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…
Ivana Ponjavić successfully defended her Master thesis and graduated from the Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Ivana did her Master thesis in our lab on expansion superresolution microscopy . Congrats on your Master degree!
Exciting news! Tolić group offers one PhD position. You can find the details in English at this link and in Croatian at this link, at section II. 8. suradničko zvanje i suradničko radno mjesto asistenta u Zavodu za molekularnu biologiju, Laboratorij…
Kruno and Renata presented our ERC project on the main stage of the European Researchers’ Night in Zagreb. The European Researchers’ Night is traditionally held every year across Europe on the last Friday in September. On the cities’ public areas,…
Our Master student, Stela Jelenić, graduated from the Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Stela did her Master thesis on the role of NuMA in spindle assembly and architecture in our lab. Congrats on your Master degree…
Our newest paper on the chirality of the mitotic spindle is published in Nature Communications: Novak, M., B. Polak, J. Simunić, Z. Boban, B. Kuzmić, A. Thomae, I.M. Tolić, N. Pavin. The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques generated…
The image from our paper entitled “Metaphase kinetochore movements are regulated by kinesin-8 motors and microtubule dynamic instability” is featured on the Molecular Biology of the Cell (Volume 29 June 1 2018) cover page.
Iva’s invited review for the winner of the EBSA Young Investigator Medal and Prize in European Biophysical Journal discusses the structure, function, and formation of kinetochore fibers and interpolar bundles, with an emphasis on how they interact. I.M. Tolić. (2018)…
Good luck to the Croatian football team today. C’mon Vatreni, we believe in you!
Our new Methods paper is out! Milas, A., Jagrić, M., Martinčić, J., I.M. Tolić. (2018) Optogenetic reversible knocksideways, laser ablation and photoactivation on the mitotic spindle in human cells. Methods Cell Biol 145: 191-215.