On July 24, the GMI and IMBA welcomed 120 curious young minds for an all-day KinderUni Day! The day began with an interactive lecture: “Superpower Diversity: Why being different makes you strong.” Liam Dolan, GMI Scientific Director, and Barbara Kraus, IMBA Managing Director, opened the program.

👀 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

Join the 9th Austrian CRYO-EM Symposium at Vienna BioCenter on September 24-25! Register before Sep. 1st (Abstract deadline is Aug. 5th!): www.imp.ac.at/research/cry...

Forschende der #univie haben einen zentralen Mechanismus entdeckt, der es #Seeanemonen ermöglicht, aus ungeordneten Zellhaufen wieder einen vollständig aufgebauten #Organismus zu bilden. 🧫🔬 Die Studie wurde in @natcomms.nature.com veröffentlicht. 🧪 Mehr dazu im Presseportal: ⤵️

Wie Zellen von Seeanemonen wieder einen Organismus bilden

Neue Einblicke in die Selbstorganisation und Regeneration von Geweben

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HEAS Seed Grants - HEAS

Our HEAS Seed Grant initiative offers up to €5,000 to support interdisciplinary pilot projects that promote the HEAS network. We want to keep it simple and unbureaucratic. All HEAS PhDs, Postdocs, and...

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Wonderful to see so many @mblscience.bsky.social Woods Hole Zebrafish Course friends here in Vienna for #EZM2026 - from student alumni, current & former faculty to TAs. As @cohouart.bsky.social put it, a truly cross-generational 'historical' picture (and a few were even missing in the pic....).

One frame. Many voices. 🙌 Theresia Brennecke's journey reflects how science thrives through different perspectives, backgrounds, and approaches, aiming for new ideas and discoveries 💡

Following the success of “Perturb 2026: High-Content CRISPR Screening”, we’re proud to announce the second edition of the conference to take place from 17th to 18th of March 2027. This time, we’re heading Stateside to one of the busiest cities on the planet: New York City! 🔗 www.perturb2027.bio

19 exceptional students from 13 countries are midway through their Vienna Biocenter summer! Our 2026 Fellows and Talents for Future students are making discoveries across five institutes. Another exciting month ahead. 🧬✨ Meet them: https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/alumni/ #VBCSummerSchool

🆕 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

The podcast "The World of Microbes" takes you on a journey into the tiny, unseen worlds that shape our planet. 🎧🔍 This episode with Angela Sessitsch explores the hidden world of soil and plant-associated microbiomes and their importance for plant health, nutrient cycling, and stress tolerance. ⤵️

Die Welt der Mikroben - The World of Microbes: Die Welt der Mikroben - Episode E3 - The power of plant microbiomes with Angela Sessitsch

This episode with Angela Sessitsch, Member of the Board of Directors, explores the hidden world of soil and plant-associated microbiomes and their importance for plant health, nutrient cycling, and st...

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Two Vienna Biocenter researchers have received ERC Advanced Grants! Congratulations to Jürgen Knoblich, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and Tecumseh Fitch, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna Read more: lnkd.in/daGhjrft @imbavienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @erc.europa.eu

CoE Key Researcher Dagmar Wöbken in Heute! @dagmarwoebken.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social und ihr Team untersucht die Mikrobiome von Wüsten-Bodenkrusten. @fwf-at.bsky.social #AustrianMicrobiomeDay 📄https://www.heute.at/s/wiener-forscher-lueften-das-geheimnis-der-wuesten-haut-120212104

📅 Deadline is approaching! The International Birnstiel Award is accepting nominations until 30 June, don’t miss the chance to recognise outstanding talent in molecular life sciences. Submit your nomination here 👉 https://www.imp.ac.at/achievements/birnstiel-award

🎉 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

Fascinating opening lecture by Frédéric Berger @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social on how chromatin regulators cooperate to maintain transcriptional silencing in Arabidopsis and beyond! #EpiPlant

European PhD programmes are fully funded — you're an employee with a real salary ✅ Fully funded — you're an employee ✅ International labs, English-speaking ✅ Career training built in ✅ Cities you'll love Symposium Sept 10 → doctoralinsights.at #DocInsights #PhD

Sie besiedeln unseren Darm, treiben die Stoffkreisläufe der Erde an und breiten sich überraschend schnell über den ganzen Globus aus. Der Mikrobiologe Martin Polz @polzlab.bsky.social erforscht die unsichtbare Welt der Mikroorganismen & entdeckt dabei, was sie über unsere Gesundheit verraten. 🦠🔬🎧

Podcast: Die Macht der Mikroben

Sie besiedeln unseren Darm, treiben die Stoffkreisläufe der Erde an und breiten sich überraschend schnell über den ganzen Globus aus. Der Mikrobiologe Martin Polz erforscht die unsichtbare Welt der Mi...

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We’re live at the Single-Cell & Spatial Day in Basel! Sumit has just presented our VISTA technology platform, highlighting how we can perform single-cell CRISPR screening in primary human macrophages and dendritic cells to enable unbiased drug target discovery.

The Austrian Life Science Day 2026 has come to a close. This year’s focus was on clinical evidence in the development of pharmaceuticals and medical devices - read our brief review here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

CoE Director of Research @michiwagner4.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at zu Gast im DerStandard Podcast “Inside Science”! Er spricht über die Erde als Planet der Mikroben und über die Rolle der Mikrobiome für Umwelt und Klima. www.derstandard.at/story/300000... @fwf-at.bsky.social

Danke an David Rennert & Tanja Traxler von @derstandard.at für die Einladung und die spannenden Fragen! @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social ' Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn ihr reinhört. #MicroSky 🧪

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CoE Director of Research @michiwagner4.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at zu Gast im DerStandard Podcast “Inside Science”! Er spricht über die Erde als Planet der Mikroben und über die Rolle der Mikrobiome für Umwelt und Klima. www.derstandard.at/story/300000... @fwf-at.bsky.social

🔎 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

Women in research have long been overlooked. Now women lead labs at the GMI & IMBA, advancing science and inspiring the next generation. See the @oeaw.bsky.social exhibition 'Discovering Women Researchers' in the GMI/IMBA foyer until 30 June. More: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

The labs of Julius Brennecke and Clemens Plaschka reveal a molecular decision point that determines whether RNA molecules are exported for use or targeted for destruction. Now published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The recording from this talk is now available on the #HEASVienna YouTube channel.

HEAS Seminar - Luc Doyon

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We are looking forward to welcoming @lucdoyon.bsky.social to #HEASVienna next week for a #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. More information and registration on our website 👇🔗 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Registration for the 2026 Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium is now open! Students who want to present a poster can submit an abstract. For first year Master’s students, there are limited travel grants. 📝 Register here: tally.so/r/449zoo ⏳ Deadline: 04.10.2026 📅 Date of the symposium: 04–06.11.2026

Vienna Biocenter PhD Symposium 2026

A trail of twists and turns: Non-linear paths to discovery

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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

Until 30 June 2026, the exhibition Discovering Women Researchers will be on display in the foyer in front of the IMBA/GMI lecture hall. The exhibition highlights the stories, achievements, and lasting impact of women researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences:

🚀 Doctoral Insights 2026 is HERE. Spotlighting Europe's best fully funded PhD programs in life sciences all summer. Free online Symposium: Sept 10 → doctoralinsights.at Follow along 👇 #DocInsights #LifeSciences #PhD