Branka Uzelac completed her Ph.D. in Experimental and Applied Botany at the University of Belgrade, Serbia (2012). She is a member of the Laboratory of Plant Cytology and Histology at the Institute for Biological Research „Siniša Stanković“–National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. Her research has generally been in the area of cytology and anatomy of plant development, focusing on cytological aspects of the mechanisms responsible for cell and tissue differentiation. She has published 40 papers in reputed journals.