Milica Prvulović

Milica Prvulović is a Research Assistant at the Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" (IBISS), National Institute of the Republic of Serbia University of Belgrade, and a PhD student at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Serbia (subfield: Animal and human physiology). She received BSc degree in Biology in 2017 (subfield: Molecular Biology and Physiology), (average grade 8.10/10) and MSc degree in Molecular Biology and Physiology in 2018 (subfield: Experimental biomedicine), (Master’s thesis title: Cholesterol metabolism in rat cerebellum during aging: the influence of different dietary regimes (average grade 9.83/10), both from Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Milica joined Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology and Behaviour in 2017 as a Master student and proceeded as a doctoral candidate since 2018.

Her research interests include brain aging, caloric restriction, nutrition and animal behavior, while her ongoing PhD research focuses on the role of onset and duration of caloric restriction and sex specificity. A particular focus is on animal frailty status, behavior (including motor skills, anxiety, learning, and memory), and changes in expression of key proteins of the mTOR signaling pathway. In addition to the topic of her PhD, Milica is involved in several projects related to age-related neurodegenerative diseases, different nutritive approaches (fermented foods, chrononutrition), neuroinflammation, synaptic plasticity, and cholesterol metabolism in the brain. Milica’s technical skills include animal behavior, Western Blot, immunohistochemistry, data analysis, and statistics. Milica is a member of the Youth Committee of the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society (MNS), an active member of COST Action CA20128, Promoting Innovation of ferMENTed fOods (PIMENTO), Federation of European Neuroscience society (FENS), ALBA Network, Serbian Neuroscience Society (SNS) and Serbian Society for Molecular Biology (MolBioS). She was a travel grant awardee from COST (2021 and 2023), FENS (2022 and 2023), and IBISS (2022).