The most snow I have seen on ISTA campus...

Enjoyed a lot Vienna Science Ball with directors of our "Microbiome" Cluster of Excellence. Great Viennese tradition!

Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium from Nov 11–12 at ISTA! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/ #cryoEM

Apple is entering the protein folding arena. SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think arxiv.org/abs/2509.18480 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/apple/ml-sim...

How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint! t.co/962Kj9pt6F

Happy to share new preprint from our collaboration with Peter Nixon group from Imperial College. New insights into Photosystem II assembly/disassembly. t.co/Qac81hZ9kp

Authors use an elegant transgenic model to demonstrate that acute oral administration of metformin targets mitochondrial complex I to lower blood glucose. A crucial contribution to the debate about the mechanisms of action of #metformin. #metabolism #glucose doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Árbol del Tule, Montezuma cypress near Oaxaca in Mexico is amazing. It is the biggest tree in the world by trunk width (14 m diameter). How just a few green needles maintain this tree over 2000 years is a mystery to me.

Interested in a doing a PhD at Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)? Exciting research in phys, chem, structural biology, math, neuro, earth sciences, computer sciences and more... Sign up here for the virtual student open day Nov 20, 2024. phd.pages.ista.ac.at/student-open...

Hi, I heard there is cryo-EM starter pack here - how do I join? Many thanks!