Basic Research in Plant Molecular Biology
Research at the GMI is curiosity driven and covers many aspects of modern biology, including epigenetics, population genetics, chromosome biology, developmental biology, signal transduction, and biotrophy. Research is carried out by independent research groups, led either by senior group leaders with renewable contracts, or junior group leaders with temporary (5+3 years) appointments. All groups enjoy substantial core funding, as well as external grants (the Vienna BioCenter success rate with ERC grant applications is over 60%).

Frédéric BERGER
Chromatin Architecture and Function

Liam DOLAN
Development and Evolution of Land Plants

Magnus NORDBORG
Population Genetics

Kelly SWARTS
Tree-ring Genomics

Yasin DAGDAS
Autophagy Mediated Cellular Quality Control Mechanisms in Plants

Arturo MARÍ-ORDÓÑEZ
Mechanisms of Recognition and Silencing of Transposons in Plants

Silvia RAMUNDO
Chloroplast biogenesis and protein quality control
FORMER GMI RESEARCH GROUPS
Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid | Epigenetic Changes in Plants | |
Youssef Belkhadir | Plant Cell Signaling at the Interface of Growth and Defense | |
Michael Nodine | Developmental Genomics | Wageningen University, Netherlands |
Claude Becker | Allelopathy | LMU München, Germany |
Armin Djamei | Effectomics | INRES, Bonn, Germany |
Wolfgang Busch | Root Development | Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA |
Claudia Jonak | Signal Transduction | AIT, Vienna, Austria |
Thomas Greb | Secondary Growth | COS, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
Hisashi Tamaru | Pollen Epigenetics | |
Karel Riha | Genome Stability | CEITEC, Brno, Czech Republic |
Marjori Matzke | PTGS | IPMB, Taipei, Taiwan |
Antonius Matzke | PTGS | IPMB, Taipei, Taiwan |
Dieter Schweizer (Founding Director) | Chromosome biology: Arabidopsis SMCHD proteins | Emeritus o. Univ.-Prof. of the University of Vienna |
Werner Aufsatz | Histone Deacetylation | ÖAMTC, Salzburg, Austria |