WWTF grant for Mittelsten Scheid and Busch

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…

MENDEL High Performance Computing Cluster launched

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…

Armin Djamei wins ERC Starting Grant

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…

Role of chromatin remodeling complex SWR1 in meiosis and DNA repair

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…

Armin Djamei - new Junior Group Leader

Following a very competitive search, Dr. Armin Djamei, currently a Project Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, has been recruited as Junior Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute.

The…

Magnus Nordborg elected Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dr Magnus Nordborg, Scientific Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology in Vienna, was elected a Corresponding Member of the Mathematics-Natural Sciences Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

This prestigious…