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Structure of protein nano turbine revealed
Scientists determine first structure of a cell’s rotary engine using state-of-the-art microscopy

August 22, 2019

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Summer camp with additional value
Science for kids and teacher training at IST Austria

August 21, 2019

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Too much inequality impedes support for public goods
Nature study from University of Exeter Business School, IST Austria and Harvard University

August 14, 2019

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ISTernship – The interns of IST Austria
IST Austria welcomes 44 ISTerns to campus

August 6, 2019

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When plant roots learned to follow gravity
Key evolutionary steps of gravity-directed root growth identified

August 2, 2019

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Scientists call on EU: Give CRISPR a chance!
Common Open Statement asks to amend outdated GMO legislation

July 30, 2019

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Visual computing team presents findings at SIGGRAPH 2019
Researchers at world’s largest conference on computer graphics and animation

July 26, 2019

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‘Cool Tech’ on campus
Technology used at IST Austria produces temperatures close to absolute zero

July 22, 2019

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Minister Iris Rauskala visits “Kinderuni” at IST Austria
Around 300 enthusiastic kids took part in the Kinderuni in Klosterneuburg.

July 19, 2019

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Thomas A. Henzinger receives prestigious EATCS award
Renowned computer scientist and president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) has been honored for his extensive contributions to computer science by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

July 15, 2019

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IST Austria celebrates 23 PhD graduates
On Tuesday July 9th, the Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria) celebrated 23 new graduates of the Institute’s PhD program.

July 10, 2019

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New method for realistic water wave animations
Researchers at IST Austria have developed a method that realistically models water wave animations at a significantly lower computational expense.

July 2, 2019

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Building a bridge to the quantum world
Scientists develop prototype of what may serve as link to connect quantum computers

June 26, 2019

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IST Austria No. 3 among the world’s best research institutes
Nature Index ranks IST Austria in Klosterneuburg at the top of the world

June 19, 2019

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Peter Jonas elected member of EMBO
Number of EMBO members at IST Austria rises to 8

June 11, 2019

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IST Austria celebrated 10-year anniversary
High-ranking visitors from politics and research celebrated 10-year anniversary this week

June 7, 2019

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Paul Nurse lectured on “Science as Revolution”
IST Lecture by Nobel laureate continued 10-year anniversary celebrations

June 6, 2019

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BRIDGE Network launched
Five top international research institutes form BRIDGE Network

June 5, 2019

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IST Austria – 10 years of world-class basic research
More than 300 invited guests celebrated 10-year anniversary

June 5, 2019

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IST Austria held research festival to celebrate 10th anniversary
More than 2000 people visited IST Austria’s Open Campus

May 27, 2019

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How to correctly generate a brain
During brain development, stem cells generate neurons of different type and function at distinct points in time | IST Austria researchers contribute key experiment to identify essential protein controlling stem cell behavior

May 9, 2019

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How the cytoplasm separates from the yolk
Cooperation of cell biologists and physicists at IST Austria unravels physical basis of yolk-cytoplasm segregation in early fish embryo | Study published in Cell

May 9, 2019

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How plant cells heal wounded neighbors
Already specified root cells are reprogrammed to correctly replace dead neighbor cells in newly discovered process of “restorative patterning” | Study published in Cell

May 2, 2019

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Leonid Sazanov elected Fellow of Royal Society
Sazanov advanced understanding of structure and mechanism of an important respiratory enzyme

April 17, 2019

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Leukocytes use nucleus as ruler to choose path
Mobile cells move around obstacles in dense tissue by selecting for larger pore sizes. Study in Nature.

April 4, 2019

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New mechanism of plant hormone auxin acts opposite way
Auxin accumulation at inner bend of seedling leads to growth inhibition rather than stimulation.

April 4, 2019

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Body height, BMI, disease risk & Co.
New eLife article on limitations of quantitative genetic methods in population research.

March 29, 2019

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Grid cells create “treasure map” in rat brain
Firing pattern of grid cells carries information about goals.

March 28, 2019

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Science Education Day: Bringing Science into Schools
Around 200 participants engaged in lectures, workshops and more

March 28, 2019

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New gene potentially involved in metastasis identified
Immune cells get stuck in the fruit fly’s head

March 26, 2019

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Memories of movement replayed randomly during sleep
Place cells in hippocampus randomly replay memories of movement in open environments.

February 25, 2019

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Most rapidly growing cell in zebrafish egg inhibits neighbours
Scientists at IST Austria discover new mechanism for lateral inhibition of cells—study published in Cell

February 14, 2019

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Famous “sandpile model”moves like traveling sand dune
Researchers at IST Austria find new property of important physical model. Results published in PNAS

February 11, 2019

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Cells find their identity using a mathematically optimal strategy
Study puts into question textbook model of how positional information is conveyed in Drosophila embryo – Study published in Cell

February 1, 2019

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“And the (technical) Oscar goes to…”
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors Austrian researcher with “Technical Achievement Award”

January 28, 2019

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PhD student received Khwarizmi Award
PhD student recognized for role as a co-author in developing innovative new algorithms for static analysis of programs

January 11, 2019

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Description of rotating molecules made easy
Interdisciplinary team of scientists develops a new numerical technique to describe molecules in solvents

December 21, 2018

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AT-CZ project provides open access to research infrastructure
Call for proposals remains open as long as capacity exists

December 19, 2018

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OECD report praises achievements of IST Austria
Institutes of Science and Technology an example of successful promotion of excellence

December 19, 2018

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When a fish becomes fluid
Fluidity transition in zebrafish embryo necessary for development – Study published in Nature Cell Biology

December 17, 2018

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Plant cell inherits up-and-down info from mother cell
At cell division, mother cell passes polarity information on to daughter cells – study published in Nature Plants

December 4, 2018

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Peter Jonas receives Erwin Schrödinger Prize
Erwin Schrödinger Prize in equal parts to IST Austria Professor Peter Jonas and Elly Tanaka from IMP

December 3, 2018

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Reading rats’ minds
Scientists can predict where a rat will go next based on how its hippocampal neurons fire | Study published in Neuron

November 28, 2018

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Set of enzymes to create glowing organisms discovered
Pathway leading to bioluminescence in fungi identified and transferred to another organism – Study published in PNAS

November 28, 2018

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For ants, unity is strength – and health
Ant social networks put a brake on disease spread – Study published in Science

November 22, 2018

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Mutation that causes autism makes brain less flexible
Molecular and behavioral consequences of SETD5 mutation described in mice – Study published in Nature Neuroscience

November 19, 2018

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Joint Vienna-Area Postdoc Meeting
40 postdocs from Vienna area convene at IST Austria for one-day meeting

November 19, 2018

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No cooperation without open communication
Scientists develop new and more realistic model of human interaction | Study published in PNAS

November 12, 2018

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Lateral inhibition keeps similar memories apart
Connectivity in the dentate gyrus supports pattern separation – Study published in Nature Communications

November 2, 2018

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Aug 27, 2019

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Aug 27, 2019

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Aug 27, 2019

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Aug 29, 2019

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Fumika Suzuki, University of British Columbia
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Sep 5, 2019

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Xavier Vekemans, University of Lille
Whole genome duplications and dynamics of the self-incompatibility system in Brassicaceae: two inter-connected evolutionary processes Whole genome duplications and dynamics of the self-incompatibility system in Brassicaceae: two inter-connected evolutionary processes
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Sep 9, 2019

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Sep 10, 2019

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Sep 16, 2019

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Sep 19, 2019

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Sep 30, 2019

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Oct 3, 2019

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Gergely Harcos, University of Budapest
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Oct 3, 2019

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Oct 8, 2019

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Oct 17, 2019

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Oct 31, 2019

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Jaitra Chattopadhyay, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Bi-quadratic fields having a non-principal Euclidean ideal class Bi-quadratic fields having a non-principal Euclidean ideal class
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Oct 31, 2019

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Subha Sarkar, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Quadratic non-residues and non-primitive roots satisfying a coprimality condition Quadratic non-residues and non-primitive roots satisfying a coprimality condition
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Oct 31, 2019

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Nov 14, 2019

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Nov 14, 2019

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Nov 19, 2019

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Jeremie Viennot, CNRS Paris
Phonon-number squeezing beyond the classical limit Phonon-number squeezing beyond the classical limit
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Nov 21, 2019

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Christopher Frei, University of Manchaster, UK
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Nov 22, 2019

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Nov 28, 2019

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Dec 11, 2019

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Dec 11, 2019

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Dec 12, 2019

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Caroline Hill, Francis Crick Institute, London UK
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Dec 12, 2019

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THEORY OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, APPLIED AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

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Florian Schur

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF CELL MIGRATION AND VIRAL INFECTION

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Jointly convex quantum Jensen divergences

Daniel Virosztek

Linear Algebra and Its Applications 2019

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Bidding games on Markov decision processes

Guy Avni, Thomas A Henzinger, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, Petr Novotny

RP: Reachability Problems 2019

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Arakawa-Suzuki functors for Whittaker modules

Adam Brown

Journal of Algebra 2019

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Patrolling the vascular borders: Platelets in immunity to infection and cancer

Florian R Gärtner, Steffen Massberg

Nature Reviews Immunology 2019

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Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs

Mingzhang Huang, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady

OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications 2019

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Targeting microglia with lentivirus and AAV: Recent advances and remaining challenges

Margaret E Maes, Gloria Colombo, Rouven Schulz, Sandra Siegert

Neuroscience Letters 2019

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Glyphosate does not substitute for glycine in proteins of actively dividing mammalian cells

Michael N. Antoniou, Armel Nicolas, Robin Mesnage, Martina Biserni, Francesco V. Rao, Cristina Vazquez Martin

BMC Research Notes 2019

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Diurnal variation in opsin expression and common housekeeping genes necessitates comprehensive normalization methods for quantitative real-time PCR analyses

Miranda R. Yourick, Benjamin A. Sandkam, William J Gammerdinger, Daniel Escobar-Camacho, Sri Pratima Nandamuri, Frances E. Clark, Brendan Joyce, Matthew A. Conte, Thomas D. Kocher, Karen L. Carleton

Molecular Ecology Resources 2019

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