Hing Pan Ng, PhD student in Yan Ma’s lab, was awarded a competitive DOC fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for his research on the molecular mechanisms that gall-inducing insects use to remodel plant cell walls during gall…

Silvia Ramundo’s research on chloroplast stress signaling has earned her the 2025 ASTRA Award from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

25th anniversary of the institute’s founding marked with a lecture by Nobel Laureate Jennifer A. Doudna, held in the packed lecture hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

The Biochemical Society selected Juan Carlos de la Concepción to receive an Early Career Research Award for his research on how plants recognize pathogens and trigger an immune response.

“Group leaders at the GMI supported my application process to become a group leader, advising me on how to improve my proposals and helping me prepare for interviews.”

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and re-inserting into the genome. Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of the duckweed family, uses an understudied epigenetic…

Florian Mattenberger, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Nick Irwin at the GMI, was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Understanding how plants adapt to different environments is crucial for addressing climate change. A new study by the groups of Liam Dolan and Frédéric Berger at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of Molecular Plant Biology links climate data with…

Water-filled vacuoles provide the inner pressure plant cells need for structural support. However, damage to the plant’s cell wall risks vacuole rupture and cell death. The Dagdas group discovered a novel quality control mechanism that protects the…

On February 10, a symposium will focus on new genomic technologies that can be versatile tools for improving crops and livestock. BOKU, in collaboration with the GMI, the ÖAW, and the Gregor Mendel Society Vienna, is organizing this public event.