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Humanitarian Campaign - The Twelfth Terry Fox Run

Sep 23rd 2011

 On Sunday, September 18, 2011, at Jarun in Zagreb, the Twelfth Terry Fox Run will be held, with the goal of raising public awareness and collecting donations for cancer research.

The Largest European Symposium on Marine Biology Held This Year in Rovinj

Sep 13th 2011

The opening ceremonies of the 46th European Marine Biology Symposium, EMBS, the largest symposium of its kind in Europe, were held yesterday in Rovinj and organized by the Center for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI).

Ana Tomašić Paić Awarded First Prize for Poster Presentation

Sep 12th 2011

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“. 

The Croatian Crystallographic Association Has Been Chosen to Host the XXIX European Crystallographic Meeting

Sep 9th 2011

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 Wins the SymBioSE 2011 Prize for the Best Ph.D. Student Presentation

Aug 31st 2011

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). 

Paper by RBI Scientists Published in the American Journal of Pathology

Aug 1st 2011

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.

Strong presence of RBI scientists at WATOC 2011

Jul 27th 2011

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 Wins a CrystEngComm PosterPrize

Jul 13th 2011

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.

Lecture to be Presented by Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto at the Ruđer Bošković Institute

Jul 11th 2011

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.

Lecture: Small Animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Basic and Preclinical Research

Jul 1st 2011

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.