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Vanja Cavrak and other members of the Mittelsten Scheid group at the GMI have discovered how a transposon applies a “wolf in sheep´s clothing” strategy to gain an advantage over its plant host. Transposons are among the most reduced or simplified…

Michael Nodine, junior group leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute, has received funding (value approx. €200,000) from a graduate program in RNA biology to finance a new PhD position in his group for 3 years.

The DK (DoktoratsKolleg) RNA Biology is…

Michael Nodine, junior group leader at the GMI, in collaboration with four other research groups in the European Plant Embryology Consortium, has been awarded an ERA CAPS grant (€316,000 for his group) for a proposal studying early embryogenesis in…

In a just published Nature Genetics paper, Wolfgang Busch and his research group at the Gregor Mendel Institute use genome-wide association studies on cellular traits to identify and characterize a new regulator of root development in Arabidopsis.

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Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Wolfgang Busch have been awarded a joint grant in the WWTF Life Sciences "New Ventures Beyond Established Frontiers" program for their proposal "Quantitative Live Imaging to Determine the Regulatory Impact of Chromatin…

The Gregor Mendel Institute`s new state-of-the-art High Performance Computing Cluster MENDEL was officially launched today.

This highly-scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster is the Institute`s answer to the enormous and exponentially…

Dr Armin Djamei, new junior group leader at the GMI since Sept 2013, has received a 1.5M Euro ERC Starting Grant for his research into biotrophic pathogens in plants.

Dr Djamei (37) was awarded an ERC Starting Grant of up to 1.5M Euro for his…

Newly published in Plant Cell, this paper from the Mittelsten Scheid Lab examines the role of the chromatin remodeling complex SWR1, which deposits histone H2A.Z. Multiple independent mutants affecting SWR1 complex subunits accumulate DNA damage, and…