Fr, 03.06.2022

GMI Celebrates The Long Night of Research

The Future of Biology on View at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Mo, 16.05.2022

GMI scientists inaugurate The Plant Cell’s Mendel celebrations

The journal The Plant Cell joins the celebrations of the 200th birthday anniversary of the “Father of genetics” with a series of reviews and perspective articles on plant genetics. The first two authors in this series, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Frédéric Berger are themselves following in…

Mo, 09.05.2022

Our PhD Candidates and Postdocs are now portrayed on the GMI website

The Gregor Mendel Institute now portrays its Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on the website.

Mo, 21.03.2022

New President for Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) congratulates Heinz Faßmann, recently elected president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Do, 17.03.2022

ERC Consolidator Grant to Yasin Dagdas

Yasin Dagdas, Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute, is awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This funding will allow Dagdas to decipher the role of Autophagy as a rescue mechanism for stalled, membrane-bound ribosomes. Get to know Dagdas and his…

Do, 03.03.2022

Weintraub Award to GMI Alumna Kate Parys

Katarzyna (Kate) Parys, who recently obtained her PhD from the Belkhadir Lab, is a recipient of the highly prestigious 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. We conducted a short interview with Kate to try to find out how the mind of a successful young scientist ticks!

Mi, 02.03.2022

The Gregor Mendel Institute signals solidarity with Ukraine

We back the support program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Ukrainian researchers in Austria and promote an environment of inclusion, mutual respect, and support.

Fr, 11.02.2022

Plant research? Martin Moder asks GMI

Have you always been fascinated by plant research and are curious to know how it all happens? You're not alone! Find it all out with Martin Moder! Waren Sie schon immer von der Pflanzenforschung fasziniert und sind neugierig zu erfahren, wie das alles geschieht? Martin Moder hat…

Fr, 17.12.2021

Meet Silvia Ramundo, new GMI group leader

The cornerstone of the Ramundo lab at GMI was set in October 2021. Dr. Ramundo came to us following a postdoctoral position at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. At GMI, the Ramundo lab will investigate chloroplast biogenesis and protein quality control using the model…

Mi, 24.11.2021

GMI Fellows – 2nd Edition

Following the successful launch of “GMI Fellows”, the second edition now portrays the researchers who obtained their fellowships in 2020. This edition’s GMI Fellows are all postdoctoral researchers in various GMI research groups. These include the Berger, Dagdas, Mittelsten Scheid and Swarts…