Our work on the role of Ufmylation on ribosome quality control on the ER is out! Great work of two terrific first authors Milica and @alessandrick.bsky.social together with our wonderful collaborators, the one and only Dagdas lab @plantophagy.bsky.social!

The BioOptics facility will expand their team with a Junior Imaging Scientist with a background in Biological Sciences, who is enthusiastic about applying cutting-edge light microscopy for imaging-based research 🔬 Join a collaborative service team at the Perutz today! ➡️ tinyurl.com/5n7m2dyw

New preprint from our lab... We applied our hopping technology to relocate CTCF binding sites to thousands of alternative positions in the Sox2 locus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Eliminating the confounding effects of human pluripotent #stemcell co-culture with MEFs: @grazianomartello.bsky.social @leeboratory.bsky.social @jzylicz.bsky.social and collaborators describe a serum coating approach for feeder-free culture of naïve hPSCs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I had a wonderful visit to Montpelier! Beautiful city, fantastic science! Thanks you @laghalab.bsky.social for the invitation.

Congratulations, @yinanwan.bsky.social !

Welcome to the campus!

The Programmable Genomics Lab at @umasschan.bsky.social just officially launched our site! We have a "simple" goal: to develop synthetic regulatory elements that target every cell type in every tissue, and control payload dosage/duration Check it out! programmable-genomics.github.io

One frame. Many voices. ✨ This International Women’s Day, our Women in Science series features group leader Christa Bücker 🙌 Today, @chribue.bsky.social shares an important perspective on finding role models and becoming one for the next generation 👩‍🔬 @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Today I was asked to talk at a mentoring event for people preparing an application for the ERC. Of course I spend some time on how I prepared for the successful application. However most of the time I spend on the times when it did not work out, grant was rejected.

*New pre-print* I’m delighted to share the second story from my PhD 🥳 We identify 29 severe COVID-19-associated human genetic risk variants that modulate enhancer activity in lung epithelial cells 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 25+ fully-funded positions in the Spring Call which is now open. Check the vacancies in this call: www.vbcphd.at Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, IMP, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

New colleague at the Perutz! Welcome, Danny!

We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team! Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬 Then please apply! #optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs Please RT. Thank you!🙏

Congratulations, Elphege and everyone involved! This will definitely lead to some good discussions!

Final registration reminder for SY-Stem 2026. The deadline is on Monday, February 16.

The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪 www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek

Congratulations to Dr Feng! Songjie is the genome whisperer who is simply amazing when it comes to editing the genome! And one of the nicest person to have around!

Activator-promoter compatibility in mammals - Hcfc1 is a key and intrinsically CGI-promoter-specific co-activator that cannot activate non-CGI promoters. Lead by @nemcko.bsky.social & Kevin Sabath in collab. with @plaschkalab.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/2)

This is such a beautiful piece of work, Filip! Congratulation on the preprint!

Join @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social, @moffittlab.bsky.social, @saramostafavi.bsky.social, me and all speakers for the 2026 CSHL meeting Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression, March 11-14. Abstract deadline January 9! More infos and registration at meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Intrigued by a long-standing conundrum in small RNA biology—how nuclear Argonaute proteins silence transposons when they *need* target transcription for their own recruitment—we studied the piRNA pathway. And found a hidden RNA-decay axis from Piwi to the RNA exosome.

Now that I am off for Christmas, I started my first book for the holidays: Katabasis. And every other page has a few memorable phrases about academia to ponder...

🔬 Love science and keeping a lab running smoothly? Join the @leeboratory.bsky.social as a lab manager/research technician and help uncover how cells choose and maintain their identity 🧫 More information ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7a8he88

Two outstanding group leaders to watch!

This looks fantastic! Congratulations to everyone involved!

So deserved! Congratulations, @plaschkalab.bsky.social

I get it, 90% of students writing to enquire about a research possibility will use ChatGPT. But at least don't end it with Sincerely, [Your Name] I am just so over these emails that say do little, are so generic and just try to flatter me.

I made an entry in my calendar labelled "Meeting on" I have a slight recollection that it was important and I blocked three hours for it. But I have no idea who I will be talking to, whatever this is about.

The Vienna BioCenter Out of the Box Award celebrates collaboration & creative thinking. This year 2 teams received the annual stipend, as both stood out for their creativity, collaboration & potential. Learn more: lnkd.in/dz3iBU2E @maxperutzlabs.ac.at @imbavienna.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

This is probably my favorite paper of 2025. Beautiful work by @elphegenoralab.bsky.social and @karissalhansen.bsky.social that should be on the top of the reading list for everyone with even a slight interest in gene expression!

Want to analyze the role of endogenous retroviruses in early human development or investigate their regulation in pluripotency and early development for your PhD? Join the lab of @fueyoraquel.bsky.social via the IMPRS-BAC #gradschool! 👉 www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...

Never got to say goodbye! Well, you just have to come back then.

Engineered chromatin readers track damaged chromatin dynamics in live cells and animals ->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

It was cold and wet, but nevertheless the lab retreat to Budapest was a success!

We are excited to participate this year again in the VBC summer school! If you want to work with me and my amazing student Maria, apply!

Congratulations again, Clemens!

I teach quite a bit, but today was my favourite yearly teaching event: a seminar with @clemensplaschka.bsky.social and @ursulaschoeberl.bsky.social on initiation of transcription, either from a single-molecule or a structural perspective. So much fun and so many insights!

Congratulations, @alex-stark.bsky.social and @miketilapia.bsky.social ! Loved hearing everything during the @cshasia.bsky.social

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

Congratulations, Dr Weykopf! Great achievement andbibambvertain it was a fantastic defense!

Apply!

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Congratulations to Irene Schwartz, winner of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award! 🧠👏 Her research reveals how cells fine-tune immune balance through protein degradation 🏆 More ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r9c7a5f @univie.ac.at @meduniwien.ac.at

Congratulations, Wendy!

So excited to be funded by @erc.europa.eu to work with this extraordinarily talented group of scientists on the GeneMotors project - unravelling how SMC motors work, how they are regulated and how they regulate gene expression. @ceesdekker.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social

This study presents an in vitro analysis of centriole and cilium formation during early mouse embryonic development, using 3D models to mimic implantation, tissue patterning, and axis elongation. @chribue.bsky.social @isabellavoelkl.bsky.social www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/1/...

Magnus Nordborg of the GMI from the @oeaw.bsky.social has received a Synergy Grant from the @erc.europa.eu. With Richard Durbin and @felipekteixeira.bsky.social, they will investigate how transposable elements shape genome evolution in eukaryotes. Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...

Mechanism of #autophagy initiation by transmembrane selective autophagy receptors @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social & @martenslab.bsky.social review emerging mechanistic differences between soluble and transmembrane autophagy receptors www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....