Newly identified autophagy receptor in liverworts found to recycle membraneless organelles – and to send Parkinson’s linked alpha-synuclein for degradation in human neurons. This was discovered by plant researchers at the OeAW in a new study.

Duckweed grows fast and is easy to cultivate, but until now has been difficult to modify genetically. A new, reproducible transformation toolkit for these plants opens the door to the wider use of duckweed in basic research and biotechnology.

Group leader Frédéric Berger, at the GMI of the ÖAW, joins special research area (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) “Meiosis” in the second funding round from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

With sadness, we announce the passing of Dr. Hisashi Tamaru, former junior group leader at the GMI.

Researchers identify a new key protein involved in removing damaged proteins in plants. This could help make plants more resilient in the face of climate change.

Magnus Nordborg of the Gregor Mendel Institute of the ÖAW has been awarded an FWF Principal Investigator International Projects Grant for the project “Genetic and epigenetic determinants of transposon dynamics”. Together with Leandro Quadrana (IPS2,…

Researchers at the Protein Technology Hub of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria (IMBA), Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), and Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) at the Vienna BioCenter have developed a new cross-linking mass…

At the Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium, outstanding PhD students were acknowledged for their scientific contributions by receiving the Vienna BioCenter PhD Award. Among this year’s recipients is Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández from the Dagdas lab…

Scientists at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have discovered a new piece in the puzzle of how plants keep epigenetic information stable across generations. Their findings, published in Nature Plants, show that a…

Magnus Nordborg from the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, together with Richard Durbin and Felipe Teixeira from the University of Cambridge, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. …