Fri, 07.02.2014

Annual Report 2013 available for download

 

 

The Annual Report 2013 of the Gregor Mendel Institute is now available for downloading!

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A high-resolution version is also available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 31.01.2014

New mechanism of transposon activation discovered in plants

 

 

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 parasites that a host organism can…

 

Thu, 16.01.2014

Michael Nodine receives funding for RNA biology PhD position

 

 

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 a focused doctoral program in Vienna…

 

Mon, 13.01.2014

Michael Nodine awarded ERA-CAPS grant for plant embryology project

 

 

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 Arabidopsis. The Nodine group will address…

 

Mon, 11.11.2013

New root development regulator identified by Wolfgang Busch

 

 

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.

With the increased availability of…

 

Wed, 06.11.2013

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 Dynamics."

The Mittelsten Scheid-Busch…

 

Tue, 15.10.2013

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 increasing quantities of data scientific…

 

Mon, 02.09.2013

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 project "Effectomics - eludicidating the toolbox…

 

Fri, 28.06.2013

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 have impaired somatic homologous…

 

Tue, 28.05.2013

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 Djamei Group will begin at the Gregor Mendel…