Stephanie Bannister, Thorsten Brach and Ana Catarina Carrao Ribeiro will take part at the next Science Slam Session on 21 March 2012 at the Metropol. (read more)
News
In a publication currently in press, VIPS postdoc Petronela Weisová and her colleagues from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland described new mechanisms through which neuroprotection against glutamate excitotoxicity can be mediated. (read more)
Bianca M. Mladek, VIPS Postdoc at MFPL since one year, has been awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. (read more)
Robert Prevedel, VIPS Postdoc and member of the Vaziri group, has been awarded a prestigious Marie Curie fellowship. (read more)
Since 2010, 9 VIPS postdocs took up their work at MFPL, another 4 young scientists will join the VIPS program in the next months. (read more)
In a recent paper, VIPS postdoc Angela Hancock and colleagues used genomic data collected in diverse Arabidopsis thaliana lines to identify genetic variants that enabled adaptation to climate. (read more)
October has seen three successful retreats for the PhD and postdocs of MPFL in the countryside around Vienna. The purpose of the events is to network, share ideas, present research and listen to invited speakers, with the evenings set aside for some all-important socializing. (read more)
Thomas Leonard (NIH) and Ivan Yudushkin (UCSF) will be starting their labs in 2012. Thomas Leonard is a structural biologist who will investigate lipid-activated signal transduction. Ivan Yudushkin is a biochemist and cell biologist with a focus on the imaging of signaling networks in live cells.
Each academic year the Campus Vienna Biocenter PhD Awards are given to postgraduate students in acknowledgement of their outstanding PhD theses. The award was inspired by an idea by Renée Schroeder (Max F. Perutz Laboratories) and is supported by all research institutes involved in postgraduate education of the Campus Vienna Biocenter. (read more)
Bacteria frequently experience changes in their environmental conditions. In order to survive they have developed intriguing strategies to alter gene expression. Oliver Vesper and colleagues show that when encountering stress Escherichia coli generates functionally specialized ribosomes by truncating their rRNA. (read more)