PERSONAL INFORMATION: Family Name: Stamenkovic (former Sekeljic) First Name: Vera Date of Birth:19.08.1985. Place of Birth: Belgrade Nationality: Serbian Gender: Female Languages: English and German Personal address: Street number: 30 Street nam : Ljuba Vuckovica ZIP code: 11000 City: Belgrade Country: Serbia Email address: vera.stamenkovic@bio.bg.ac.rs Degree obtained: Graduate Biologist (300 ECTS equivalent to Master Degreee) Date of Graduation: 3.07.2009. EDUCATION: 2010- PhD studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Module: Neurophysiology with biophysics. Supervisor: Professor Lidija Radenovic, PhD. Experimental work is done at the Center for laser microscopy, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, and it concerns the role of extracellular matrix glycoprotein tenascin C in synaptic plasticity and adult neurogenesis after enriched environment stimulation. Received scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological development for 2011 and 2012. 2009-2010. Voluntary work at the Center for Laser Microscopy, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade which involved work on two studies: 1) the characterization of inflammatory phenomena in a long term rat model of global cerebral ischemia (see paper below) and 2) effects of enriched environment on the development of perineuronal nets in tenascin C knockout mice. 2004-2009. Undergraduate studies. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Module: Animal Physiology. Average mark during the studies was 9,68 out of 10. Received scholarship of the Ministry of Science (2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2007/2008), and of city of Belgrade for 2007, 2008 and 2009. 2000-2004. 12 th Belgrade High School Dimitrije Tucovic, Vuk St. Karadzic Diploma. Received scholarship of the Ministry of Education for 2002/2003 and 2003/2004. 1992-2000. Elementary school Filip Filipovic, Belgrade, Vuk St. Karadzic Diploma.
TEACHING/ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE: 2010-2011. Teaching aid on the MD course Experimental physiology of excitable cells, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry. MEMBERSHIPS: 2010- Member of Serbian Society of Biophysics 2010- Member of Serbian Society of Neuroscience 2010- Member of Federation of European Neuroscience Societies 2010- Member of national multidisciplinary project Biomarkers in neurodegenerative and malignant processes, Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, No. 41005 2010-2013. Working group member of the COST Action TD0901 - Hypoxia sensing, signaling and adaptation 2011-2014. Working group member of the COST Action BM1001 - Brain Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease (ECMNet) PUBLICATIONS: Vera Sekeljic, Danijela Bataveljic, Stefan Stamenkovic, Marzena Ułamek, Mirosław Jabłoński, Lidija Radenovic, Ryszard Pluta, Pavle R. Andjus. Cellular Markers of Neuroinflammation and Neurogenesis after the Ischemic Brain Injury in the Long-Term Survival Rat Model. Brain Structure & Function, Volume 217, Number 2 (2012), 411-420. Vera Sekeljic, Pavle R. Andjus. Tenascin-C and its functions in neuronal plasticity. Int J Biochem Cell Biol, Volume 44, Issue 6 (2012), 825-829. BOOK CHAPTERS: Stefan Stamenkovic, Vera Sekeljic, Lidija Radenovic, Pavle R. Andjus. Ischemia and Neurogenesis: Link between Neurodegeneration and Repair. In Gerry J. Clark and Walcot T. Anderson (editors), Neurogenesis Research: New Developments. NOVA Science Publishers, Inc. New York. (2012) pp. 115-136. CONFERENCES AND COURSES: - Oral presentations: Cellular markers of neuroinflammation and neurogenesis after ischemic brain injury in the long-term survival rat model. DAAD Round Table: Getting a PhD Degree in Neurosciences. Presentations by former and current PhD students. Belgrade, 23-26 June 2011.
Effect of enriched environment on neuronal plasticity and matrix metalloproteinases activity in tenascin-c deficient mice. COST Action BM1001 Meeting: Tenascins and their role in development and plasticity in health and disease. Belgrade, Serbia, 29 th June 2012. The effect of enriched environment on perineuronal nets and synaptic coverage in the cerebellum of tenascin-c deficient mice. Tenascins and ECM modulation in plasticity and neuroinflammation COST BM1001 WG 1&3 projects follow-up meeting, Belgrade, Serbia, June 14-16, 2013. The role of tenascin C and matrix metalloproteinase 9 in neuronal plasticity and synaptic remodeling induced by enriched environment. Third Annual Conference of COST Action ECMNET: Brain Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease. Opalenica, Poland, September 11-14, 2013. The role of tenascin C in structural CNS plastisity. 6 th Congress of the Serbian Neuroscience Society. Belgrade, Serbia, November 15-16, 2013. - Poster presentations: Bataveljic D, Sekeljic V, Zupunski Lj, Pluta R, Bacic G, Andjus PR, Radenovic L. (2009) Cellular markers of neuroinflammation in the ischemia-reperfusion long-term survival rat model. The European Glial Cell Meeting EUROGLIA and COST BM0603 Action Inflammation in Brain Disease (NEURINFNET) Meeting, September 8-12, 2009. Paris, France. Abstract No. 129. Sekeljic V, Radenovic L, Pluta R, Andjus PR. (2009) Cellular markers of inflammation in a rat chronic model of cerebral ischemia. 2nd Congress of Physiological Sciences of Serbia with International participation on Current trends in Physiological Sciences, September 17-20, 2009. Kragujevac, Serbia P172. Bataveljic D, Sekeljic V, Radenovic L, Pluta R, Andjus PR. (2009): Imaging of the interaction of microglia and neurons in the rat chronic model of cerebral ischemia after cardiac arrest. COST Action B30, Neural Regeneration & Plasticity, October 24-25, 2009. Larnaka, Cyprus. P17. Sekeljic V, Bataveljic D, Radenovic L, Pluta R, Andjus PR. (2010): Imaging of the subventricular zone and interaction of microglia and neurons in the rat chronic model of cerebral ischemia after cardiac arrest. Stem Cells and Neuroregeneration, Joint meeting of the 4 Working Groups of the European COST-B30 action NEREPLAS, Neuroregeneration and Plasticity of the Brain, February 5-6, 2010. Haarlem, Netherlands. P23 Sekeljic V, Stamenkovic S, Pluta R, Andjus PR, Radenovic L. (2011): Inflammation and neurogenesis in the ischemia-reperfusion long-term survival rat model. COST Action BM0603 Inflammation in Brain Disease (NEURINFNET), June 3 rd, 2011. Dublin, Ireland. P42 Sekeljic V, Stamenkovic S, Bataveljic D, Radenovic L, Pluta R, Andjus PR. (2011): Ischemia-induced neurogenesis in the long-term survival rat model. Sinapsa Neuroscience Conference 2011, Central European FENS Featured
Regional Meeting. Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 22-25, 2011. CEL-A06. The poster has been awarded the outstanding poster award in Cellular Neuroscience category. Sekeljic V, Stamenkovic S, Gawlak M, Radenovic L, Wilczynski G, Schachner M, Andjus PR. (2012): The role of tenascin-c and matrix metalloproteinases in the effect of enriched environment on neuronal plasticity. FENS 2012 Satellite Event. 2 nd Annual Conference of COST Action ECMNet Brain extracellular matrix in health and disease. Barcelona, Spain, July 12-13, 2012. The poster has been awarded the outstanding poster award. Sekeljic V, Stamenkovic S, Gawlak M, Radenovic L, Wilczynski G, Schachner M, Andjus PR. (2012): The role of tenascin-c and matrix metalloproteinases in the effect of enriched environment on neuronal plasticity. 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, July 14-18, 2012. Barcelona, Spain. Abstract No. 1599. Stamenkovic V, Stamenkovic S, Jaworski T, Gawlak M, Jovanovic M, Schachner M, Wilczynski G, Kaczmarek L, Radenovic L, Andjus PR. The effect of enriched environment on the modulation of perineuronal nets and synaptic remodeling in the cerebellum of tenascin C - deficient mice. SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference 2013. Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 27-29, 2013. Poster number MOL-B06. Stamenkovic V, Stamenkovic S, Jaworski T, Gawlak M, Jovanovic M, Wilczynski G, Kaczmarek L, Schachner M, Radenovic L, Andjus PR. The effect of enriched environment on synaptic coverage in the cerebellum of tenascin-c deficient mice. ESF-FENS The Neurobiology of Synapses and their Dysfunction. Stresa, Italy, October 13-17, 2013. Poster number 57. Stamenkovic V, Stamenkovic S, Jaworski T, Gawlak M, Jovanovic M, Wilczynski G, Kaczmarek L, Schachner M, Radenovic L, Andjus PR. The effect of enriched environment on the modulation of perineuronal nets and synaptic remodeling of tenascin-c deficient mice. 6 th Congress of the Serbian Neuroscience Society, November 15-16, 2013, Belgrade, Sava Center. P5-50. M. Momcilovic, F. Petkovic, J. Blazevski, J. Zivanovic, V. Stamenkovic, M. Mostarica Stojkovic, D. Miljkovic. High matrix metalloproteinase-2, -9 and -14 and low tissue inhibitor of metaloproteinase-1 expression in the spinal cord of rats correlate to central nervous system autoimmunity resistance. 6 th Congress of the Serbian Neuroscience Society, November 15-16, 2013, Belgrade, Sava Center. P3-33. - Workshops: DAAD Workshop: Current Methods in Neurosciences, September 8-11, 2011, Kotor, Montenegro. Educational Workshop on Affective Neuroscience, Ljubljana, September 24 th 2011. COST Action BM1001, ECMNet-Brain Training Winter school : A cell biologist's view on active synapses and the perisynaptic extracellular matrix, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg, Germany, December 12-18, 2012. Educational Workshop on Placebo Effect, Ljubljana, Septerber 28 th 2013.
ICGEB CEI Workshop "Application of Neural Stem Cells and Mouse Models in Neuroscience", Zagreb, Croatia, October 2-5, 2013. STIPENDS: Travel stipend for attending the DAAD Workshop: Current Methods in Neurosciences held from September 8 to 11, 2011 in Kotor, Montenegro. FENS Travel stipend for attending the FENS Featured Regional Meeting in Ljubljana, September 22-25, 2011. COST stipend for the Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from 2.11-16.12.2011. to the Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland. FENS Travel stipend for attending the 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, July 14-18, 2012. Barcelona, Spain. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship for scientific work in Germany, Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig 7.09-18.10.2012. COST stipend for Winter training school: A cell biologist's view on active synapses and the perisynaptic extracellular matrix, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg, Germany, 12-18 december 2012. COST stipend for the Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from 18.3-29.3.2013. to the Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland. Travel grant for the SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '13. Travel grant for ICGEB CEI Workshop "Application of Neural Stem Cells and Mouse Models in Neuroscience", Zagreb, Croatia, 2-5 October, 2013. FENS grant for attending ESF-FENS The Neurobiology of Synapses and their Dysfunction. Stresa, Italy, October 13-17, 2013. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: STSM to Poland, Warsaw, Nencki Institute, from 2.11-16.12.2011. Cost Action BM1001. Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, from 7.09-18.10.2012. DAAD. STSM to Poland, Warsaw, Nencki Institute, from 18.03-29.03.2013. Cost Action BM1001.