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…
Under sponsorship of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Prof Iva Tolić organized EMBO Conference on Meiosis 2017 which will take place on the island of Hvar, Croatia, from 27th August to 1st September 2017. The topics will include establishment…
Another graduation this week! Our Master student, Luka Bačić, received his Master degree in molecular biology from the Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Luka did his Master thesis on kinetochore oscillations in our lab. Congrats on…
Our Master student, Ana Milas, graduated from the Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Ana did her Master thesis on optogenetics in our lab. Congrats on your Master degree in chemistry! We are proud!
At the Dynamic kinetochore EMBO workshop that took place from 6th to 9th June 2017 in Edinburgh, UK, Renata Buđa gave oral presentation entitled “Microtubule sliding in the bridging fiber pushes kinetochore fibers apart to segregate chromosomes”.
Bruno Polak joined 82nd Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Chromosome Segregation & Structure and presented a poster entitled “The mitotic spindle possesses left-handed chirality” in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA from May 31 – June 5, 2017.