Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Zagreb, 2002

Current position

Senior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden

Publications (since 2005)

1. Coelho, M., Dereli, A., Haese, A., Kuhn, S., Malinovska, L., Desantis, M. E., Shorter, J., Alberti, S., Gross, T. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2013). Fission Yeast Does Not Age under Favorable Conditions, but Does So after Stress. Curr Biol 23(19): 1844-1852.
   
2. Ananthanarayanan, V., Schattat, M., Vogel, S. K., Krull, A., Pavin, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2013). Dynein motion switches from diffusive to directed upon cortical anchoring. Cell 153(7): 1526-1536.
   
3. Kalinina, I., Nandi, A., Delivani, P., Chacon, M. R., Klemm, A. H., Ramunno-Johnson, D., Krull, A., Lindner, B., Pavin, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2013). Pivoting of microtubules around the spindle pole accelerates kinetochore capture. Nat Cell Biol 15(1): 82-87.
   
4. Coelho, M., Maghelli, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2013). Single-molecule imaging in vivo: the dancing building blocks of the cell. Integr Biol (Camb) 5(5): 748-758.
   
5. Goudarzi, M., Banisch, T. U., Mobin, M. B., Maghelli, N., Tarbashevich, K., Strate, I., van den Berg, J., Blaser, H., Bandemer, S., Paluch, E., Bakkers, J., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. and Raz, E. (2012). Identification and regulation of a molecular module for bleb-based cell motility. Dev Cell 23(1): 210-218.
   
6. Gregan, J., Polakova, S., Zhang, L., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. and Cimini, D. (2011). Merotelic kinetochore attachment: causes and effects. Trends Cell Biol 21(6): 374-381.
   
7. Maghelli, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2011). Laser ablation of the microtubule cytoskeleton: setting up and working with an ablation system. Methods Mol Biol 777: 261-271.
   
8. Coelho, M. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2011). Refreshed but vulnerable: yeast daughter cells are more sensitive to stress than young mothers. Cell Cycle 10(1): 16-17.
   
9. Stiess, M., Maghelli, N., Kapitein, L. C., Gomis-Ruth, S., Wilsch-Brauninger, M., Hoogenraad, C. C., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. and Bradke, F. (2010). Axon extension occurs independently of centrosomal microtubule nucleation. Science 327(5966): 704-707.
   
10. Rumpf, C., Cipak, L., Schleiffer, A., Pidoux, A., Mechtler, K., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. and Gregan, J. (2010). Laser microsurgery provides evidence for merotelic kinetochore attachments in fission yeast cells lacking Pcs1 or Clr4. Cell Cycle 9(19): 3997-4004.
    
11. Maghelli, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2010). Optical trapping and laser ablation of microtubules in fission yeast. Methods Cell Biol 97: 173-183.
12. Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2010). Force and length regulation in the microtubule cytoskeleton: lessons from fission yeast. Curr Opin Cell Biol 22(1): 21-28.
    
13. Kalinina, I. M., Krstic, V. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2010). Cell polarity: which way to grow in an electric field? Curr Biol 20(8): R355-356.
    
14. Vogel, S., Pavin, N., Maghelli, N., Jülicher, F. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. (2009). Microtubules and motor proteins: Mechanically regulated self-organization in vivo. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 178(1): 57-69.
    
15. Vogel, S. K., Pavin, N., Maghelli, N., Julicher, F. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2009). Self-organization of dynein motors generates meiotic nuclear oscillations. PLoS Biol 7(4): e1000087.
    
16. Baumgartner, S. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2009). Growth pattern of single fission yeast cells is bilinear and depends on temperature and DNA synthesis. Biophys J 96(10): 4336-4347.
    
17. Raabe, I., Vogel, S. K., Peychl, J. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2009). Intracellular nanosurgery and cell enucleation using a picosecond laser. J Microsc 234(1): 1-8.
    
18. Kruger, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2008). Association of mitochondria with spindle poles facilitates spindle alignment. Curr Biol 18(15): R646-R647.
    
19. Maghelli, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2008). Versatile laser-based cell manipulator. J Biophotonics 1(4): 299-309.
    
20. Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2008). Push-me-pull-you: how microtubules organize the cell interior. Eur Biophys J 37(7): 1271-1278.
    
21. Vogel, S. K., Raabe, I., Dereli, A., Maghelli, N. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. (2007). Interphase microtubules determine the initial alignment of the mitotic spindle. Curr Biol 17(5): 438-444.
    
22. Howard, J. and Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. (2007). Bundling, sliding, and pulling microtubules in cells and in silico. HFSP J 1(1): 11-14.
    
23. Hansen, P. M., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Flyvbjerg, H. and Berg-Sorensen, K. (2006). tweezercalib 2.1: Faster version of MatLab package for precise calibration of optical tweezers. Computer physics communications 175(8): 572-573.
    
24. Galimberti, M., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Favillini, R., Mercatelli, R., Annunziato, F., Cosmi, L., Liotta, F., Santarlasci, V., Maggi, E. and Pavone, F. S. (2006). Hypergravity speeds up the development of T-lymphocyte motility. Eur Biophys J 35(5): 393-400.
    
25. Sacconi, L., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., D'Amico, M., Vanzi, F., Olivotto, M., Antolini, R. and Pavone, F. S. (2006). Cell imaging and manipulation by nonlinear optical microscopy. Cell Biochem Biophys 45(3): 289-302.
    
26. Hansen, P. M., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Flyvbjerg, H. and Berg-Sorensen, K. (2006). tweezercalib 2.0: Faster version of MatLab package for precise calibration of optical tweezers. Computer physics communications 174(6): 518-520.
    
27. Munteanu, E.-L., Olsen, A. L., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Flyvbjerg, H., Oddershede, L. and Berg-Sorensen, K. (2006). Quantitative studies of subdiffusion in living cells and actin networks. Biophysical Reviews and Letters 1(04): 411-421.
    
28. Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Sacconi, L., Stringari, C., Raabe, I. and Pavone, F. S. (2005). Nuclear and division-plane positioning revealed by optical micromanipulation. Curr Biol 15(13): 1212-1216.
    
29. Sacconi, L., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Stringari, C., Antolini, R. and Pavone, F. S. (2005). Optical micromanipulations inside yeast cells. Appl Opt 44(11): 2001-2007.
    
30. Sacconi, L., Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M., Antolini, R. and Pavone, F. S. (2005). Combined intracellular three-dimensional imaging and selective nanosurgery by a nonlinear microscope. J Biomed Opt 10(1): 14002.
    
31. Tolic-Norrelykke, I. M. and Wang, N. (2005). Traction in smooth muscle cells varies with cell spreading. J Biomech 38(7): 1405-1412.