Speaker

Ivana Sola

Biography :

Ivana Sola works in Laboratory for Phytochemistry at the Division of Botany, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her main scientific interest is plant specialized metabolism plasticity (e.g., changes in concentration of different metabolites, synthesis of new compounds, genotype and/or phenotype adjustment (ecotype and/or yield, respectively), bioactivity and bioavailability changes), and possibilities like the use of a specialized metabolites profile as an indicator of stress in the environment, boosting of specific metabolites in order to produce a value-added plant food, and screening of specialized metabolism changes for prediction models. She has published 18 scientific papers so far, and is a co-author of one manual. So far, she has participated as a collaborator in four bilateral german-croatian projects, in one scientific project from Croatian Ministry of Science and Education, one from Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and one from Croatian Ministry of Agriculture. Currently, she is a leader of one Croatian Science Foundation project, and a collaborator on another. She is a special issue editor in the journal „Plants“, and a member of several associations and societies related to plant biology. She teaches and/or holds praktika in plant anatomy, plant bioactive substances, and molecular biology of plants.