Dr. Danijela Paunović

Dr Danijela Paunović completed her undergraduate studies in the Molecular Biology and Physiology study program of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade in 2012 and her doctorate in the Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants module at the same faculty in 2022. She is one of the winners of the "Goran Ljubijankić" Foundation Award for the year 2022, awarded for the best doctoral and master's theses in the field of molecular biology, for the dissertation entitled " Identification of AGP genes in centaury (Centaurium erythraea, Gentianaceae) and monitoring of their expression in response to tissue mechanical wounding in vitro". She is engaged in scientific and research work in the field of plant molecular biology and bioinformatics. So far, she has been involved in the identification of gene sequences for arabinogalactan proteins (AGP) by developing a new methodology to identify HRGP and AGP sequences using machine learning techniques, as well as monitoring gene expression at different stages of somatic embryogenesis. She also studies the response of plants to different types of stress, such as mechanical wounding, as well as the response of transformed and non-transformed plants to salt stress. She is a member of the Serbian Biological Society (SBD) and the Society for Plant Physiology of Serbia (DFBS).