Genetics of Populations and Ecogenotoxicology Belgrade Drosophila Group
University of Belgrade
Marina Stamenković-Radak
Principal Investigator
Katarina Erić
PhD Student
Mihailo Jelić
Research Assistant Professor
Marija Savić Veselinović
Research Assistant Professor
Pavle Eric
PhD Student
Mirjana Beribaka
PhD Student
Research interests:
What is the adaptive response of populations under conditions of individual or combined abiotic and biotic stressors such as temperature, heavy metal pollution and microbiota? Which processes shaped the genetic structure of Drosophila populations in Central Balkan? What influences dynamics of gene pools associated with local adaptation to environmental change due to climate, and pollution?
Research organisms:
Primarly Drosophila subobscura, but other obscura group species, and D. melanogaster, D.simulans, as well joined project with a group studying natural populations of economically important taxons Syrphidae and Culicidae
Expertise:
Cytogenetic analysis of inversion chromosomal polymorphism in D. subobscura; molecular (mtDNA, nuDNA) analyses; landscape genetics; geometric morphometry, HSP assay, experimental evolution – life history; Drosophila behaviour experiments; field studies, effective population size; taxonomic identification of several Drosophila species, obscura and melanogaster group; Wolbachia identification in insects.
