GMFST2024

Dr. Tamara B. Popović is a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Medical Research University of Belgrade (2000-present). She mentored in two PhD thesis several master theses and BSc studies and published more than 100 articles. She has given over 20 plus invited/keynote/plenary presentations through the world. She is member of several national and international societies concerning her research area. She is owner of patent in the research field of food in her country which is great achieve. She is member of some Editorial boards in scientific journals. During the career she participate in 5 national and several International projects and lead several working packages. Professor Popović field of interest are lipids, metabolism and fatty acids of membrane phospholipids in plasma and tissues. She investigated with her team effect of bioactive substances in animal models, human interventional studies, and analyze bioactive substances and its effects on lipid metabolism and redox status. Professor Popović collaborate with clinics, laboratories and pharmaceutical companies in her country.

Dr. Farshid Talat is Assistant Professor of Crop genetics and Breeding at Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization of Iran. He is doing research in the field of crop genetics and biotechnology for 23 years and has been teaching Genetics and Biostatistics in several universities since 1999. He has conducted extensive studies on crop breeding and plant architecture systems in Iran. Dr. Talat served as a coordinator of 50 national projects .He received his B.Sc. degree in Agronomy and Plant Breeding from Urmia University in 1997 and his M.Sc. in Plant Breeding-Biotechnology from University of Tehran in 1999. Dr.Talat received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Genomics on wild cotton sequencing program. He is the author of 85 national and international published papers. Specialties: Statistical data analyses Genomics Genetics Plant breeding Bioinformatics Biodata Analyses

Dr. Ucuncuoglu is an Assistant Professor working in Food Science area, particularly lipid chemistry. She attained her Ph.D. in Food Engineering and completed her post-doctoral research projects at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Now, she is an award-winning entrepreneur and developing diet and functional snack formulations with her research team.