Dušanka Popović Minić

Dušanka Popović Minić

dusanka.popovic@agrif.bg.ac.rs

Academic title: Research Assistant

Participant: P9

Date of birth: 13. October 1993, Belgrade, Serbia

Institution: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Institute of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (SRO acronym: AGRIF), Nemanjina 6, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia

Dušanka Popović Minić is a PhD student at the Institute of Food Technology and Biochemistry of the AGRIF. She earned a BSc in Food Technology with an average score of 9.98 (2016). At the same faculty, she obtained an MSc in Food Microbiology (2017) and currently works on her doctoral dissertation in Food Biochemistry („Functional additives based on goat milk proteins and fungal extracts from genus Laetiporus and Agaricus“). In the period from 2014-2015, she volunteered in the field of wine technology. She was an honorary associate at the Department of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry during the period 2017-2019 and she is presently a research assistant. The scientific research is focused on food constituents, interactions among them, bioactive substances, food digestion, functional, techno-functional and biological properties of food. She is the author and co-author of 17 scientific papers (one chapter, 3 articles and 13 conference papers) and she participated in one scientific project governed by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, the Republic of Serbia. She is a member of the Serbian Sommelier Association (SERSA). She is fluent in English (C1) and Russian language (B2 certificate).

Awards, prizes, fellowships:

  1. Student scholarship, Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  2. Scholarship for the exceptionally gifted students, Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  3. Scholarship for doctoral students, Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  1. The Nikola Spasić Endowment award as a best third year student
  2. A commendation for outstanding success during the basic academic studies, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture

List of five publications relevant to the FANPRO project:

  1. Popović D.А., Milinčić D.D., Pešić M.B., Kalušević A.M., Tešić Ž.Lj., Nedović V.A. (2019): Encapsulation technologies for polyphenol-loaded microparticles in food industry. In: Green Food Processing Techniques: Preservation, Transformation and Extraction, Eds: Chemat F., Vorobiev E. Chapter 12: 335-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12- 815353-6.00012-4 ISBN: 978-0-128-15353-6
  2. Pešić, M.B., Milinčić, D. D., Kostić, A. Ž., Stanisavljevic, N. S., Vukotić, G. N., Kojić, M. O., Gašić, U. M., Barać, M. B., Stanojević, S. P., Popović, D. A., Banjac, N. R., Tešić, Ž. Lj. (2019):  In vitro digestion of meat- and cereal-based food matrix enriched with grape extracts: How are polyphenol composition, bioaccessibility and antioxidant activity affected? Food Chemistry (IF2019=6.306), 284:28-44 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.01.107
  3. Milinčić D. D., Popović A. D.,Lević, S. M., Kostić, A. Ž., Tešić Ž. Lj.  Nedović V. A. and Pešić, M. B. (2019):Application of polyphenol-loaded nanoparticles in food industry. Nanomaterials, (IF2019=4.324), 9 (11): 1629  https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9111629
  4. Popović, D.A., Petrović, P., Nikšić, M., Klaus, A. (2018): Antimicrobial properties of Chaga extracts (Inonotus obliquus). 1st Unifood Conference, Belgrade, 05.10–06.10.2018.
  5. Popović Minić, D.A., Milinčić, D.D., Rac, V., Vidović, B., Soković, M., Petrović, J., Pešić, M.B. (2021): Zeta-potential and particle size of functional additives based on goat milk proteins and Agaricus blazei Murill extracts. 2nd Unifood Conference, Belgrade, 24th and 25th September, 2021.

List of relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of FUNPRO project:

2018-2019: Use of plant sources of protein, dietary fiber and antioxidants in food production, Ministry of Education Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia, Grant agreement no. TR 31069, Participant.