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Chromatin in eukaryotic genomes is broadly divided into two classes: euchromatin, which are more open regions containing expressed genes, and heterochromatin, which is more densely packed and contains non-expressed regions including transposable elements (TEs), whose activation can be…

Are you excited about doing a PhD in Plant Science?

Then apply now to the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) PhD Programme and join the Gregor Mendel Institute! The application deadline is November 15^th.

At the VBC you will find the support you need to develop a PhD project in a competitive area and…

New work published in eLife, from an international team led by the Dagdas lab, has identified an evolutionary conserved protein that mediates recycling of the endoplasmic reticulum.

New work published in Nature Cell Biology from an international team led by Dr. Michael Borg, a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Frederic Berger, has uncovered the answer to a decades-old question - how do plants forget?

We are delighted to announce that Liam Dolan will be joining the GMI as a senior group leader!

The new work from an international team led by Frédéric Berger and his PhD Student Sean Montgomery at the Gregor Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and by Chang Liu at the ZMBP at the University of Tuebingen was published today in Current Biology. The researchers took a…

A secret weapon used by the killer rice blast fungus to infect host plants has been discovered in new research.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short regulatory molecules that repress mRNAs, regulating development in both plants and animals. Students from the Nodine lab used high-throughput sequencing methods to profile miRNAs and their target mRNAs from developing plant embryos. They identified hundreds of…