Srđan Aćimović earned his PhD at the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University. He received his BS in Plant Protection at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he worked on newly emerging diseases of grapevine wood and their identification. He earned his MS in Phytopathology at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where he characterized the high magnitude of late season fire blight symptom development and canker formation on apples and evaluated forecast of fire blight occurrence using METOS system.
Between college and graduate education he worked as a Plant Protection Technologist for two agriculture companies and then as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. His main interests revolve around the conventional and alternative management practices for apple and grapevine diseases and the plant pathogen identification. In his recent research efforts at Michigan State University he focused on control of fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) and apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) using trunk injection of plant protective compounds and on the uptake, distribution and persistence of trunk-injected pesticides in apple trees. He also conducts unique research addressing the impact of trunk injection wounding on apple trees and the comparison of a wide range of trunk injection systems.
The ultimate goal and enthusiasm behind his research is providing the fruit industry with target-precise pesticide delivery systems and technologies which will allow efficient and environmentally safer plant protection. From the enrollment in 2010 at Michigan State University, he was awarded with A. L. Rogers Endowed Research Scholarship by Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program at Michigan State University and Fruit and Vegetable Industry Scholarship by Michigan State Horticultural Society and sponsors.
Between college and graduate education he worked as a Plant Protection Technologist for two agriculture companies and then as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. His main interests revolve around the conventional and alternative management practices for apple and grapevine diseases and the plant pathogen identification. In his recent research efforts at Michigan State University he focused on control of fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) and apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) using trunk injection of plant protective compounds and on the uptake, distribution and persistence of trunk-injected pesticides in apple trees. He also conducts unique research addressing the impact of trunk injection wounding on apple trees and the comparison of a wide range of trunk injection systems.
The ultimate goal and enthusiasm behind his research is providing the fruit industry with target-precise pesticide delivery systems and technologies which will allow efficient and environmentally safer plant protection. From the enrollment in 2010 at Michigan State University, he was awarded with A. L. Rogers Endowed Research Scholarship by Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program at Michigan State University and Fruit and Vegetable Industry Scholarship by Michigan State Horticultural Society and sponsors.