Dr. Mariana Stanišić

She began her professional development at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, within the Molecular Biology and Physiology study program, which she finished with an average grade of 9.74, and after which she gained the PhD degree in Biology (average grade of 10). As a PhD student, she won the 1st place for poster presentation at "3rd International Conference on Plant Biology / 22nd SPPS Meeting", 9-12 June 2018 (Belgrade, Serbia), in the organization of the Serbian Plant Physiology Society. The experience she gained by participating in the project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (OI 173015) "Biotechnology in vitro - cultivated, medicinal and endangered plant species" (2011-2019), as well as the international SCOPES project "Circadian regulation of phototropism in Arabidopsis and potato" (no. 152221) in collaboration with Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2014-2016), makes her a competent researcher in the field of plant physiology and molecular biology. Her research has been mainly focused on the plant allelopathic interactions and the mechanism of their phytotoxic action for the production of ecologically acceptable herbicides. She has also been engaged in the stable genetic transformation of recalcitrant woody species to develop a model system for allelopathic studies and to produce the pest-resistant genotypes. Dr. Stanišić is also a member of the Serbian Plant Physiology Society and The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB). As the mentor of one PhD dissertation and a master's thesis, as well as supervisor of several student projects, Dr. Stanišić has expertise in training young researchers in numerous experimental biochemical, molecular and in vitro tissue culture techniques, developing critical scientific thinking and other academic skills.