RBI scientists Fran Supek and Dr. Tomislav Šmuc from the Computational biology and informatics group, Division of Electronics have published a research article entitled On Relevance of Codon Usage to Expression of Synthetic and Natural Genes in Escherichia coli in the prestigious journal Genetics, a publication of the Genetics Society of America.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) invites you to attend the night under the stars at the "Ruđer" event, which will be held on Friday, May 14 2010, starting at 6:00 pm, at the RBI, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb. The event is organized within the activities to mark the 60th Anniversary of the RBI.

For the fourth year in a row an Open House at the Ruđer Bošković Institute was held from May 6th to 8th. This years event attracted over 4500 visitors, not only from Zagreb County and Zagreb, but also from all over Croatia and neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Joseph Schlessinger, PhD, member of the RBI International Scientific Board, will receive the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research for elucidating the mechanism of action of receptor tyrosine kinases and their intracellular signaling pathways which led to discovery of new families of cancer drugs for the treatment of renal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

RBI Director General Dr. Danica Ramljak has left today for a three-day forum organized by the World Bank entitled the Knowledge Economy Forum IX - Diversification Through Knowledge. The forum will be held in Berlin from May 5 to 7, 2010. During her stay in Berlin Dr. Ramljak will meet with the president of the Humboldt Foundation Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz and Croatia’s Ambassador to Germany, Dr. Mijo Kovač.

As part of the series of events celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, RBI will open its doors to the citizens of Zagreb and Croatia for the fourth time during the RBI Open House which will be held from May 6th to 8th, 2010.

Director General of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Dr. Danica Ramljak held a working meeting today with Mr. Damir Zec and Mr. Daniel Šimić, representatives of IBM Croatia. At the meeting discussions focused on the possibilities for mutual cooperation in science, education and technology, with special emphasis on a possible partnership between the RBI and IBM in the establishment of a regional research center for biotechnology and nanotechnology, based on the IBM's center in Zürich (Switzerland) and Sofia (Bulgaria).

A symposium on "Ivan Supek - Scientist and Humanist" was held today at the Ruđer Bošković Institute marking the beginning of a series of events celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Institute. The Symposium was opened with remarks by the Director General of the RBI, Danica Ramljak, PhD, Aleksa Bjeliš, PhD, Rector of the University of Zagreb and Academician Milan Moguš, PhD, President of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU). More than seventy guests attended the symposium.

Dr. Danica Ramljak participated in a working meeting with Croatian President Dr. Ivo Josipović at his office on Pantovčak. President Josipović agreed to sponsorship of the 60th Anniversary of RBI and confirmed his attendance at the jubilee celebration.

Director General of the Ruđer Bošković Institute Danica Ramljak, PhD, was a member of Croatian delegation led by Croatia’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on a working visit to the Finnish Research Centre for Nanotechnology Micronova in Helsinki.