University of Belgrade - Institute for Multidisciplinary Research

Aleksandra Mitrović

PhD in biological sciences

Research Professor

Address: Bulevar despota Stefana 142, 11060 Belgrade

Telephone: (+381) 11 2078 460

Research area

Plant physiology, physiology of seed germination, maternal environmental effects, organogenesis, mechanical stress (plant cell wall shape/structure/function ratio, wood anatomy), biotic stress (hemibiotrophic fungi-host interactions).

Skills

In vitro plant tissue culture, histochemistry, light microscopy

  • Biography
  • Projects
  • Selected publications

1.Work experience:

  • 2020 – present: Research Professor
  • 2012-2020: Senior Research Fellow (Research Associate Professor), Institute for multidisciplinary research, University of Belgrade.
  • 2007-2012: Research Fellow (Research Assistant Professor), Institute for multidisciplinary research, University of Belgrade.
  • 1999-2007: Research Assistant, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade.
  • 1996-1999: Assistant, Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade.
  • 1994-1995: Assistant, Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, Belgrade.

2.Education:

  • 2007: Ph.D. in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.
  • 1998: M.Sc. in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.
  • 1993: B.Sc. in Molecular biology and physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.

Editorial and Reviewer’s activity (journals, books, projects):

  • Reviewer for: New phytologist, Plant, Soil and Environment, Cellulose, Journal of Polymers and the Environment, Weed science, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Archives of Biological Sciences, Romanian Biotechnological Letters.

Memberships:

  • Serbian Plant Physiology Society

Past:

  • “Studies of the structure-function relationship in the plant cell walls and changes in the wall structure by enzymatic engineering”, by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2019)
  • “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”, by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2011-2017)
  • “Testing of new biosensors for monitoring and diagnostics of plants”, Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia (2006-2010)
  • „Regulation of antioxidative metabolism in plants during growth, insection od pathogen and abiotic stress: mechanisms of transport“, Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia (2006-2010)
  • “Geneticaly modified and in vitro grown plants – modifications of morphogenesis, secundary metabolism and properties of economic interest”, Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia (2003–2006)
  • „Membrane and apoplast: the role in the environmental and oxidative stress and biochemical regulation of redox processes in symplast“,Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia (2001–2003)
  1. Radotić, K., Popović, J., Vojisavljević, K., Janosević, D., Simonović-Radosavljević, J., Butulija, S., Matović, B., Mutavdžić, D., Szucs, C., Cseri, A., Dudits, D., Kovacs, K., Mitrović, A.Lj. (2024) Doubling genome size of energy willow affects woody stem cell wall structure, chemistry, and biogas yield. Wood science and technology 58:1353–1379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-024-01567-w. (2023, Materials Science, Paper & Wood 2/20, IF 3.1, M21a)
  2. Prokopijević, M., Simonović Radosavljević, J., Spasojević, D., Vojisavljević, K., Radotić, K., Mitrović, A.Lj. (2022) XET activity determination in powdered wood samples as an indicator of tension wood, tested on juvenile Populus x euramericana exposed to severe long-term static bending. Holzforschung 76: 668-673. https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2021-0223. (2022, Materials Science, Paper & Wood 5/21, IF 2.4, M21)
  3. Mitrović, A.Lj., Simonović Radosavljević, J., Prokopijević, M., Spasojević, D., Kovačević, J., Prodanović, O., Todorović, B., Matović, B., Stanković, M., Maksimović, V., Mutavdžić, D., Skočić, M., Pešić, M., Prokić, Lj., Radotić, K., (2021) Cell wall response to UV radiation in needles of Picea omorika. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 161: 176-190. ISSN 0981-9428, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.02.007. (2021, Plant Sciences 28/240, IF 5.437, M21)
  4. Radosavljević, J.S., Mitrović, ALj., Radotić, K., Zimányi, L., Garab, G., Steinbach, G. (2021) Differential Polarization imaging of plant cells. Mapping the anisotropy of cell walls and chloroplasts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22:7661. doi: 10.3390/ijms22147661. PMID: 34299279; PMCID: PMC8306740. (2021, Chemistry, Multidisciplinary 50/180, IF 6.208, M21)