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22nd Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium

The 22nd Vienna BioCenter PhD Symposium "Bringing it all back Home" will take place 6/7 November 2025.
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Anniversary Symposium

40 Years of Finding Out Symposium

This year, the IMP celebrates 40 years of finding out. To mark this milestone, we’re hosting a special one-day anniversary symposium on Wednesday, 5 November 2025. We warmly invite IMP alumni to join us for a day of inspiring talks, reflections on four decades of discovery, and opportunities to reconnect with colleagues old and new.

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Clemens Plaschka

Senior Group Leader mRNA processing and regulation

Johannes Zuber

Senior Group Leader Finding and understanding cancer dependencies

David Haselbach

Technology Platform Head Watching molecular machines in action

Alexander Stark

Senior Group Leader Understanding transcriptional regulation

Anna Obenauf

Senior Group Leader Molecular mechanisms of metastasis and drug resistance

Jan-Michael Peters

Scientific Director Mitosis and chromosome biology

Joris van der Veeken

Group Leader T-cell differentiation and function

Moritz Gaidt

Group Leader Functional genomics of the innate immune system

Andrea Pauli

Senior Group Leader Fertilisation and cellular remodelling – from egg to embryo

Tim Clausen

Senior Group Leader Molecular mechanisms of protein quality control

Sven Klumpe

IMP-IMBA Fellow In situ structural biology and transposons

Diana Pinheiro

Group Leader Mechanics and signalling dynamics in embryogenesis

Meinrad Busslinger

Emeritus Stem cell commitment in haematopoiesis

Francisco Balzarotti

Group Leader Advanced light microscopy and biophysics

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Deneke, VE., Blaha, A., Lu, Y., Suwita, JP., Draper, JM., Phan, CS., Panser, K., Schleiffer, A., Jacob, L., Humer, T., Stejskal, K., Krssakova, G., Roitinger, E., Handler, D., Kamoshita, M., Vance, TDR., Wang, X., Surm, JM., Moran, Y., Lee, JE., Ikawa, M., Pauli, A. (2024)

A conserved fertilization complex bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates.

Corresponding preprint Cell. 187(25):7066-7078.e22

Elewaut, A., Estivill, G., Bayerl, F., Castillon, L., Novatchkova, M., Pottendorfer, E., Hoffmann-Haas, L., Schönlein, M., Nguyen, TV., Lauss, M., Andreatta, F., Vulin, M., Krecioch, I., Bayerl, J., Pedde, AM., Fabre, N., Holstein, F., Cronin, SM., Rieser, S., Laniti, DD., Barras, D., Coukos, G., Quek, C., Bai, X., Muñoz I Ordoño, M., Wiesner, T., Zuber, J., Jönsson, G., Böttcher, JP., Vanharanta, S., Obenauf, AC. (2025)

Cancer cells impair monocyte-mediated T cell stimulation to evade immunity.

Nature. 637(8046):716-725

Latest publicatons

Scroll and browse the latest publications from the IMP. The most recent papers and pre-prints with IMP scientists as first- or corresponding authors.

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Acidosis orchestrates adaptations of energy metabolism in tumors.

Science. 390(6769):eadp7603

Collective homeostasis of condensation-prone proteins via their mRNAs.

Nature.

Mechanisms of Messenger RNA Packaging and Export.

Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 41(1):479-504

Trio fatale: Neutrophils, NETs, and necrosis.

Immunity. 58(9):2154-2156

Architecture of the UBR4 complex, a giant E4 ligase central to eukaryotic protein quality control.

Science. 389(6763):909-914

A split-site E3 ligase mechanism enables ZNFX1 to ubiquitinate and cluster single-stranded RNA into ubiquitin-coated nucleoprotein particles.

Cell.

Coping with uncertainty: Challenges for robust pattern formation in dynamical tissues.

Semin Cell Dev Biol. 173:103629

DIY innate immune sensing: Crafting fresh DNA to detect viruses.

Mol Cell. 85(15):2818-2820

A lyophilized open-source RT-LAMP assay for molecular diagnostics in resource-limited settings.

Life Sci Alliance. 8(10)

Unlocking Immunity Within: Inflammatory Monocytes Stimulate T Cells at Immune Hubs in the Tumor Microenvironment.

J Invest Dermatol.

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13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.

13 labs, 200 scientists, curiosity-driven research: the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a leading life science centre in Europe.