Nikola Ojkic

The paper introduces MEDUSSA, a deep-learning method for precise bacterial cell-size profiling from fluorescent membrane images, revealing significant cell volume variation across strains.

This study shows dynein and EB1 work together to regulate astral microtubule growth and spindle positioning, independent of dynein's classical cortical pulling role.

The paper develops a whole-cell model to show how ribosome and division protein synthesis balance controls bacterial cell size and growth under nutrient and translational perturbations.

The paper develops a roadblock-and-kill model to explain how E. coli responds dynamically to ciprofloxacin, showing that DNA replication blockage, not the SOS response, drives growth inhibition.