Article in the Ageing Research Reviews

Under the auspices of multinational cooperation, established during the COST Action FA 1403 POSITIVE, in the field of bioinformatic analysis of the food polyphenol-caused nutrigenomic modifications, related to cardiometabolic effects, a paper was published in the international journal of exceptional values Aging Research Reviews (M21a, IF 2020 = 10.895, Geriatrics & Gerontology 2/53), whose co-authors are associates of the Department of Cytology, Dr. Vladimir Ajdžanović and Dr. Marko Miler.

Cover image of the Macedonian Veterinary Review 41(1)2018

Image in the article: The Morpho-Functional Parameters of Rat Pituitary Hormone Producing Cells After Genistein Treatment, authored by: Svetlana Trifunović and Verica Milošević

was selected for the cover image of the Macedonian Veterinary Review (Volume 41, Issue 1, 2018).

Cover image of the Journal of Anatomy 230(6)2017

Image in the article: Response of trabecular bone, thyroid C and follicular cells to synthetic salmon calcitonin in middle-aged orchidectomized male rats, authored by: Branko Filipović, Branka Šošić-Jurjević, Vladimir Ajdžanović, Jasmina Živanović, Nataša Ristić, Svetlana Trifunović, Verica Milošević

was selected for the cover image of the Journal of Anatomy (Volume 230, Issue 6, June 2017).

Cover image of the Journal of Anatomy 222(3)2013

Image in the article: The effects of sex steroids on thyroid C cells and trabecular bone structure in the rat model of male osteoporosis, authored by: Branko Filipović, Branka Šošić-Jurjević, Vladimir Ajdžanović, Jasmina Pantelić, Nataša Nestorović, Verica Milošević, Milka Sekulić

was selected for the cover image of the Journal of Anatomy (Volume 222, Issue 3, March 2013)

COST Action FA 1403 POSITIVe

Dr. Vladimir Ajdžanović, Dr. Verica Milošević, Dr. Ivana Jarić and Dr. Jasmina Živanović are participating to the COST Action FA 1403 POSITIVe (Interindividual variation in response to consumption of plant food bioactives and determinants involved; realized in the period from 2015 to 2018), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Dr. Vladimir Ajdžanović is coordinator of the Action activities and the representative in Managing Committee (MC), while Dr. Verica Milošević performs the function of the MC substitute.

Department of Biochemistry accommodates two research groups.

Dr. Ana Djordjevic's group is currently doing research with a common baseline - the problem of obesity and related metabolic disorders. In the last 10 years, our group (then led by Professor Gordana Matić) has dealt with the role of glucocorticoid hormones in neuroendocrine adaptation to stress and in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome in the animal models of fructose-fed rats and mice and female rats with polycystic ovary syndrome. We are currently developing new animal models to examine the role of the intestinal microbiota in obesity, and we have recently started cooperation with a special hospital for thyroid disease and metabolic diseases "Čigota" on Zlatibor, which is a leading institution for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents.

You can find more information about us at the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/disobescience/home?authuser=0

Research of Dr. Tomić's group is in the field of newly-synthesized and natural neuro/psychopharmacological substances and the research is focused on molecular mechanisms of their action in animal models and in vitro cell culture. In the field of nutritional biochemistry, the research is focused on role and mechanisms of folate and fatty acid action in the CNS and animal behavior.

Research is conducted on cell lines and animal models using different techniques including biochemical analysis, Western blot, qPCR, proteomics and behavioral testing.

GENERAL TOPICS:

• The role of intestinal microbiota and inflammation in the development of obesity and metabolic disorders
• The role of glucocorticoid hormones in neuroendocrine and metabolic adaptation to stress and hypercaloric diet
• Analysis of pathophysiological changes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome and in animal models of the syndrome
• Influence of external and genetic factors on the occurrence of neurodevelopmental disorders
• Investigation of endothelial-protective and anticancer potential of plant extracts rich in polyphenols on cell models

Selected publications - Role of steroid hormones in neuroendocrine adaptation to stress and pathophysiology of Metabolic Syndrome – molecular mechanisms and clinical implications

1. Bursać B, Vasiljević A, NestorovićN, Veličković N, Vojnović Milutinović D, Matić G, Djordjevic A. High-fructose diet leads to visceral adiposity and hypothalamic leptin resistance in male rats - do glucocorticoids play a role? J Nutr Biochem. 2014;25(4):446-55.
2. Vasiljević A, Bursać B, Djordjevic A, Vojnović Milutinović D, Nikolić M, Matić G, Veličković N. Hepatic inflammation induced by high-fructose diet is associated with altered 11βHSD1 expression in the liver of Wistar rats. Eur J Nutr. 2014;53(6):1393-402.
3. Kovačević S, Nestorov J, Matić G, Elaković I. Dietary fructose‑related obesity and glucocorticoid receptor function in visceral adipose tissue of female rats. Eur J Nutr. 2014;53(6):1409-20.
4. Tepavčević S, Vojnović Milutinović D, Macut Dj, Žakula Z, Nikolić M, Božić-Antić I, Romić S, Bjekić-Macut J, Matić G, Korićanac G. Dihydrotestosterone deteriorates cardiac insulin signaling and glucose transport in the rat model of polycystic ovary syndrome. J Steroid Biochem Molec Biol. 2014;141:71-6.
5. Vasiljević A, Veličković N, Bursać B, Djordjevic A, Vojnović Milutinović D, Nestorović N, Matić G. Enhanced prereceptor glucocorticoid metabolism and lipogenesis impair insulin signaling in the liver of fructose-fed rat. J Nutr Biochem. 2013;24:1790-7.
6. Veličković N, Djordjevic A, Vasiljević A, Bursać B, Vojnović Milutinović D, Matić G. Tissue-specific regulation of inflammation by macrophage migration inhibitory factor and glucocorticoids in fructose-fed Wistar rats. Brit J Nutrition. 2013;110:456-65.
7. Bursać B, Djordjevic A, Vasiljević A, Vojnović Milutinović D, Veličković N, Nestorović N, Matić G. Fructose consumption enhances glucocorticoid action in rat visceral adipose tissue. J Nutr Biochem. 2013;24:1166-72.
8. Matić G, Vojnović Milutinović D, Nestorov J, Elaković I, Manitašević Jovanović S, Perišić T, Dunđerski J, Damjanović S, Knežević G, Špirić Ž, Vermetten E, Savić D:Lymphocyte glucocorticoid receptor expression level and hormone binding properties differ between war trauma-exposed men with and without PTSD. Progress Neuro-Psychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2013;43:238-45.
9. Savic D, Knezevic G, Damjanovic S, Spiric Z, Matic G. Is there a biological difference between trauma-related depression and PTSD? DST says 'NO'. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012;37(9):1516-20.
10. Savić D, Knežević G, Damjanovic S, Spiric Z, Matic G. The Role of Personality and Traumatic Events in Cortisol Levels – Where Does PTSD Fit In? Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012;37(7):937-47.

Selected publications - Role of folates, homocysteine and polyunsaturated fatty acids in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders combined with metabolic syndrome pathophysiology

1. Tovilović G, Krstic D,Ignjatovic D, Janać B, Tomić M. Anxiolytic-like effects of xanthone-rich diethylether extract ofGentiana kochiana in rodents . Dig J Nanomat Biostruct. 2011;6(3):1385-92.
2. Tomić M, Vasković Dj, Tovilović G, Andrić D, Penjišević J, Kostić-Rajačić S. Pharmacological Evaluation of Halogenated and Nonhalogenated Arylpiperazin-1-yl-ethyl-benzimidazoles as D2 and 5-HT2A Receptor Ligands. Arch Pharmazie. 2011;344:287-91.
3. Ignjatović D, Tovilović G, Šošić-Jurjević B, Filipović B, Janać B, Milošević V, Tomić M. Bioactivity of the essential oil from berries of Vitex agnus castus in middle aged male rats. xanthone-rich diethylether extract of Gentiana kochiana in rodents. Dig J Nanomat Biostruct. 2012;7(4):1727-34.
4. Ignjatović D, Vojnović Milutinović D, Nikolić-Kokić A, Slavić M, Andrić D, Tomić M, Kostić-Rajacić S. The mechanisms responsible for neuroprotective capacity of arylpiperazine dopaminergic ligands against cell death induced by sodium nitroprusside. Eur J Pharmacol. 2012;683:93-100.
5. Pejin B, Tovilović G,Ignjatović D, Kien-Thai Y, Tomić M. Sedative and anxiolytic-like activities of the moss Rhodobryum ontariense water extract in rodents: a preliminary study. Cryptogamie, Bryologie. 2013;34(1):1-6.

Projekat prof. dr Gordane Matić dobio bilateralni SCOPES Joint Research projekat za period 2013-2016. godine

U toku 2014. godine istraživači Biljana Burasać i Ana Vasiljević su odbranile doktorske disertacije.

In its work, the Institute is primarily concerned with fundamental, multidisciplinary research from the various fields of the biological sciences. research at the Institute focuses on the following scientific disciplines: biochemistry, molecular biology, cytology, animal physiology, neurobiology, neurophysiology, immunology, genetics, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem ecology, environmental protection, taxonomy and organic evolution. In addition to advancing scientific knowledge in these fields, all of the research is important for the development of other fields which have biology at their root (medicine, forestry, pharmacy, agriculture, biotechnology, etc.).

Considering its development programme, personnel, equipment and results, the Institute is a unique scientific organisation in terms of the development of a large number of biological disciplines. Its multidisciplinary approach to research meant gathering together teams of experts specialising in different areas (general biologists, molecular biologists, ecologists, biochemists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, medics, pharmacists, foresters, agronomists, etc.). These teams were formed depending on the tasks involved for the project in question.

Heads of departments:

Department of Biochemistry - Dr. Ana Đorđević

Department of Cytology - Dr. Branko Filipović

Department of Ecology - Dr. Pavle Pavlović

Department of Evolutionary Biology - Dr. Aleksej Tarasjev

Department of Genetic Research - Dr. Jelena Blagojević

Department of Genetics of Populations and Ecogenotoxicology - Dr. Marija Tanasković

Department of Hydroecology and Water Protection - Dr. Momir Paunović

Department of Immunology - Dr. Đorđe Miljković

Department of Insect Physiology and Biochemistry - Dr. Vesna Perić Mataruga

Department of Molecular Biology - Dr. Melita Vidaković

Department of Neurobiology - Dr. Milica Pešić

Department of Neurophysiology - Dr. Branka Petković

Department of Physiology - Dr. Duško Blagojević

Department of Plant Physiology - Dr. Slavica Ninković

The library of the Institute for Biological Research „Siniša Stanković" is a research library focused on the field of biology, including biochemistry, molecular biology, cytology, animal physiology, neurobiology, neurophysiology, immunology, genetics, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem ecology, environmental protection, taxonomy and organic evolution.

The Library was founded in 1947 when the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) established the Institute of Ecology and Biogeography and the Institute of Physiology, Evolution, Genetics and Selection. The following year both institutes founded their own libraries with a mission to collect domestic and international literature necessary for research works. When the two institutes merged and formed the Institute of Biology, the institutes joined their libraries into one integrated library which continued the mission of its predecessors and followed the growth of the new institute. Today, the library holdings include over 30.000 units of periodicals, books and reference works. The library of the Institute for Biological Research „Siniša Stanković" provides free on-line access to numerous international electronic journals through the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KOBSON), as well as to other services. By developing and implementing new information technologies, the library meets essential information needs of the institute's researchers and other users.

The library is registered in the Central Register of Serbian Libraries at the University Library „ Svetozar Marković" (decision number 06-218/195, November 14, 1997; library code 3018407067).

The library is located in the building of the Institute of Biological Research „Siniša Stanković", Bulevar despota Stefana 142. The library has a reading room for 20 researchers, with internet access and the University Information System.

Librarians:

Zorica Janković
Telephone: 011/2078-324
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Nađa Hadžimurtović
Telefon: 011/2078-324
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KoBSON

The Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON) is a new form of library organization in Serbia. The initiative for establishment of the Consortium came from leading scientific libraries in Serbia 2001. The main goals of the Consortium are optimized procurement of foreign scientific information, transfer from paper to electronic edition, enhancement of electronic information access, and promotion of national scientific publishing. KoBSON portal is available free of charge and without authentication to everybody from the academic IP domain in Serbia. Here is a link to the instructions on how to configure your browser.

Since 2004, remote access ("from home", over commercial Internet provider) is also available to users. For remote access it is necessary to obtain a licence granting adherence to the terms of use. The rights to remote access are granted to everybody permanently employed at academic and scientific institutions founded by the Republic of Serbia, as well as students with scholarships endowed by the Ministry of Science. The licence for remote access is free of charge. Researchers employed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" have to complete and sign the licence and submit it to the Institute's librarian who will forward the request. The account for remote access will be created the same day, the user receives an e-mail containing data for logging in and short instruction on how to use the service.

Scopus

Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations of scientific work published in reviewed journals, books and on conference proceedings. Containing more than 57 million records, Scopus covers more than 21,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers in the field of medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, technical and social sciences. It is owned by Elsevier and it is available online by subscription. The academic network of Serbia has access to Scopus database through KoBSON. Scopus analyzes an author's output, provides the author with citation overview of the article (since 1996), gives options to exclude self-citation, and counts the author's h-index.

Researchers employed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" can access Scopus on KoBSON's link where a researcher defines the model of access, from the academic network or remote access.

Web of Science (WoS)

WoS is a scientific citation indexing service maintained by Thomson Reuters, who pioneered citation indexing and analysis. Covering over 50,000 scholar books, 12,000 journals and 160,000 conference proceedings, WoS provides access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research. It provides a list of the 250 most cited authors from more than 21 scientific fields in the last 20 years of the 20th century.

All databases included in the Web of Science are selective – they cover 10 - 12 % of the existing scientific journals. Its coverage is better in natural and technical sciences.

The academic network of Serbia has access to the following contents of WoS through KoBSON:

three citation indexes – covering the period from 1996,

two sections of conference proceedings – covering the period from 2001,

two sections of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – covering the period from 2006.

SCIndex

SCIndeks is a bibliographic database, the Serbian citation index, developed to serve as a supplement to the international (Thomson-ISI) citation indexes. SCInedx indexes national journals categorized as periodical scientific publications. All these journals are indexed systematically from "cover to cover". This database provides short descriptions of the journals, article's' abstract and all citation references (metadata). Articles which are published in journals reaching a higher quality and which have accepted the principle of Open Access are represented in full text. SCIndex is available for all internet users free of charge.

Lecture: ORCID – a Unique Researchersć Identifier

Lecturer: Zorica Janković, librarian orcid.org/0000-0003-2643-4483

Time: Thursday 27th Aril 2017, 10.00

Venue: IBISS Library

Duration: 60 minutes

Lectures and workshops for researchers

The Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes organizes a series of lectures and workshops for researchers. In selecting the subjects for this programme we are guided by our personal experience in working with researchers at the Institutes in which we work. Depending on researchers' interest, we plan to include new subjects. We encourage researchers to send us their suggestions at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Lecturers are librarians, regular and associated members of the Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes. Lectures and workshops are organized in the premises of the host institute. The lecture/workshop can be scheduled by contacting the lecturer directly or by contacting the librarian of the host institute.

All the lectures/workshops are free of charge and can be organized in the same institute more than once, if necessary. The organizer needs to provide space, a computer with internet connection and a projector. Also, the organizer needs to send an official invitation letter addressed to the lecturer. The material from the lectures is in open access in the section Education at the web-site of the Librarians' Section of the Serbian Association of Institutes.

Lectures Programme (in Serbian).

Digital Repositories for Doctoral Dissertations

Lecturer: Dragana Stolić, Information Specialist at the Department for Scientific Information and Education, University Library "Svetozar Marković"

Time: Wednesday, March 18^th, 2015, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Duration: 45 minutes

About the lecture: In this presentation on digital doctoral dissertations, the lecturer will give an overview of national and international e-thesis portals. The lecturer will pay special attention to Open Access and copyrights protection. Finally, the lecturer will present current projects, i.e. active services of the University Library "Svetozar Marković" established on retrospective digitalization of doctoral dissertation.

• Digital repository of universities in Belgrade, Niš and Kragujevac and its subsystem "E-theses"

• Dissertations at the University of Novi Sad

• National portal for doctoral dissertations (DOI)

• Portal UviDok

• European and world portals: DART, NDLTD, OATD

• Open access to doctoral dissertations, copyrights protection, legal regulations

• Retrospective digitalisation of dissertations: digitalisation upon request, digitalisation of dissertations until 1941

• Predatory publishers

Reference Manager Systems

EndNote – citation manager: a simple way to bibliography

Lecturer: Aleksandra Popović, Head of the Department for Scientific Information and Education, University Library "Svetozar Marković"

Time: Wednesday, December 10^th, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems

Mendeley – an application for reference organisation, the library of a researcher and academic social network

Lecturer: Zorica Janković, Librarian at the Institute for Biological research "Siniša Stanković"

Time: Wednesday, November 26^th, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems

Zotero – non-commercial software for the organisation of bibliographic data bases and automatic formatting of references

Lecturer: Milica Ševkušić, Librarian at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Time: Tuesday, October 21^st, 2014, 12.00

Place: IBISS Library

Link to the presentation (in Serbian).

Reference Manager Systems – survey - results

With aim to improve the services of the IBISS Library, a survey was carried out with the title Reference Manager Systems. The purpose of this survey was to find out how researchers organize bibliographic references as part of their scientific work; whether they use any application for this and whether they need or want to learn about new applications and their performances. The response to the survey was significant, 20% of researchers at the Institute completed the questionnaire.

Link to the survey's results (in Serbian).