Big news! Group leader Sascha Martens has been awarded a prestigious @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant for the collaborative project DegrAbility to explore how cells can better recycle harmful protein aggregates linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s ➡️ tinyurl.com/2zuz9jcf @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Center for Pathobiochemistry & Genetics🧬, @meduniwien.ac.at – Seminar Alert📢: Chris Campbell @maxperutzlabs.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will present his team’s work on adaptive mechanisms behind aneuploidogenic stress. 11/11/11am, Merck Auditorium, Währinger Straße 10, Vienna. Please join us!

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct

❕Master's thesis opportunity! 🧠 The Hallacli lab is looking for a motivated new lab member to explore a key question in Parkinson's disease: How does alpha-synuclein regulate RNA turnover and Processing bodies? ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc336bb7

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu

Really excited to see this out in the open: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/1/...! @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social explored and compared different in vitro developmental model systems to study ciliogenesis.

🙌 Congrats, @phancanhtrinh.bsky.social! Trinh defended his thesis “Antifungal multidrug resistance and virulence of Candida auris” and earned his hat! 🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

🆕 publication! When it comes to genetic exchange, precision is key! 🧬 In a new @narjournal.bsky.social study, the Jantsch-Plunger lab reveals an unexpected role for the Bloom helicase HIM-6 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3uxxxxpy @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

RNA biology is a major research focus at the Perutz - and the new @fwf-at.bsky.social grants strengthen it even further 🙌 Elif Karagöz and Pavel Kovarik will investigate how RNA-binding proteins regulate cellular stress and immune responses ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3f3mu8 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Together we go further! 💪 This weekend, our Perutz runners laced up once again for the Cancer Research Run by the @meduniwien.ac.at - showing their support on-site and from afar. Some ran all the way from Hong Kong, others up the Krummbachstein in Lower Austria 🏃 #krebsforschungslauf

🔎 New #sciencejob ahead: The Slade lab is searching for a part-time technician with great organizational and communication skills to support their research ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3h8s5f

Paper alert! 📢 How do cells strike the perfect balance during meiosis? ⚖️ A new study from the Matos lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com uncovers how Holliday junctions and the synaptonemal complex safeguard crossovers ➡️ tinyurl.com/2k4mmpzu @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Edvinas Stankunas from the Köhler lab successfully defended his PhD thesis "Docking a flexible basket onto the core of the nuclear pore complex" - congratulations! 🎉🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at #phdone

Great having you here at the Perutz and the Vienna BioCenter! Thanks for stopping by - we hope you enjoyed the visit as much as we did 🌟

Explore projects in Stem Cells, development + more in our Autumn PhD call which is OPEN! 20+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. 👉 www.vbcphd.at Apply by 10 Oct 2025

Opportunity for skilled hands and sharp minds - at any career stage! 💪 The Köhler Lab is seeking a full-time lab technician to support their research on nuclear envelope biology, chromatin regulation, and cellular stress resilience - apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfy3w2h

Welcome to the Perutz, Anne! 👋

Congrats, Nuria! It was a pleasure having you here 👏

🎓 Congrats to Daria Filipczak (Foisner lab), who defended her thesis titled "Mechanistic insight into the role of LAP2alpha and nucleoplasmic A-type lamins in chromatin regulation"! 🤩🎉 #phdone @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

We said goodbye to our VBC Summer School 2025 student who gained hands-on experience in our lab. Her enthusiasm and curiosity brought us much joy and energy. Excited to see what comes next - hope we can welcome her back to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social and the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social

Congrats to all scientists! 👏 The @versteegga.bsky.social lab has long collaborated with the Clausen lab, and this new study once again highlights the collaborative spirit of the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social ⤵️

Excited to share my talk at the EMBL John Kendrew Award ceremony about what transposons taught me about science, life, and change along the way. Big thanks to my mentors, the @embl.org Alumni community, and my current scientific home @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social 💛 youtu.be/NwIikKS7EWE?...

🎉 Shout-out to postdoc Ingrid Frohner from the Ogris lab, who received the Award for Scientific Excellence for her flash talk "Molecular mechanism of the anti-cancer drug DT-061" at the @embo.org Workshop on Phosphatases! 👏🧪 @meduniwien.ac.at @univie.ac.at

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 September 11th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social 's Lab , Stephanie Ellis ( @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social ) give the IJM Seminar "Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition. " ➡️ buff.ly/V6LaKMz

Preprint by the Jinek and Martinez labs with 1st author Moritz Pfleiderer " Structural framework for the assembly of the human tRNA ligase complex" @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social buff.ly/9rwwEP4 @martinjinek.bsky.social @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social

❕The @leeboratory.bsky.social seeks a new Master's student! Your 🫵 project will involve stem cell culture, genome engineering as well as molecular biology. It aims at elucidating the genetic circuitries that regulate cell fate decisions in the early mammalian embryo ➡️ tinyurl.com/4awtk2n3

Congrats to group leader @irmaquerques.bsky.social on receiving the EMBL's John Kendrew Award! 🎉 From left to right: Irma's former advisor Christoph Müller, Irma, and Pavel Tomancak, Chair of the EMBL Alumni Association. (c) @embl.org

👀 Exciting Master’s project opportunity in the Hallacli lab! Join the team investigating how toxic protein aggregates - especially alpha-synuclein (α-syn) - drive Parkinson’s disease progression 🧠 More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/yrnjbzex

Celebrating seven researchers from four different entities at Vienna BioCenter, who recently received prestigious FWF Grants! Read more about their work: www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/s... @impvienna.bsky.social @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Does that limit our story’s impact? Not at all. In fact, Erinc Hallacli @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social showed that EDC4 directly interacts with α-synuclein — a key Parkinson’s disease protein: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New publication! A tiny switch with big consequences: PhD student Trinh Phan-Canh reveals in Cell Reports that Candida auris shifts between White and Brown phenotypes – a change that impacts both drug resistance and virulence ➡️ tinyurl.com/6f2nm268

🚀Great work led by @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social in the Martens lab @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social shows a new mechanism for #mitophagy initiation, revealing unexpected flexibility in the assembly& activation of the #autophagy machinery👇 Check it out 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Out now! Autophagy keeps cells healthy - and when it goes wrong, diseases like Parkinson’s can emerge. @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social (Martens lab) in @natureportfolio.nature.com Cell Biology challenge the conventional hierarchy of autophagy factors ➡️ tinyurl.com/y33nrtn2

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

Two Advanced ERC Grants were awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers: Congratulations to Dagmar Woebken (CeMESS) and Alwin Köhler (Max Perutz Labs Vienna) on this achievement! @cemess.bsky.social @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social Read more: www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/t...

🔬 Big boost for bold ideas! Four group leaders have secured over €1.9 million in @fwf-at.bsky.social funding. Congratulations to Erinc Hallacli, @huis.bsky.social, @martinleeb.bsky.social, and Joao Matos! ➡️ tinyurl.com/2paphtc6 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Congrats to everyone! A special shout out to Maria Garcia Gallardo who will be supported by he @oeaw.bsky.social DOC fellowship to study how enhancers regulate transcriptional bursting!

I couldn’t be prouder of my team! Kavya and Sebastian both won DOC fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Congratulations to all awardees!

The DOC-torate dream team! 🎓 Seven Perutz PhD students just secured @oeaw.bsky.social DOC Fellowships - the most we've ever had in one year! Huge Congrats! 🎉➡️ tinyurl.com/29nvtf7j @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Hear, what John Reinhard from the Köhler lab shares about being a postdoc at the Perutz! ⤵️

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/3yn883b8

🌞 A warm welcome to our summer school students! We're excited to have eight bright young scientists joining us at the Perutz for the next few weeks – diving into research, discovery, and lab life. Here's to a summer full of science and inspiration! @vbcscitraining.bsky.social

Read an interesting interview with Perutz group leader @jonasries.bsky.social about quantum research in the University magazine Rudolphina (in German) 👀⤵️

Exciting and rare opportunity to join the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social and the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social as a Full Professor! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🆕 publication! Cells don’t just fight infection - they fine-tune their immune response. A new study from the Versteeg lab in @narjournal.bsky.social led by Adrian Söderholm uncovers how RNA processing of JAK2 helps regulate immune signals ➡️ tinyurl.com/2py27c8u @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Great news from @ursulaschoeberl.bsky.social and her previous lab before joining the Perutz! 🙌

🎉 Impressions from our 20th birthday - from thought-provoking Perutz Lectures and a visionary keynote to a spirited panel discussion, a beatboxing flutist, and celebrations that carried late into the night ➡️ www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/20years #MaxPerutzLabs20Years @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Ein weiterer @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant geht an Alwin Köhler, Leiter der @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social, dem Joint Venture von Universität Wien und der @meduniwien.ac.at. Herzliche Gratulation! 🎉🥳

👏 Alwin Köhler, group leader and scientific director, has received an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant! His project will explore how nuclear pore complexes remodel nuclear membranes to form functional channels ➡️ tinyurl.com/3wcvexc9 #ERCAdG @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

👏 Meet the 2025 Max Perutz PhD fellows: Magdalena Otto (Leonard lab) and Daniel Velikov (Matos lab)! Their research dives deep into how cells handle stress and reproduction - tackling big questions in signaling and meiosis 🔎 Congratulations! ➡️ tinyurl.com/yav79e6c @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at