Engage in routine microbiological diagnosis, medical student education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and scientific research. She has experience with study planning and conducting research activities, performing both molecular and conventional microbiological techniques, as well as data processing and reporting.
Certificate courses:
2008 Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
2006 Introduction into Clinical Trials; Speaking in Front of an Audience; Publications, Drug safety and pharmacovigilance
Languages: english (fluent), french (intermediate level), italian (basic level); computer skills: MS Office
Ina Gajic is an Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She is a member of the National Reference Laboratory for streptococci. Her research interests include molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors and genetic relatedness of invasive and multidrug-resistant Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. She was a mentor or member of commission for the assessment and defense of five master thesis, as well as a mentor of 13 research works presented at national and international conferences. Ina Gajic has been invited speaker at international conferences in 2020 (Molecular insight into the antimicrobial resistance of group B streptococci, serotype distribution and emerging serotype III sequence type 17. FEMS Conference 2020. Belgrade, Serbia) and in 2017 (Invasive group B streptococcal disease: the emergence of the hypervirulent clone ST-17. 10th Balkan congress of microbiology. Sofia, Bulgaria). She has contributed to many international journals and conference proceedings as a reviewer.
2015 Three monts stay in Paris, France; work on the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) typing of Streptococcus agalactiae; National Reference Center for streptococci; University hospital Paris Centre
2014 One month stay in Aachen, Germany; work on molecular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae; University Hospital Aachen
2012 One week stay in Ljubljana, Slovenia; work on serotyping of Streptococcus pneumoniae by using Quellung reaction; Public Health Institute
2019 FEMS grant for Summer School for Postdocs; Biological robustness: evolution of bacterial resistance to death; Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS), Split, Croatia
2019 FEMS Congress participation grant: Gajic I. et al. Prevalence of Ambler class A, B, and D beta-lactamases among clinical and nonclinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Serbia. 8th Congress of European Microbiologists. 7-11 July, 2019. Glasgow, Scotland, PM310.
2018 FEMS Congress participation grant: Gajic I. et al. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from patients admitted to tertiary care hospitals in Serbia. FEMS supported Symposium “Emerging Infections” and 6th Congress of the Microbiologists of Macedonia with international participation
2017 FEMS Congress participation grant: Gajic I. et al. emm type distribution of macrolide resistant group A streptococci isolated from patients with acute pharyngitis (2008-2014). 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 9-13 July, 2017. Valencia, Spain, FEMS7-1404
2015 FEMS Research grant: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) typing of Streptococcus agalactiae; National Reference Center for streptococci; University hospital Paris Centre
2019-2021 An evolutionary insight into molecular diversity of emerging pathogens in Serbia through phylogenetic approach (IN-DEPTH); Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
2021-2023 Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of invasive and noninvasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from both children and adults before and after the introduction of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Serbia; Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)
2018-2021 Development of new antimicrobial materials based on chitosan-Ag nanocomposites with antibiotics with improved antibacterial properties for use in medicine and veterinary; Ministry of Education, Science and Technical Development of the Republic of Serbia and National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
2011-2021 National Research Project “Bacteria resistant to antibiotics in Serbia: phenotypic and genotypic characterisation“ (No. 175039); Ministry of Education, Science and Technical Development of the Republic of Serbia
2017 – ongoing Subspecialization in Bacteriology; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
2012 – 2016 Specialization in Medical microbiology; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade; average grade 5/5
2009 – 2014 Ph.D. studies; module Molecular medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University ofBelgrade; title of Ph.D. thesis “Phenotypic and genotypic characterization and clonal relatedness of pharyngeal isolates of group A streptococci resistant to macrolides in Serbia”
1999 – 2006 Integrated academic studies of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, average grade 9,29/10