Genetics of Populations and Ecogenotoxicology Belgrade Drosophila Group
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology and Institute of Biological Research “Sinisa Stankovic”
Marina Stamenković-Radak
Principal Investigator
Katarina Erić
PhD Student
Mihailo Jelić
PhD, Associate Professor
Marija Savić Veselinović
PhD, Assistant Professor
Pavle Erić
PhD Student
Marija Tanaskovic
PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Aleksandra Patenkovic
Assistant Research Professor
Slobodan Davidovic
Assistant Research Professor
Mina Rakic
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, microbiota? Which adaptive and nonadaptive factors shape mtDNA variability and cytonuclear interactions within populations of D. obscura and D. subobcura? What is the adaptive significance of microbiota associated with different species. What is the effect of heavy metals on the expression of currently described drosophilid Mtn genes in D. melanogaster and D. subobscura, and are any other candidate genes and miRNA involved in metal resistance and consequent oxidative stress?
Research organisms:
– Drosophila subobscura and other obscura group species, D. melanogaster, D.simulans.
– Apis melifera
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 of Drosophila, Apis melifera, Gyps fulvus effective population size; taxonomic identification of Drosophila species, obscura and melanogaster group; Wolbachia identification in insects. Statistics and basic bioinformatics using R and other packages.
