We are excited to share that Kruno and Renata were awarded the Ruđer Bošković Institute annual award for the year 2017-2018 for the paper on microtubule sliding within the bridging fiber, published in Developmental Cell! The annual award is awarded to…
Conference in March 2019! Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory
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 defended her Master thesis on expansion microscopy!
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!
PhD position available
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…
ERC project presented on the European Researchers’ Night!
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,…
Stela obtained her Masters degree!
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 new paper is published in Nature Communications!
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…
Our paper is featured on the cover of MBoC
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 in European Biophysical Journal is out!
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)…
Go Croatia!
Good luck to the Croatian football team today. C’mon Vatreni, we believe in you!