Tessmar-Raible Labs
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Shared account Tessmar & Raible labs, University of Vienna @univie.ac.at and AWI. Marine clocks and rhythms, moon- and sun light, stem cells, hormones, regeneration and biomaterials.
"These findings demonstrate that spatial control of waste is crucial for supporting group living by reducing exposure to faecal hazards, particularly for immobile life stages such as eggs."... wonderfully serious #IgNobel work in royalsocietypublishing-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/epdf/10....
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"These findings demonstrate that spatial control of waste is crucial for supporting group living by reducing exposure to faecal hazards, particularly for immobile life stages such as eggs."... wonderfully serious #IgNobel work in royalsocietypublishing-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/epdf/10....
Nice work linking transcription, cell cycle regulation, and a transition in symmetry during reproductive organ development.
Thrilled to share that my PhD research is now published!
Read it here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Grateful to everyone who supported this work.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Grateful to everyone who supported this work.
Cytokinin‐responsive P‐type cyclins control Arabidopsis radial style morphology
The master regulator SPATULA (SPT) suppresses cytokinin (CK)-induced cell proliferation to ensure carpel fusion, acting through a coherent feed-forward loop (FFL) that converges on the cell cycle reg...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Nice work linking transcription, cell cycle regulation, and a transition in symmetry during reproductive organ development.
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The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.
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Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Excellent talk by Audrey Matt @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at the UBB @univie.ac.at introducing us into the exciting field of deep sea research and circadian and tidal rhythms!
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Excellent talk by Audrey Matt @maxperutzlabs.ac.at at the UBB @univie.ac.at introducing us into the exciting field of deep sea research and circadian and tidal rhythms!
In her wonderful podcast "Where the wild thoughts are", Jo Marchant has recently hosted Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to discuss how the moon impacts biology. Full episode at shows.acast.com/where-the-wi...
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In her wonderful podcast "Where the wild thoughts are", Jo Marchant has recently hosted Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social to discuss how the moon impacts biology. Full episode at shows.acast.com/where-the-wi...
Congratulations to Magnus Nordborg @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with two colleagues in Cambridge to study the transposable element landscape of eukaryotic genomes!
Magnus Nordborg of the GMI from the @oeaw.bsky.social has received a Synergy Grant from the @erc.europa.eu. With Richard Durbin and @felipekteixeira.bsky.social, they will investigate how transposable elements shape genome evolution in eukaryotes.
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
Read more: www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-eve...
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations to Magnus Nordborg @gmivienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with two colleagues in Cambridge to study the transposable element landscape of eukaryotic genomes!
Congratulations to both Sascha Martens @univie.ac.at and former colleague Claudine @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de on jointly securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with @jimhurley.bsky.social at UC Berkeley!
Big news! Group leader Sascha Martens has been awarded a prestigious @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant for the collaborative project DegrAbility to explore how cells can better recycle harmful protein aggregates linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s ➡️ tinyurl.com/2zuz9jcf
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November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Congratulations to both Sascha Martens @univie.ac.at and former colleague Claudine @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de on jointly securing one of this year's @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERC-SyG awards along with @jimhurley.bsky.social at UC Berkeley!
Adhesion without glue: Clemens Schaber @uni-kiel.de talks at the LifeSci Faculty @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today, showing how chitinous hairs of spiders can adhere to surfaces, inspiring biotechnological applications. More at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Adhesion without glue: Clemens Schaber @uni-kiel.de talks at the LifeSci Faculty @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today, showing how chitinous hairs of spiders can adhere to surfaces, inspiring biotechnological applications. More at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social presenting at @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today on the remarkable world of eye muscles in dipteran flies. Check out the original description of fruitfly eye movements here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Lisa Fenk @fleyes.bsky.social @mpiforbi.bsky.social presenting at @univie.ac.at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today on the remarkable world of eye muscles in dipteran flies. Check out the original description of fruitfly eye movements here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A day of Neurosciences & Developmental Biology today at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social kicked off by "spider-man" Friedrich Barth @oeaw.bsky.social, emeritus professor and founder of the original Neurobiology Dept at @univie.ac.at
September 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A day of Neurosciences & Developmental Biology today at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social kicked off by "spider-man" Friedrich Barth @oeaw.bsky.social, emeritus professor and founder of the original Neurobiology Dept at @univie.ac.at
Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams.
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Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
on.orf.at/video/142925...
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Innere Uhr zählt: Chronobiologin über Prüfungsleistung - Aktuell nach eins vom 24.09.2025
Eine italienische Studie mit über 100.000 mündlichen Prüfungen zeigt: Zwischen 11 und 13 Uhr sind Studierende am leistungsfähigsten. Chronobiologin Kristin Teßmar-Raible erläuterte im Studio, wie die ...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Timing matters! Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @ercgrantees.bsky.social on Austrian TV #ORF2 today to contextualise new research from Carmelo Vicario and team (Univ. of Messina) on the timing of exams.
on.orf.at/video/142925...
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
on.orf.at/video/142925...
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0
September 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0
Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...
July 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Interested to use cutting-edge imaging approaches to study the #evolution of #heart #morphogenesis? The Panfilio lab has a fully funded 3-year #postdoc offer in the framework of a new international #HFSP project: tinyurl.com/4p28nzs7 For details and applications, see tinyurl.com/ApplyHeartPo...
Exciting news - Elly Tanaka, director of @imbavienna.bsky.social , received the #Wittgenstein award of the @fwf-at.bsky.social today, Austria's top research award. Congratulations to Elly, and thanks so much for being not only a great scientist, but also a wonderful role model!
Today, the @fwf-at.bsky.social honors Elly Tanaka, IMBA's Scientific Director, with the Wittgenstein Award – the premier research award of Austria - for her groundbreaking discoveries in the field of regenerative biology. Congratulations, Elly!
More on the award: imba.science/43Y93sC
More on the award: imba.science/43Y93sC
June 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Exciting news - Elly Tanaka, director of @imbavienna.bsky.social , received the #Wittgenstein award of the @fwf-at.bsky.social today, Austria's top research award. Congratulations to Elly, and thanks so much for being not only a great scientist, but also a wonderful role model!
Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it.
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Excited to welcome @mariacocurullo.bsky.social to the Tessmar-Raible lab, who secured a prestigious #MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship to explore how monthly timing shapes brain #plasticity in Platynereis dumerilii — and how light pollution at night may disrupt it.
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
#BrightPlaty #Platynereis #ALAN
Interested to join our Vienna lab for #Postdoc research into regenerative plasticity or biological 3D printing? The Raible group bit.ly/RaibleUniVie invites expressions of interests for Marie-Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA postdoc fellowships - an excellent opportunity for mobility to and within Europe!
May 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Interested to join our Vienna lab for #Postdoc research into regenerative plasticity or biological 3D printing? The Raible group bit.ly/RaibleUniVie invites expressions of interests for Marie-Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA postdoc fellowships - an excellent opportunity for mobility to and within Europe!
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🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st!
Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
May 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨We’re proud that The Genetics Society @gensocuk.bsky.social supports the upcoming UK EvoDevo meeting. Register for only £5 and submit your abstracts before June 1st!
Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
Link to register: eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...
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🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social !
We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7
🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved!
#Amb4ERC
We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7
🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved!
#Amb4ERC
April 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social !
We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7
🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved!
#Amb4ERC
We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7
🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved!
#Amb4ERC
Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will serve as one of the Ambassadors for the ERC @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social. #Amb4ERC aim to advocate for the importance of fundamental research across Europe. See bit.ly/4jOulOq and aerg.eu/ambassadors
Ambassadors for the ERC network launched
The European Research Council (ERC) and the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG) launched the new Ambassadors for the ERC network on 28 April 2025.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Kristin Tessmar-Raible @univie.ac.at @awi.de @viennabiocenter.bsky.social will serve as one of the Ambassadors for the ERC @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social. #Amb4ERC aim to advocate for the importance of fundamental research across Europe. See bit.ly/4jOulOq and aerg.eu/ambassadors
Thanks to Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social from @uniofgalway.bsky.social for giving a great talk at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at today, introducing the remarkable reproductive system of #Hydractinia and fascinating research into sex determination; more at doi.org/10.1126/scia...
April 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks to Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social from @uniofgalway.bsky.social for giving a great talk at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @univie.ac.at today, introducing the remarkable reproductive system of #Hydractinia and fascinating research into sex determination; more at doi.org/10.1126/scia...
At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!
April 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!
The final presentation of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is given by Joanna Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social from @imbavienna.bsky.social, shedding light onto the mechanisms by which long #RNAs expressed from the “dark genome” can become switches for developmental control.
April 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The final presentation of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is given by Joanna Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social from @imbavienna.bsky.social, shedding light onto the mechanisms by which long #RNAs expressed from the “dark genome” can become switches for developmental control.
Nikhil @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social from @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social concludes the late afternoon session of #DevStem2025 with a careful analysis of mitotic waves in early #zebrafish development, their regulation by cell geometry & impact on zygotic #transcription. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
April 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nikhil @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social from @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social concludes the late afternoon session of #DevStem2025 with a careful analysis of mitotic waves in early #zebrafish development, their regulation by cell geometry & impact on zygotic #transcription. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...