Lab News

Biochemical Society Award for Laura

14 Apr 2026

Big congratulations to Laura, former postdoc and now independent group leader at the IMB in Mainz, for receiving the Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award 2027!

Laura received this award in recognition of her research performed as a postdoc in the Pauli lab, where she successfully bridged the gap between biochemistry and developmental biology to discover how ribosomes and mRNAs are stored in the zebrafish egg.

We are really happy for this well-deserved award for Laura, and are cheering for her and her new lab from Vienna!

Ambassador of El Salvador in Austria visits Pauli lab and IMP

08 Apr 2026

We were delighted to welcome the Ambassador of El Salvador to Austria, Mr. Kennedy Reyes, to the IMP and the Pauli lab. During his visit, Victoria presented her research on fertilization, and together with Andi, guided a tour of our fish facility and the Vienna BioCenter campus. We greatly appreciate this opportunity to connect and exchange ideas, and we look forward to continuing to attract talented students from El Salvador and across Latin America to our campus through initiatives such as the Talents-for-Future program and the VBC PhD Program.

FWF emerging fields grant for project GEMINI

10 Mar 2026

We are excited to share that Andi is coordinating an FWF Emerging Fields grant with four other PIs, Julius Brennecke (IMBA), David Haselbach (IMP), Sven Klumpe (IMP/IMBA) and Anđela Šarić (ISTA). Harnessing recent advances in cryo-ET and molecular dynamics approaches, the team is planning to uncover the fascinating yet poorly understood biology of the germline. In their project GEMINI, they will specifically investigate how germ cells protect their genome against genetic parasites, how they package it, and how they pass it on across generations during fertilization.

Congratulations to the whole team for this great achievement!

Follow the links to find out more about the project GEMINI and the FWF Emerging Fields program.

Photo credit: FWF/Knopfdrücker