At this year’s Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium, recent PhD graduates and current PhD students of the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program were honored for their exceptional doctoral theses. Julia Kober, PhD student in the group of Silvia Ramundo at the Gregor…

Herbicide resistance poses a challenge to producing enough food for a growing population. Sam Caygill and colleagues at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered how a large group of plants, the bryophytes, are…

Frédéric Berger, Senior group leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), has been awarded a standalone grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for his project “New mechanisms for targeting epigenetic silencing”.

In multicellular organisms, transcriptional regulation allows for specialization, such that cells carrying the same genetic code can carry out different functions and roles. In plants, a new unbiased screen allowed researchers in the group of Magnus…

A new study led by Claire McWhite at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and with the collaboration of Silvia Ramundo has established a novel system to identify protein isoforms in plant and human proteomics analyses. These truncated…

To begin sprouting, plant spores divide asymmetrically to give rise to the different plant structures. But how do they set up asymmetry in the first place and distribute their cell contents? In a new manuscript published on July 23rd in Development,…

To avoid exposure to the harsh Mediterranean summer conditions, some seeds delay germination until after the hot and dry days. Using the plant model Aethionema arabicum, Zsuzsanna Mérai in the group of Liam Dolan at the Gregor Mendel Institute of…

During the evening, over 170,000 people visited research institutions all over Austria to learn more about science.

Hans Tuppy, biochemist, science politician, and one of the founding fathers of the Vienna BioCenter, passed away months before his 100th birthday.

“The GMI is one of the best plant research institutes in Europe.” “As a Group Leader, I want to support the people in my group and make sure that they enjoy and have fun doing science”.