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Three Faculty Promotions in 2024
Anna Kicheva, Caroline Muller, and Florian Schur were promoted to professors
December 27, 2024
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AI Residency for Francesco Locatello
ISTA Assistant Professor partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as AI Resident
December 16, 2024
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Distinct Nerve Wiring of Human Memory
ISTA biologists team up with neurosurgeons to unravel the human brain’s specificities
December 11, 2024
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Obituary: Claus J. Raidl
ISTA mourns guiding force of the Institute
December 10, 2024
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Love Thy Neighbor
How neighborhood enhances cooperation
December 6, 2024
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No Economic Upswing without Research
Joint appeal by Austrian research institutions and funding agencies to government
December 5, 2024
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Allen Distinguished Investigator at ISTA
ISTA Professor Anđela Šarić to lead a $1.5 million-funded project on active membranes
December 3, 2024
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A Matter of Time
New ISTA research shows how tissue development is temporally organized
November 27, 2024
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New Era in Amphibian Biology
ISTA scientists use harmless viruses to investigate the nervous system in frogs
November 26, 2024
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ELLIS: Enabling Excellence in AI Research
ELLIS Unit Vienna at ISTA to push AI foundations and applications in science
November 21, 2024
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Seeing Memories Form
ISTA scientists take a deep look into memory processing inside the hippocampus
November 20, 2024
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Bringing Quantum Mechanics to Life
New ISTA assistant professor Julian Léonard makes abstract quantum properties visible
November 12, 2024
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Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice
ISTA researchers investigate why graph isomorphism algorithms seem so effective
November 6, 2024
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High-Tech Inventor to Further ML in Science
Machine learning expert, electrical engineer, and inventor Alex Bronstein joins ISTA faculty
October 30, 2024
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Dandelion-Shaped Supernova
ISTA astronomer Ilaria Caiazzo helps model a unique historical supernova in 3D
October 25, 2024
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Understanding Impacts of Mutations
ISTA scientists propose a novel framework to study “polygenic” diseases
October 24, 2024
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Evolution in Real Time
ISTA scientists predict—and witness—evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment
October 11, 2024
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From Chaos to Structure
How a bunch of seemingly disorganized cells go on to form a robust embryo
October 10, 2024
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One Million Euro Funding
ISTA researcher receives NOMIS Grant
October 9, 2024
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Cluster of Excellent Brains
ISTA neuroscience part of FWF Cluster of Excellence with 21 million Euro research funding
October 4, 2024
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Ylva Götberg Named to TIME100 Next
ISTA Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg named to TIME’s list of 100 emerging leaders
October 2, 2024
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A Centralized Database of All Math
A Mathlib developer at ISTA: Graduate student Martin Dvořák’s ‘side-project’
September 27, 2024
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Austria’s Math Award to Matthew Kwan
Austrian Mathematical Society recognizes Kwan’s contributions
September 26, 2024
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A Viral Close-Up
HTLV-1: A unique virus
September 25, 2024
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Exploring the Future of AI
Recap of the fully booked bigX 2024 by ISTA, xista, and IV
September 23, 2024
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76 New PhD Students at ISTA
28 countries represented in the Institute’s largest PhD cohort to date
September 20, 2024
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A Neuroscience Network Across Continents
From Imbizo–a computational neuroscience summer school in South Africa–to ISTA
September 18, 2024
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Big Algebras: Dictionary of Abstract Math
Abstract algebra and algebraic geometry to connect quantum physics with number theory
September 12, 2024
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Cells, Data, Stars: New ERC Projects at ISTA
EU funding for recipients Lisa Bugnet, Alicia Michael, and Marco Mondelli
September 5, 2024
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A Very “Clean Room”
Take a glimpse into ISTA’s Nanofabrication Facility
September 4, 2024
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Star Lives and Afterlives
ISTA welcomes stellar evolution specialist Ilaria Caiazzo as an assistant professor
August 27, 2024
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Re-engineering Bacterial Defense Systems
New ISTA Assistant Professor Jack Bravo develops potent tools for genome engineering
August 20, 2024
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Align or Die
ISTA researchers uncover how ‘mortal filaments’ self-assemble and maintain order
August 12, 2024
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Research with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing
ISTA is investing in an NVIDIA GPU cluster for generative AI and machine learning
August 8, 2024
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Wind, Water, and an Ever-Changing Climate
Atmosphere, ocean, and climate researcher Caroline Muller promoted to professor
August 1, 2024
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Deep-Mapping the Night Sky for Hot Stars
UVEX: NASA’s new UV space telescope with an ISTA fingerprint to conquer space
July 11, 2024
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Obituary: Arnold Schmidt
ISTA mourns one of the Institute’s ‘founding fathers’
July 10, 2024
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Martin Hetzer joins EMBO
ISTA president honored for outstanding research
July 9, 2024
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ISTA Graduation 2024
Representing 20 countries on 5 continents, honoring exceptional PhDs and alumni
June 21, 2024
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2024 Wittgenstein Award for Jiří Friml
Cell biologist at ISTA receives Austria’s most highly endowed science prize
June 20, 2024
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A Railroad of Cells
Computer simulations explain cell movement
June 19, 2024
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“Can’t sleep, must run experiments”
2,000 young and older guests visit the ISTA Open Campus 2024
June 13, 2024
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Ursula von der Leyen at ISTA
President of the European Commission on campus in Klosterneuburg
June 7, 2024
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Tom Henzinger Elected to Royal Society
ISTA professor and founding president is new member of UK body
June 6, 2024
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US National Academy Elects Nick Barton
ISTA professor and evolutionary biologist joins US National Academy of Sciences
June 4, 2024
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The Embryo Assembles Itself
New mathematical framework sheds light on how cells communicate to form embryo
June 3, 2024
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Nurturing Curiosity From the Start
Ground-breaking new kindergarten and press conference “Masterplan 2036”
May 22, 2024
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Beneath the Surface
To grow their roots, plants feel gravity — ISTA scientists take a close look
May 16, 2024
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Exploring Uncharted Territories
ISTA awards NOMIS-ISTA Fellowship
May 15, 2024

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Protocol for fabricating elastomeric stencils for patterned stem cell differentiation

Stefanie Rus, Jack Merrin, Monika Aleksandra Kulig, Thomas Minchington, Anna Kicheva

STAR Protocols 2024

PHD THESIS

Archaeal membranes: In silico modelling and design

Miguel Santana de Freitas Amaral

2024

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Development: Turing mechanics

Naoya Hino, Carolina Santos Fernandes Lasbarrères Camelo, Carl-Philipp J Heisenberg

Current Biology 2024

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Algorithms for causal learning and comparative analysis for genomic data

Nick N Machnik

2024

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Codes for adversaries: Between worst-case and average-case jamming

Bikash Kumar Dey, Sidharth Jaggi, Michael Langberg, Anand D. Sarwate, Yihan Zhang

Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory 2024

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A decoy receptor derived from alternative splicing fine-tunes cytokinin signaling in Arabidopsis

Michaela Králová, Ivona Kubalová, Jakub Hajný, Karolina Kubiasova, Karolína Vagaská, Zengxiang Ge, Michelle C Gallei, Hana Semerádová, Anna Kuchařová, Martin Hönig, Aline Monzer, Martin Kovačik, Jiří Friml, Ondřej Novák, Eva Benková, Yoshihisa Ikeda, David Zalabák

Molecular Plant 2024

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The Dsc ubiquitin ligase complex identifies transmembrane degrons to degrade orphaned proteins at the Golgi

Yannick Weyer, Sinead I. Schwabl, Xuechen Tang, Astha Purwar, Konstantin Siegmann, Angela Ruepp, Theresia Dunzendorfer-Matt, Michael A. Widerin, Veronika Niedrist, Noa J.M. Mutsters, Maria G. Tettamanti, Sabine Weys, Bettina Sarg, Leopold Kremser, Klaus R. Liedl, Oliver Schmidt, David Teis

Nature Communications 2024

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Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis for Wigner-type matrices

László Erdös, Volodymyr Riabov

Communications in Mathematical Physics 2024

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