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INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS
AND GENETIC ENGINEERING
University of Belgrade

Dragana Despotovic

Assistant Research Professor
Group for Sociomicrobiology
Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Genetics and Ecology (LMMGE)

Institute of molecular genetics and genetic engineering (IMGGE),
University of Belgrade

Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11042 Belgrade 152, Serbia
Mobile:  +381 65 397 60 34
Phone:  +381 11 397 60 34
Fax:      +381 11 397 58 08
E-mail: dragana.despotovic@imgge.bg.ac.rs

EDUCATION

2012 PhD in Natural Sciences (spec. Biotechnology), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (Thesis: Directed evolution of a subtilisin Carlsberg variant towards improved perhydrolytic activity for industrial application)
2008 B.Sc. in Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, UB

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2023 - Assistant Research Professor, LMMGE, IMGGE, UB
2019 - 2022 Research Associate, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2017 - 2019 Senior Intern, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2012 - 2017 Postdoc, Department of Biomolecular Sciences (group of Prof. Dan S. Tawfik), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2008 - 2012 PhD student at the Institute of Biotechnology (group of Prof. Ulrich Schwaneberg), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Enzyme evolution (emergence of new functions)
  • Bioremediation (isolation of bacterial strains for degradation of organophosphorus pollutants and identification of metabolic pathways involved)
  • Origin of life (protein emergence).

PUBLICATIONS

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