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Max Perutz Labs Vienna
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The Max Perutz Labs are a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, dedicated to a mechanistic understanding of fundamental biomedical processes.
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 4d
Together we go further! 💪 This weekend, our Perutz runners laced up once again for the Cancer Research Run by the @meduniwien.ac.at - showing their support on-site and from afar. Some ran all the way from Hong Kong, others up the Krummbachstein in Lower Austria 🏃 #krebsforschungslauf
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 15d
🔎 New #sciencejob ahead: The Slade lab is searching for a part-time technician with great organizational and communication skills to support their research ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3h8s5f
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 16d
Paper alert! 📢 How do cells strike the perfect balance during meiosis? ⚖️ A new study from the Matos lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com uncovers how Holliday junctions and the synaptonemal complex safeguard crossovers ➡️ tinyurl.com/2k4mmpzu

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 18d
Edvinas Stankunas from the Köhler lab successfully defended his PhD thesis "Docking a flexible basket onto the core of the nuclear pore complex" - congratulations! 🎉🧑‍🎓
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 19d
Great having you here at the Perutz and the Vienna BioCenter! Thanks for stopping by - we hope you enjoyed the visit as much as we did 🌟
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Vienna BioCenter @viennabiocenter.bsky.social · 19d
Welcoming potential future PhD Students: Biopsi ry, the Student Association of Biotechnology & Biomedical Engineering from Tampere University visited us last week. Thank you @vbcscitraining.bsky.social & @maxperutzlabs.ac.at for sharing insights on the PhD Program and the research done here.
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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 27d
Explore projects in Stem Cells, development + more in our Autumn PhD call which is OPEN!
20+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. 👉 www.vbcphd.at
Apply by 10 Oct 2025
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Sep 11
Opportunity for skilled hands and sharp minds - at any career stage! 💪 The Köhler Lab is seeking a full-time lab technician to support their research on nuclear envelope biology, chromatin regulation, and cellular stress resilience - apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfy3w2h
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Sep 9
Welcome to the Perutz, Anne! 👋
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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Sep 9
Anne Barbara Koehle from University of Vienna joined the group of Verena Jantsch at Max Perutz Labs to investigate the role of DDK in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline.
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Sep 8
Congrats, Nuria! It was a pleasure having you here 👏
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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Sep 6
🏆 Presentation Award Winner:
Nuria Ardid Muñoz (Autonomous University of Madrid) – tRNA ligase/XBP1 splicing – Martinez lab, Max Perutz Labs.
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Sep 2
🎓 Congrats to Daria Filipczak (Foisner lab), who defended her thesis titled "Mechanistic insight into the role of LAP2alpha and nucleoplasmic A-type lamins in chromatin regulation"! 🤩🎉 #phdone
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Otsuka Lab @ Max Perutz Labs Vienna @labotsuka.bsky.social · Sep 1
We said goodbye to our VBC Summer School 2025 student who gained hands-on experience in our lab. Her enthusiasm and curiosity brought us much joy and energy.
Excited to see what comes next - hope we can welcome her back to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social and the @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 28
Congrats to all scientists! 👏 The @versteegga.bsky.social lab has long collaborated with the Clausen lab, and this new study once again highlights the collaborative spirit of the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social ⤵️
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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · Aug 28
Scientists uncovered how the immune protein ZNFX1 enables cells to walk the fine line between fighting infection & avoiding autoimmune damage. ZNFX1 can ubiquitinate & compact host & viral RNA into molecular condensates, extending ubiquitin biology to RNA itself. More: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...
ZNFX1 compacts and tags RNA to keep immunity in check
Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP and collaborators have uncovered how the ancient immune protein ZNFX1 enables cells to walk the fine line between fighting infection and avoiding autoimmune damage. The te...
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Irma Querques @irmaquerques.bsky.social · Aug 26
Excited to share my talk at the EMBL John Kendrew Award ceremony about what transposons taught me about science, life, and change along the way.

Big thanks to my mentors, the @embl.org Alumni community, and my current scientific home @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social 💛

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Irma Querques - 2025 John Kendrew Award Recipient
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 25
🎉 Shout-out to postdoc Ingrid Frohner from the Ogris lab, who received the Award for Scientific Excellence for her flash talk "Molecular mechanism of the anti-cancer drug DT-061" at the @embo.org Workshop on Phosphatases! 👏🧪

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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · Aug 21
📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar

📅 September 11th
📍 Institut Jacques Monod

Invited by @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social 's Lab , Stephanie Ellis ( @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social ) give the IJM Seminar "Understanding mosaic tissue dynamics through cell competition. "

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NCCR RNA & Disease @nccr-rna-disease.bsky.social · Aug 20
Preprint by the Jinek and Martinez labs with 1st author Moritz Pfleiderer "
Structural framework for the assembly of the human tRNA
ligase complex" @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social buff.ly/9rwwEP4
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 19
❕The @leeboratory.bsky.social seeks a new Master's student! Your 🫵 project will involve stem cell culture, genome engineering as well as molecular biology. It aims at elucidating the genetic circuitries that regulate cell fate decisions in the early mammalian embryo ➡️ tinyurl.com/4awtk2n3
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 18
Congrats to group leader @irmaquerques.bsky.social on receiving the EMBL's John Kendrew Award! 🎉 From left to right: Irma's former advisor Christoph Müller, Irma, and Pavel Tomancak, Chair of the EMBL Alumni Association. (c) @embl.org
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 11
👀 Exciting Master’s project opportunity in the Hallacli lab! Join the team investigating how toxic protein aggregates - especially alpha-synuclein (α-syn) - drive Parkinson’s disease progression 🧠 More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/yrnjbzex
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Vienna BioCenter @viennabiocenter.bsky.social · Aug 7
Celebrating seven researchers from four different entities at Vienna BioCenter, who recently received prestigious FWF Grants!

Read more about their work: www.viennabiocenter.org/about/news/s...

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Celebrating seven new FWF Grants awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) recently awarded Grants from their programs "Principal Investigator", "1000 Ideas" and "International - Multilateral Initiatives” to seven researchers affiliated to fo...
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · Aug 11
Does that limit our story’s impact? Not at all. In fact, Erinc Hallacli @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social showed that EDC4 directly interacts with α-synuclein — a key Parkinson’s disease protein:
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The Parkinson’s disease protein alpha-synuclein is a modulator of processing bodies and mRNA stability
Alpha-synuclein (αS) is a conformationally plastic protein that reversibly binds to cellular membranes. It aggregates and is genetically linked to Par…
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 4
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Aug 4
🚨 New publication! A tiny switch with big consequences: PhD student Trinh Phan-Canh reveals in Cell Reports that Candida auris shifts between White and Brown phenotypes – a change that impacts both drug resistance and virulence ➡️ tinyurl.com/6f2nm268
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SFB Targeted Protein Degradation @sfb-tpd-vienna.bsky.social · Jul 25
🚀Great work led by @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social in the Martens lab @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social shows a new mechanism for #mitophagy initiation, revealing unexpected flexibility in the assembly& activation of the #autophagy machinery👇
Check it out 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 25
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