Jelica Simeunović

• Cyanobacterial blooms and toxins in water resources: Occurrence, impacts and management. COST action number ES1105 (2011-2016). Chair of the Action: Dr. Triantafyllos Kaloudis (EL) (The Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company -EYDAP SA, Athens Greece). Position: Researcher and Deputy Member of the Management Board from Serbia.
• Novel natural antimicrobial agents for bacterial pathogen control –NNAA HUSRB / 1203/214/250 IPA Cross-border Cooperation Program Hungary-Serbia (2013-2014). Project manager: Dr. Petar Knezevic. Position: Principal Investigator at UNSPMF.

SELECTED REFERENCES

• Nikola Stanković, Ivana Kostić, Boris Jovanović, Dimitrija Savić-Zdravković, Sanja Matić, Jelena Bašić, Tatjana Cvetković, Jelica Simeunović, Djuradj Milošević (2020): Can phytoplankton blooming be harmful to benthic organisms? The toxic influence of Anabaena sp. and Chlorella sp. on Chironomus riparius Science of the Total Environment 729 (2020) 138666; Pages 9.
• Kovač D., Babić O., Rašeta M., Šibul P., Janjušević LJ., Simeunović J. (2018): Antioxidant activity and phenolic profile in filamentous cyanobacteria: the impact of nitrogen. J Appl Phycol, 30: 2337-2346, (DOI 10.1007/s10811-018-1476-4).
• Olivera Babić, Dajana Kovač, Milena Rašeta, Filip Šibul, Zorica Svirčev, Jelica Simeunović (2016): Evaluation of antioxidant activity and phenolic profile of filamentous terrestrial cyanobacterial strains isolated from forest ecosystem. J Appl Phycol, Vol 28, Issue 4, 2333–2342, (DOI: 10.1007/s10811-015-0773-4).
• Jelica Simeunović, Katarina Bešlin, Zorica Svirčev, Dajana Kovač, Olivera Babić (2013): Impact of nitrogen and drought on phycobiliprotein content in terrestrial cyanobacterial strains. J Appl Phycol, Vol 25, No 2, 597-607.
• Dijana Pantelić, Zorica Svirčev, Jelica Simeunović, Milka Vidović, Ivana Trajković (2013): Cyanotoxins: Characteristics, production and degradation routes in drinking water treatment with reference to the situation in Serbia. Chemosphere, Vol 91, Issue 4, 421–441.

OTHER

• Published 2 monographs, 97 scientific papers (21 papers on the SCI list) and 72 abstracts at national and international conferences
• Participant in 15 national and 7 international projects
• Mentor of 11 graduate, 35 master’s theses and 2 doctoral dissertations
• Member of the study accreditation team at the Department of Biology and Ecology
• Head of the study program Master of Academic Studies in Biology
• Member of the Society of Microbiologists of Serbia, the Society of Ecologists of Serbia, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), Microbiology Society England, the International Society for Danube Research (IAD)
• Specialization/ study stays:
  1. Within the TEMPUS project (HERBS) – Curriculum Development Joint European Project CD JEP-40094_2005 / SERBIA, 2007 stay at the University of Turin, the Department of Animal and Human Biology and in the Laboratory of Medical and Molecular Virology in Turin, Italy.
  2. Within the international COST project (ES1105 2011-2016) “Cyanobacterial blooms and toxins in water resources: Occurrence, impacts and management”, training “Hydrogen peroxide Training School” in the period of 03-07. September 2014 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  3. Within the ERASMUS + KA1 program of cooperation with the Cyprus University of Technology, realization of mobility in the period of 18 – 22. March 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus.
  4. Within the ERASMUS + KA1 program of cooperation with the Abo Academy of the University of Turku, the realization of mobility in the period of 15 – 23. May 2019 in Turku, Finland.