Together with Prof Nenad Pavin (University of Zagreb), Prof Iva Tolić (Ruđer Bošković Institute) is organizing Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory conference which will take place in Split, Croatia, from 24th to 27th March 2019. Invited…
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Prof Iva Tolić was awarded the Ignaz L. Lieben Award 2017 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The award has been granted for Iva’s pioneering work and outstanding achievements in the field of molecular cell biology, especially for Iva’s work…
During his stay in Croatia, the president of the European Research Council (ERC), Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, has visited our lab where we introduced him to our ERC project entitled NewSpindleForce.
At the ASCB | EMBO 2017 Meeting, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, Patrik presented our results on the role of bridging microtubules in anaphase, in his Minisymposium talk entitled “Microtubule sliding in the bridging fiber pushes kinetochore fibers apart to…
On the occasion of Dies Academicus (University Day), which has taken place on November 3, 2017 in Zagreb, the University of Zagreb has granted Rector’s Acknowledgement for international scientific achievements to our master student, Patrik Risteski. Congratulations!
Our artistic representation of our paper entitled “Microtubule Sliding within the Bridging Fiber Pushes Kinetochore Fibers Apart to Segregate Chromosomes” is featured on the Developmental Cell (Volume 43 Issue 1) cover page. For meaning behind the image, please see text…
Patrik Risteski has received an American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) International Travel Award to attend the 2017 ASCB | EMBO Meeting in Philadelphia, PA from December 2-6, 2017. His travel award has been funded by generous support from EMBO.
Juraj Simunic was selected to give a talk, The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques generated by motor proteins, in the Microsymposium entitled, “Microsymp 6: Cellular regulation of the cytoskeleton” at the 2017 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)…
Patrik Risteski was selected to give a talk, Microtubule sliding in the bridging fiber pushes kinetochore fibers apart to segregate chromosomes in human cells, in the Minisymposium entitled, “Minisymposium 9: Ensuring Fidelity of Chromosome Segregation” under the topic Cell Division, Cell Cycle…