Associate Research Professor (Senior Research Associate)

 

 

 

 

 

Address:

ICTM, Department of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Center for Instrumental Analysis, Laboratory for Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
(ground floor, room 320)
Telephone: +381 11 2637075
+381 11 2630474
Fax: +381 11 2636061
E-mail: milkaj@chem.bg.ac.rs

Education:

2004 Graduated chemist - Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2007 MSc in Chemistry - Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2013 PhD in Chemistry - Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

Research Ranks:

2004 Research Trainee
2008 Research Assistant
2015 Associate Research Professor / Senior Research Associate

Memberships: Serbian Chemical Society

Professional Experience:

2003 – 2004 Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2004 – present ICTM, Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
2008 23rd and 24th OPCW Proficiency tests
2009 25th OPCW Proficiency test
2010 i) 27th OPCW Proficiency test
ii) The Course on the enhancement of laboratory skills in using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze chemicals related to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CW-LSE), VERIFIN, Helsinki, Finland
2012 The 8th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2014 35th OPCW Proficiency test
2015 The Course on the enhancement of laboratory skills on quantitative mass spectrometry for the analysis of chemicals related to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CW-QMS), VERIFIN, Helsinki, Finland

Research Interests:

Isolation and identification of the secondary metabolites (natural compounds)
Application of instrumental methods (spectroscopic, spectrometric and chromatographic) in analytics of organic compounds of natural and synthetic origin
Chemical weapons analysis

Language Skills: Serbian, English, Russian

Projects:

International:
2013 – 2014 Innovative approaches for better utilization of local biodiversity in SEE based on ethnopharmacology. UNESCO
2015 – present The secondary metabolites of wild-growing and cultivated plants with potential biological activity (Project of cooperation between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU))
Basic Research:
2005 (2001 – 2005.) Natural products from plants and marine organisms: medical and ecological significance (1755). Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Republic of Serbia
2006 – 2010 The secondary metabolites of wild-growing, medicinal plants: isolation, characterization and biological activity (142053). Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection (Ministry of Science and Technological Development) of Republic of Serbia
2011 – 2016 The bioactive natural products of wild-growing, cultivated and edible plants: determination of the structure and activity (172053). Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia

Publications:

Chapters:

Katarina Šavikin, Ivana Aljančić, Vlatka Vajs, Slobodan Milosavljević, Milka Jadranin, Iris Đorđević, Nebojša Menković. Bioactive Secondary Metabolites in Several Genera of Gentianaceae Species from the Central Regions of the Balkan Peninsula. In: Rybczyński, J.J., Davey, M.R., Mikula, A. (Eds.) The Gentianaceae - Vol 2: Biotechnology and Applications, (2015) Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, p. 319–347. Dejan Gođevac, Milka Jadranin, Ivana Aljančić, Vlatka Vajs, Vele Tešević, Slobodan Milosavljević. Application of Spectroscopic Methods and Hyphenated Techniques to the Analysis of Complex Plant Extracts. In: Máthé, A. (Ed.) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World – Vol 1: Scientific, Production, Commercial and Utilization Aspects (2015) Springer, Netherlands, p. 61–85.

Published papers:

Nada Babović, Sonja Đilas, Milka Jadranin, Vlatka Vajs, Jasna Ivanović, Slobodan Petrović, Irena Žižović. Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of antioxidant fractions from selected Lamiaceae herbs and their antioxidant capacity. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies (2010), 11(1), 98–107. Ivana Aljančić, Milica Pešić, Slobodan Milosavljević, Nina Todorović, Milka Jadranin, Goran Milosavljević, Dragan Povrenović, Jasna Banković, Nikola Tanić, Ivanka Marković, Sabera Ruždijić, Vlatka Vajs, Vele Tešević. Isolation and Biological Evaluation of Jatrophane Diterpenoids from Euphorbia dendroides. Journal of Natural Products, (2011), 74(7), 1613–1620. Milka Jadranin, Milica Pešić, Ivana Aljančić, Slobodan Milosavljević, Nina Todorović, Ana Podolski-Renić, Jasna Banković, Nikola Tanić, Ivanka Marković, Vlatka Vajs, Vele Tešević. Jatrophane diterpenoids from the latex of Euphorbia dendroides and their anti-P-glycoprotein activity in human multi-drug resistant cancer cell lines. Phytochemistry, (2013), 86, 208–217. Ana Džamić, Marina Soković, Miroslav Novaković, Milka Jadranin, Mihailo Ristić, Vele Tešević, Petar Marin. Composition, antifungal and antioxidant properties of Hyssopus officinalis L. subsp. pilifer (Pant.) Murb. essential oil and deodorized extracts. Industrial Crops and Products, (2013), 51, 401–407. Ivana Aljančić, Ivan Vučković, Milka Jadranin, Milica Pešić, Iris Đorđević, Ana Podolski-Renić, Sonja Stojković, Nebojša Menković, Vlatka Vajs, Slobodan Milosavljević. Two structurally distinct chalcone dimers from Helichrysum zivojinii and their activities in cancer cell lines. Phytochemistry, (2014), 98, 190–196. (A total of 52 journal papers.)