News & Updates

Our PhD student Petra Maleš was awarded the prestigious fellowship "For women in science" (L'Oreal-UNESCO). Follow this link to read more:  https://www.irb.hr/eng/News/Petra-Males-Receives-Prestigious-For-Women-in-Science-Fellowship

The project proposal titled "The influence of nanoparticles on the properties and arrangement of lipid bilayers: A first step in understanding the targeted delivery of theranostic vehicles" was chosen to receive joint Croatian-French funding within the bilateral project scheme. The project leaders are Dr Danijela Bakarić and Prof Marc Lamy de la Chapelle (University Le Mans, Le Mans, France).

Dr Danijela Bakarić was approved for funding of the project proposal within the programme GD-2023 (call ID GD1-25). The project is titled "Turbidimetric determination of giant unilamellar vesicle morphology in solutions of different tonicities".

As a part of the DOK-NPOO-2023-10 call from the Croatian Science Foundation, Dr Danijeli Bakarić recieved funding to employ a new PhD student, Vedrana Krajnović, mag. appl. chem. Welcome to the group!

On 20.12.2024., Dr Dražen Petrov traveled to RBI to attend a meeting for the Austrian-Croatian bilateral project "Changes in asymmetry of lipid bilayers due to the adsorption of hydrophobic cationic peptides" (OeAD-MZOM). The meeting included the discussions on the research completed so far and the plans for continuation.

As a part of the German-Croatian bilateral project "Myelin protein impact on membrane phase state, morphology and structure" (DAAD-MZO), PhD student Matilde Accorsi from the Max Planck Institute in Potsdam, Germany visited RBI and presented her research in a lecture titled rane phase state, morphology and structure" doktorandica Matilde Accorsi posjetila je IRB i prezentirala svoja istraživanja na kolokviju naslova "Reconciling past and future research: a study on calcium as

As a part of the Austrian-Croatian bilateral project "Changes in asymmetry of lipid bilayers due to the adsorption of hydrophobic cationic peptides" (OeAD-MZO), PhD students Petra Maleš and Lea Pašalić visited BOKU University (Vienna, Austria). During their one-week stay, they performed measurements of the interactions of hydrophobic cationic peptides by isothermal titration calorimetry and interferometry.

As a part of the German-Croatian bilateral project "The impact of myelin basic protein on the phase state, morphology and membrane structure" (DAAD-MZO), PhD student Tsu-Wang Sun visited RBI and presented his research in a lecture titled "Localized Dynamics in Membranes with Photoswitchable Lipid". Lecture abstract: Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) serve as cell-sized model systems extensively studied to mimic the behavior of natural cell membranes and synthetic cells. The l

As a part of the German-Croatian bilateral project "The impact of myelin basic protein on the phase state, morphology and membrane structure" (DAAD-MZO), PhD student Lea Pašalić spent three weeks at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany. She worked on the preparation and confocal microscopy of giant unilamellar liposomes interacting with peptides.

As a part of the German-Croatian bilateral project "The impact of myelin basic protein on the phase state, morphology and membrane structure" (DAAD-MZO), PhD student Petra Maleš spent three weeks at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany. She worked on confocal microscopy of model myelin membranes.

PhD students Tea Kuvek and Nadine Grundschober from the Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria visited LEB as a part of the Austrian-Croatian bilateral project "Changes in the asymmetry of lipid bilayers due to the adsorption of hydrophobic cationic peptides". Tea Kuvek held a lecture titled "Exploring Molecular Dynamics Simulations". Lecture abstract: Molecular interactions are responsible for the properties and functions of systems

On 20.8.2024., Dr Rumiana Dimova visited RBI to meet with Dr Bakarić as a part of the German-Croatian bilateral project "The impact of myelin basic protein on the phase state, morphology and membrane structure" (DAAD-MZO). Dr Dimova also held a lecture titled "Membrane remodeling in artificial cells: When a membrane meets a drop". Lecture abstract: Cell membranes exhibit a large variation in curvature. While it is commonly perceived that this curvature is primarily driven by

PhD student Petra Maleš won the MOBDOK-2023 scholarship from the Croatian Science Foundation for a three-month research stay at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria. From April to July 2024, she was working on the structural analysis techniques for the characterization of model myelin membranes, under the supervision of Prof Georg Pabst.

On Tuesday May 28th 2024, PhD student Lea Pašalić held a lecture titled: 'The preparation of asymmetric lipid membranes and their characterization with fluorescence spectroscopy'. She presented the results of her research work at J. Heyrovsky Institute for Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czechia.