We would like to give a warm welcome to our newest PhD student Lovro Gudlin. We wish him best of luck in his work!
We discovered “Bundles of joy”
The joint effort of scientists from the group of Prof. Iva Tolić from the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, the group of Prof. Marin Barišić from the Danish Cancer Research Center in Copenhagen and the group of Prof. Nenad Pavina…
Two new papers in the journals eLife and Cell Reports
Two recent studies by Patrik Risteski, Isabella Koprivec, and Valentina Štimac from the Tolić group together with Domagoj Božan, and prof. Nenad Pavin from the University of Zagreb uncovered the secrets of how chromosomes are guided to the center of…
IPSted Workshop
The aim of this mini-workshop was to initiate the technology transfer process to other areas of operation and start activities to establish R&D agreements. Participants included Iva M. Tolić, Ivana Ponjavić, Jelena Martinčić, and Patrik Risteski from the Ruđer Bošković…
Tolić lab at Cell Bio 2022
Valentina Štimac, Patrik Risteski, and Kruno Vukušić participated in Cell Bio 2022, a joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) which took place from December 3 to 7, 2022 in…
TV show “Hrvatska za 5”
Iva Tolić and Nenad Pavin were guests in the TV show “Hrvatska za 5” on Croatian Radiotelevision, edited and presented by Branimir Bilić, on the topic of Science Oscar winners. They talked about how much knowledge, work, and creativity was…
Plenary lecture at HDIR-6
Iva gave a plenary lecture and opened the 6th meeting of the Croatian Association for Cancer Research (Hrvatsko društvo za istraživanje raka, HDIR), a member of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), at the Hotel International in Zagreb.
Patrik defended his thesis
Patrik defended his thesis. He developed speckle microscopy for human spindles, discovered flux-driven chromosome alignment, and more about bridging fibers and optogenetics. Congratulations!
Biophysics of Spindle Assembly workshop
The Biophysics of Spindle Assembly workshop was organized at the Ruđer Bošković institute as part of the HRZZ-funded project entitled “Mechanisms of microtubule bundle formation required for spindle maturation”. We invited leading mitosis enthusiasts, including Andrew McAinsh, Helder Maiato, Patrick…
Tolić group contributed to a cool new finding published in Nature
Prof. Tolić and her students Isabella Koprivec, Valentina Štimac, Patrik Risteski, and Kruno Vukušić contributed to an exciting story on chromosome segregation bias, which was led by Prof. Geert Kops from Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, NL. This research titled “Nuclear…