Genetics of Populations and Ecogenotoxicology Belgrade Drosophila Group
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology and Institute of Biological Research “Sinisa Stankovic”
Marija Tanasković
Principal Investigator
Marija Savić Veselinović
PhD, Assistant Professor
Mina Rakić
PhD Student
Aleksandra Patenkovic
Assistant Research Professor
Pavle Erić
PhD Student
Mihailo Jelić
Research questions:
Genetic variability in natural and managed populations of various species. How do populations adapt to abiotic and biotic stressors, such as temperature, heavy metal pollution, and microbiota? What adaptive and non-adaptive factors influence mtDNA variability and cytonuclear interactions within of D. obscura and D. subobscura? How do heavy metals impact the expression of Mtn genes in D. melanogaster and D. subobscura, and are there other candidate genes or miRNAs involved in metal resistance?
Research organisms:
Drosophila subobscura and other obscura group species, D. melanogaster, D.simulans.
Apis mellifera
Gyps fulvus
Ovis aries
Experimental & Bioinformatic 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.
