2023/12/03 Ph.D. Nikolina Stojanović held an invited lecture at the International Conference on Multimodality Therapy of Tumor, 2-5/12/2023, Dalian, China & online Program Overview - Program Overview - International Conference on Multimodality Therapy of Tumor (dlut.edu.cn)

2023/11/10 Doctoral student Marija Lončarić defended the topic of her doctoral dissertation https://mobi.unios.hr/poziv-na-javnu-obranu-teme-doktorskog-rada-naslova-talini-i-kank-proteini-u-integrin-%ce%b1v%ce%b25-posredovanim-fokalnim-i-retikularnim-adhezijama-u-stanicama-melanoma-mda-mb-435s-m/ 

2023/10/23 dr.sc. Andreja Ambriović Ristov gave a lecture at the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, 2023, titled: „Talin2 and KANK2 functionally interact to regulate microtubule dynamics, paclitaxel sensitivity and cell migration in the MDA‑MB‑435S melanoma cell line".Avvisi - Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences - Università degli Studi di Torino (unito.it)

2023/09/20 dr.sc Andreja Ambriović Ristov gave a lecture at the Croatian society for cancer research simposium "Melanom – sinergija znanosti i klinike" titled: "Molekularni mehanizam integrin posredovane otpornosti stanica melanoma na otrove mikrotubula"

2023/09/06 - 2023/09/09 - project manager, Ph.D. Andreja Ambriović Ristov, in collaboration with Ben Goult (United Kingdom) and Vassiliki Kostourou (Greece), organized an international congress focused on cell adhesion research https://adhere1.irb.hr/. Ph.D. Nikolina Stojanović, postdoctoral student, Ph.D. Anja Rac-Justament and PhD student Marija Lončarić were part of the organizing committee and presented current research in the form of posters.

2023/09/18 - 2023/10/30-doctoral student Marija Lončarić was awarded the FEBS Summer Fellowship for conducting short research in the laboratory of prof. Michelle Peckham at the University of Leeds, UK. The aim of the visit was to learn how to work on the STEDYCON super-resolution microscope and to prepare and analyze fluorescently labeled melanoma cell samples.

2023/07/07 dr.sc Andreja Ambriović Ristov gave a lecture at the „Biochemistry and molecular genetics in medicine", Scientific symposium with international participation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (1972-2022) and the 30th anniversary of the Medical Centre for Molecular Biology (1992-2022) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, 2023.

2023/06/19 Doctoral student Marija Lončarić held a short lecture titled "Proteins αVβ5 of focal adhesions in response to chemotherapy treatment with paclitaxel in a melanoma cell line" at the 8th Symposium on Apoptosis and Neoplasms (https://www.info.hazu.hr/events /8-symposium-apoptosis-and-new products/)

2023/06/19 Doctoral student Marija Lončarić held a short lecture titled "Proteins αVβ5 of focal adhesions in response to chemotherapy treatment with paclitaxel in a melanoma cell line" at the 8th Symposium on Apoptosis and Neoplasms (https://www.info.hazu.hr/events/8-simpozij-apoptoza-i-novotvorine/)

Doctoral student Marija Lončarić was awarded "The Voya Kondic Memorial Prize", British Scholarship Trust, for research conducted at the University of Manchester (15.10.2021-15.12.2021, British Scholarship Trust)

Dr. sc. Nikolina Stojanović and PhD student Marija Lončarić participated in the radio show "About Science", HRT. https://radio.hrt.hr/slusaonica/oko-znanosti?epizoda=202305031310

2023/03/29 dr.sc Andreja Ambriović Ristov gave a talk at the Odjelu za prirodoslovlje i matematiku Matice hrvatske titled: „Kako normalne i tumorske stanice komuniciraju s okolišem?"Matica hrvatska - zbivanja - Predavanje Andreje Ambriović Ristov: KAKO NORMALNE I TUMORSKE STANICE KOMUNICIRAJU S OKOLIŠEM?

2023/21.02; 22.02; 28.02.; 01.03. The project manager, Ph.D. Ambriović-Ristov organized the Basic and Advanced Course in Cellular and Molecular Biology, intended for the training of professors at the Medical School in Varaždin. Ph.D. Nikolina Stojanović, Ph.D. Anja Rac Justament and PhD student Marija Lončarić participated in the presentation and performance of the experimental part of the course.

Scientific work Tadijan et al. (2021) doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.786758., whose co-authors are Ph.D. Nikolina Stojanović and PhD student Marija Lončarić, and the main author, Ph.D. Andreja Ambriović Ristov received the Annual Award of the Ruđer Bošković Institute for published scientific work in 2021

2023/02/05 - 2023/02/10 Andreja Ambriović Ristov, Ph.D. and Nikolina Stojanović, Ph.D. participated in the 2023 Fibronectin, Integrins and Related Molecules Conference GRC and presented the results of the group with poster presentations titled 'Talin2 and KANK2 functionally interact to regulate microtubule dynamics, paclitaxel sensitivity and cell migration' and 'Focal and Reticular Adhesion Composition in the Melanoma Cell Lines' MDA-MB-435S and RPMI-7951'

2022/11/24- 2022/11/26 Nikolina Stojanović, Ph.D., Anja Rac Justament, Ph.D. and Marija Tomić, PhD, participated in the 1st Workshop on Mass Spectrometry in Life Sciences (1st Mass Spec Workshop (unizg.hr) )

2022/11/10 - 2022/11/12 at the congress of the Croatian Society for Cancer Research HDIR-6 Anja Rac Justament, Ph.D. gave a short lecture entitled 'Focal and Reticular Adhesions Composition in Melanoma Cell Lines MDA-MB-435S and RPMI -7951', and PhD student Marija Tomić presented her research with a short lecture titled 'TLN2 and KANK2 Are Potential Targets for Enhanced Sensitivity to Paclitaxel Treatment in MDA-MB-435S Cells'

2022/09/28- 2022/10/01 as part of the HDBMB22 Congress 'From Science to Knowledge' (HDBMB 2022 Congress – From Science to Knowledge) Ph.D. Andreja Ambriović Ristov held a lecture entitled 'INTEGRIN ADHESION COMPLEXES IN SENSITIVITY OF TUMOR CELLS TO ANTICANCER DRUGS', while Nikolina Stojanović, Ph.D., Ph.D. Anja Rac and PhD student Marija Tomić presented their results with poster presentations

2022/06/23 defense of Kaatje Coopmans thesis entitled 'The correlation between increased velocity of microtubule growth and increased sensitivity to paclitaxel upon integrin αV or KANK2 knockdown in melanoma cell line MDA-MB-435S reveals a possible mechanism*' Universiteit Hasselt – Uhasselt , Belgium

2022/06/08– 2022/06/11 PhD student Marija Tomić attended the EMBL Symosium: "Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems" in Heidelberg with the poster 'TALINs, KANKs and actin-microtubule crosstalk in integrin αvβ5 focal adhesions in melanoma cell line' MDA-MB-435s'

2021/01 /15- 2021/12/15 PhD student Marija Tomić, through the British Scholarship Trust grant for scientific research at the British University in the academic year 2021/2022 spent 2 months at the Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Matrix Research, Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK in the laboratory of Prof. Martin J. Humphries, to learn the method of isolation of adhesion complexes and their analysis using mass spectrometry.

2021/09/ 21– 2021/09/26 PhD student Marija Tomić attended EMBO Workshop Systems approaches in cancer in Split with the poster 'Adhesome analysis of tongue squamous carcinoma cell line Cal27 and its cell clone with de novo expression of integrin αVβ3: preferential adhesion through integrin α6β4 forming type II hemidesmosome-like adhesions (Tadijan et al. 2021)

2021/05/03 as part of the project, Anja Rac, PhD, was employed as a postdoctoral student

2021/05/01– 2021/06/01 within ODI 2021 (RBI Open Days) PhD student Marija Tomić presented the presentation  ‘ODI2021/ Napredak tehnologije, napredak je i znanosti?’

2021/03/08 defense of Marta Acman's thesis entitled "The role of Kank1 and Kank2 proteins in the sensitivity of melanoma cells RPMI-7951 to paclitaxel"