Biography:
Dr Eleni Petsalaki is a Post Docroral Research Scientist in Dr George Zachos’ lab at University of Crete, Greece. She completed her PhD in 2014 in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine at the Department of Biology. Her main interest is mitotic cell division and mechanisms that monitor mitotic progression called the mitotic spindle checkpoint and the abscission checkpoint. She is an author of 16 publications including Journal of Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Cell Science and others. Her publications have received >600 citations so far. She is currently a member of FEBS, AACR, EACR and Royal Society of Biology.
Actin polymerization prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis in human cancer cells via a new tension sensitive mechanism
A new tension-sensitive signaling pathway involving polymerization of actin prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis
A new actin- Related mechanism prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis
A novel mechanism promotes actin patch formation to prevent chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis
A novel mechanism that promotes mitotic spindle formation in cancer cells