In the scope of the ERC Synergy project Molecular origins of aneuploidies in healthy and diseased human tissues (Aneuploidy), a meeting was held in Amsterdam from 13-14 May 2022. The meeting gathered 20 participants from four research teams (Iva Tolić…
Meeting of the ERC Synergy project Aneuploidy held in Dubrovnik
Meeting of the ERC project Molecular origins of aneuploidies in healthy and diseased human tissues (Aneuploidy), was held in Dubrovnik at Hotel Kompas, from 25-29 August 2021. After two larger meetings held online, this is the first project meeting organized…
RBI Annual Award to our paper on chirality of the spindle!
We are excited to share that Barbara received the Ruđer Bošković Institute annual award for the year 2018 awarded to all authors on the paper “The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques within microtubule bundles”. The annual award is awarded to…
Juraj Simunić accepted the European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award
At the 14th Multinational Congress on Microscopy in Belgrade, Serbia, Juraj Simunić accepted The European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award in the category Life Sciences for our paper “The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques within microtubule bundles”.…
Rector’s award to our student Martina Manenica!
Our student, Martina Manenica was awarded the Rector’s award for her work called: Augmin-dependent nucleation of new microtubule bundles in mitotic spindle. Congratulations Martina!
Award Winning Spindle Twist
The European Microscopy Society Outstanding Paper Award in the category Life Sciences goes to our paper “The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques within microtubule bundles”. This is a great recognition for the work of our students and postdocs…
“Award for an outstanding contribution to the development of molecular life sciences”
Iva received the “Award for an outstanding contribution to the development of molecular life sciences” from the Croatian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Congratulations Bruno for defending the PhD thesis!
Bruno sucessfully defended his PhD thesis “The role of bridging fibers in the architecture of the metaphase mitotic spindle”. He is the first PhD student from Iva’s group in Zagreb to finish his PhD. Bruno, we wish you luck with continuing your…
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,…
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.