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.
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…
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…
Nacional, 16 October 2018.
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!
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…
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,…
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 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…
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.