May 15, 2013
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) has elected Christoph Lampert and Michael Sixt of IST Austria into the Junge Kurie, the chapter of young scientists within the Academy. The decrees were bestowed upon them on May 15, 2013, with Federal President Heinz Fischer and Federal Minister for Science and Research...
April 25, 2013
A team of scientists including Herbert Edelsbrunner, Professor at IST Austria, and his postdoc Olga Symonova, have identified genes that control the architecture of root systems in rice. In their paper, published in the March 11 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy...
April 24, 2013
In a new paper published in PNAS on Tuesday, April 23, a team of researchers around Jiři Friml, now Professor at IST Austria, reports an unanticipated effect of the plant hormone salicylic acid on protein trafficking in plant cells. Their research, performed while Jiři...
March 28, 2013
According to Gregor Mendel, we can thank our mother and father equally for the way we turn out, as their genes contribute to our genetic make-up in an equal manner. This is, however, not so for a specific set of genes which display “genomic...
March 21, 2013
During learning, novel information is transformed into memory through the processing and encoding of information in neural circuits. In a recent publication in Neuron, IST Austria Professor Jozsef Csicsvari, together with his collaborator David Dupret...
March 19, 2013
The German ambassador to Austria, Detlev Rünger, together with the counsellor for economic affairs, Wolfgang Wendl, today visited IST Austria. President Thomas Henzinger informed them about the status and the perspectives of the institute. This was followed by a meeting with German students and...
March 16, 2013
IST Austria congratulates Anton Zeilinger, vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of IST Austria, for his election to President of the OeAW. President Thomas A. Henzinger: "As President of IST Austria and member of the Academy, I congratulate Anton warmly, thank him for accepting this important task and wish him...
March 14, 2013
Not only beauty but also reality lies in the eye of the beholder – according to two recent papers by Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) professor Gašper Tkačik with his collaborators. Two quite similar visual scenes can...
March 5, 2013
On March 4, 2013, the French ambassador to Austria, Stéphane Gompertz, paid a visit to IST Austria. President Thomas Henzinger gave a presentation outlining the current status and future developments of the research institute. Accompanied by science attaché Jean Luc Stephan, the ambassador...
February 28, 2013
“Birds of a feather flock together”, as the adage goes. This could well be the theme of the event organised jointly by the European Research Council (ERC), the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, and the Representation of the European Commission...
