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Joined October 2011
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Scientists from 79 countries work at our Institute, among them many from Ukraine and Russia. In reaction to the war in Ukraine, we open a special internship program for students from Ukraine: #Ukraine #freedom #nowarinukraine #NoWar #ukrainianscientists
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Excited to announce that @SaricLab was tenured on a fast-track path to full #professorship! This affirms her achievements in the field of computational biological and soft matter physics and her contributions to bridging disciplines. Congratulations! 🔗
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The future of science awaits us: With IST Austria's funding and growth secured until 2036, our basic science research institute receives almost 3.3 billion Euro for further expansion to 150 research groups by 2036. 🤩🤩 .
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NEW PAPER ALERT🚨: As an embryo develops, biochem signaling+mechanical forces drive tissue formation. How these processes are coordinated is unclear. In their collab, @EdouardHannezo group and @HeisenbergCPLab offer imp. insights into #tissuemorphogenesis.
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Prof. Rafal Klajn @rafalklajn will join @istaustria next Summer! Apply now to become part of his group to study how molecules behave in confined spaces and participate in developing a new generation of stimuli-responsive materials!
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We proudly present #professor @sariclab, who will lead the new #researchgroup "Computational Soft & Living Matter" @ISTAustria 🔥💪. As a Biological and Soft Matter Physicist, she models self-organization at the nanoscale in living and diseased processes.
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Breakthrough Alert: New, important work from Friml Lab at @istaustria is published today in @Nature. The work clarifies much of what has remained in muddy waters in plant molecular biology, specifically a binding protein ABP1 that auxin (THE plant hormone) attaches itself to. 🧵:
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New paper out in Nature by #ISTAustria's Sixt group – how leukocytes manage to move freely through all sorts of tissue! DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2283-z @annereversat @nature @livuninews #TrustinMinds
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Specialized plant #cells regain stem-cell features to heal #wounds. Paper out in @CellCellPress by #ISTAustria PhD student Lukas Hörmayer, part of Jiri Friml's group, as co-first author with Petra Marhava and Saiko Yoshida, former PhD and postdoc at #ISTAustria Credit: L.Hörmayer
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How do plant cells divide while staying connected through hundreds of tiny bridges called #plasmodesmata?. ISTA #postdoc Ziqiang Patrick Li and an international team of researchers mechanistically address this fundamental question. Now on the cover of @ScienceMagazine
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Congrats to ISTA´s assistant professor @EdouardHannezo on being appointed a new member of the renowned Young Academy of @oeaw. For investigating how #cells “know” how to behave in the body, his group combines #cellbiology and theoretical #physics. 👉
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@ISTAustria Assistant Professor @XiaoqiFeng_m receives a prestigious @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant for the project MagicSpore. Huge congratulations! Read more ➡️ #ERCCoG
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We're happy to announce that our researchers Johannes Fink @fink_johannes and Martin Loose @nartimsoole got #TENURE! 🚀 Congrats 💪 BTW, every #ISTAustria Asst. Prof. is on a tenure-track, after 6 years of research they can then get a permanent position 💡
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Love of science, opportunities for cross-collaboration, and an expanded plant facility bring plant scientist @XiaoqiFeng_m to @istaustria! She works to understand how the #epigenetics of reproductive cells allow life to carry on and thrive. 🔗
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New paper out by #ISTAustria Professor Eva Benkova in @naturecomms on "Cytokinin fluoroprobe reveals multiple sites of cytokinin perception at plasma membrane and endoplasmic reticulum" - Read the full paper here: DOI ➡10.1038/s41467-020-17949-0. #TrustinMinds
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We congratulate #NobelPrize laureates in #physics Anton Zeilinger, Alain Aspect, John Clauser! A leader and pioneer in quantum physics, Anton Zeilinger is also among the founding fathers of ISTA, giving his recognition a very special place in our hearts. Congratulations!
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New paper out in @naturephysics by #ISTAustria Professor Edouard Hannezo and his group in collaboration with researchers from the Kyoto University! They discovered a complex interplay among cells, which guides them to where they need to go. The webstory:
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Welcoming @rafalklajn as new professor at @ISTAustria and supra-excited to host supramolecular chemistry such as the group's newest @ScienceMagazine paper, out now.
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🐣Since #Easter is all about eggs, here an egg some of our #ISTAustria scientists work on - a zebrafish egg! 🐟🐰HAPPY EASTER!
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Big announcement 📣 Prof. Martin Hetzer has been appointed new #president of #ISTAustria! Among all applicants, he stood out thanks to his world-class scientific career as a molecular and cell biologist as well as his demonstrated leadership experience. 👉
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Three @ISTAustria scientists have won @erc_research Starting Grants #ERCStG! A combined 4.8 million euros will go to @MMondelli, @aliciakmichael, and @lisa_Bugnet. Read more about the scientists and their projects 🔗
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Welcome, @aliciakmichael. After a postdoc in Basel @FMIscience and @biozentrum, the American biochemist just started her research group as an assistant professor @ISTAustria.
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Proud to announce that @Sixt_Lab @ISTAustria along with its partners @BassereauTeam @Lab_PCC @institut_curie & Anna Akhmanova lab @UUBeta has won the @ERC_Research Synergy Grant #ERCSyG for their project to investigate newly uncovered cell mechanics. 👉
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Just published in @NaturePhysics: co-first authors @Zdunajova & Batirtze Prats from the Loose & Hannezo groups uncover how active filaments self-organize in biological systems. The researchers use a multidisciplinary approach & rally collaborators from ISTA, Europe & Japan.
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🎉🍾 Huge congrats to @shamipourshayan who just received the @WeintraubAward 2021! It recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. What an honor! 👏 @heisenbergcplab #basicscience #cellularbiology #istaustria
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The @FWF_at honors cell biologist Jiří Friml @FrimlLab with the FWF #Wittgenstein Award. Friml, a professor at @ISTAustria since 2012, is the fifth person at the Institute to receive this honor. #Congratulations on this extraordinary accomplishment. 🔗
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Welcome to @ISTAustria @FloPraetorius. Following a six-year tenure @UW, the scientist moved across the Atlantic to join the ISTA community as an assistant professor.
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New Ass. Prof. Bart Pieber @pieberlab pioneers synthetic organic chemistry, drawing inspiration from photosynthesis. His lab utilizes visible light to power & guide chemical reactions - opening up possibilities for drug engineering & disease treatment. 🔗
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Three exceptional scientists associated with @istaustria have won @erc_research Starting Grants #ERCStG, reaffirming our commitment to driving groundbreaking basic research! Congratulations @chengbingqing @polshynlab @flopraetorius 🔗
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Excited to #welcome #AssistantProfessor Jack Bravo @jpkbravo to @ISTAustria. His research on re-engineering bacterial immune systems could advance biotech and gene-editing tools. A warm welcome and thrilled to have him with us!. Read interview 🔗
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📢 Faculty Call 📢 @istaustria is looking for assistant professors and professors in all areas of science incl #chemistry #computerscience #earthsciences and #astronomy, #lifesciences, #mathematics and #physics. Closing date for applications: 2022/10/27 👉
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Congratulations! @erc_research has selected the proposals of four ISTA scientists for funding with 2 million euros each. We applaud Johannes Fink, Maximilian Jösch, Onur Hosten, and Jérémie Palacci for their accomplishments and vision. More info 🔗
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❗Professor Call: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and Professor positions in all areas of natural sciences including Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physics. The closing date: October 30, 2020➡#TrustinMinds
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Congrats to @SaricLab on being awarded the prestigious 2022 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Prize at the "Solid State to BioPhysics X" conference for her remarkable research in areas ranging from chemical physics to biophysics and beyond. 👉
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Our PhD Call 2024 is now open! 📢. Follow your curiosity without boundaries with our fully-funded PhD program. Apply now and conduct cutting-edge research in an international environment with top-notch facilities alongside the best in the world! 🔗
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🥳 Congratulations to Johann Danzl @jgdanzl and Florian Schur @schurlab who have received a grant from @chanzuckerberg for their joint project on developing #microscopy to visualize samples in a near-native state at low temperatures with high precision 🔬 #bioimaging
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A new paper by @EdouardHannezo @ISTAustria, Bernat Corominas-Murtra @UniGraz, Takashi Hiiragi and @DimitriFabreges @_Hubrecht and more, published in @ScienceMagazine, sheds light on the complex process of mammalian embryo development.
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Congratulations to Anđela Šarić @SaricLab on being named an Allen Distinguished Investigator by @PGAFamilyFdn! She will lead an international collaboration, funded with $1.5 million, to investigate how chemically active membranes influence cell shape. 🔗
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📢 Three scientists from #ISTAustria receive @erc_research grants, securing over 6 million euro funding 🚀 This is a huge scientific success and we are over the moon! Congrats to our professors @sazanovl, László Erdős, and @thenzinger 🎉! 👈 #ERCAdG
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New publication out in @NatureComms 🥳 by our Palacci Group and their Materiali Molli Lab at #ISTAustria about metamachines of pluripotent colloids: 🎬 The video below shows the formation of #metamachines from smaller components.
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#Plants have a favorite food, for the mouse-ear cress this is nitrate and if it can't find it, it changes its root growth . 🌱 Scientists of the @BenkovaGroupIST explored now what's actually happening in the soil. Published in the @embojournal 👉
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Assistant Prof. Bartholomäus Pieber will join @istaustria next summer! Apply now to become part of the @pieberlab and unravel the full potential of visible-light photocatalysis as a sustainable strategy for synthetic organic chemistry. 👉
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A new study by @slv_caballero @HeisenbergCPLab @ISTAustria & colleagues, published in @NaturePhysics, shows how sea squirt oocytes harness friction forces within various compartments in their interior to undergo developmental changes after conception.
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Congrats to @simone_bombari from the Mondelli Group @MMondelli for becoming the first-ever PhD student at @ISTAustria to receive a @Google #Fellowship. Simone's research will focus on the mathematical foundations of deep learning, differential privacy, and adversarial robustness.
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@ISTAustria welcomes renowned scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur Alex Bronstein as a faculty member! After a year as a Visiting Professor, he joins us to advance machine vision, #MachineLearning in life sciences—and even #AI in music! . Read more 🔗
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New study by @feyzanar, @HeisenbergCPLab, @mloose, @edouardhannezo, @jackmerrin, @ISTAustria, published in @CurrentBiology, sheds light on the remodeling process of cell-cell contacts in metazoan development.
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New Paper Alert: In @Nature published online, @SazanovL at @ISTAustria propose a universal mechanism of cellular respiration, culminating scientific work of ~20 years, starting from the structure of complex I to the domino effect of proton movement reported in today's paper. A🧵
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Carus Medal awarded to #ISTAustria Professor Carl-Philipp Heisenberg! @HeisenbergCPLab #TrustinMinds #developmentalbiology
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🏳️🌈 ISTA stands proud, raising the flag in celebration and as a sign that science embraces and needs diversity & inclusion of all people. ISTA is committed to empowering individuals to be their authentic selves. 🔗.#QueerinSTEM
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Elevate your career: #FacultyCall @istaustria is now open! Looking for outstanding group leaders in #astronomy, #chemistry, #ComputerScience, #EarthSciences, #LifeSciences, #mathematics, & #physics to join our world-class institute. Apply now 🔗
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Check out the study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the group of #ISTAustria Professor Eva Benková #TrustinMinds #LifeSciences
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Assistant Prof. Jorryt Matthee will start @istaustria in September 2023. We are delighted to announce his arrival as a member of our team! Exploring the growth of galaxies, using @NASAWebb observations, he is looking for new members for his group. Apply 👉
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Congratulations to @SiegertLab, @DAlistarh and @XiaoqiFeng_m for receiving #ERCPoC and #ERCCoG grants from @ERC_Research! This financial commitment highlights the essential role @ISTAustria scientists play in pushing frontiers. Read more here 🔗
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Congrats! #ISTAustria Professor @HeisenbergCPLab is one of the select 5% of applicants who received a grant from the reputable @HFSP for his highly innovative scientific project in life sciences. More 👉
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Time to celebrate: 🥳 Congrats to @mi_riedl from @Sixt_Lab for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Having conducted research on transitions in chaotic systems @istaustria, he will transition to @tudresden_de and work together with the @brugueslab on various exciting problems.
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#ISTAustria Professor Gašper Tkačik will receive the Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding research at the interface of physics, biology, and neuroscience. @oeaw #TrustinMinds
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Congrats to Jérémie Palacci on his promotion from Assistant Prof. to #Professor! His dedication and passion have played a vital role in shaping an interdisciplinary culture @ISTAustria, inspiring researchers & students along the way. Congratulations, Professor Jérémie Palacci! 🎉
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President @thenzinger will pass the torch in Jan 2023. During his 14-year presidency, ISTA has flourished into an international institute with prominence & excellence. Thank you for laying the foundation for what @istaustria has become today! 👉
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#PCFD2024 at @ISTAustria will gather scientists from physics, information theory, mathematics, developmental and stem cell biology to delve into one of the biggest open questions in biology: how cells make fate decisions. Register by Apr 22:
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We welcomed Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, at ISTA today. Accompanied by leading Austrian politicians, she met with management, professors and PhD students of ISTA to discuss #BasicResearch and #TechTransfer. 🔗
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A hearty welcome to our new PhD cohort! 💚 Today's arrival marks the beginning of your academic journey @istaustria. May your time here be an exciting adventure filled with discoveries & interdisciplinary collaborations on cutting-edge research projects.🔗
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Welcome, @hetzer_martin, incoming #President and CEO of @istaustria! Having served 19 years @salkinstitute, he now returned to Austria, directing ISTA into its bright future. More info 👉
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Congratulations to our Postdoc @d_brueckner for receiving the Gustav-Hertz-Prize from the DPG. Applying ideas from #physics and #biology, he is researching theoretical physics models to describe how stem cell systems self-organize to make fate choices in developmental processes.
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The two words, truly appropriate to say goodbye to our outgoing @istaustria #President of 13 years, @thenzinger. Spoken from the heart, in many languages, by our campus #community. #thankyou Tom! 💚
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Congratulations to #ISTAustria Professor Daria Siekhaus who was nominated as one of their best reviewers by the journal Developmental Cell, @CellCellPress! @siekhauslab #PeerRevWk2019 #QualityinPeerReview #trustinminds
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Many of us know the struggles of periods when caught off guard without supplies. Time to say goodbye to those moments of panic. ISTA is now offering free sanitary products because we believe they should be free & accessible to everyone. The label indicates where to find them.
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Faculty call: #ISTAustria is looking for outstanding group leaders in all areas of natural sciences including: #chemistry, #computerscience, #lifesciences, #mathematics and #physics. Please RT! Application deadline is October 31, 2019! #Jobs #Job #Career #JobOpening #NowHiring
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Turning Lab Plastic Waste into Art!.Following the 5R principle, @IST_sustainable Group had an idea—to upcycle our laboratory plastic waste @ISTAustria into something new. Watch this video to find out more about the incredible creation by the visiting artist Saki. ♻️
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Science is very much enriched by people with all kinds of different backgrounds and identities coming together. To clearly state where our institute stands, ISTA wears its support on its sleeves - quite literally, because all identities are welcome at ISTA! 🌈 #IDAHOT2022
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End of an era: after 13 years as #President of @istaustria, @thenzinger will pass the torch to @hetzer_martin in Jan 2023. Tom will be remembered for his conviction in the potential of the institute & his dedication to bringing the vision into reality. 👉
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Take part in a webinar by #NobelLaureate and Columbia University Professor Joachim Frank on 'Single-particle cryo-EM: Visualization of biological molecules in their native states' next week-sign up for the free webinar on April 21, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET
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With great concern, @istaustria @oeaw @FWF_at are looking at the events in Iran. Science, research, and education commit themselves to stand up for freedom, diversity, and inclusion. These days, our solidarity goes especially to our colleagues in Iran 👉
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Congratulations @sariclab for being among the six outstanding scientists awarded #TheValleeFoundation Scholarship, recognizing her groundbreaking research on cell reshaping across evolution and her pursuit of physical principles of life .👉
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Exciting research by Daniel Boocock, @edouardhannezo @istaustria & @hirashima0203 @nusingapore published in @prx_life, unveils a new theoretical model, which allows a better understanding of long-range cell communication. Discover the physics behind it 🔗
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A bright future ahead: As of today, the financing and growth of IST Austria are secured until 2036. 🥳 The settlement on a new 15a agreement was celebrated with the Governor of Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Federal Minister Heinz Faßmann. 👉
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@istaustria PhD call for 2023 has officially opened again until Feb 28 📢!💪 Experience #science without boundaries at a place where #curiosity knows no limits. Find out about our seven study tracks and apply here 👉
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Anna Kicheva and Florian Schur promoted to professors. @KichevaLab researches pattern formation & size regulation in animal organs, focusing on the developing vertebrate spinal cord. @SchurLab explores the structural biology of cell migration and viral infection. Congratulations!
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Plant mothers talk to embryos via #auxin | Scientists solve long-standing question about signal that regulates embryo development | Study in @NaturePlants
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Shoutout to our physics professor Mikhail Lemeshko @lemeshko who got appointed a member of the Young Academy of the @oeaw for his outstanding research achievements. CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 Read the whole story here 🔎 #physics #youngscientist
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It's #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩🔬To this day women are underrepresented in science and many girls still believe that they can't accomplish a career as a scientist. Let us discuss, inspire and empower for gender equality in STEM! 👊 #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM
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Assistant Prof. Lisa Bugnet will join our faculty in January 2023. Aiming at understanding the evolution of stars through asteroseismology. Apply to become part of the next research group @istaustria 👉
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#congratulations to ISTA's postdoc @PhotonPhilipp, who just received the best poster award at the Nature Conference @bioeng22 @PioneerCampus in Munich. He was also invited to give a short talk, and might be the first #placentologist getting an award in advanced #neuroimaging. 🤩
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The dedication that our ISTA #graduates have put into their studies is about to be honored. We are delighted to award degrees to our students, giving them the salute they deserve on starting new chapters of their scientific careers. #graduationceremony #ISTAustria #graduation
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@ISTAustria was honored to host the anniversary edition of the #NaNaX10 conference over the past week. The prestigious forum brought together scientists from diverse research disciplines in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology. We can't wait to see you again, hopefully soon! @GroupIbanez
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We proudly raise the Pride flag as a symbol of support for the LGBTQIA+ community. At @ISTAustria we work to foster an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation. #HappyPride!.❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Professor @SazanovL wins #SchrödingerAward. This highest award by @oeaw, honors his outstanding achievements in the field of structural biology of membrane protein complexes. #Congratulations on the well deserved recognition Leonid!.Read more here 🔗
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New #study out in @naturecomms by our assistant professor Edouard Hannezo and neuroscientists @karolinskainst about how patterns of complex tree-like #morphologies in branched organs and #cells emerge during development and self-organization. 👉
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Congratulations to @lorabsweeney and her team at #ISTAustria, who have received a grant of €1.5 million from @erc_research . 🎉 Her research project "swim2limb" will investigate the locomotor behavior of e.g. frogs to better understand the spinal cord. 👉
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Congratulations to our Professor Peter Jonas for receiving the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize of the @SfNtweets for his contributions to the understanding of synaptic communication and information processing in neuronal microcircuits ▶
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#ISTAustria is extremely proud to be 2nd place in the world-wide normalized "Nature Index" ranking! #science #research #trustinminds @nature.
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How does our #brain quickly form stable and long-lasting memories? 🧠. A new study by ISTA Professor Tim Vogels @TPVogels and Everton Agnes @ejagnes (@biozentrum) sheds light on how neighboring #synapses shape each other for learning and memory. Now published in @NatureNeuro
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ERC Advanced Grant #ERCAdG @ERC_Research for Jiří Friml @FrimlLab @ISTAustria. The ISTA professor secured one of the EU’s most prestigious and competitive long-term fundings to embark on an innovative and ambitious project. 📷 © Nadine Poncioni | ISTA.
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Researchers at @ISTAustria have discovered a previously unknown mechanism of active matter #SelfOrganization, crucial for bacterial #CellDivision: Misaligned filaments spontaneously "die" to create a well-organized ring structure at the center of a dividing cell.
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Many congratulations to our ISTA president @thenzinger for being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences ! 🎉 It is considered one of the highest honors that a #scientist can receive.
In recognition of his contributions to computer science, Thomas A. Henzinger of @ISTAustria is being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Watch the #NAS159 livestream:
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Female power in science! Recently started as #ISTAustria professor, now winner of the Paper of the Year Award of @BiophysicalSoc @BiophysJ for her research about the assembly of collagen proteins. Huge congratulations @SaricLab! 🥳
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