Anton Goloborodko, Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for his research on homology search in DNA repair. The funded…

An international research group led by MedUni Vienna and IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, has made significant progress in understanding the mechanisms that influence the sensation of pain after surgery. Currently available…

Daniel Krogull and Baptiste Rafanel, PhD students in the labs of Alejandro Burga and Julius Brennecke at IMBA, received DOC Doctoral Fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The funding will support their doctoral research.

Studying the function of proteins is key to understanding cellular processes in health and disease. Scientists have long used genetic methods for this type of research; however, these had several limitations, from the scarcity of cell models to…

The Open Chromosome Collective (Open2C) is an international team of bioinformaticians that collaboratively develop open-source software tools to facilitate data analysis for 3D chromosome biology and genomics. The tools developed by Open2C have led…

During the evening, over 170,000 people visited research institutions all over Austria to learn more about science.

Two Doctoral Network consortiums including the groups of Elly Tanaka and Nicolas Rivron at IMBA have been selected by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Networks 2023 initiative. The two international consortiums will receive funding aimed at…

The axolotl can regenerate fully functional limbs and organs by using positional information encoded in its cells. Elly Tanaka and her group at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) now show that chromatin "stop signals" on genes guide the…

How do cells in an embryo decide which structures to form? During embryonic development, organizing centers orchestrate the development of tissues and organs. Now, Elly Tanaka and her research team at IMBA uncover the molecular mechanisms that guide…

Elly Tanaka, scientific director of IMBA, and Jürgen Knoblich, senior group leader at IMBA, were elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was founded in 1652 and is the oldest…