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Fantastic news! 🙌 The Perutz is excited to welcome Danny Nedialkova as a new group leader starting this April! 🎉 She will strengthen the institute's research on the fundamental mechanisms that shape cellular physiology and disease ➡️ www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/research/res...

Congrats to all the researchers, well done! 👏🎉

New paper! Research led by the Dagdas lab at the GMI of the @oeaw.bsky.social has identified a selective autophagy receptor in liverwort Marchantia polymorpha involved in degrading membraneless organelles.

Fantastic teamwork by Irene Schwartz & Valentina Budroni from the lab of @versteegga.bsky.social @maxperutzlabs.ac.at together with colleagues in our SFB consortium & beyond 👏Great to see the story out @natcomms.nature.com
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👀 Curious about how RNA is shaped inside cells? Apply for a Master’s thesis in the Martinez Lab and investigate the mechanisms and functions of tRNA processing in health and disease ➡️ tinyurl.com/4hxm6x8p

Our paper is out in @natcomms.nature.com! APOBEC3s drive mutagenesis in cancer. We uncover a novel pathway keeping them in check. The key is APOBEC3 binding of cellular RNAs, which simultaneously controls their nuclear localization and shields them from degradation.

Read it here: rdcu.be/e4qaa

Join the Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training as a Coordinator and play a key role in supporting the full administrative journey of PhD students! 🙌 If you are organized, enjoy independent work, and thrive in a dynamic setting, apply now ➡️ tinyurl.com/5sc2a37s

Why do pathological protein aggregates persist in cells and how can we overcome this?
In our new preprint, we show that Tau aggregates fail to initiate selective autophagy and that their autophagic degradation can be restored.
#Autophagy #Tau #Proteostasis

Out now 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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She combined her career story with practical advice for women in science navigating challenges.

📸 One frame. Many voices. This year, we are celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science all year long by inviting our female scientists to 'step into the frame'.

We are starting with Sumi (Leonard Lab) sharing her inspiring wish for the future ✨

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Today we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Alwin Köhler from @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at our #SeminarsIN with his talk: “Fat Matters: How Nuclear Envelope Lipids Regulate Cell Function”.

A fantastic lecture, thank you! 👏👏
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🌱 2025 was a big year for sustainability at the Perutz! From reducing energy use in the labs and promoting green mobility to many climate-focused lectures events – here’s a snapshot of how the Climate@MaxPerutzLabs initiative and the Perutz community turned ideas into action 💚♻️ #MaxPerutzLabsGoGreen

🔬 Our Research Milestones essays are back!

This feature highlights Alipasha Vaziri, former Group Leader at the IMP and Max Perutz Labs.

At the IMP, he developed imaging technologies that enabled large-scale recording of neuronal activity at single-cell resolution:

Congrats to all researchers and collaborators at the Perutz and at @impvienna.bsky.social! 🙌

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Paper alert! 📢 How do cells fight viruses without harming themselves? 🧬 In @natcomms.nature.com, the @versteegga.bsky.social lab uncover a previously unknown safeguard that keeps DNA-mutating antiviral enzymes in check, protecting the genome while preserving antiviral defense ➡️ tinyurl.com/4xbxz9e8

🤩 Lucija Orlic from the Matos lab defended her thesis titled "Protection and processing of meiotic double Holliday junctions" - congratulations! 💪
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Congratulations, Maurizio Forte (Kovarik lab)! 🎉 Maurizio successfully defended his thesis "Pathway-specific regulation of macrophage antimicrobial responses by Mediator kinase"! 🎓 #phdone

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2026 is off to a strong start! 🎉 Erinc Hallacli has secured funding from the Herzfelder’sche Familienstiftung to explore how pathogenic protein aggregates disrupt RNA metabolism in human neurons ➡️ tinyurl.com/yrx9mhm5

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Great work! Congrats to all authors and the Ries lab! 👏

Looking for your next lab role? 🧪 The Hallacli lab is recruiting a lab manager to support daily lab activities and experimental research in human neuronal biology, with flexibility and long-term prospects ➡️ tinyurl.com/76u92r63

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded no less than 14 grants to researchers affiliated to the Vienna BioCenter. Congratulations on this achievement!

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Adrian Söderholm from the Versteeg lab defended his thesis "Regulation and function of key RNA processing factors in innate immunity" and earned his hat! 🎓 Congrats, well deserved! 🎉💪

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🎉 Big congratulations to Nell Saunders from the @heinlab.org on receiving a prestigious @embo.org Postdoctoral Fellowship! Her work explores innovative CRISPR-based approaches to study viral infections ➡️ tinyurl.com/53syw2ws

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🎓 Congrats to Songjie Feng (Bücker lab), who successfully defended his thesis titled “Enhancer cooperativity can compensate for loss of activity over large genomic distances" - well done! 🤩🙌
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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. Pim Huis in 't Veld from Max Perutz Labs Vienna is recruiting! Please share
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

📢 Extended Application Deadline:
🗓️27 January 2026❗
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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. Marco Hein from Max Perutz Labs Vienna is recruiting! Please share
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

🎄🎁✨ Sending science-powered holiday wishes and lots of curiosity for the year ahead – Santa Max approves!

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