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 305 citations so far. She is currently a member of FEBS, AACR, and Royal Society of Biology.