Twice the labs, twice the cake: A shared PhD journey at the Vienna BioCenter

In September 2025, a joint publication from the Brennecke lab at IMBA and the Plaschka lab at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) revealed how PIWI proteins protect animal genomes from transposons. Júlia Portell i de Montserrat, a…

When Curiosity Clicks: How a Seminar Talk Sparked a Breakthrough in Transposon Biology

IMBA Group Leader Julius Brennecke and new joint Group Leader Sven Klumpe reflect on how a chance seminar sparked an unexpected collaboration that led to the first structural snapshot of a retrotransposon inside a living cell. This breakthrough…

Believe in the process: Perseverance and Collaboration lead to major discovery

Heidar Heidari Khoei, Dhanur P. Iyer, Nicolas Rivron and Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu tell us about their recent discovery: a pause button for human development. Find out more about how this collaboration began, the challenges they faced and the human…

A physicist surrounded by molecular biologists

Anton Goloborodko, Junior Group Leader at IMBA, discusses what being a computational biologist is like, how he mentors his students, and how his unique research profile leads to interesting collaboration opportunities.