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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 2d

A big round of applause also to all other winners of awards, including former PhD student @mjkellner.bsky.social from our neighbors @imbavienna.bsky.social!

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha @impvienna.bsky.social for their research on vertebrate fertilization, which was awarded this year's ÖGMBT Life Science Research Award in Austria for basic research!

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 12d

🎉Congrats to our @vdeneke.bsky.social, postdoc in the @pauligroup.bsky.social, who has received the 2025 Life Sciences Research Award Austria from the ÖGMBT!

She's recognised for her groundbreaking work on the molecular mechanisms of fertilisation: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 3d

The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10!

Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology.
Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna!

training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/

#PhD #LifeSciences

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 18d

Are you interested in the mechanisms of mRNA regulation in the early embryo and are looking for a great lab to start your PhD? Then check out this amazing opportunity with my outgoing postdoc @lorenzoorts.bsky.social who will start her own lab - I can highly recommend to apply!

Laura Lorenzo Orts @lorenzoorts.bsky.social · 23d

I am excited to announce that I will be moving to IMB Mainz next year! The Winter call for the IPP PhD program is now open; if you are interested in maternal #mRNA regulation and #translation in early vertebrate development, please apply! Deadline: 16 October.

More info: www.imb.de/students-pos...

Laura Lorenzo Orts

IMB Mainz

www.imb.de

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 26d

Wonderful news, and big congratulations to my dear friend, colleague, and brilliant scientist @obenaufa.bsky.social for winning this major Award! Super happy for you!

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to our @obenaufa.bsky.social on receiving the highly prestigious Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2025! 🎉

Read more in this interview with Anna: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 26d

Congratulations Lucy Shapiro @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social

med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Scientist, advocate and entrepreneur Lucy Shapiro to receive Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award

Lucy Shapiro entered biology “like a bolt of lightning.” A groundbreaking scientist, mentor, drug developer and advocate for science communication is recognized for a lifetime of achievements.

med.stanford.edu

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations to these brilliant young scientists for winning the Birnstiel Award 2025 for their discoveries during their PhDs!

A big round of applause also for all runners-up & nominees, and thank you to all institutions who nominated their very best PhD students for this international award!

IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 28d

Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the six outstanding laureates of the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences 2025!

🏆Congratulations to all awardees and honourable mentions! 🎉 1/ ➡️ www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · Sep 6

🌍🧬 This summer, the Vienna BioCenter Summer School hosted talented, young scientists from around the world for 9 weeks.
@viennabiocenter.bsky.social

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Such a beautiful dissection of the individual contributions and overall function of these highly conserved miRNAs! Fantastic to see this out. Huge congratulations to @lcochella.bsky.social and the entire team - I still remember the early days of this project!

Luisa Cochella @lcochella.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our work on the function of miR-51/miR-100 is out! miR-100 is widely conserved across eumetazoans but its function has been mysterious. Emilio Santillán found in worms it regulates signaling and extracellular matrix genes, some of which seem to be conserved targets! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An ancient and essential miRNA family controls cellular interaction pathways in C. elegans

A microRNA that arose at the origin of eumetazoans regulates cell adhesion and signaling in C. elegans through conserved targets.

www.science.org

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Aug 25

That's wonderful news! Big congratulations @juliabatki.bsky.social - am super happy for you and for @fmiscience.bsky.social!

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fantastic news Niladri!! Utah is a great place for research - great fit for them and you!! Big congrats on starting your new lab and all the best for a great start!

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André Nadler @nadlerlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Manuel Matzinger @matzingerm.bsky.social · Aug 16

Excited to share our latest in vivo crosslinking workflow using a dual enrichment strategy: Over 5000 crosslinks and 56 novel PPls- Huge thanks to the amazing team: Philipp Bräuer, Laszlo Tirian, Fränze Müller, Karl Mechtler at the Vienna BioCenter who made this possible! doi.org/10.1038/s420...

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · Jul 11

A big welcome for @svenklumpe.bsky.social to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · Jul 11

In our latest “Behind the Science”, IMBA Group Leader Julius Brennecke and new IMBA-IMP joint Group Leader Sven Klumpe explore how a chance seminar sparked a collaboration that led to a breakthrough in transposon biology - published in Cell last March.
👉 Full article: https://imba.science/4lPndT1

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Jul 11

A huge round of applause and big congrats to all of you for leading the way in training the next generation of #zebrafish researchers around the world at the @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole!

International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations to the 2025 George Streisinger Award Winners! And, thank you, to your contributions to the #zebrafish field! #IZFC2025

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Martin Loose @nartimsoole.bsky.social · Jul 2

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint!

Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cyanobacterial cell shape

Bacteria, despite their diversity, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for their intracellular organization. In unicellular bacteria, the ParMRC DNA partitioning apparatus is well known for forming act...

www.biorxiv.org

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Jul 3

Huge congrats to Clemens Plaschka, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @nvastenhouw.bsky.social, @schuldinerorenlab.bsky.social and all newly elected @embo.org members!

EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Jul 2

Big congratulations to all the newly elected @embo.org Members!
A special shoutout to @impvienna.bsky.social #ClemensPlaschka for this well-deserved recognition.
Your contributions to life sciences continue to inspire and I count myself lucky to work with you!

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

www.embo.org

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · Jun 17

The fascinating work spearheaded by Kirsten Senti on the diversification and adaptation of endogenous retroviruses in the host gonad 'ecosystem'' is officially published.

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨📢 New paper alert!
A study led by Kirsten Senti and Julius Brennecke offers new insights into how ancient endogenous retroviruses diversified to exploit different cell “niches” in the fruit fly ovary, and how the host’s defenses adapted in return. https://imba.science/Brennecke_EMBOJ

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Pauli Group (posts by Andi Pauli) @pauligroup.bsky.social · Jun 18

At least for science in the #oocyte community, the future looks bright with so many curious & young minds thinking about big open questions in oocyte and reproductive biology! Thanks so much to @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together in Paris!

Victoria Deneke @vdeneke.bsky.social · Jun 18

Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚

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Victoria Deneke @vdeneke.bsky.social · Jun 18

Can’t believe I had the chance to visit beautiful Paris and connect with the amazing #oocyte community! Thank you @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social for bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and organizing the meeting in such a stunning venue. Can’t wait for the next one! 🥚

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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · Jun 13

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

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Ida Marie Astad Jentoft @idajentoft.bsky.social · Jun 13

Great to connect with this wonderful scientific community - a wide range of scientific questions united by a model organism perfect to study many fascinating biological phenomena! 🐠 Happy to be part of it!
#NOTHO25 #killifish

Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut @leibnizfli.bsky.social · Jun 12

We would like to give you a few impressions of our #Nothobranchius #Symposium 2025, an important meeting for the international community of #scientists and researchers focused on #killifish #biology, with a special emphasis on #aging #research.

#NOTHO25

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · Jun 6

REFEREE 1: “I conclude with a simple, direct statement - this is the best paper I have read all year!”
#TransparentPeerReview

Co-evolving infectivity and expression patterns drive the diversification of endogenous retroviruses
@juliusbrennecke.bsky.social et al

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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