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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.
👏 Adrià Nogales-Moral from the Köhler lab defended his thesis "Decoding Tardigrade Anhydrobiosis: Mechanistic and Ultrastructural Insights from the Extremotolerant Ramazzottius varieornatus" - congratulations! 🎉 #phdone
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November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
👏 Adrià Nogales-Moral from the Köhler lab defended his thesis "Decoding Tardigrade Anhydrobiosis: Mechanistic and Ultrastructural Insights from the Extremotolerant Ramazzottius varieornatus" - congratulations! 🎉 #phdone
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✨ Passionate about cell biology or biochemistry? Join the Martens Lab as a postdoc to uncover why autophagy stalls at disease-linked protein aggregates - and how to restart it 🧠 Apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/24dcrcke
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
✨ Passionate about cell biology or biochemistry? Join the Martens Lab as a postdoc to uncover why autophagy stalls at disease-linked protein aggregates - and how to restart it 🧠 Apply here ➡️ tinyurl.com/24dcrcke
Congratulations to Irene Schwartz, winner of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award! 🧠👏
Her research reveals how cells fine-tune immune balance through protein degradation 🏆 More ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r9c7a5f
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Her research reveals how cells fine-tune immune balance through protein degradation 🏆 More ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r9c7a5f
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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Congratulations to Irene Schwartz, winner of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PhD Award! 🧠👏
Her research reveals how cells fine-tune immune balance through protein degradation 🏆 More ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r9c7a5f
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Her research reveals how cells fine-tune immune balance through protein degradation 🏆 More ➡️ tinyurl.com/2r9c7a5f
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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 11:00 AM
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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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
❕Master's thesis opportunity! 🧠 The Hallacli lab is looking for a motivated new lab member to explore a key question in Parkinson's disease: How does alpha-synuclein regulate RNA turnover and Processing bodies? ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc336bb7
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
❕Master's thesis opportunity! 🧠 The Hallacli lab is looking for a motivated new lab member to explore a key question in Parkinson's disease: How does alpha-synuclein regulate RNA turnover and Processing bodies? ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc336bb7
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
🙌 Congrats, @phancanhtrinh.bsky.social! Trinh defended his thesis “Antifungal multidrug resistance and virulence of Candida auris” and earned his hat! 🧑🎓
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October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🙌 Congrats, @phancanhtrinh.bsky.social! Trinh defended his thesis “Antifungal multidrug resistance and virulence of Candida auris” and earned his hat! 🧑🎓
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🆕 publication! When it comes to genetic exchange, precision is key! 🧬 In a new @narjournal.bsky.social study, the Jantsch-Plunger lab reveals an unexpected role for the Bloom helicase HIM-6 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3uxxxxpy
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October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🆕 publication! When it comes to genetic exchange, precision is key! 🧬 In a new @narjournal.bsky.social study, the Jantsch-Plunger lab reveals an unexpected role for the Bloom helicase HIM-6 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3uxxxxpy
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RNA biology is a major research focus at the Perutz - and the new @fwf-at.bsky.social grants strengthen it even further 🙌 Elif Karagöz and Pavel Kovarik will investigate how RNA-binding proteins regulate cellular stress and immune responses ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3f3mu8
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October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
RNA biology is a major research focus at the Perutz - and the new @fwf-at.bsky.social grants strengthen it even further 🙌 Elif Karagöz and Pavel Kovarik will investigate how RNA-binding proteins regulate cellular stress and immune responses ➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3f3mu8
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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
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
🔎 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
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🔎 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
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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September 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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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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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September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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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
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
🎓 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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September 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🎓 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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🎉 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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August 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🎉 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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❕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
August 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
❕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
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
August 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
👀 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
August 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
👀 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
🚨 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
August 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🚨 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
🚨 Out now! Autophagy keeps cells healthy - and when it goes wrong, diseases like Parkinson’s can emerge. @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social (Martens lab) in @natureportfolio.nature.com Cell Biology challenge the conventional hierarchy of autophagy factors ➡️ tinyurl.com/y33nrtn2
July 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🚨 Out now! Autophagy keeps cells healthy - and when it goes wrong, diseases like Parkinson’s can emerge. @elias-adriaenssens.bsky.social (Martens lab) in @natureportfolio.nature.com Cell Biology challenge the conventional hierarchy of autophagy factors ➡️ tinyurl.com/y33nrtn2
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c
🔬 Big boost for bold ideas! Four group leaders have secured over €1.9 million in @fwf-at.bsky.social funding. Congratulations to Erinc Hallacli, @huis.bsky.social, @martinleeb.bsky.social, and Joao Matos! ➡️ tinyurl.com/2paphtc6
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July 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🔬 Big boost for bold ideas! Four group leaders have secured over €1.9 million in @fwf-at.bsky.social funding. Congratulations to Erinc Hallacli, @huis.bsky.social, @martinleeb.bsky.social, and Joao Matos! ➡️ tinyurl.com/2paphtc6
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The DOC-torate dream team! 🎓 Seven Perutz PhD students just secured @oeaw.bsky.social DOC Fellowships - the most we've ever had in one year! Huge Congrats! 🎉➡️ tinyurl.com/29nvtf7j
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July 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The DOC-torate dream team! 🎓 Seven Perutz PhD students just secured @oeaw.bsky.social DOC Fellowships - the most we've ever had in one year! Huge Congrats! 🎉➡️ tinyurl.com/29nvtf7j
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