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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sascha Amann won the 2026 Rabitsch Award! 🏆 A recent PhD graduate from the CryoEM Technology Platform, Amann received the award for his research on how the proteasome recognises and degrades proteins tagged with ubiquitin: bit.ly/4hQTCs1

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Researchers from our Plaschka lab expected one molecular motor to dismantle the cell’s RNA-editing machine. Instead, they found three. Like three hands untying a knot, the motors act in sequence to take the spliceosome apart: bit.ly/4AQnqNQ

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

During Postdoc Appreciation Week, Vienna BioCenter postdocs hosted the Postdoc Networking Day—a lively day of new connections, shared ideas, and community at the IMP Lecture Hall.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She’s coming to the IMP, and she’s recruiting! 🔬 Doris Kaltenecker will join the IMP as a Group Leader in March 2027. Her lab will study organ-to-organ communication in systemic diseases, with a focus on cancer cachexia:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our Julia Bubis, postdoc at the Proteomics Technology Hub, on receiving the 2026 ÖGMBT Life Sciences Research Award Austria. Her award-winning workflow can quantify up to 5,300 proteins in a single cell: bit.ly/46nTZF9

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We look forward to welcoming all six laureates to the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social for the award ceremony in November! Congratulations again to these brilliant young scientists! 🎉 8/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Zhejing Zhang from the lab of Mineko Kengaku at Kyoto University. 👏🏾 7/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Abigail Xie (@abbyxie.bsky.social) from the lab of Lydia Finley at the Sloan Kettering Institute. 👏🏾 6/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stephen Tang (@stephentang23.bsky.social) from the lab of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 👏🏾 5/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hannah Tam from the lab of Ya-Chieh Hsu at @harvard.edu 👏🏾 4/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maximilian Madern (@maxmadern.bsky.social) from the lab of Marvin Tanenbaum at the @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social 👏🏾 3/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Joe Dobbs (@joedobbs.bsky.social) from the lab of Julia Mahamid at @embl.org. 👏🏾 2/

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce the six outstanding laureates of the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies in Molecular Life Sciences 2026! 🏆Congratulations to all awardees and honourable mentions! 🎉 1/ ➡️ www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For nearly 40 years, Sanger sequencing has supported research at the IMP—from radioactive gels read by hand to automated systems processing hundreds of thousands of samples a year. As the service moves to an external provider, we look back at its remarkable journey: bit.ly/4cT44xi

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

IMP postdoc Elias Adriaenssens has received an ERC Starting Grant worth close to €1.5 million. He will study how cells decide when to dispose of their organelles—and how they prevent healthy ones from being destroyed: bit.ly/4zUBQMy

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tim Clausen’s lab at the IMP will participate in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network to train early-career researchers and advance new ways to eliminate disease-causing proteins using the cell’s own degradation machinery:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The IMP lab of Alexander Stark used AI to design enhancers—DNA switches controlling gene activity—for specific mouse tissues: the first from-scratch design in a mammal. News: imp.ac.at/news/article/ai-learns-to-write-code-that-activates-genes-in-mammals Paper: nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02729-1

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Sofia Moysiadou from the Obenauf lab on receiving a prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her project focuses on how lung cancer develops resistance to KRAS inhibitors:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

👨‍🔬 Our IMP Alumni Portrait series is back! From collecting freshwater invertebrates in St. Petersburg to leading a lab at @ki.se Taras Kreslavskiy shares how curiosity—and his years at the IMP—shaped his scientific journey. 👉 Read the interview: www.imp.ac.at/career/beyon...

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Pathogens have spent millions of years learning how to hijack human cells. Now, researchers from the Stark lab at the IMP and the Taipale lab at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, have built a platform to systematically discover how they do it:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you for attending the 20th Microsymposium on RNA Biology at the Vienna BioCenter! Three days of talks on small RNAs, from gene silencing to the role these molecules play in development, physiology, and disease.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The IMP is among Austria's leading contributors to exceptional life science research. In QED Science's new analysis of 57,455 bioRxiv preprints, Austria emerged as the strongest overperformer for its size. Of the 31 Austrian preprints in "The 1%", 11 include the IMP:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

📅 Deadline is approaching! The International Birnstiel Award is accepting nominations until 30 June, don’t miss the chance to recognise outstanding talent in molecular life sciences. Submit your nomination here 👉 www.imp.ac.at/achievements/birnstie…

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How do cells distinguish functional genetic messages from molecular noise? Researchers in Clemens Plaschka's lab at IMP, together with Julius Brennecke's lab at IMBA and collaborators at Aarhus University, reveal a new principle of gene regulation: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-…

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

WWTF funds research into precision medicine with a twist 🔬 A new collaborative project between the IMP and St. Anna CCRI aims to identify biomarkers that can help guide the use of existing therapies in paediatric cancers: www.imp.ac.at/news/article...

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Vienna BioCenter @viennabiocenter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

FÄKT goes Vienna BioCenter! Check out the video (in German) stemming from their visit to @impvienna.bsky.social and Andrea Pauli's Lab: youtu.be/naPNMyxMP9w?... #viennabiocenter #FÄKT #lifescience

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

➡️ Fränze is hiring! Check out the open position: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

From the Vienna BioCenter to Max Planck: Fränze Müller is launching her own Proteomics Lab in Potsdam. We spoke with her about the move, the future of proteomics, and the kind of lab culture she hopes to build:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

How do cells keep powerful antiviral responses under control—while staying ready to activate them within moments of infection? Researchers from Moritz Gaidt's lab at the IMP discovered that repetitive DNA can act as a powerful immune switch:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our Victoria Deneke, Research Associate in the lab of Andrea Pauli, who has been awarded a 2025 IBSA Foundation Fellowship! The award supports pioneering work across a range of biomedical fields and recognises outstanding early-career scientists:

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ida Jentoft won a Birnstiel Award for her outstanding doctoral research in 2023. Do you know an exceptional PhD student? The Birnstiel Award has an open call! 📅 Nominate by 30 June: www.imp.ac.at/achievements/birnstie…

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