Marija Petrović

Date of birth: 21.12.1995.
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Education
2022 - Faculty of Science, University of Niš, enrolled in the third year of PhD studies, study program Biology. Preparation of a doctoral dissertation at the Department of Plant Physiology of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković"
2020-2021 Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, doctoral academic studies, study program Biology, completed first and second year of doctoral academic studies. Average grade 9.50.
2019-2020 M. Sc. Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, study program Biology. Average grade 10.0. Master thesis defended on 10.07.2020. The topic of the master thesis was "Accumulation of malondialdehyde in different varieties of Triticum aestivum L. under conditions of heat stress".
2014-2018 B.Sc. Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, study program Biology. Average grade 9.05.

Skills
• Culture of plant cells, tissues and organs in vitro
• Extraction of essential oils
• Methods for determining antioxidant activity: determination of the total amount of flavonoids, phenols, tannins, proanthocyanidins, galatonins, DPPH, ABTS+, CUPRAC; FRAP, TRC
• UV-VIS spectrophotometry, HPLC, TLC, GC, GC-MS
• Preparation and sterilization of medium for bacterial cultures; cultivation of microorganisms
• Chemical and microbiological control of soil quality
• Hematological analyses; Urine analysis

Practical and volunteer experience
• Primatiada 2017, 1st place for presenting scientific papers
• Volunteering in the biochemical laboratory FARMAKON, Požarevac 2018-2019
• Participation in science festivals 2016-2022
• Volunteering and collecting methodology for soil testing in 2022 at the Agricultural Advisory and Expert Service (PSSS) in Požarevac
• Participation in conferences and congresses:
the poster at the X conference of the Biochemical Society of Serbia, Kragujevac 2021
the poster at the 3rd Congress of Biologists of Serbia, Zlatibor 2022

Work on computers
• Microsoft Office Suite
• SPSS
• BLAST
• R

Certificates
• English language B2, University of Kragujevac
• Bioinformatic Methods I, Coursera
• Data analysis with R programming