We are pleased to announce that Dr Frederic Berger has officially joined the Gregor Mendel Institute as a Senior Group Leader as of September 1, 2014. Dr Berger comes to the GMI from the Temasek Life Science Laboratory in Singapore, where he was a…

Magnus Nordborg, Scientific Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute, was one of more than 130 international population geneticists who signed a "Letter to the Editor" of the New York Times Book Review criticizing a misappropriation of research…

Following a very competitive search, Dr Youssef Belkhadir, formerly head of his own genomic research company (Atlas Genomics) in Morocco and before that a senior research assistant at the Salk Institute, has been recruited as Junior Group Leader at…

On May 20 the Gregor Mendel Institute presents its 2nd "Movie Night at the GMI" for the Viennese public. This outreach event, first held in 2013 as part of EPSO's International Fascination of Plants Day, offers two superb documentaries on plants (by…

On April 4, 2014 the Gregor Mendel Institute presented two stations at the trans-Austria science outreach event, the Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung). Venue for the GMI stations, as well as those of other Austrian Academy of…

Divya Vashisht and Michael Nodine of the Nodine research group at the Gregor Mendel Institute have just published a new review on probable influences of microRNAs on gene regulatory networks in the earliest phases of cellular differentiation in…

Das Gregor Mendel Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie wird am 4. April bei der langen Nacht der Forschung mit zwei spannenden Mitmachstationen für Jung und Alt vertreten sein. Vor Ort sind unsere Wissenschaftler, die neueste Erkenntnisse im…

Former GMI members from the Mittelsten Scheid group describe a new RdDM function which reinforces silencing of transposable elements in shoot apical meristems during early growth. Tuncay Baubec, now at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical…

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The Annual Report 2013 of the Gregor Mendel Institute is now available for downloading!

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