Are you a #Masters student interested in translational
#cancer research, tumor immunology and #CRISPR screens? Then apply to our lab at the @impvienna.bsky.social in Vienna:
www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
#oncology, #cancerresearch, #CRISPR
And now the final published version is available! 🕊️
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🎉 Congratulations to our Anna Obenauf, IMP Senior Group Leader, who has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, for her outstanding contributions to cancer research:
www.imp.ac.at/news/article/anna-obenau...
The IMP community remembers 1989 Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, a pioneering immunologist and microbiologist, who served on the IMP Scientific Advisory Board from 1991 to 1999: www.imp.ac.at/news/article/in-memoriam...
Congratulations to Alessandro Passera on the completion of his PhD! Passera, a researcher in the Balzarotti lab, presented his dissertation titled “Development of combinatorially-multiplexed DNA-PAINT and application to super-resolved RNA-FISH imaging” during his PhD defense.
Congratulations to Jingyi Shen on the completion of her PhD! Shen, a researcher in the Obenauf lab, presented her dissertation titled “Exploring the immunogenicity of cell death through the induction of GSDMD-mediated pyroptosis in cancer cells” during her PhD defense.
An FWF grant will support a new method to study gene activity and proteins at single-cell resolution. The funding is awarded to a collaborative project led by Manuel Matzinger (Proteomics Technology Hub of IMP, IMBA, GMI) & Viktoria Dorfer (Research Center Hagenberg).
Securing two group leader positions at the same institute is no small feat.
From IMP postdocs to group leaders: Laura Lorenzo-Orts and Ulrich Hohmann started their labs at IMB Mainz this year:
Can we engineer proteins that switch on and off inside living cells?
📽️ 2025 Birnstiel Award laureate Vojislav Gligorovski developed a light-controlled evolution system to do exactly that: https://youtu.be/ShHa1eEWFvk
Visit www.sy-stem.org soon to see all the event highlights. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the IMP and IMBA.
#SYStem2026
At SY-Stem today, Francesco Boccelatto (University of Oxford), who earlier presented a talk titled “A YAP1–DKK1–Wnt mechanochemical circuit defines the human gastric regenerative niche,” contributes to the discussion following another presentation.
Learn more about the collaboration possibilities offered at Vienna BioCenter as Victoria Deneke shares her insights as a Postdoc at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology.
The VIP³ PostDoc Program call is open – apply now! training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
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Visit www.sy-stem.org for the full program. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the IMP and IMP.
#SYStem2026
Coffee breaks are an important part of conferences. At SY-Stem today, attendees had time for conversations, to ask questions sparked by presentations, and to connect with researchers they might not otherwise approach.
Why do some BRCA1-mutant cancers resist therapy?
📽️ 2025 Birnstiel Award laureate Sarah Moser identified a new DNA repair protein and discovered how cancer cells develop resistance to PARP inhibitors: https://youtu.be/vb1E3W9PvRQ
Visit www.sy-stem.org for the full program. SY-Stem is a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers, organized by the IMP and IMP.
#SYStem2026
Today at SY-Stem: Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology, presented on “Gene regulatory subcircuits controlling neural crest stem cell fate along the body axis.”
More about the GEMINI consortium project: www.imp.ac.at/news/article/fwf-grant-genetic-information-across-generations
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A consortium of group leaders from IMP, IMBA (Vienna BioCenter) and ISTA has been awarded an FWF Emerging Fields grant to study how germ cells safeguard and pass on genetic information across generations.
The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 8 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.
The call is open!
More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
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How does one genome create so much complexity?
📽️ 2025 Birnstiel Award laureate Jimmy Ly discovered hidden protein variants in the “dark proteome” that shape cell function and disease: https://youtu.be/wY1HbfY3fTE
🎉 Congratulations to our Ezra Levy, postdoc in Andrea Pauli’s lab at the IMP, who has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
More about his project: www.imp.ac.at/news/article/ezra-levy-a...
Register online for SY-Stem: www.sy-stem.org.
SY-Stem – a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers – is organized by IMBA and the IMP at the Vienna BioCenter.
Final registration reminder for SY-Stem 2026. The deadline is on Monday, February 16.
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Viruses shut down antiviral defences to evade detection—but this can backfire. Researchers uncovered how human immune cells sense viral sabotage and trigger inflammation. UC Berkeley study with contributions from IMP’s Moritz Gaidt: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw4937
