🎓 Congratulations, Eleni Angelopoulou (Ellis lab), on defending your PhD work titled "Cellular and molecular dynamics of the phenotypic progression and resolution in Incontinentia pigmenti"! Well done! 🙌🎉 @meduniwien.ac.at @univie.ac.at #phdone
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The Max Perutz Labs are a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, dedicated to a mechanistic understanding of fundamental biomedical processes.
👀 Keep cutting-edge RNA research running behind the scenes! The @sebastianfalk.bsky.social lab is looking for a Research Technician/Lab Manager to support research on the molecular machines that process RNA using structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics ➡️ tinyurl.com/nrjj6bvt
🎉 Three Perutz PhD students have been awarded prestigious DOC Fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! Congratulations to Carla Simon (Slade lab), Leon Schmidt (Hein lab), and Moritz Becker (Leeb lab) ➡️ tinyurl.com/322yj7t3
🙌 Philipp Galuska (Djinovic lab) defended his thesis titled “From Dynamic Z-Bodies to Ordered Z-Discs: Molecular Mechanisms of Early Myofibrillogenesis” - congratulations! 🎉 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at
🔬 Looking for a Master's project in developmental biology? Join the Ellis lab to investigate how tissues grow, compete, and maintain themselves in one of two exciting projects focused on tissue mechanics or aneuploidy ➡️ tinyurl.com/3cz6p9v4
🚨 The @gekaragoz.bsky.social lab uncovers in @genesdev.bsky.social how the RNA-binding protein IGF2BP3 helps cells cope with stress by fine-tuning unfolded protein response, revealing a layer of regulation that determines if cells adapt or fail➡️ tinyurl.com/3fxhxznz @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at
🎓Congratulations, Luis Miguel Cerrón Alván from the Leeb lab on successfully defending his thesis "Molecular control of formative pluripotency and the emergence of early lineage competence" - well done! 🙌🥳
We're hiring! 💻 Join the Max Perutz Labs as a 1st Level IT Supporter to help keep our research running by providing hands-on support for hardware, software, and network issues ➡️ tinyurl.com/572s2suw
One frame. Many voices. 🙌 Theresia Brennecke's journey reflects how science thrives through different perspectives, backgrounds, and approaches, aiming for new ideas and discoveries 💡
🧠 How do mutations in a single gene alter the developing human brain? With new support from the @fwf-at.bsky.social, Perutz group leader Dea Slade will use stem cell and organoid models to uncover how disease-associated changes in PHF3 disrupt neuronal development ➡️ tinyurl.com/282mj2s8
👏 Congrats to Felix Haslhofer (Bücker lab), this year’s Max Perutz PhD Fellow! 💡 His project combines synthetic genomics, high-throughput screening, and deep learning to uncover how enhancers communicate with genes across large genomic distances ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvtf637y
☀️ A warm welcome to this year’s summer school students! Over the next two months, they will work on their own research projects across our labs, gaining new insights and becoming part of the Perutz community 🙌 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at @vbcscitraining.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Alois Schweighofer on receiving the @univie.ac.at Teaching Award for the Max Perutz Labs! Recognized for his outstanding commitment to teaching and student engagement, Alois creates a learning environment where students are encouraged to try out their ideas 🙌
Cellular assembly and functional resilience of the mammalian RNA exosome @ameressl.bsky.social and collaborators @maxperutzlabs.ac.at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cellular assembly and functional resilience of the mammalian RNA exosome - The EMBO Journal
Most eukaryotic proteins assemble into multisubunit complexes that coordinate essential cellular functions, yet the principles governing their assembly and proteostatic control remain largely undefine...
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🆕 publication! How do cells build their molecular machines? Tsimafei Navalayeu (Ameres lab) in @embojournal.org maps the stepwise assembly of the RNA exosome in mammalian cells, revealing the quality control mechanisms that ensure this essential complex is built correctly ➡️ tinyurl.com/84c2298e
🍝✨ Yesterday’s Max Perutz Day brought the institute together for an Itameshi-inspired summer night full of great food, conversations, and community spirit. A perfect evening to celebrate science – and the people behind it 🙌🤩🎉 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at
🎉 Congratulations to Émeline Laborie on receiving an E-STEEM Fellowship from the @univie.ac.at! Starting in September in the Dammermann lab, she will use computational biophysics to uncover how centrosomes and microtubules self-organize the spindle apparatus ➡ tinyurl.com/3nxfu4tm
🔎 New #sciencejob opportunity: The Monoclonal Antibody Facility at the Perutz is looking for a motivated research technician to join the team and contribute to the development and production of monoclonal antibodies ➡️ tinyurl.com/mw398bzd
Paper alert! 📢 A surprising new role for the nuclear pore complex: a study from the Matos lab in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social reveals how nuclear architecture helps control crossover formation during meiosis ➡️ tinyurl.com/36jhw4ry
@berndbauer.bsky.social (Martens lab) defended his PhD work "Signed, Sealed, Delivered; I'm Yours Autophagosome: Mechanistic insights into the initiation of aggrephagy" 🎉🎓 - congratulations, well deserved! 💪 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at
You can read the study in @natcomms.nature.com here: go.nature.com/49JUOKt 🧪🧬
Distinct and overlapping roles of MutLγ, Mus81-Mms4, and STR in meiotic Holliday junction processing - Nature Communications
Meiotic crossovers ensure accurate chromosome segregation and promote genetic diversity. Here, the authors uncover a key role for Top3-Rmi1 in preserving crossover-precursor architecture and delineate...
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna@maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 2mo ago🆕 publication! 🧬 How are genetic traits reshuffled from one generation to the next? In a new @natureportfolio.nature.com Communications study, Lucija Orlić from the Matos lab reveals how DNA repair enzymes work together during meiotic crossing-over ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7zvjhnh
🆕 publication! 🧬 How are genetic traits reshuffled from one generation to the next? In a new @natureportfolio.nature.com Communications study, Lucija Orlić from the Matos lab reveals how DNA repair enzymes work together during meiotic crossing-over ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7zvjhnh
One frame. Many voices. 💪 Ursula Schöberl (Ameres lab) studied Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna. Since joining the Ameres lab in 2024, she has been exploring miRNA biogenesis – bringing the same endurance and persistence to science that she sees in sports 🏃♀️
A day full of science and exchange: it was a pleasure to welcome students from @w-u-r.bsky.social to the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social and the Max Perutz Labs! 🙌 From campus and lab tours to scientific talks, facility visits, the visit created many opportunities for discussion and new connections 💡
🍻 Science belongs everywhere – even in the pub! Pint of Science is a science festival bringing researchers into the pubs next door: Tonight, Perutz PI Tom Leonard connected Max Perutz, Artemis II, and kinase research in his talk, while AITHYRA PI Jason Nomburg shared his fascination for viruses 🦠
Congrats to all authors, well deserved! 👏
Sascha Martens@martenslab.bsky.social · 3mo agoA new preprint from the lab showing how Atg1 regulates the BLTP Atg2. This study was spearheaded by Sonja Achleitner and Susanna Tulli, involving a fantastic collaboration with @ainaraclaveras.bsky.social and Gerhard Hummer. @maxperutzlabs.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @maxplanck.bsky.social
🎉 New @fwf-at.bsky.social funding for Bojan Žagrović: his project will investigate whether frameshift mutations – long considered harmful – can still produce functional proteins, combining AI-based structure prediction with computational and experimental approaches ➡️ tinyurl.com/2a5s9yaa
🎉 Congratulations to postdoc @pallavideolal.bsky.social (Ries lab) on receiving the WISSEN Award from the Embassy of India at India Science Day, hosted by the @tuwien.at! 🇮🇳🇦🇹 #SuccessStory 🔬✨ @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at
One frame. Many voices. 📢 From Vienna to Yale and Göttingen – and now back in Vienna – Sarah Schweighofer (Ries lab) has built her path in molecular biology and super-resolution microscopy, driven by a fascination for making the invisible visible🔬
