The Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) announced a call for funding under the “Research Projects” program (IP-2024-05) in May 2024. Our SpinGen project has been approved for funding for a period of three years. The project, titled “Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle…
Valentina defended her thesis entitled: The roles of augmin and spindle actin in chromosome congression, spindle architecture and mitotic fidelity.
As part of the ERC Synergy project Molecular Origins of Aneuploidies in Healthy and Diseased Human Tissues (Aneuploidy), the 4th ERC SyG meeting was held in Utrecht on October 10–11, 2024. The event brought together approximately 25 participants from four…
Isabella defended her thesis entitled: Defining the mechanism of polar chromosome congression during prometaphase.
On September 27th and 28th, 2024, the University of Rijeka hosted the CROSCIENCE 2024 Symposium, co-organized by professors Nenad Ban, Ivan Đikić, Stipan Jonjić, Ivana Novak Nakir, Igor Rudan, Igor Štagljar, Adrijana Vinter, and Iva Tolić. The event brought together…
Sjoerd Jurian Klaasen, a postdoctoral researcher from the group of Associate Professor Dr. Martijn Luijsterburg at the Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, visited our lab. His visit was funded through an EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant, and…
Check out how our Lovro Gudlin went from being a physicist to immersing himself in cell biology, becoming a true biophysicist and mitosis enthusiast! Link of the article: From meteorites to multipolar mitosis
On Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, an award ceremony was held at the Croatian National Theater for the national program ‘For Women in Science,’ organized by L’Oréal Adria and the Croatian Committee for UNESCO at the Ministry of Culture and Media.…
The first joint meeting for our SNSF-HRZZ project on centrosome age and polar chromosomes was held in beautiful Split from April 24-27, 2024. The meeting was filled with exciting discussions about centrosomes, polar chromosomes, and poleward flux with our project…
Congratulations to Petra Mikec for successfully defending her Master’s thesis, entitled Position of chromosomes 1 and 9, labeled using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, with respect to the nuclear envelope and centrosomes!