Dr. Draginja Kovacevic

Curriculum vitae

Date of birth: 25.09.1987 Nationality: Serbian

Education

• Nov. ’16 – present PhD student
  “The influence of cigarette smoke on the lung microbiota and its interaction with the bronchial epithelium” Early Life Origin of CLD, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
• Nov. ’15 – May ’18: M. Sc. in Biological Drugs
  „Anti-IgE monoclonal antibodies in a therapy of allergic asthma“ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
• Oct. ’06 – Nov. ’13: M. Sc. in Molecular Biology and Physiology
  “Microbiological examination of the food as a proficiency testing by means of interlaboratory comparisons” Experimental Biomedicine, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
• Sep. ’02 – May ’06: Gymnasium “Stevan Puzic”, Ruma, Serbia

Previous research experience:

• July ’15 – Sep. ’16 Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Belgrade, Serbia
• Sep. ’11 – Feb. ’12 Laboratory for testing the quality and safety of products, Jugoinspekt, Department “Topcider”, Belgrade, Serbia

Language skills:

• Serbian – mother tongue
• English – fluent, German – basic
• Russian – basic

Conferences attended:

• ERS Research seminar „Cross-talk in the lung microenvironment: implications for understanding chronic lung disease“, 2018, Berlin, Germany
• 7th DZL Annual Meeting 2018, Bad Nauheim Germany
• 6th DZL Annual Meeting 2017, Munich, Germany

Conference organization:

• New development in Immunology, Inflammation and Infection (NDI3) 2018, Borstel, Germany

Awards:

• ERS Lung Science Conference 2019 (Estoril, PRT) – bursary recipient

Soft skills:

• 16S Amplicon Sequencing, GraphPad, R (basics), Adobe Photoshop (basics)

Membership:

• European Respiratory Society (ERS) – Junior member
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie (DGP)

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