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IMBA celebrates Lange Nacht der Forschung News
31.05.2024
During the evening, over 170,000 people visited research institutions all over Austria to learn more about science.
Two consortiums with IMBA participation awarded HORIZON-MSCA Doctoral Network funding News
28.05.2024
Two Doctoral Network consortiums including the groups of Elly Tanaka and Nicolas Rivron at IMBA have been selected by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Doctoral Networks 2023 initiative. The two international consortiums will receive funding aimed at educating the next generation of leading scientists in their respective fields.
Hand or arm? Chromatin holds the key News
23.05.2024
The axolotl can regenerate fully functional limbs and organs by using positional information encoded in its cells. Elly Tanaka and her group at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMBA) now show that chromatin "stop signals" on genes guide the correct regeneration program, ensuring that only appropriate body parts regrow depending on where the limb was lost. The study was published on May 23 in the journal Developmental Cell.
The winner makes it all: cluster competition drives floorplate formation News
21.05.2024
How do cells in an embryo decide which structures to form? During embryonic development, organizing centers orchestrate the development of tissues and organs. Now, Elly Tanaka and her research team at IMBA uncover the molecular mechanisms that guide the formation of one organizing center, the ventral floorplate, in neural tube organoids. An interplay between cell clustering and competition drives the formation of a single floor plate, as the researchers show in their study published in the journal Developmental Cell on May 21.
Elly Tanaka and Jürgen Knoblich elected to German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina News
21.05.2024
Elly Tanaka, scientific director of IMBA, and Jürgen Knoblich, senior group leader at IMBA, were elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was founded in 1652 and is the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences and medicine.
In memoriam: Hans Tuppy (1924 - 2024) News
08.05.2024
Hans Tuppy, biochemist, science politician, and one of the founding fathers of the Vienna BioCenter, passed away months before his 100th birthday.
First model of the brain’s information highways developed News
07.05.2024
Our human brain is not only bigger and contains more neurons than the brains of other species, but it is also connected in a special pattern: Thick bundles of neurons connect brain regions across long distances, such as the right and left brain hemispheres. A team of researchers at IMBA, including Catarina Martins-Costa, Nina Corsini and Jürgen Knoblich, now presents the first organoid model in which these information highways can be studied. Their results are published on May 7th in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
How can the human brain grow so large? IMBA researchers find the key in neurodevelopment News
07.05.2024
The human brain contains many more neurons than those of other animals. But how are we able to produce so many neurons? Jürgen Knoblich and his team at IMBA have discovered that some human neuronal stem cells can replicate for far longer than expected and produce most neurons in the brain. Their findings, published in Nature Cell Biology on May 7, support a new model to explain the human brain’s unique development.
HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Takuya Hidaka News
02.05.2024
Takuya Hidaka, Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Daniel Gerlich at IMBA, was awarded a competitive fellowship of the Human Frontier Science Program. The fellowship will support Hidaka’s postdoctoral research and welcome him into a network of young researchers with high potential.
Houskaprize 2024 awarded to Jürgen Knoblich News
26.04.2024
Jürgen Knoblich and his team at IMBA were awarded the Houskaprize 2024 in the category of “University research”.

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