Samuele Maturi, PhD student in Sofia Grade’s lab, was awarded a competitive fellowship by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds for his research on brain regeneration following traumatic injury.

Molecular motors package and rearrange the DNA so that the long and tangled strands are safely divided into the daughter cells. A new study describes the rulebook that defines how molecular motors work together. The study, carried out by Anton…

To advance his study of “genomic archaeology” in the axolotl, Diego Rodriguez-Terrones, postdoc in the lab of Elly Tanaka at IMBA, has received a grant by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

Brain organoids, three-dimensional models of the brain, are a boon to neuroscience, making it possible to study the development, evolution and disease of the brain in a model that is based on human stem cells. Now, a consensus paper published in…

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honors Elly Tanaka, IMBA's Scientific Director, with the Schleiden Medal for her groundbreaking insights in the field of regenerative biology.

Daniel Gerlich, Senior Group Leader at IMBA, receives this year’s Erwin Schrödinger Award, one of the highest awards by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Daniel Gerlich is honored for his transformative contributions to the field of cell biology,…

The axolotl is a powerful model for understanding regeneration, however, studying the axolotl’s nervous system has been challenging as tools for visualizing and manipulating neuronal circuits have been lacking. In a study published in PNAS, Katharina…

For the first time, scientists have visualized a retrotransposon, a “jumping gene” , inside the cell of a complex organism. Advanced cryo-Electron Tomography allowed this feat at sub-nanometer resolution. The study, published in Cell today, reveals…

Developmental biologist Kristina Stapornwongkul, currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Barcelona, will join IMBA as group leader in autumn of 2025. The Stapornwongkul lab will study how the nutritional environment and metabolic processes…

Sara Wighard and Oguzhan Kaya postdoctoral researchers at IMBA in the labs of Alejandro Burga and Jürgen Knoblich, respectively, were awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships.