First Official Visit to RBI by US Ambassador Foley
On the invitation of Dr. Danica Ramljak, US ambassador James B. Foley made his first official visit to the Ruđer Bošković Institute.
RBI delegation visits IBM research laboratory in Zurich
Mr. Krešo Perica, director of IBM, Croatia and Mr.Damir Zec, leader of service sales have organized a one day visit by RBI director, Dr. Danica Ramljak and Dr. Marin Roje, assistant director of finance, to IBM’s research laboratory in Zurich. The delegation was hosted by Dr. Paul Seidler, leader of the Department of Science and Technology. During the visit the RBI delegation will tour the cleanroom facilities and hold a series of meetings on the subject of future collaborations and the possibility of building such a centre in Croatia.
A new hypothesis on the physiology of cerebrospinal fluid
RBI scientist Dr. Darko Orešković from the laboratory of neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology in the Department of Molecular Biology and Dr. Marijan Klarica from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb have published an article in the prestigious journal Brain Research Reviews (IF 7.39) entitled, “The formation of cerebrospinal fluid: nearly a hundred years of interpretations and misinterpretations”. The journal is one of the top 8% of journals in the field of neuroscience.
Sponges: a simple organism with a complex genome
RBI scientists Matija Harcet, Helena Ćetković and Drago Perina from the Laboratory for Molecular Genetics in collaboration with Kristijan Vlahoviček and Maša Roller (PMF, University of Zagreb and Prof. Werner Muller and Matthias Weins from the University of Mainz have published an article entitled “Demosponge EST sequencing reveals a complex genetic toolkit of the simplest metazoans” in the prestigious journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
The John Innes/Ruđer Bošković Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology
The third in a series of summer schools in applied molecular microbiology entitled Microbial Metabolites: Signals to Drugs will be held on August 21-29, 2010 at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik.
Dr. Sonja Levanat Honored
At a meeting of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), held last week in Oslo, Dr. Sonja Levanat from the Department of Molecular Medicine was elected to honorary membership in the EACR.
RBI Scientists Visit the President of the Republic of Croatia
Croatia's president Dr. Ivo Josipović hosted a delegation of representatives involved in the project "Civitas, scientists and media against violence" and expressed his support for their activities. Scientists Dr. Mariastefania Antica, Dr. Hrvoje Fulgosi and Dr. Đurđica Ugarković lead the RBI initiative in this project.
Work of RBI Scientists Among the most Important Achievements in the Field of Chemometrics
A review article highlighting the most important achievements in chemometrics for the years 2008 and 2009 has been published in the journal Analytical Chemistry (Anal.Chem. 2010, 82, 4699-4711). The work of Dr. Ivica Kopriva (LAIR) and Dr. Ivanka Jerić (ZOKB) on the isolation of pure components from a small number of mixtures (Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 44(9) 1378-1388) was selected as one of the important achievements in 2009.
RBI Scientists Published Article in PLoS Genetics
RBI scientists Fran Supek, Nives Skunca, Jelena Repar and Dr. Tomislav Šmuc have published an extensive computational study entitled "Translational selection is ubiquitous in prokaryotes" in the prestigious journal PLoS Genetics (IF=9.5). The study describes how natural selection acts to improve speed and accuracy of protein translation, as evidenced in biased codon usage in prokaryotic genomes.
Dr. Boro Dropulic Lecture at RBI
Dr. Boro Dropulić will hold a lecture entitled The Translation of Scientific Ideas into Business Opportunities at RBI on 2.7.2010 at 14:00 in the lecture hall in Wing III. This lecture is sponsored by the American Embassy in Zagreb in collaboration with RBI.