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28 Apr 2022

DNA loop formation linked to Cornelia de Lange Syndrome

Healthy cells package their DNA with the help of proteins that fold it into loops. Scientists from the lab of Jan-Michael Peters discovered that the...
26 Apr 2022

Scientists discover essential role of two proteins for fertilisation

In an international collaboration between the labs of Andrea Pauli at the IMP and Masahito Ikawa at Osaka University, scientists show that the sperm...
20 Apr 2022

Joan Massagué to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

The cancer biologist Joan Massagué, director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, US), will give a Birnstiel Lecture on 28 April...
25 Mar 2022

Minister of Education, Science and Research visits IMP and Vienna BioCenter

Austria’s new Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research, Martin Polaschek, visited the Vienna BioCenter on 24 March 2022. Stops at the IMP,...
21 Mar 2022

John Diffley to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

The biochemist John Diffley of the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) will give a Birnstiel Lecture on 30 March 2022. The Birnstiel Lectures are the...
17 Mar 2022

ERC Consolidator Grant for Andrea Pauli to study fertilisation

Fertilisation marks the beginning of life of any sexually reproducing organism. However, the molecular machinery and biophysical mechanisms underlying...
16 Mar 2022

Support for Ukraine

The IMP has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Due to this war, Europe is experiencing the fastest growing refugee crisis since the Second World...
14 Mar 2022

Krios G4: IMP enters next level of cryo-Electron Microscopy

With a keynote lecture by cryo-electron microscopy pioneer and Nobel laureate Richard Henderson, the IMP marked the installation of a Krios G4...
01 Mar 2022

Richard Henderson to give Max Birnstiel Lecture

The cryo-electron microscopy pioneer and Nobel laureate Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK) will give a...
14 Feb 2022

Moritz Gaidt to study innate immunology at IMP

Moritz Gaidt, previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California in Berkeley, has joined the IMP as a group leader. The Gaidt Lab...