Renata Buđa is awarded an EMBO Travel grant to attend The 7th EMBO Meeting 2016 in Mannheim, Germany. Renata will give a talk and a poster presentation entitled “Forces in bridging fibers segregate chromosomes independently of the attachment to the…
Bruno will attend a Gordon Research Conference
Bruno Polak will present a poster entitled “One-to-one association between PRC1-labeled microtubule bundles and kinetochore pairs in metaphase” at The 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Muscle and Molecular Motors in Mount Snow, West Dover, VT.
Workshop “Dynamics of the cytoskeleton”
Tolić Group helped to organize the workshop “Dynamics of the cytoskeleton”. As a part of the INTERBIO project, the workshop will take place from Thursday 14 July to Friday 15 July 2016 at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb, Croatia. Speakers…
EMBO|EMBL Symposium: Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems
Tolić Group attended EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems in Heidelberg, Germany. Kruno Vukušić and Renata Buđa presented a poster entitled “Forces in bridging fibers segregate chromosomes independently of the attachment to the spindle pole”, Ana…
Ana Milas got an EMBO Travel grant
Ana Milas received an EMBO Travel grant to attend the EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems in Heidelberg, Germany. Ana will present a poster entitled “Sliding of microtubules in the bridging fiber segregates chromosomes by creating…
RBI Open Days 2016
Tolić group participated in Ruđer Bošković Institute Open Days 2016. Here is a short preview from our workshop named ‘Secrets of Cell Division’.
Presentation of our new multipoint confocal microscope with a module for laser ablation
Presentation of our new multipoint confocal microscope with a module for laser ablation, which was purchased within the ERC project, was held on March 18th, 2016 at the Ruđer Bošković Institute.
The Croatian Women of Influence Award
The Croatian Women’s Network, a forum for the advancement and empowerment of women has awarded Prof Iva Tolić with The Croatian Women of Influence Award.
First results of the ERC project published
Our first results of the ERC project, which challenge the paradigm of the force balance in the mitotic spindle, are published in Nature Communications under the title: ‘’Overlap microtubules link sister k-fibres and balance the forces on bi-oriented kinetochores’’. More……
New Tolić Group member
Lejla is employed as a postdoctoral fellow on the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project OSCITON. She will study mechanism of the kinetochore oscillations in mitosis.