Proposal to establish China-Serbia Joint Laboratory for Natural Products and Drug Discovery was accepted on 20th May, 2021, which are extremely good news for Serbia and Balkan region.

The third Belgrade Bioinformatics Conference - BelBI2021, will be organized as a virtual event, from 21st to 25th June, 2021.

BelBI2021 is an international event, organized by the several research institutions, faculties and scientific societies from Serbia. This event covers a wide range of various topics in bioinformatics, including Big data analytics, Machine learning in biological data analysis, Biological networks, Data mining methods and their applications in biology and medicine, Bio- Ontologies, etc.

More information about the conference: https://belbi.bg.ac.rs/

The Global Young Academy,Women in Science Working Group have published a book Motherhood in Science – How children change our academic careers. This publication sheds light on the challenges of motherhood in the science sphere and academia, ranging from biased working environments and cultural and traditional expectations, to underdeveloped or missing support systems and feelings of self-guilt in a working parent.

Portal E-klinika je razgovarao sa dr Nadom Pejnović, naučnim savetnikom Odeljenja za imunologiju Instituta za biološka istraživanja “Siniša Stanković“, u kojem je govorila o citokinskoj oluji i COVID-19.

Reminder - One month before application for ANSO Scholarship is due date.

Together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), ANSO supports young talents to pursue postgraduate education with scholarships for 200 Master’s students and 300 PhD students every year.

The Ivan Đaja Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Physiology, carried out at institutes and universities in Serbia, and defended during 2019/2020 was presented to Dr. Marija Jakovljević, from the Department of Neurobiology at IBISS, for his thesis entitled "The role of purinergic signaling in neuroinflammation and demyelination – implications for multiple sclerosis". The PhD thesis was performed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, under the supervision of Dr. Irena Lavrnja and Dr. Danijela Laketa.

Foods is now inviting nominations for the 2021 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to a young investigator in recognition of her/his excellence in the field of food science and technology.