Dr. Goran Živanović

As I'm a population geneticist the field of my research is population, evolutionary and conservation genetics. I obtained my PhD at the Biological faculty at the University of Belgrade in 1998 related to the population genetics topic of the adaptive value of chromosomal inversion polymorphism and genetic load in the fruit fly Drosophila subobscura. I'm currently a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Biological Research "Sinisa Stankovic" in Belgrade.

My work, in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Barcelona since 2000, includes general studies of the adaptive value of chromosomal inversions and genetic load in Drosophila subobscura. We published 16 papers in scientific journals: Hereditas-Sweden, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research- Germany, Journal of Evolutionary Biology-UK, Genetica-Holland, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution-Israel, Genome-Canada, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Brasil, Insects-China, Russian Journal of Genetics-Russia, Journal of Genetics-India. Apart from that I have published 7 other papers in the same field.

Also, our current research focus are studies of adaptation of Drosophila subobscura chromosomal inversions to climatic changes, including adaptation to specific climatic variables, rate of change for the thermal adapted inversions and studies for chromosomal thermal index (CTI) in natural populations of Drosophila subobscura from the Balkans.

In addition to the main type of research mentioned above, I was invited to participate in a grandiose project on the distribution of planarians (Dugesia) on 4 continents and their colonization of Europe and Asia from Africa (Journal of Biogeography).

As a special type of interest in the great benefit of using DNA data in solving criminal cases, I published a paper in the field of forensic genetics in the Journal of Criminalistics and Law-Serbia.