Gregor Mendel Institute

Last week, 20 journalists from Germany and Austria visited the GMI and got to know the latest research by Liam Dolan and Fred Berger, as well as the PHENOPlant facility.

Closing soon! A Junior Group Leader position is available at the GMI. The GMI believes in enabling researchers at all levels to pursue big questions. We seek a researcher who will contribute to our goal of making fundamental discoveries that help us understand how plants and other autotrophic organisms function. Interested? Apply by October 20! More information about the open position: bit.ly/gmigroupleader

Frédéric Berger, Senior group leader at the GMI, has been awarded a stand-alone grant by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (FWF) for his project “New mechanisms for targeting epigenetic silencing”. More online at: https://lnkd.in/dQKkmgHx

Job alert! A Junior Group Leader position is available at the GMI. We seek a researcher who will contribute to our goal of making fundamental discoveries that help us understand how plants and other autotrophic organisms function. All group leaders at the GMI enjoy complete intellectual freedom to develop their own research. Nick Irwin started his independent research group at the GMI in 2024. Recently, Nick described his experience as a new group leader. “Starting a new job and a new lab can be a daunting process, especially when you couple that with moving to a new country, but the staff and lab support at the GMI have been amazing at making sure that I had all the resources and assistance I needed in the beginning”. The biggest factor convincing Nick to start at the GMI? “I found it amazing that the whole institute has such a strong culture of collaboration. If you look at the papers that are published by GMI researchers, almost all the different research groups contribute to them, which is unheard of elsewhere. And of course, the first time I came here I was fascinated with the facilities. Once I saw them, I understood how it is possible to do research at this level. I had never worked in a place with resources like the ones we have available at GMI and the Vienna BioCenter”. Read more about Nick’s experience as new group leader at the GMI: [https://lnkd.in/dSfxhBZ8) More information about the open position: [https://lnkd.in/dbnNMXFf)

Are you looking for a #PhD program in #Europe? Join a research group at the GMI and get your start in molecular #plant #biology. Applications are being accepted through October 15.

Thanks to everyone attending evolVienna and to the organizing team: Amin Ghane (Uni Wien), Benjamin Wölfl (ISTA), Dagný Thorhölludottir (VetMedUni Wien), and Elizaveta Grigoreva (GMI).

Join the Berger group as a PhD student and investigate the evolution of chromatin and its impacts on processes such as transcription, DNA repair and meiosis. More info on applying below!

Today Randy Schekman, UC Berkeley, presented his research on the process of membrane assembly and vesicular traffic in eukaryotic cells to a packed lecture hall at the GMI.

On Friday, the International Plant Proteostatis Conference closed with an awards ceremony. Congratulations to poster prize recipients Juncai Ma and Manuel Gonzalez Fuente! Photo, from left to right: Andreas Bachmair, Max Perutz Labs Vienna Juncai Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ”De-etiolation-triggered selective autophagy is involved in organelle remodeling in greening cotyledon cells” Silvia Ramundo, GMI Yasin Dagdas, GMI Manuel Gonzalez Fuente, Ruhr University Bochum, "Effectors hijack plant P-bodies to modulate host translation upon bacterial infection” Korbei Barbara, BOKU University We thank Agrisera AB for sponsoring the poster prizes!

Job alert! A Junior Group Leader position is available at the GMI. We seek a researcher who will contribute to our goal of making fundamental discoveries that help us understand how plants and other autotrophic organisms function. The GMI believes in enabling researchers at all levels to pursue big questions in an intellectually stimulating, diverse, and collaborative environment. Yan Ma started her independent research group at the GMI in 2024. In a recent interview, Yan called the GMI “one of the best plant research institutes in Europe”. Describing her transition to a Group Leader position, Yan said that “the support at the GMI has really helped us hit the ground running”. Read more about Yan’s experience as new group leader at the GMI: https://lnkd.in/d6aWesrK More information about the open position: bit.ly/gmigroupleader