• Welcome to the GMI

    JOIN US — We are constantly looking for people with big ideas, who would enjoy and augment the intellectual freedom we provide. If this appeals to you, get in touch — contact any group leader.

    Open Positions
  • Welcome to the GMI

    JOIN US — We are constantly looking for people with big ideas, who would enjoy and augment the intellectual freedom we provide. If this appeals to you, get in touch — contact any group leader.

    Open Positions
  • Welcome to the GMI

    JOIN US — We are constantly looking for people with big ideas, who would enjoy and augment the intellectual freedom we provide. If this appeals to you, get in touch — contact any group leader.

    Open Positions

JOIN US — We are constantly looking for people with big ideas, who would enjoy and augment the intellectual freedom we provide. If this appeals to you, get in touch — contact any group leader.

Open Positions

Our Mission

The GMI is a research institute devoted to plant biology. Plants created our atmosphere and sustain life on earth. Our goal is to make fundamental discoveries that help us understand how plants function — discoveries that may be essential to address global challenges like climate change. Our research ranges from molecules to ecosystems, involving a wide variety of plants — all depending on the question. We study photosynthesis in unicellular alga, and climate adaptation in coniferous trees. We believe in enabling researchers at all levels to pursue big questions in an intellectually stimulating, diverse, and collaborative environment. Key to our success is minimal hierarchy and bureaucracy, outstanding facilities, and core funding.

Microscopy image of an Arabidopsis flower bud. In green, stem cell nuclei. In magenta, a cytoplasmic marker for the epidermal layer. ©Bradamante/Mittelsten Scheid/GMI

About us

The GMI is part of the Vienna BioCenter, a leading life science cluster, comprising several research institutes, universities, and start-up companies, located close to the center of Vienna. The institute is owned and funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Research topics include basic mechanisms of epigenetics, cell biology, plant-pathogen interactions, developmental biology, and population genetics. The GMI provides a lively, international working environment with around 130 people, embedded in a campus with over 1700 people from more than 70 countries. The working language is English. We strive for a friendly, inclusive environment, and provide an on-campus child care center.

Latest Research

New stop along the cellular journey of recycling organelles in plants

A “hub and spoke” system enables plant cells to efficiently coordinate cellular trafficking, particularly for cellular recycling, the…

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When mothers shut down the fathers’ genes in the embryo

In humans, and many other species, both genes inherited from the mother and from the father influence how embryos develop. In the…

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How a harmful fungus renders its host plant defenseless

The fungus Ustilago maydis attacks corn and can cause significant damage to its host. To do this, it first ensures that the plant…

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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…

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FURTHER NEWS

ERC Starting Grant for Kelly Swarts

GMI researcher Kelly Swarts to investigate how to help prepare forests for the changing climate

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Awards of the 2022 Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium

Eight students at the Vienna BioCenter were recognized for their outstanding doctoral research during this year’s Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium.

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GMI's International Internship Program Welcomes Early Career Researchers

Program interns highlight the importance of minimal hierarchy, human connection, and purpose-driven work.

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Happy Birthday, Gregor Mendel

GMI celebrates Gregor Mendel Bicentennial with Lecture by Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse

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GMI Celebrates The Long Night of Research

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

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EVENTS

Dec
07
11:00

Pluripotent stem cells to solve the enigmas of human development and evolution of embryogenesis

Speaker: Maria Rostovskaya
Type: Impromptu Seminar
Location: IMP Lecture Hall
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Dec
09
11:00

Chaperoning protein aggregation diseases

Speaker: Stefan Rüdiger
Type: Max Perutz Labs Impromptu Semi
Location: VBC5 Lecture Hall A+B
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Dec
12
12:30

Monday Seminar (Internal)

Speaker: HUETTER Christiane (Menche), BASSAT Elad (Tanaka), PETRZILEK Jan (Ameres)
Type: Monday Seminar
Location: IMP Lecture Hall
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Dec
13
10:30

Stress and mutation dependencies shaping the tumour microenvironment and Tools for a healthy work-life balance

Speaker: Ruth Scherz-Shouval
Type: Fusion talk – Science & EDI
Location: IMP Lecture Hall
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PUBLICATIONS

Pisupati R, Nizhynska V, Morales AM, et al. (2022) On the Causes of Gene-Body Methylation Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. bioRxiv:2022.12.04.519028.

Schmitz RJ and Mittelsten Scheid O (2022) Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on "epigenetics and gene regulation". Curr Opin Plant Biol 70:102305.

Picchianti L, Sedivy A, Dagdas Y (2022) Characterization of ATG8-Family Interactors by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. Methods Mol Biol 2581:149-76.

Provorov NA, Andronov EE, Kimeklis AK, et al. (2022) Microevolution, speciation and macroevolution in rhizobia: Genomic mechanisms and selective patterns. Front Plant Sci 13:1026943.

Rodríguez BD, Galanti D, Nunn A, et al. (2022) Epigenetic variation in the Lombardy poplar along climatic gradients is independent of genetic structure and persists across clonal reproduction. bioRxiv:2022.11.17.516862.

Stejskal K, Jeff OB, Matzinger M, et al. (2022) Deep Proteome Profiling with Reduced Carryover Using Superficially Porous Microfabricated nanoLC Columns. Anal Chem 94(46):15930-8.

 Latzel V, Fischer M, Groot M, et al. (2022) Parental environmental effects are common and strong, but unpredictable, in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol [epub].

Zess EK, Dagdas Y, Peers E, et al. (2022) Regressive evolution of an effector following a host jump in the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Lineage. PLoS Pathogen 18(10):e10918 preprint bioRxiv:2021.10.04.463104.

Hisanaga T, Wu S, Romani F, et al. (2022) Transposons repressed by H3K27me3 were co-opted as cis-regulatory elements of H3K27me3 controlled protein coding genes during evolution of plants. bioRxiv:2022.10.24.513474.

Zhao J, Bui MT, ..., Dagdas Y (2022) Plant autophagosomes mature into amphisomes prior to their delivery to the central vacuole. J Cell Biol 221(12):e202203139 preprint bioRxiv:2022.02.26.482093.

Galanti D, Ramous-Cruz D, Nunn A, et al. (2022) Genetic and environmental drivers of large-scale epigenetic variation in Thlaspi arvense. PLoS Genet 18(10):e1010452 preprint bioRxiv:2022.03.16.484610.

Matzinger M, Mueller E, Duernberger G, et al. (2022) Robust and easy-to-use one pot workflow for label free single cell proteomics. bioRxiv:2022.10.03.510693.

Streubel S, Deiber S, Roetzer J, et al. (2022) Meristem dormancy in a dichotomous branching system is regulated by a liverwort-specific miRNA and a clade III SPL gene in Marchantia polymorpha. bioRxiv:2022.10.03.510622.

Hüther P, Hagmann J, ..., Becker C (2022) MethylScore, a pipeline for accurate and context-aware identification of differentially methylated regions from population-scale plant whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. Quant Plant Biol [epub].

Xu J, Wang Q, Wang S, et al. (2022) Comparative genomics of Sarcoptes scabiei provide new insights into adaptation to permanent parasitism and within-host species divergence. Transbound Emerg Dis [epub].

McWhite CD, Sae-Lee W, Yuan Y, et al. (2022) Alternative proteoforms and proteoform-dependent assemblies in humans and plants. bioRxiv:2022.09.21.508930.

Casey C, Köcher T, Champion C, et al. (2022) Reduced coenzyme Q synthesis confers non-target site resistance to the herbicide thaxtomin A. bioRxiv:2022.09.13.507736.

Sasaki E, Gunis J, Reichardt-Gomez I, et al. (2022) Conditional GWAS of non-CG transposon methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals major polymorphisms in five genes. PLoS Gene 18(9):e1010345 preprint bioRxiv:2022.02.09.479810.

Zheng R, Stejskal K, Pynn C, et al. (2022) Deep Single-Shot NanoLC-MS Proteome Profiling with a 1500 Bar UHPLC System, Long Fully Porous Columns, and HRAM MS. J Proteome Res 21(10):2545-21.

Mayer RL, Matzinger M, Schmücker A, et al. (2022) Wide Window Acquisition and AI-based data analysis to reach deep proteome coverage for a wide sample range, including single cell proteomic inputs. bioRxiv:2022.09.01.506203.

The GMI is part of the Vienna BioCenter, one of the leading international life science research centers worldwide that has established itself as the premier location for life sciences in Central Europe.

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