Dr. Darko Orešković of the Laboratory for Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology, Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, and Prof. Dr. Marijan Klarica of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, published a review article entitled "Development of hydrocephalus and classical hypothesis of cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics: facts and illusions" in the distinguished journal Progress in Neurobiology (IF=9.14), which is among the top 5% of journals in the field of neuroscience. 

The Ruđer Bošković Institute invites you to attend a lecture by Prof. Diethard Tautz, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, entitled "The House Mouse as a Model System for Evolutionary Research", to be held on July 1, 2011, in the Auditorium of Wing III, starting at 1 p.m.

Dr. Jasminka Popović, a scientific associate, and Martina Vrankić, a scientific assistant, of the Laboratory for Thin Films, Division of Materials Physics, Ruđer Bošković Institute, received poster prizes at the 44th course of the International School of Crystallography: The Power of Powder Diffraction.

One of the first FP7 projects of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the CLUNA (CLUstering phenomeNA in nuclear physics) Project, currently on the brink of completion, has been recognized by the European Commission for quality research and successful implementation of the project tasks. The CLUNA Project is being conducted in the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics and the Laboratory for Ionic Beam Interactons of the Division of Experimental Physics.

RBI organic chemists Dr. Zoran Džolić and Prof. Dr. Mladen Žinić of the Laboratory for Supramolecular and Nucleoside Chemistry, in collaboration with Spanish colleagues from the Department of Chemical Physics, University of Vigo, have published an article in the world's leading journal of general chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (IF 11.829).

On Sunday, May 29, in Dubrovnik, opening ceremonies were held for the international symposium From Ruđer Bošković to Today: Contribution of Croatian Scientists to the World Scientific Heritage, under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Jadranka Kosor, to be held from May 29 to June 2. Those assembled at the opening ceremonies were greeted by Dr. Danica Ramljak, Director General of the Ruđer Boković Institute; the Mayor of Dubrovnik, Andro Vlahušić; and the Minister of Science, Dr. Radovan Fuchs. The Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Luka Bebić, opened the symposium.

 On Monday, May 30, the 1984 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Carlo Rubbia, will deliver a lecture in Dubrovnik on his latest research concerning the existence of sterile neutrinos, which could change the concept of the balance of matter that exists in the universe.

A workshop will be held on Free Radicals in Chemical and Biology at the Ruđer Bošković Institute from June 14 to 17, 2011, within the framework of the program of European Cooperation in Science and Technology – COST. The workshop, at which scientists from 47 research groups and 22 countries will present the latest results, is being organized by a group of researchers from the Laboratory for Radiation Chemistry and Dosimetry

We cordially invite you to attend a lecture by Profesor Nenad Šestan of Yale University (USA) entitled "What Makes Us Human? Molecular Evolution and Development of Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex".

At the EMRS Spring Meeting held in Nice from 9th to 13th May and organized by the European Materials Research Society, phD student Marko Karlušić from the Division of Experimental Physics received a Young scientist award for his presentation: Angle dependent threshold for swift heavy ion track formation in SrTiO3.