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!
Our new Methods paper is out!
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.
Paper on metaphase kinetochore movements is out!
The paper on metaphase kinetochore movements in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is out!
Iva Tolić was awarded the Ignaz L. Lieben Award 2017
Prof Iva Tolić was awarded the Ignaz L. Lieben Award 2017 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The award has been granted for Iva’s pioneering work and outstanding achievements in the field of molecular cell biology, especially for Iva’s work…
President of the ERC visited our lab
During his stay in Croatia, the president of the European Research Council (ERC), Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, has visited our lab where we introduced him to our ERC project entitled NewSpindleForce.
Juraj and Patrik attended the ASCB | EMBO Meeting
At the ASCB | EMBO 2017 Meeting, held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, Patrik presented our results on the role of bridging microtubules in anaphase, in his Minisymposium talk entitled “Microtubule sliding in the bridging fiber pushes kinetochore fibers apart to…
Patrik received Rector’s Acknowledgement
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 paper is featured on the cover of Dev Cell
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…