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News

  • Sep 24, 2025: Yannick Weyer won the prestigous Life Sciences PhD Award Austria 2025 in the Basic science category for his exceptional thesis. Truly deserved, Yannick!
  • Sep 21-24, 2025: Katrin Watschinger and Markus Keller successfully organised the ICBL2025 International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids in Innsbruck. It was a huge hit! Well done!
  • Sep 4, 2025: Michael Ebner’s project, LysoLogs, secured highly competitive ERC Starting Grant funding. What a monumental achievement, Michi!
  • July 24, 2025: Iduna Schwablk successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations! We’re thrilled that she’s staying with us to begin her postdoctoral position. Good luck, Iduna!
  • July 1, 2025: David’s international projec, ‘identification of a Golgi quality control network’, has been funded by the FWF!
  • June 17, 2025: Theresia and David were selected as Mol Med Teachers of the Term. What a great achievement!
  • June 1, 2025: A new PI has started at the institute: Michael Ebner. Welcome, Michi, we wish you a successful time with us in Innsbruck!
  • April/May 2025: The Watschinger group published a novel fluorescent lysoplasmalogenase assay in the Journal of Lipid Research, and Ilaria and Denise’s cover design was selected for the May issue.
  • Jan 27, 2025: Ilaria Dorigatti was awarded a project from the Tyrolean promotion of young researchers programme (TNFF) – what a great success.
  • December 2024: A new Junior PI, Jan Müller, started with his group at the Institute of Molecular Biochemistry. Jan is a physician-scientist in the field of hematology and will continue his work on cellular therapies against myeloid malignancies at the CCB.
  • Nov 19, 2024: We visited the M-Preis hydrogen production plant and afterwards went on a crime trail across Innsbruck. What an exciting and fun day!
  • Oct 26, 2024: Yannick’s and Iduna’s paper on Golgi quality control “The Dsc ubiquitin ligase complex identifies transmembrane degrons to degrade orphaned proteins at the Golgi” is out in Nature Communications. Congratulations to all the authors!
  • Oct 1, 2024: We have a new PhD student! Lucija Kucej joined David’s group with the start of the winter term.
  • Sep 30, 2024: After decades at our institute, Georg Golderer entered his well-deserved retirement. We wish you all the best, Georg!
  • Sep 1, 2024: Philipp Andesner joined our institute. Welcome, Philipp, we are happy to have you with us!
  • June 5, 2024: Prof. Katrin Watschinger was elected Deputy Director of the Biocenter.
  • May 17, 2024: Yannick Weyer successfully defended his dissertation “Functional characterization of a novel post-ER associated degradation system ” to earn his doctoral degree. Congrats, Yannick!
  • May 1, 2024: Konstantin Siegmann has started his PhD thesis in David’s group. We are happy, Konsti, to have you with us and wish you a successful time in our institute!
  • Jan 1, 2024: Our institute has been renamed from “Institute of Biological Chemistry” to “Institute of  Molecular Biochemistry”.
  • Dec 18, 2023: Institute Retreat: Curling in Seefeld
  • Oct 23, 2023: Jennifer Zierler defended her thesis “Metabolic regulation of nutrient transporter endocytosis”. Congratulations and all the best for your future!
  • October 2023: Katrin Watschinger was appointed deputy director of the Institute of Biological Chemistry.
  • October 2023: Katrin Watschinger, Denise Kummer and Ilaria Dorigatti, at the 63rd edition of the International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL) in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
  • Oct 1, 2023: Prof. David Teis is appointed Director of the Institute.
  • September 2023: From September 21-23, Katrin Watschinger, Denise Kummer and Ilaria Dorigatti attended the “Conference of the International Plasmalogen Society 2023” in Vienna.
  • March 2023: Technician Nikolas Andersen is the newest addition to the group of Katrin Watschinger. Welcome Niko!
  • Nov 15, 2022: Denise Kummer has started her PhD on “The role of ether lipids in ferroptosis” in the group of Katrin Watschinger. We are happy to have you with us.
  • August 2022: Ilaria Dorigatti, our new PhD student, has been nominated for the “2nd Immunis Sponsorship for Young Science” by Szabo-Scandic for her project where she will explore the role and significance of PEDS1 in the framework of the whole hematopoietic system. Congratulations Ilaria!
  • March 2022: CMLS has just accepted our paper “Essential role of a conserved aspartate for the enzymatic activity of plasmanylethanolamine desaturase”. Thank you to the Liedl group here in Innsbruck for the excellent collaboration.
  • November 2021: What a breakthrough: Our research group project “Oxidative damage & repair of membrane lipids in health and disease” was funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. This will link the laboratories of Markus Keller, Judith Hagenbuchner, Lukas Neumann, Timon Adolph and me tightly together for the next years to come. Follow us also on https://www.i-med.ac.at/fg15/.
  • March 2021: Excellent news: The Austrian Science Fund FWF grants our stand-alone project! For the next four years, we will work on “Dissecting the role of plasmalogens in ether lipid-associated pathologies” in close collaboration with our national research partner Prof. Dr. Johannes Berger from the Medical University of Vienna and his team.
  • March 2021: Our paper “When the genome bluffs: a tandem duplication event during generation of a novel Agmo knockout mouse model fools routine genotyping” has been accepted in Cell & Bioscience. Congratulations to the first authors Sabrina and Stefan!
  • January 2021: Our Review on “The Emerging Physiological Role of AGMO 10 Years after Its Gene Identification” is out!

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