Ana Tomašić Paić, Ph.D., a research assistant at the Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, Department of Molecular Biology, was awarded first prize for a poster presentation entitled “CYP38 auxiliary enzyme in Arabidopsis thaliana is involved in State II transitions” at the international conference „Plant Organellar Signaling - From Algae to Higher Plants“. 

On August 25 at the XXII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, held this year in Madrid, Croatia was chosen to host the XXIX European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM29). 

Nina Marn, B.S., a research assistant at the Laboratory for Informatics and Environmental Modeling, Division of Marine and Environmental Research, won the first prize in the category of "Best Ph.D. Student Presentation" at the international symposium SymBioSE 2011, held from July 27 to August 6 in Basel, Switzerland. In her presentation, entitled "Differences That Distinguish Us and Similarities That Bring Us Closer. Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory – What Do Bacteria and Humans Have in Common?” she gave an overview of the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB). 

The American Journal of Pathology (IF: 5.22), the leading journal in pathology research, published a paper by RBI scientists Dr. Ivica Kopriva (ZLAIR), Dr. Mirka Hadžija, Dr. Marijana Popović-Hadžija, Dr. Marina Korolija (ZMM) and Dr. Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan), entitled  "Rational Variety Mapping for Contrast-Enhanced Nonlinear Unsupervised Segmentation of Multispectral Images of Unstained Specimen". One of the results of the study was published on the front page of the journal.

The Ninth Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2011) was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from July 17-22, 2011. To go with a total record attendance in excess of 1300 participants, the size and success of the RBI delegation also reached new heights.

Dr. Vjekoslav Štrukil, senior assistant at the Laboratory for Physico-Organic Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, won a CrystEngComm Poster Prize for a poster presentation entitled "Mechanochemical Synthesis of Zinc and Cadmium Metal-Organic Frameworks – The Story of Dimensionality and Solid-State Reactivity", at the XX International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State, held from June 26 to 30, 2011, in Bangalore, India.

Sir Harold Kroto, a recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, will deliver a lecture at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) as part of the Ruđer Josip Bošković Lecture Series. The lecture, entitled Carbon in Nano and Outer Space, will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 15, 2011, in the Auditorium of Wing III of the RBI.

Dr. Stefanie D. Krämer, head of the Pharmacology Division of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), will deliver a lecture at the Ruđer Bošković Institute on July 5, 2011, starting at 12 noon, entitled Small Animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Basic and Preclinical Research.

On July 7 and 8, 2011, the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) is organizing an event for young researchers entitled Three Types of Scientific Meetings. During the two days of meetings, 150 young researchers will present the results of their investigations in biology, molecular medicine, physics, chemistry, nanosciences, environment and oceanology through popular scientific lectures and posters.

he 300,000th paper has recently been published in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography, CROSBI. This valuable information service allows scientists to enter data on their published works that can then be used for various purposes. It also displays the current bibliography of a scientist on his personal website and provides an always up-to-date bibliography of works from a given research project or institution. It was launched in 1997, with the support of what was then the Ministry of Science and Technology.