IHTM PLAVI
University of Belgrade
Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy
National Institute of the Republic of Serbia

grb BUUniversity of Belgrade

Marinela Šokarda Slavic

Research Associate

 

 

 

 

 

Address:

ICTM, Department of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, 11000 Belgrade
11158 Beograd 118, PAK 105104
Laboratory 483, I Floor
Telephone: 011 32 82 393
Fax: 011 26 36 061
E-mail: msokarda@chem.bg.ac.rs

Education:

2010 Bachelor of biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade.
2011 MSc of biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade.

Research Ranks:

2013 Research Trainiee
2015 Research Associate

Memberships:

Biochemical Society Serbia
FEBS

Professional Experience: 2013 – ICTM - Department of Chemistry

Research Interests:

Finding strains of Bacillus sp and strain identification at the molecular level. Amylase from Bacillus sp: cloning, expression, production, purification, characterization and application.
Production of enzymes of microbial origin used in food biotechnology and the production of bioethanol. Optimization of raw starch hydrolysis process.

Language Skills: english, romanian

Projects:

2012– 2015 - Production and application of α-amylases from soil Bacillus strains (CRP/YUG11-02) -ICGEB (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italia)

2011-2016 - Production, isolation and characterization of the enzyme in soluble and immobilized form of food biotechnology, biofuels and environmental protection.

Major Publications:

  1. Marinela Šokarda Slavić, Milja Pešić, Zoran Vujčić, Nataša Božić. Overcoming hydrolysis of raw corn starch under industrial conditions with bacillus licheniformis atcc 9945a α-amylase. Applied microbiology and biotechnology (2015) pp 1-11.
  2. Nikola Lončar, Marinela Šokarda Slavić, Zoran Vujčić, Nataša Božić. Mixed-mode resins: taking shortcut in downstream processing of raw-starch digesting α-amylases. Scientific reports (2015) 5, 15772.
  3. Nataša Božić, Marinela Šokarda Slavić, Anja Gavrilović, Zoran Vujčić. Production of raw-starch-digesting a-amylase isoform from bacillus sp. Under solid state fermentation and biochemical characterization. Bioprocess and biosystems engineering (2014) 37 (7) 1353-1360.
  4. Marinela Šokarda Slavić, Nataša Božić, Zoran Vujčić. Growth temperature of different local isolates of bacillus sp. On the solid state affects different production of raw starch digesting amylases. Archives of biological sciences (2014) 66 (2), 483-490.