Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

Insgesamt wurden bis Juni 2026 vom FWF 61 Projekte an der Uni Wien bewilligt; der WWTF förderte fünf Forschungsprojekte

Schmerz ist nicht gleich Schmerz – doch die Medizin behandelt ihn oft so. Die Biologin Manuela Schmidt will das ändern. In winzigen Nervenzellen sucht sie nach dem, was den Schmerz eines Kindes von de...

Neue Einblicke in die Selbstorganisation und Regeneration von Geweben

Der Vergleich von 4.454 Tierarten zeigt, wie sich Chromosomen in den vergangenen 600 Millionen Jahren auf "evolutionären Autobahnen" verbreitet haben

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Ultrastructure expansion microscopy, live-cell imaging and time-resolved dual RNA sequencing reveal the infection dynamics of a microparasite, providing insights into how Pirsonia diadema shapes marin...

Here they show that gastruloids made of embryonic cells of the sea anemone Nematostella can robustly regenerate whole organisms. They show that Notch signaling is crucial to sort out the randomly disp...

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...

16.06.2026, 18:00 - 20:00 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Rector Sebastian Schütze: "Enormous reputational damage"

We uncover a large variety of putative inhibitory ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) in the phylum Cnidaria, the sister group to all bilaterian animals. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a complex evolut....

The EMBO Journal - Molecular ecology and evolution are central to understanding how biological systems function, interact, and diversify. A special issue of this journal reflects the growing...

Corals and other marine invertebrates host diverse microbes that remain poorly characterized, especially in the deep sea. Here the authors discover a new clade of bacteria with uniquely streamlined ge...

Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology

Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology (Master)

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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the 3D chromatin architecture and cis-regulatory elements in a sea urchin and a sea star reveals mechanisms of 3D chromatin organization in echinoderms...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized transcriptomic research, enabling the creation of detailed tissue, organ, and species-level atlases for model organisms. In Hydractinia, a cni...

Crawling motility is a hallmark of eukaryotic cells and requires a dynamic actin cytoskeleton, regulated adhesion, and spatially organized signalling pathways. Asgard archaea (phylum Promethearchaeota...

Over 400 ultra-light transmitters deployed by over 20 partner organizations deliver unprecedented, individual-level view of monarch migration using…