Стојанка Алексић : (1934)
Stojanka Aleksić : (1934)
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Сарајлија, СлавицаОстала ауторства
Милошевић-Ђорђевић, НадаКнежевић, Зоран
Лечић-Тошевски, Душица
Конференцијски прилог (Објављена верзија)
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Проф. др Стојанка Алексић је лекар микробиолог, доктор медицинских наука Хамбуршког универзитета, а од 2000. године члан ван радног
састава Српске академије наука и уметности. Живи у Немачкој од 1970.
године. Била је редовни професор Медицинског факултета у Хамбургу и
шеф Националног центра за дијагностику и испитивање узрочника цревних обољења и општу микробиологију Савезне Републике Немачке. За научне радове објављене у Немачкој добила је 1972. године престижну годишњу награду „Р. О. Нојман” (R. O. Neumann Prize).
На пољу микробиолошке науке и епидемиолошке праксе постигла
је изванредне резултате. Усавршила је дијагностичке поступке у откривању узрочника цревних болести, посебно Salmonella и Yersinia, и испитивању њихових морфолошких, имунолошких, биохемијских и молекуларнобиолошких особина. За ову област постала је експерт Светске здравствене организације. Примљена је за члана Поткомитета за таксономију
Enterobacteriacea и Комисије за бактериолошку дијагностику цревних
...
инфекција.
У реферату за избор др Стојанке Алексић за члана ван радног састава
Српске академије наука и уметности, предлагачи — академици Златибор
Петровић, Владимир Кањух и Драгомир Виторовић — посебно су нагласили да је високо оцењена од „највећих имена у микробиолошкој науци”. „Открила је бројне нове типове салмонела […] са иностраним истра живачима ревидирала је антигену шему Yersinia Enterocolica и Yersiniа
Pseudotuberculosis […] прва је развила антигене шеме и за друге врсте
Yersinia и према једној оцени светски чувеног микробиолога постала
ненадмашна за серотипизацију патогених Enterobacteriacea и припреми одговарајућих антисерума.”
Објавила је преко 200 научних и стручних радова, махом у иностранству, у пет књига написала је поглавља о ентеробактеријама, водила је низ
пројеката. У научној литератури је цитирана 3224 пута. Одржала је преко
60 семинара у седам европских земаља, али и у Јапану, Индонезији, Хонгконгу, Аустралији.
Посебно обележје докторке Стојанке Алексић чини њена стална, непрекинута везаност за отаџбину, од слања стручне литературе, прихватања наших лекара на специјализацију, а у време НАТО агресије допремања
хране, лекова и опреме за болнице и лабораторије у нашој земљи, до преко
двадесет јавних предавања у Немачкој, у којима је доказала смртоносне последице бомбардовања муницијом са осиромашеним уранијумом 238 (238U).
Значајно је њено ангажовање у изградњи српске православне цркве у
Хамбургу, оснивању Културног центра (2002) и Централног савета Срба у
Немачкој (2006) као узајамних спона између дијаспоре и немачких државних институција и дијаспоре и надлежних органа у домовини.
Stojanka Aleksić was born on 4 December 1934 in the village of Bačina in the vicin ity of Kruševac. She finished primary school in Bačina and Lower Grammar School in
Varvarin, walking daily the distance of seven kilometers between her home and school
both ways, while also helping her stepfather and mother with crop and livestock farm ing, as well as with household work. She finished Medical High School (a type of board ing school) in Kruševac, while also working on raising the awareness of the popula tion about healthcare. Within the following two years she completed Higher Gram mar School and passed her matriculation examination. She maintained excellent grade
point average throughout her schooling.
Even though she had an affinity for the humanities and a talent for writing, she
decided to devote herself to fighting for human lives, and thus instead of the Faculty
of Philosophy in Belgrade, she enrolled at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, where both
tuition fees and living... costs were more affordable. She completed the first three years
of undergraduate studies at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, supporting herself all the
while. She enrolled on the fourth year of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Medi cine in Belgrade and graduated in 1960 with the grade point average of 9.70 on a 10.00
scale.
Head of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, Prof. Dr. Isidor Papo, had noticed her as an
intern at the Military Medical Academy and hired her in his department. As a holder
of a military scholarship, she enrolled on specialist studies in microbiology two years
later. Upon completion of specialist academic studies in 1965, she started working at
the Institute for Medical Research in Torlak, where Prof. Dr. Branko Miletić passed onto
her his vast knowledge and experience gained in the United States, particularly in the
field of molecular biology.
In January of 1970 Stojanka Aleksić started working at the National Reference Cen tre for Salmonella, within the Institute of Hygiene in Hamburg. She was initiated into
laboratory work by Prof. Dr. Rolf Rohde, who helped her improve her knowledge and
skills, which were further enhanced by learning of new scientific discoveries. She ob tained a specialist degree qualifying her for working in Germany in 1974. Upon her
mentor’s passing in 1978 she was appointed as Head of the Centre which, owing to its
broadened scope of research, was renamed National Reference Centre for the Diag nostics and Research into the Causes of Intestinal Diseases and General Microbiology.
By defending her habilitation thesis in 1982, she was named Assistant Professor of Mi crobiology and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Hamburg and
was conferred the academic title of Professor in 1992.
In her lectures Stojanka Aleksić not only taught the curriculum but also kept her
students informed about the latest findings concerning diseases such as AIDS, mad
cow disease, bird flu, etc. She mentored ten and co-mentored two doctoral disser tations. All her doctoral candidates now work at the scientific research institutions
across the world. The report accompanying her election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Arts as an external member in 2000, apart from emphasizing her considerable exper tise and outstanding scientific contributions, also presented the various ways in which
she helped her home country. Namely, she admitted over thirty medical doctors from
Serbia and the neighbouring republics for specialty training at the Institute of Hygiene
in Hamburg; organized a dozen specialist seminars for the Yugoslav Microbiological
Society; established the collaboration between Glasnik Zavoda za zdravstvenu zaštitu
Srbije (Bulletin of the Institute for Health Protection of Serbia) and twelve international
scientific journals; provided reference works in her field of study, especially during
the period of NATO agression against Serbia; gave a number of scientifically based
talks at major European forums about the devastating consequences of bombing using
depleted uranium 238 for the people’s health, as well as for the animal and plant life.
As far back as the early 1990s Stojanka Aleksić, in collaboration with the Humanitar ian organization “Samaritans”, sent shipments of medical supplies, medicines, hospital
equipment and diagnostic devices as donations to Serbian healthcare system.
Shortly after her arrival in Germany, Dr Aleksić started to implement the idea
of advancing the existing research methods by introducing molecular biology. A new
laboratory was launched for the purpose of this scientific project, in which she was
joined by her husband Dr Vladimir Aleksić.
They succeeded in producing highly specific O and H antisera, which were hith erto unknown. These products proved to be very effective in detecting Salmonella and
other bacteria which they analyzed. In comparison with the earlier methods, this one
proved to be simpler, cheaper and, most importantly, yielding more accurate data. It
was hailed as revolutionary and included in the medical textbooks in numerous coun tries. It also brought her the R. O. Neumann Award. The scientific couple Aleksić ad vanced another method, which essentially represented the isolation of chromosomal
and plasmid DNA and other bacterial elements. Stojanka Aleksić discovered the strains
of Salmonella that were hitherto undetected by the existing sera. Hence she selected
fimbriae in Salmonella as the topic of her doctoral dissertation, which attracted the
attention of the top microbiologists in the world. Her doctoral thesis was published in
a shortened version in the acclaimed journal Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie. She made
a substantial contribution “to advancing the diagnostic procedures in identifying the
causes of intestinal diseases, particularly Salmonella and Yersinia, as well as to the re search on their morphological, immunological, biochemical and molecular-biological
features”, according to the nominators for her election to the SASA. She developed the
technique for their detection and provided the reference of strains for the production
of immune sera. Owing to Stojanka Aleksić, the National Reference Centre for Enteric
Pathogens opened its doors wide open to the collaboration with clinical doctors, mo lecular biologists, and epidemiologists, as well as to promoting teamwork among spe cialists in the most diverse research areas from all over the world.
Stojanka Aleksić also worked on the prevention of infections caused by two impor tant bacteria: Vibrio cholerae and Yersinia pestis.
She served as a Visiting Professor at the universities in Beijing, Denmark, Sweden,
Switzerland, France, and Austria, among others.
She participated in making a catalogue for the World Salmonella Centre in Paris,
in which all the existing bacteria of this group are registered. At the same time, she
collaborated with this centre in the production of immune sera for the detection of
Salmonella. In collaboration with the scientist G. Wauters based in Brussels, she com piled a catalogue for the bacterium Yersinia, which provided the basis for the antigenic scheme for the detection of this bacterial genus (Wauters – Aleksić). The fruit of the
collaboration with a Japanese colleague was the antigenic scheme for the bacterium
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Tsubokura – Aleksić).
She wrote over two hundred articles in journals, as well as chapters on enterobac teria in a number of books. The chapter she wrote in 1995 on the bacterium Yersinia for
a textbook of microbiology, at the request of the American Society for Microbiology,
represented a special honour for her. Her studies are equally important for the micro biological science and the epidemiological practice.
Stojanka Aleksić is a full professor, permanent member of the International Or ganization for Enterobacteria in the United States, a member of the International Or ganization for Salmonella and Yersinia in France, and a consultant at the World Health
Organization in Geneva. She was appointed as Head of National Reference Centre for
Salmonella, but since she broadened its scope of research, it was renamed National
Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens.
She has been an external member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
since 2000.
Кључне речи:
Стојанка Алексић (1934) / биографија / библиографија / Stojanka Aleksić (1934) / biography / bibliographyИзвор:
Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2, 2022, 436-478Издавач:
- Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности
TY - CONF AU - Сарајлија, Славица PY - 2022 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/14889 AB - Проф. др Стојанка Алексић је лекар микробиолог, доктор медицинских наука Хамбуршког универзитета, а од 2000. године члан ван радног састава Српске академије наука и уметности. Живи у Немачкој од 1970. године. Била је редовни професор Медицинског факултета у Хамбургу и шеф Националног центра за дијагностику и испитивање узрочника цревних обољења и општу микробиологију Савезне Републике Немачке. За научне радове објављене у Немачкој добила је 1972. године престижну годишњу награду „Р. О. Нојман” (R. O. Neumann Prize). На пољу микробиолошке науке и епидемиолошке праксе постигла је изванредне резултате. Усавршила је дијагностичке поступке у откривању узрочника цревних болести, посебно Salmonella и Yersinia, и испитивању њихових морфолошких, имунолошких, биохемијских и молекуларнобиолошких особина. За ову област постала је експерт Светске здравствене организације. Примљена је за члана Поткомитета за таксономију Enterobacteriacea и Комисије за бактериолошку дијагностику цревних инфекција. У реферату за избор др Стојанке Алексић за члана ван радног састава Српске академије наука и уметности, предлагачи — академици Златибор Петровић, Владимир Кањух и Драгомир Виторовић — посебно су нагласили да је високо оцењена од „највећих имена у микробиолошкој науци”. „Открила је бројне нове типове салмонела […] са иностраним истра живачима ревидирала је антигену шему Yersinia Enterocolica и Yersiniа Pseudotuberculosis […] прва је развила антигене шеме и за друге врсте Yersinia и према једној оцени светски чувеног микробиолога постала ненадмашна за серотипизацију патогених Enterobacteriacea и припреми одговарајућих антисерума.” Објавила је преко 200 научних и стручних радова, махом у иностранству, у пет књига написала је поглавља о ентеробактеријама, водила је низ пројеката. У научној литератури је цитирана 3224 пута. Одржала је преко 60 семинара у седам европских земаља, али и у Јапану, Индонезији, Хонгконгу, Аустралији. Посебно обележје докторке Стојанке Алексић чини њена стална, непрекинута везаност за отаџбину, од слања стручне литературе, прихватања наших лекара на специјализацију, а у време НАТО агресије допремања хране, лекова и опреме за болнице и лабораторије у нашој земљи, до преко двадесет јавних предавања у Немачкој, у којима је доказала смртоносне последице бомбардовања муницијом са осиромашеним уранијумом 238 (238U). Значајно је њено ангажовање у изградњи српске православне цркве у Хамбургу, оснивању Културног центра (2002) и Централног савета Срба у Немачкој (2006) као узајамних спона између дијаспоре и немачких државних институција и дијаспоре и надлежних органа у домовини. AB - Stojanka Aleksić was born on 4 December 1934 in the village of Bačina in the vicin ity of Kruševac. She finished primary school in Bačina and Lower Grammar School in Varvarin, walking daily the distance of seven kilometers between her home and school both ways, while also helping her stepfather and mother with crop and livestock farm ing, as well as with household work. She finished Medical High School (a type of board ing school) in Kruševac, while also working on raising the awareness of the popula tion about healthcare. Within the following two years she completed Higher Gram mar School and passed her matriculation examination. She maintained excellent grade point average throughout her schooling. Even though she had an affinity for the humanities and a talent for writing, she decided to devote herself to fighting for human lives, and thus instead of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, she enrolled at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, where both tuition fees and living costs were more affordable. She completed the first three years of undergraduate studies at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, supporting herself all the while. She enrolled on the fourth year of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Medi cine in Belgrade and graduated in 1960 with the grade point average of 9.70 on a 10.00 scale. Head of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, Prof. Dr. Isidor Papo, had noticed her as an intern at the Military Medical Academy and hired her in his department. As a holder of a military scholarship, she enrolled on specialist studies in microbiology two years later. Upon completion of specialist academic studies in 1965, she started working at the Institute for Medical Research in Torlak, where Prof. Dr. Branko Miletić passed onto her his vast knowledge and experience gained in the United States, particularly in the field of molecular biology. In January of 1970 Stojanka Aleksić started working at the National Reference Cen tre for Salmonella, within the Institute of Hygiene in Hamburg. She was initiated into laboratory work by Prof. Dr. Rolf Rohde, who helped her improve her knowledge and skills, which were further enhanced by learning of new scientific discoveries. She ob tained a specialist degree qualifying her for working in Germany in 1974. Upon her mentor’s passing in 1978 she was appointed as Head of the Centre which, owing to its broadened scope of research, was renamed National Reference Centre for the Diag nostics and Research into the Causes of Intestinal Diseases and General Microbiology. By defending her habilitation thesis in 1982, she was named Assistant Professor of Mi crobiology and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Hamburg and was conferred the academic title of Professor in 1992. In her lectures Stojanka Aleksić not only taught the curriculum but also kept her students informed about the latest findings concerning diseases such as AIDS, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc. She mentored ten and co-mentored two doctoral disser tations. All her doctoral candidates now work at the scientific research institutions across the world. The report accompanying her election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as an external member in 2000, apart from emphasizing her considerable exper tise and outstanding scientific contributions, also presented the various ways in which she helped her home country. Namely, she admitted over thirty medical doctors from Serbia and the neighbouring republics for specialty training at the Institute of Hygiene in Hamburg; organized a dozen specialist seminars for the Yugoslav Microbiological Society; established the collaboration between Glasnik Zavoda za zdravstvenu zaštitu Srbije (Bulletin of the Institute for Health Protection of Serbia) and twelve international scientific journals; provided reference works in her field of study, especially during the period of NATO agression against Serbia; gave a number of scientifically based talks at major European forums about the devastating consequences of bombing using depleted uranium 238 for the people’s health, as well as for the animal and plant life. As far back as the early 1990s Stojanka Aleksić, in collaboration with the Humanitar ian organization “Samaritans”, sent shipments of medical supplies, medicines, hospital equipment and diagnostic devices as donations to Serbian healthcare system. Shortly after her arrival in Germany, Dr Aleksić started to implement the idea of advancing the existing research methods by introducing molecular biology. A new laboratory was launched for the purpose of this scientific project, in which she was joined by her husband Dr Vladimir Aleksić. They succeeded in producing highly specific O and H antisera, which were hith erto unknown. These products proved to be very effective in detecting Salmonella and other bacteria which they analyzed. In comparison with the earlier methods, this one proved to be simpler, cheaper and, most importantly, yielding more accurate data. It was hailed as revolutionary and included in the medical textbooks in numerous coun tries. It also brought her the R. O. Neumann Award. The scientific couple Aleksić ad vanced another method, which essentially represented the isolation of chromosomal and plasmid DNA and other bacterial elements. Stojanka Aleksić discovered the strains of Salmonella that were hitherto undetected by the existing sera. Hence she selected fimbriae in Salmonella as the topic of her doctoral dissertation, which attracted the attention of the top microbiologists in the world. Her doctoral thesis was published in a shortened version in the acclaimed journal Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie. She made a substantial contribution “to advancing the diagnostic procedures in identifying the causes of intestinal diseases, particularly Salmonella and Yersinia, as well as to the re search on their morphological, immunological, biochemical and molecular-biological features”, according to the nominators for her election to the SASA. She developed the technique for their detection and provided the reference of strains for the production of immune sera. Owing to Stojanka Aleksić, the National Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens opened its doors wide open to the collaboration with clinical doctors, mo lecular biologists, and epidemiologists, as well as to promoting teamwork among spe cialists in the most diverse research areas from all over the world. Stojanka Aleksić also worked on the prevention of infections caused by two impor tant bacteria: Vibrio cholerae and Yersinia pestis. She served as a Visiting Professor at the universities in Beijing, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Austria, among others. She participated in making a catalogue for the World Salmonella Centre in Paris, in which all the existing bacteria of this group are registered. At the same time, she collaborated with this centre in the production of immune sera for the detection of Salmonella. In collaboration with the scientist G. Wauters based in Brussels, she com piled a catalogue for the bacterium Yersinia, which provided the basis for the antigenic scheme for the detection of this bacterial genus (Wauters – Aleksić). The fruit of the collaboration with a Japanese colleague was the antigenic scheme for the bacterium Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Tsubokura – Aleksić). She wrote over two hundred articles in journals, as well as chapters on enterobac teria in a number of books. The chapter she wrote in 1995 on the bacterium Yersinia for a textbook of microbiology, at the request of the American Society for Microbiology, represented a special honour for her. Her studies are equally important for the micro biological science and the epidemiological practice. Stojanka Aleksić is a full professor, permanent member of the International Or ganization for Enterobacteria in the United States, a member of the International Or ganization for Salmonella and Yersinia in France, and a consultant at the World Health Organization in Geneva. She was appointed as Head of National Reference Centre for Salmonella, but since she broadened its scope of research, it was renamed National Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens. She has been an external member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2000. PB - Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности C3 - Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2 T1 - Стојанка Алексић : (1934) T1 - Stojanka Aleksić : (1934) SP - 436 EP - 478 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14889 ER -
@conference{ author = "Сарајлија, Славица", year = "2022", abstract = "Проф. др Стојанка Алексић је лекар микробиолог, доктор медицинских наука Хамбуршког универзитета, а од 2000. године члан ван радног састава Српске академије наука и уметности. Живи у Немачкој од 1970. године. Била је редовни професор Медицинског факултета у Хамбургу и шеф Националног центра за дијагностику и испитивање узрочника цревних обољења и општу микробиологију Савезне Републике Немачке. За научне радове објављене у Немачкој добила је 1972. године престижну годишњу награду „Р. О. Нојман” (R. O. Neumann Prize). На пољу микробиолошке науке и епидемиолошке праксе постигла је изванредне резултате. Усавршила је дијагностичке поступке у откривању узрочника цревних болести, посебно Salmonella и Yersinia, и испитивању њихових морфолошких, имунолошких, биохемијских и молекуларнобиолошких особина. За ову област постала је експерт Светске здравствене организације. Примљена је за члана Поткомитета за таксономију Enterobacteriacea и Комисије за бактериолошку дијагностику цревних инфекција. У реферату за избор др Стојанке Алексић за члана ван радног састава Српске академије наука и уметности, предлагачи — академици Златибор Петровић, Владимир Кањух и Драгомир Виторовић — посебно су нагласили да је високо оцењена од „највећих имена у микробиолошкој науци”. „Открила је бројне нове типове салмонела […] са иностраним истра живачима ревидирала је антигену шему Yersinia Enterocolica и Yersiniа Pseudotuberculosis […] прва је развила антигене шеме и за друге врсте Yersinia и према једној оцени светски чувеног микробиолога постала ненадмашна за серотипизацију патогених Enterobacteriacea и припреми одговарајућих антисерума.” Објавила је преко 200 научних и стручних радова, махом у иностранству, у пет књига написала је поглавља о ентеробактеријама, водила је низ пројеката. У научној литератури је цитирана 3224 пута. Одржала је преко 60 семинара у седам европских земаља, али и у Јапану, Индонезији, Хонгконгу, Аустралији. Посебно обележје докторке Стојанке Алексић чини њена стална, непрекинута везаност за отаџбину, од слања стручне литературе, прихватања наших лекара на специјализацију, а у време НАТО агресије допремања хране, лекова и опреме за болнице и лабораторије у нашој земљи, до преко двадесет јавних предавања у Немачкој, у којима је доказала смртоносне последице бомбардовања муницијом са осиромашеним уранијумом 238 (238U). Значајно је њено ангажовање у изградњи српске православне цркве у Хамбургу, оснивању Културног центра (2002) и Централног савета Срба у Немачкој (2006) као узајамних спона између дијаспоре и немачких државних институција и дијаспоре и надлежних органа у домовини., Stojanka Aleksić was born on 4 December 1934 in the village of Bačina in the vicin ity of Kruševac. She finished primary school in Bačina and Lower Grammar School in Varvarin, walking daily the distance of seven kilometers between her home and school both ways, while also helping her stepfather and mother with crop and livestock farm ing, as well as with household work. She finished Medical High School (a type of board ing school) in Kruševac, while also working on raising the awareness of the popula tion about healthcare. Within the following two years she completed Higher Gram mar School and passed her matriculation examination. She maintained excellent grade point average throughout her schooling. Even though she had an affinity for the humanities and a talent for writing, she decided to devote herself to fighting for human lives, and thus instead of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, she enrolled at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, where both tuition fees and living costs were more affordable. She completed the first three years of undergraduate studies at the Medical Faculty in Skopje, supporting herself all the while. She enrolled on the fourth year of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Medi cine in Belgrade and graduated in 1960 with the grade point average of 9.70 on a 10.00 scale. Head of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, Prof. Dr. Isidor Papo, had noticed her as an intern at the Military Medical Academy and hired her in his department. As a holder of a military scholarship, she enrolled on specialist studies in microbiology two years later. Upon completion of specialist academic studies in 1965, she started working at the Institute for Medical Research in Torlak, where Prof. Dr. Branko Miletić passed onto her his vast knowledge and experience gained in the United States, particularly in the field of molecular biology. In January of 1970 Stojanka Aleksić started working at the National Reference Cen tre for Salmonella, within the Institute of Hygiene in Hamburg. She was initiated into laboratory work by Prof. Dr. Rolf Rohde, who helped her improve her knowledge and skills, which were further enhanced by learning of new scientific discoveries. She ob tained a specialist degree qualifying her for working in Germany in 1974. Upon her mentor’s passing in 1978 she was appointed as Head of the Centre which, owing to its broadened scope of research, was renamed National Reference Centre for the Diag nostics and Research into the Causes of Intestinal Diseases and General Microbiology. By defending her habilitation thesis in 1982, she was named Assistant Professor of Mi crobiology and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Hamburg and was conferred the academic title of Professor in 1992. In her lectures Stojanka Aleksić not only taught the curriculum but also kept her students informed about the latest findings concerning diseases such as AIDS, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc. She mentored ten and co-mentored two doctoral disser tations. All her doctoral candidates now work at the scientific research institutions across the world. The report accompanying her election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as an external member in 2000, apart from emphasizing her considerable exper tise and outstanding scientific contributions, also presented the various ways in which she helped her home country. Namely, she admitted over thirty medical doctors from Serbia and the neighbouring republics for specialty training at the Institute of Hygiene in Hamburg; organized a dozen specialist seminars for the Yugoslav Microbiological Society; established the collaboration between Glasnik Zavoda za zdravstvenu zaštitu Srbije (Bulletin of the Institute for Health Protection of Serbia) and twelve international scientific journals; provided reference works in her field of study, especially during the period of NATO agression against Serbia; gave a number of scientifically based talks at major European forums about the devastating consequences of bombing using depleted uranium 238 for the people’s health, as well as for the animal and plant life. As far back as the early 1990s Stojanka Aleksić, in collaboration with the Humanitar ian organization “Samaritans”, sent shipments of medical supplies, medicines, hospital equipment and diagnostic devices as donations to Serbian healthcare system. Shortly after her arrival in Germany, Dr Aleksić started to implement the idea of advancing the existing research methods by introducing molecular biology. A new laboratory was launched for the purpose of this scientific project, in which she was joined by her husband Dr Vladimir Aleksić. They succeeded in producing highly specific O and H antisera, which were hith erto unknown. These products proved to be very effective in detecting Salmonella and other bacteria which they analyzed. In comparison with the earlier methods, this one proved to be simpler, cheaper and, most importantly, yielding more accurate data. It was hailed as revolutionary and included in the medical textbooks in numerous coun tries. It also brought her the R. O. Neumann Award. The scientific couple Aleksić ad vanced another method, which essentially represented the isolation of chromosomal and plasmid DNA and other bacterial elements. Stojanka Aleksić discovered the strains of Salmonella that were hitherto undetected by the existing sera. Hence she selected fimbriae in Salmonella as the topic of her doctoral dissertation, which attracted the attention of the top microbiologists in the world. Her doctoral thesis was published in a shortened version in the acclaimed journal Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie. She made a substantial contribution “to advancing the diagnostic procedures in identifying the causes of intestinal diseases, particularly Salmonella and Yersinia, as well as to the re search on their morphological, immunological, biochemical and molecular-biological features”, according to the nominators for her election to the SASA. She developed the technique for their detection and provided the reference of strains for the production of immune sera. Owing to Stojanka Aleksić, the National Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens opened its doors wide open to the collaboration with clinical doctors, mo lecular biologists, and epidemiologists, as well as to promoting teamwork among spe cialists in the most diverse research areas from all over the world. Stojanka Aleksić also worked on the prevention of infections caused by two impor tant bacteria: Vibrio cholerae and Yersinia pestis. She served as a Visiting Professor at the universities in Beijing, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Austria, among others. She participated in making a catalogue for the World Salmonella Centre in Paris, in which all the existing bacteria of this group are registered. At the same time, she collaborated with this centre in the production of immune sera for the detection of Salmonella. In collaboration with the scientist G. Wauters based in Brussels, she com piled a catalogue for the bacterium Yersinia, which provided the basis for the antigenic scheme for the detection of this bacterial genus (Wauters – Aleksić). The fruit of the collaboration with a Japanese colleague was the antigenic scheme for the bacterium Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Tsubokura – Aleksić). She wrote over two hundred articles in journals, as well as chapters on enterobac teria in a number of books. The chapter she wrote in 1995 on the bacterium Yersinia for a textbook of microbiology, at the request of the American Society for Microbiology, represented a special honour for her. Her studies are equally important for the micro biological science and the epidemiological practice. Stojanka Aleksić is a full professor, permanent member of the International Or ganization for Enterobacteria in the United States, a member of the International Or ganization for Salmonella and Yersinia in France, and a consultant at the World Health Organization in Geneva. She was appointed as Head of National Reference Centre for Salmonella, but since she broadened its scope of research, it was renamed National Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens. She has been an external member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2000.", publisher = "Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности", journal = "Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2", title = "Стојанка Алексић : (1934), Stojanka Aleksić : (1934)", pages = "436-478", url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14889" }
Сарајлија, С.. (2022). Стојанка Алексић : (1934). in Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2 Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности., 436-478. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14889
Сарајлија С. Стојанка Алексић : (1934). in Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2. 2022;:436-478. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14889 .
Сарајлија, Славица, "Стојанка Алексић : (1934)" in Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2 (2022):436-478, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14889 .