Dr Eleni Petsalaki is a Post Doctoral Research Scientist in Dr George Zachos’ lab at the 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 has published 18 publications including Nature Communications, EMBO Journal, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Cell Science and others. Her publications have received more than 600 citations so far. She is currently a member of FEBS, AACR, EACR and the Royal Society of Biology.