegated Plectranthus coleoides leaves depending on background light. Plant Cell Environ 38:968–979. DOI: 10.1111/pce.12471
- Milić S, Bogdanović Pristov J, Mutavdžić D, Savić A, Spasić M, Spasojević I (2015) The relationship of physicochemical properties to the antioxidative activity of free amino acids in Fenton system. Environ Sci Technol 49:4245–4254. DOI: 10.1021/es5053396
- Gorjanović S, Pastor F, Vasić R, Novaković M, Simonović M, Milić S, Sužnjević D (2013) Electrochemical versus spectrophotometric assessment of antioxidant activity of hop (Humulus lupulus) products and individual compounds. J. Agr. Food Chem. 61:9089–9096. DOI: 10.1021/jf401718z
- Milić S, Potkonjak N, Gorjanović S, Veljović-Jovanović S, Pastor F, Sužnjević D (2011) A polarographic study of chlorogenic acid and its interaction with some heavy metal ions. Electroanalysis 23:2935–2940. DOI: 10.1002/elan.201100476