- RESEARCH FIELDS
- Ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal investigations
- Pharmacognostic and resource fieldwork examinations
- Chemical characterization of medicinal plants and fruits using modern analytical techniques such as UV/VIS, HPLC, HPTLC, GC, GC-MS, LC/MS, IR, NMR.
- Isolation and structural elucidation of biologically active compounds
- Formulation of new phytopreparations
- Investigation of the effects of processing and storage
- Chemistry of by-products during processing
- Pilot (preclinical) and nutritional studies
- Agronomic research on medicinal plants and fruits
- Introduction and domestication of autochthonous and allochthonous medicinal plants into culture.
- Improvement of existing cultivation practice of medicinal crops.
- Ex situ germplasm conservation and population screening for desirable agronomic and chemical traits.
- Maintenance of the Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants “Akademik Dr. Jovan Tucakov”, Valjevo, Serbia, inventory and improvement of the general plant database. Website www.bastalekbiljava.rs.
- Exploratory Data Analysis – Generalized, Linear and Mixed Models, Multivariate Exploratory Techniques and Non-parametric methods (R, STATISTICA and SPSS).
- COLLABORATION IN SERBIA
- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Technology, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Agronomy, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš
- Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Institute for Molecular Genetic and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade
- Clinical Center of Serbia
- INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
- 2010 – 2013 SEERA.NET Plus Joint European Research Project MOUNTEA-CONSE, ERA-135, in the frame of Joint European Research Project (JERP).
Project title: “Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of indigenous Medicinal and Aromatic plants traditionally used in the SEE, WB countries. A model approach for Sideritis spp. (Mountain tea).”
Project coordinator: dr Nebojša Menković
- 2010 – 2011 Bilateral cooperation with the Republic of Slovenia.
Project title: ” Investigation of biologically active components as the source of antioxidant activity in apple and black currant ”
Project coordinator: Dr Katarina Šavikin
- 2013 – 2014 UNESCO funded project „Innovative Approaches for Better Utilization of Local Biodiversity in SEE Based on Ethnopharmacology“. Participants from Bulgaria, Serbia, FYROM and Albania.
- 2014-2016 Bilateral cooperation with the Republic of France.
Project title: Rationalization of anti-inflammatory activity of plants used in European Folk Medicine in chronic inflammatory diseases.
Project coordinator: dr Gordana Zdunić
- 2014-2015 Bilateral project with Republic of Slovenia: „Investigation of edible wild plants and weeds from organic plantation in Serbia and Slovenia as a potential source of food and herbal medicines”.
Project coordinator: Dr Dejan Pljevljakušić
- 2015-2017 Bilateral project with the People’s Republic of China – “New insight on Serbian and Chinese species of the genus Gentiana and Gentianella: validation of traditional plant use for liver disorders”, Project coordinator: Dr. Jelena Zivkovic.
- 2016-2018 Bilateral project with Slovenia – “Metabolomical changes in fruit and vegetables caused by treatments after the harvest”, Project leader: Dr. Dejan Gođevac, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade; participants Dr. Gordana Zdunić and Dr. Katarina Šavikin
- 2016-2018 Bilateral project with Slovenia – “Liposomes coated with biopolymers as new systems for the delivery of natural phenolic components“, Project leader: Dr. Bojana Balanč, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade; participants Dr. Gordana Zdunić and Dr. Katarina Šavikin
