Dr. Dragana Kusic

• Established a reference Raman database of 28 bacterial species grown under standardized conditions, performed chemometric studies involving model-based classification and prediction of Raman spectra (multiclass support vector machine, mixture discriminant analysis) • Evaluated an immunomagnetic separation for its compatibility with Raman microspectroscopy and used proteolytic cleavage of antibodies with pepsin to remove bacteria from the surface of magnetic beads

• Implemented statistical analysis of Raman spectra: pre-processing of Raman spectra with the GnuR software, performed chemometric analysis (Linear Discriminant Analysis and Principal Component Analysis) of Raman spectra • Evaluated glycine buffer pH 2, mercaptoethanol, dithiothreitol (DTT) as well as enzymes such as pepsin and papain for their compatibility with immunomagnetic separation - Raman spectroscopy identification procedure

• Performed gamma spectrometric measurements • Determined 234U, 238U and 226Ra in water samples as well as 210Pb, 226Ra, 230Th, 234U and 238U in phosphogypsum • Implemented the coprecipitation of radium with barium and subsequent coprecipitation of the actinides with Fe+3 carrier

• Prepared the samples, performed gamma spectrometric measurements • Determined 234U, 238U and 226Ra in water samples as well as 210Pb, 226Ra, 230Th, 234U and 238U in phosphogypsum

Raman microspectroscopic detection and characterization of diverse developmental forms of Legionella species

Determination of natural radionuclides in phosphogypsum and water

Adsorption of doxycycline on Ca-ZSM-5 zeolites with different Si/Al ratios