Graduations 2021

Institute	Date	Graduate	Group	Title
IMP	13-Jan-21	Julien Charest	Cochella Group	Establishment of neuronal left/right asymmetry during early embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
IMP	19-Jan-21	Philipp Dexheimer	Cochella Group	MicroRNA requirements in C. elegans embryogenesis
IMP	26-Jan-21	Louisa Hill	Busslinger Group	Role of Pax5 in Igh locus contraction and VH gene recombination
Max Perutz Labs	19-Feb-21	Silvia Madritsch	von Haeseler Group	Comparative transcriptomics of non?model plant organisms
GMI	18-Feb-21	Katarzyna Parys	Belkhadir Group	Flagellin sensing by FLS2 constrains bacterial attempts to stay undetected while remaining motile
Max Perutz Labs	15-Feb-21	Andi Lackner	Leeb Group	Regulatory Mechanisms of the Naive to Formative Pluripotency Transition
IMBA	04-Mar-21	Sean Miletic	Marlovits Group	Structural investigation of protein secretion by the Salmonella type III secretion system injectisome
GMI	05-Mar-21	Aleksandra Plotnikova	Nodine Group	Characterization of microRNA-mediated cleavage events in Arabidopsis embryos
IMP	09-Mar-21	Paula Gutierrez Perez	Cochella Group	The deeply conserved miR-1/V-ATPase regulatory axis is essential for muscle physiology
GMI	19-Mar-21	Mayela Soto Jimenez	Nordborg Group	Population dynamics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis thaliana
GMI	26-Mar-21	Khong-Sam Chia	Djamei Group	Functional characterization of maize Topless corepressor binding effectors from Ustilago maydis
GMI	29-Mar-21	Ping Kao	Nodine Group	Requirements and Diversification of Gene Expression Programs in Early Plant Embryos
Max Perutz Labs	29-Mar-21	Kevin Eislmayr	Kovarik Group	IL?1a and IL?1b in resistance and resilience to bacterial infection
GMI	07-Apr-21	Bikram Pandey	Jonak Group	Regulatory and functional insights of a novel chloroplast localized protein kinase in Arabidopsis thaliana
IMP	23-Apr-21	Lisa Haas	Obenauf Group	Acquired resistance to targeted inhibitors of the MAPK pathway confers cross?resistance to immunotherapy
IMP	27-Apr-21	Christian Umkehrer	Obenauf Group	Investigating the clonal evolution of resistance to targeted therapy and its cross-resistance to immunotherapy
GMI	10-May-21	Robin Burns	Nordborg Group	Genome evolution following major evolutionary transitions in the genus Arabidopsis
GMI	11-May-21	Ranjith Papanreddy	Nodine Group	Small RNA mediated re-establishment of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns during Arabidopsis embryogenesis
GMI	19-May-21	Claudio Capitao	Riha Group	Role of SMG7 in meiotic progression in Arabidopsis thaliana
IMBA	09-Jun-21	Jakob Schnabl	Brennecke Group	Genetic and biochemical characterization of co-transcriptional silencing in the Drosophila piRNA pathway

Graduations 2020

Institute	Date	Graduate	Group	Title
IMP	10-Sep-20	Ines Leca	Keays	Microtubules and associated proteins during neurodevelopment: insights from disease mouse models
GMI	02-Oct-20	Fernando Navarette	Djamei	Functional characterization of Ustilago maydis effector proteins that suppress plant immunity
IMBA	14-Oct-20	Georg Michlits	Elling	Development and optimization of CRISPR-Cas9 screening technology
IMP	29-Oct-20	Christoph Neumayr	Stark	Differential cofactor dependencies define functionally distinct types of human enhancers
IMBA	20-Nov-20	Michael Mitter	Gerlich	The conformation of replicated human chromosomes
IMBA	20-Nov-20	David Hoffman	Penninger	On cancer and COVID – distinct approaches to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities of two global health threats
IMP	27-Nov-20	Luis Enrique Cabrera Quio	Pauli	Investigating mechanisms of RNA degradation during the oocyte-to-embryo transition
IMP	27-Nov-20	Maciej Zaczek	Peters	Dissecting the boundary function of CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF)
IMBA	01-Dec-20	Dominik Lindenhofer	Knoblich	CRISPR-LICHT screening in cerebral organoids reveals a regulator of ER secretion as a brain size determinant
Max Perutz Labs	16-Dec-20	Adriana Savova	Martens	Insights into the mechanisms of action of the cargo receptor NBR1 during selective autophagy
IMP	17-Dec-20	Simon Nimpf	Keays	Investigating the neuronal basis of magnetoreception in the pigeon
IMBA	18-Dec-20	Pablo-Andres Hofbauer	Mendjan	Cardioids reveal self-organizing principles of human myocardial and endocardial development