Each year the VBC PhD award ceremony is a highlight after the closing lecture of the VBC PhD Symposium. This year’s happy awardees are Krzysztof Chylinski and Bettina Wurzer from MFPL as well as Dominik Handler and Grzegorz Sienski from IMBA.

The 13th International PhD - Symposium of the Vienna Biocenter (VBC) elucidates the diverse aspects of communication. The event takes place at the Vienna Biocenter on November 5th - 6th 2015.

Once again the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a competitive research grant to the Viennese Top - scientist Jürgen Knoblich. The aim of the ERC Proof of Concept is to explore the commercial potential of cerebral organoids, small…

This year’s “Kirsten Peter Rabitsch” Award was presented to Grzegorz Sienski, a former Vienna Biocenter (VBC) PhD student in the Brennecke lab at IMBA. His work focuses on the silencing of genomic intruders.

Eukaryotes use diverse ways to identify and silence transposable elements (TEs), while commonly using small RNAs. In the ciliate Tetrahymena, it has long been thought that the identification of TEs occurs through small RNA-mediated comparison of the…

IMBA researchers identify a new enzyme – called “Tailor” – that regulates the production of small silencing RNAs in flies, thereby custom tailoring post-transcriptional gene regulation.

In a recently published review, group leader Fumiyo Ikeda from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) reports about new insights on linear ubiquitination.

Monday, June 8, 2015 at IMBA

The news was spread today: Javier Martinez, scientist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), was selected as a new member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Scattered throughout the genomes of plants, fungi, and animals are stretches of DNA called transposable elements, which can translocate from one genomic place to another. As these “jumping genes” often cause deleterious mutations, different genome…