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Research
The Laboratory for Plant Molecular Biology (LPMB) has been established by Vesna Maksimovic, PhD in 2002. Using different methodological approaches and various model organisms we investigate:
- the cellular processes occurring in plants in response to the stress in CRISPR-Cas knockout and/or knockdown as well as overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.
- the leaf transcriptome and metabolome in maize with the aim to find novel molecular markers involved in low temperature and water deficit stress tolerance.
- the cell-cell communications between plants and the plant growth promoting bacteria
- population-genetics and phylogeographic aspects as well as evolutionary relations of plant species aiming at improving agronomically important and conserving wild, endemic plant species, and protect the environment
- the molecular bases of important cellular processes: genome integrity protection, resistance to desiccation and recycling of oxidatively damaged biomolecules in Ustilago maydis
Current projects
- IMGGE work program for 2022
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, 451-03-68/2022-14/200042, 2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Jelena Begovic, IMGGE
Participants from IMGGE: all employed researchers - ExplOMV - Exploring Bacterial OMV (Outer Membrane Vesicles)-sRNAs Mediated Interkingdom Communication with Plants and Fungi
Program IDEAS, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 7744906, 2021-2024
Principal Investigator: Dr Dragana Nikolic, IMGGE
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Jelena Samardzic, Dr Bojana Banovic Djeri, Dr Dragana Bosnic, Sofija Nesic, Ana Pantelic - GENOVA - Factors of the BRCA2-mediated Homologous Recombination: Uncovering New Players, Their Interplay, and Contribution to Genome Integrity and Stress Response
Program IDEAS, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 7730230, 2021-2024
Principal Investigator: Dr Mira Milisavljevic, IMGGE
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Milorad Kojic, dr Gordana Timotijevic, Jelena Petkovic, Ivana Nikolic - CEEPUS network “Managing forests for climate change”
Principal Investigator: Prof. dr. Milan Mataruga, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
European Union, CIII-BA-0000-00-1920, 2019-
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Jelena Aleksic - Plant health bioinformatics network
EUPHRESCO, 2019-2022
Project coordinator: Annelies Haegeman, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Belgium
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Bojana Banovic Djeri, dr Jelena Samardzic - OxInDisPro - Overexpression of intrinsically disordered protein ATDSS1 in different plant systems – an analysis of its role in response to the oxidative stress
Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration Program: Knowledge Exchange Vouchers, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 6473515, 2020-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Gordana Timotijevic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Ivana Nikolic - The usage of silicon fertilisation in order to mitigate the oxidative stress and to improve the resilience of barley subjected to UV and drought
Research project within scientific and technological cooperation between Republic of Serbia and Republic of Slovenia, 2020-2022
Principal investigator: Dr Marija Vidovic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Dragana Bosnic - LEAPSyn-SCI – Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins: Structural Characterisation and Interaction with α-Synuclein
Program for excellent projects of young researchers (PROMIS), Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 6039663, 2020-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Marija Vidovic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Ana Pantelic - Conservation of animal genetic resources using molecular genetic characterization
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, 680-00-00041/1/2021-02, 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Jelena M. Aleksic, IMGGE - Genotyping of sheep (Ovis aries) from the territory of the Republic of Serbia using molecular markers in order to determine the number of breeds and preserve their gene pool
Institute of Animal Husbandry, 14/277, 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Jelena M. Aleksic, PhD, IMGGE - Genotyping of 30 sheep of the Krivovirska breed from the territory of the Republic of Serbia using molecular markers in order to determine the level of genetic diversity of the population and preserve its gene pool
Institute of Animal Husbandry, 14/360, 2022
Principal Investigator: Jelena M. Aleksic, PhD, IMGGE -
Science on the move - from lab to streets & school (ScienceSCool)
European Comission, 101061631, 2022-2023
Principal Investigator: Dr Biljana Sljukic Paunkovic, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Bojana Banovic Djeri
Selected publications
- Efficient protein extraction for shotgun proteomics from hydrated and desiccated leaves of resurrection Ramonda serbica plants
Vidović M, Franchin C, Morina F, Veljović-Jovanović S, Masi A, Arrigoni G
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2020;412(30):8299-8312 - Silicon alleviates copper (Cu) toxicity in cucumber by increased Cu-binding capacity
Bosnić D, Nikolić D, Timotijević G, Pavlović J, Vaculík M, Samardžić J, Nikolić M
Plant Soil 2019;441:629-641 - Genomic data provide new insights on the demographic history and the extent of recent material transfers in Norway spruce
Chen J, Li L, Milesi P, Jansson G, Berlin M, Karlsson B, Aleksić MJ, Vendramin GG, Lascoux M
Evol Appl 2019;12(8):1539-1551 - Serbian spruce and climate change: Possible outcomes and conservation strategy
Ivetić V, Aleksić JM
2019;pp.353-371
In: Šijačić-Nikolić M., Milovanović J., Nonić M. (eds) Forests of Southeast Europe Under a Changing Climate. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 65. Springer, Cham - A comparative study of liquid holding restitution of viability after oxidative stress in Ustilago maydis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell populations
Milisavljevic M, Kojic M
Fungal Genet Biol 2020;134:103284 - Silicon Alleviates Iron Deficiency in Barley by Enhancing Expression of Strategy II Genes and Metal Redistribution
Nikolic DB, Nesic S, Bosnic D, Kostic L, Nikolic M, Samardzic JT
Front Plant Sci 2019;10:416 - Revealing new information from existing genomic data for pepper mild mottle virus pathotype determination
Banović Đeri B, Pajić V, Dudić D
Crop Prot 2018;107:93-103 - Collaboration in the actions of Brh2 with resolving functions during DNA repair and replication stress in Ustilago maydis
Kojic M, Milisavljevic M, Holloman WK
DNA Repair (Amst) 2018;63:47-55 - Bioavailability of Nutritional Resources From Cells Killed by Oxidation Supports Expansion of Survivors in Ustilago maydis Populations
Milisavljevic M, Petkovic J, Samardzic J, Kojic M.
Front Microbiol 2018;9:990 - Anti-encephalitogenic effects of cucumber leaf extract
Jevtic B, Djedovic N, Stanisavljevic S, Gasic U, Misic D, Despotovic J S, Samardzic J, Miljkovic Dj, Timotijevic G
J Funct Foods 2017;37:249-262
Contact
Head Office / Mailing address:
Vojvode Stepe 444a,
11042 Belgrade 152, Serbia
Tel: +381 11 3976414
Faks: +381 11 3975808