Are you interested in the mechanisms of mRNA regulation in the early embryo and are looking for a great lab to start your PhD? Then check out this amazing opportunity with my outgoing postdoc @lorenzoorts.bsky.social who will start her own lab - I can highly recommend to apply!

Wonderful news, and big congratulations to my dear friend, colleague, and brilliant scientist @obenaufa.bsky.social for winning this major Award! Super happy for you!

Congratulations Lucy Shapiro @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Congratulations to these brilliant young scientists for winning the Birnstiel Award 2025 for their discoveries during their PhDs! A big round of applause also for all runners-up & nominees, and thank you to all institutions who nominated their very best PhD students for this international award!

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

🌍🧬 This summer, the Vienna BioCenter Summer School hosted talented, young scientists from around the world for 9 weeks. @viennabiocenter.bsky.social

Such a beautiful dissection of the individual contributions and overall function of these highly conserved miRNAs! Fantastic to see this out. Huge congratulations to @lcochella.bsky.social and the entire team - I still remember the early days of this project!

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest in vivo crosslinking workflow using a dual enrichment strategy: Over 5000 crosslinks and 56 novel PPls- Huge thanks to the amazing team: Philipp Bräuer, Laszlo Tirian, Fränze Müller, Karl Mechtler at the Vienna BioCenter who made this possible! doi.org/10.1038/s420...

A big welcome for @svenklumpe.bsky.social to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social

A huge round of applause and big congrats to all of you for leading the way in training the next generation of #zebrafish researchers around the world at the @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole!

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint! Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge congrats to Clemens Plaschka, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @nvastenhouw.bsky.social, @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social and all newly elected @embo.org members!

Big congratulations to all the newly elected @embo.org Members! A special shoutout to @impvienna.bsky.social #ClemensPlaschka for this well-deserved recognition. Your contributions to life sciences continue to inspire and I count myself lucky to work with you!

The fascinating work spearheaded by Kirsten Senti on the diversification and adaptation of endogenous retroviruses in the host gonad 'ecosystem'' is officially published.

At least for science in the #oocyte community, the future looks bright with so many curious & young minds thinking about big open questions in oocyte and reproductive biology! Thanks so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together in Paris!

Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Great to connect with this wonderful scientific community - a wide range of scientific questions united by a model organism perfect to study many fascinating biological phenomena! 🐠 Happy to be part of it! #NOTHO25 #killifish

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!” #TransparentPeerReview Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Big congratulations to our postdoc Victoria @vdeneke.bsky.social for winning this year's Chi-Bin Chien Award from the International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social, which honors not only scientific excellence but also a Victoria's fabulous skills in mentoring & scientific outreach. Big congrats!

🎉Congratulations to IMP postdoc @vdeneke.bsky.social, from the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who received the International Zebrafish Society’s Chi-Bin Chien Award for her scientific and personal contributions to the zebrafish research field. ➡️Read more: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

Researchers in Science have developed a tool to silence specific mitochondria-encoded mRNAs in living cells, which could help scientists understand the origins of certain mitochondria-related diseases. scim.ag/3F6Wm5d

Hi 🦋 I’m thrilled to share that our #bat #organoid work has found a publishing home in Nature Immunology! These models provided unprecedented insight into antiviral immunity at epithelial surfaces of the Egyptian fruit bat 🦇 — a natural reservoir of Marburg virus 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring! Join the BioOptics team as a Data Scientist in Image Analysis and contribute to the team’s mission of providing microscopy applications, flow cytometry, and image analysis services. Link below. #europe #research #lifesciences

For all zebrafish folks - seems like there is finally a good/better zebrafish annotation! Check it out - and thanks to Shawn and his team for putting this together!

The 2nd edition of the @embo.org workshop 'RNA meets Protein Decay', this time here in Vienna @impvienna.bsky.social, came to an end. Thanks to everyone who came and contributed to the great vibe of sharing science, discussing ideas and connecting with each other!

Hugely significant finding for contact site research - can’t wait to read properly! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cup? Platter? Stained glass? Our imaginations were inspired (even during uncertain times!) by these beautiful molecular complexes: the Erlin and prohibitin complexes implicated in quality control at the ER and mitochondria, respectively. Check them out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Become our neighbor!! Check out this amazing opportunity @imbavienna.bsky.social - top-notch research environment with fantastic facilities, and all of that in a thriving international environment in beautiful Vienna!

A big round of 👏👏👏 to our postdoc @idajentoft.bsky.social for being awarded a @hfspo.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship for her research on #killifish #diapause in our lab! Welcome to the fantastic #HFSP community, Ida!

Really happy to have been awarded an @hfspo.bsky.social fellowship for my postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social ! I’m excited to join the HFSP community and for all the opportunities this fellowship brings! 🐠

We are seeking a new colleague to join us at the Vienna BioCenter, specifically at my beloved home institution, IMBA @imbavienna.bsky.social we value collegiality and a passion for curiosity driven science. Being a great and fun human being also helps!

Last days to get your registration and abstracts submitted for the @embo.org meeting on "RNA meetings Protein Decay" in Vienna (11-14 May 2025). Deadline to register and submit abstracts is April 1st!

If you want to listen to our fertilization story in Spanish for a change, here is your chance: Log-in to @vdeneke.bsky.social's online seminar next week!

Big congratulations to two really smart, kind & visionary young developmental biologists - Alex Schauer & Krista Gert - on securing prestigious @embo.org fellowships for their postdoctoral studies @mpi-cbg.de! A very special shout-out to our @pauligroup.bsky.social alumnus Krista!

One week left to register and submit abstracts for being considered for talks at our upcoming #EMBO Meeting "RNA Meets Protein Degradation" in Vienna! Check out the program with a fantastic line-up of speakers, including keynotes by Rachel Green and Manu Hedge. meetings.embo.org/event/25-rna...

I'm super happy that our story is now published! 📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... But what changed compared to the original preprint? Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.

And now for something slightly different…. I am thrilled that @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social PhD project is out on BiorXiv. I usually focus on chromatin, but Isa was brave enough to take on a very different project: centrioles and cilia in mouse embryonic development! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to announce that I am looking for a Research Technician/Assistant to join my lab @imbavienna.bsky.social. Please consider applying if you’re enthusiastic about #devbio #stemcells #teamwork and excited to help shaping a new lab! Thankful for any retweet! 🫶 imba.onlyfy.jobs/job/l6u2m980

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

In the ‘90s, Pelisson et al. found that gypsy retrotransposons in flies can go viral—literally—thanks to an envelope gene. Now, @mayavoichek.bsky.social uncovers a wild new path to retrotransposon infectivity. A fascinating story—see Maya's thread www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642691v2

Are you interested in supporting top-notch research in a collaborative research environment @impvienna.bsky.social in beautiful Vienna, Austria? Then this job might be interesting for you - we are looking for a Scientific Grant Writer! Please check out the ad for more details and how to apply.

A big shout-out for @dianapinheiro.bsky.social being featured as Woman in Science! A well-deserved honor for a fantastic scientist and inspiring mentor, and on top of that an amazing colleague and person. Super happy to have you as my office-neighbor and friend @impvienna.bsky.social!

Switching fields and/or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2025 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! (New & final) Application deadline: March 28 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Retrotransposon-derived capsids in the Dros. ovary revealed by CryoET! Amazing PhD work by @svenklumpe.bsky.social (still MPI Biochemistry) in collab with @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social lab - congrats to all authors! Really looking forward to exciting times with Sven @viennabiocenter.bsky.social!

The deadline to apply for the 2025 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course has been extended to March 28! This two-week course is intended for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent investigators. Read more: bit.ly/4kiht3X #ScienceStartsHere

Big congratulations to Anais @aelewaut.bsky.social from Anna @obenaufa.bsky.social lab for this well-deserved award! I remember the beginning of your project in its early days of your PhD from your TAC meetings - amazing where you have taken it since!

Congrats Gui from @dianapinheiro.bsky.social's lab for being awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship! Excited to support on the medaka and hybrids part, and really excited to find out what you will discover!