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Prof. Dr Vasilije Isajev was born in 1947 in Belgrade. He graduated from the Forestry Department of the Forestry Faculty in Belgrade in 1970 and received his MSc degree in 1978. In 1987, at the same faculty, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in plant genetics and breeding entitled Genetics-Based Breeding of Serbian Spruce (Picea omorika Panč./Purkyne). While working on his doctoral thesis, Prof. Dr Vasilije Isajev completed relevant specialization courses in Stockholm in 1983 and Copenhagen and Uppsala in 1985. He is Full Professor of plant genetics and breeding at the departments of forestry and landscape architecture of the Forestry Faculty in Belgrade and also teaches seed and seedling production and forestation at the departments of forestry and erosion protection of the same faculty. As of the academic year 1992/93,  he has taught the subjects of plant genetics and breeding and forest crops and plantations at the Forestry Faculty in Banja Luka as part of the intercollegiate cooperation program between the University of Belgrade and University of Banjaluka.

Prof. Dr Vasilije Isajev has thus far published four monographs, five university textbooks, five manuals, and 272 scientific papers and reports presented in domestic and foreign journals and meetings. He has mentored 29 BSc, nine MSc and six PhD theses in total.

Prof. Isajev is member of JINA (Yugoslav Engineering Academy); the European Forest Institute (Finland); EUFORGEN – the European Forest Genetics Resources Program (Rome); the Canadian Nursery Association  (Montreal); OPTIMA – Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area; IUFRO – Silviculture Division; the Association of Forestry Engineers and Technicians of Serbia; the Yugoslav Plant Physiology Society: and the ISSS  (International Seed Science Society).

From 1994 till the present, Prof. Isajev has completed two terms as member of the Presiding Council of the Serbian Genetic Society. He was President of the society’s Section on Breeding of Organisms during 1994–2006 and was elected President of the Serbian Genetic Society in 2004.

Dr Janoš Berenji was born in 1954 in Torda (municipality of Žitište). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Novi Sad in 1979 with a grade point average of 9.69. In 1985, he received his MSc degree in plant genetics and breeding from the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, and five years later, in 1990, he successfully defended his PhD  thesis at the same faculty. Dr Berenji has been  employed at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad since 1979 working on the genetics, breeding and seed production of sorghums, millets, hemp, tobacco and pumpkins. He is Head of the Institute’s Department of Hops, Sorghums and Medicinal Plants as of 1990 and was elected Scientific Advisor in 2002.  During 1985, Dr Berenji made a six-month visit to the U.S. for the purpose of specialization at several universities, while in 1987 he attended the international course on applied plant breeding at Wageningen in the Netherlands.  In 2001, he made a four-month study trip to the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Since 1987, Dr Berenji has been President of the sorghum group of the  EUCARPIA Maize and Sorghum Section. He takes part in the teaching activities of the faculties of agriculture in Novi Sad, Zemun and  Budapest.

Dr Berenji has been member of the Presiding Council of the Serbian Genetic Society since 2004. He was Vice-President of the Section on Breeding of Organisms between 1994 and 2006 and was elected the Section’s President in 2006.

Prof. Dr Saša Orlović was born in Sremska Kamenica in 1965. From 1985 to1990, he attended the Forestry Faculty in Belgrade with forestry as his major subject. He received his MSc and PhD degrees at the same faculty in 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 2005, he became Scientific Advisor and has since been working as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad.  Prof. Dr Saša Orlović is member of the Executive Committee of the UN-FAO IPC, Coordinator of the EUFORGEN program for Serbia, the representative of Serbia at the IUFRO, and President of the Forestry Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina of the Republic of Serbia. He participates in research carried out within the framework of the COST and TEMPUS programs and has authored or co-authored 170 scientific papers and reports as well as two poplar varieties. Since 2002, he has been Director of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment in Novi Sad and Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture of the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad. He has been Vice-President of the Section on Breeding of Organisms of the Serbian Genetic Society since 2006.