Our student, Martina Manenica was awarded the Rector’s award for her work called: Augmin-dependent nucleation of new microtubule bundles in mitotic spindle. Congratulations Martina!
Award Winning Spindle Twist
The European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award in the category Life Sciences goes to our paper “The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques within microtubule bundles”. This is a great recognition for the work of our students and postdocs…
“Award for an outstanding contribution to the development of molecular life sciences”
Iva received the “Award for an outstanding contribution to the development of molecular life sciences” from the Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Gustav Krklec primary school, Zagreb
A group of 26 students and three teachers from the Gustav Krklec primary school (Zagreb) visited our lab. Iva gave them a short talk about the recent discoveries in our lab after which they asked a great deal of…
Congratulations Bruno for defending the PhD thesis!
Bruno sucessfully defended his PhD thesis “The role of bridging fibers in the architecture of the metaphase mitotic spindle”. He is the first PhD student from Iva’s group in Zagreb to finish his PhD. Bruno, we wish you luck with continuing your…
Antun Mihanović Primary school, Klanjec
A group of young journalists from the Antun Mihanović primary school in Klanjec visited our lab. They came well prepared with a lot of questions regarding science and our Institute. Sonja took them on a tour of the Institute, and Iva gave…
New PhD student!
We have a new PhD student! Monika, welcome to our group!
Patrik has been awarded a Company of Biologists’ Travelling Fellowship!
Patrik Risteski has received the Company of Biologists’ (Journal of Cell Science) Travelling Fellowship for collaborative work at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC). He will be at the IGC during this summer from June, 22. till July 6. collaborating with…
The conference: Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory; March 24 – 27 2019, Split, Croatia
Together with Nenad Pavin, we organized the conference Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory in Split, Croatia, from 24th to 27th March 2019. Thanks to all participants for making this meeting so exciting! We will organize the next one in 2021.
The Branimir Jernej award for 2018 to Maja Novak, Bruno Polak, Juraj Simunić and Barbara Kuzmić
We are excited to share that Maja, Bruno, Jure and Barbara were awarded the Branimir Jernej award for the year 2018 for the paper on the chirality of the mitotic spindle published in Nature Communications. This annual award is awarded to…