Congratulations to Alvaro and Eva!

Our paper on all-optical drug screening appeared in Nature Chemical Biology!

You can find it here: http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchembio.1933.html

This also is our first publication in the second funding period of the MolTag graduate program!

News coverage (e.g. by C&EN “News of The Week”) can be found here:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i41/New-Technique-Illuminates-Small-Molecule.html
http://derstandard.at/2000023643869/Gruenes-Licht-erhellt-den-Weg-zu-neuen-Wirkstoffen-gegen-Krebs
http://noe.orf.at/news/stories/2736557/
http://ist.ac.at/en/news-media/news/news-detail/article/shining-light-on-orphan-receptors/6/

Joins us for the official opening ceremony of the 2nd MolTag funding period Dec. 9, 2015, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

IST Austria will host the event in our main lecture hall and the poster for the event can be found here.

Our technical workshop “Light that cures: Therapies based on optogenetic manipulations and light-regulated drugs” was accepted for next year’s FENS Forum of Neuroscience!

Join us Saturday, July 2, 2016, 10:30 – 13:30 at FENS 2016 in Copenhagen!

You can find the preliminary programme of FENS 2016 here (search the page for “W02 – Light that cures” to find the workshop).

We and our close collaborators will present three contributions at the upcoming optogenetics Keystone symposium!

http://www.keystonesymposia.org/15C5

The synthetic physiology group joins the Molecular Drug Targets (MolTag) graduate program!

http://moltag.univie.ac.at/index.php

We are happy and proud to be a part of this Doktoratskolleg initiative funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/fwf-programmes/dks/

Congratulations to Jens, Alvaro and our collaborator Michael in Tübingen! Our joint paper on flavin contents in mammalian cells just came out!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elps.201400451/abstract

Flavins are not only co-factors of many essential redox reactions but also of our optogenetic receptors. ‘JensAro’ measured cellular flavin contents in our most recent paper using a sensitive capillary electrophoresis technique that was established with Michael Lämmerhofer from the University of Tübingen.

The next step of our work will be to find out how cellular flavin household ‘responds’ to overexpression of flavin binding proteins, e.g. a LOV domain, and how flavins are distributed on sub-cellular scales.

Laura was awarded IST FELLOW and joins our group as a post-doc.

Click here to learn more about IST FELLOW:

http://ist.ac.at/research/postdoctoral-research/istfellow/

Congratulations and Welcome, Laura!

Check out our perspective “The Optogenetic Promise for Oncology” that just came online in Molecular and Cellular Oncology!

https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/mco/article/964045/

Congratulations, Alvaro!

Alvaro received a fellowship of the Ramon Areces Foundation for his research on the optogenetic restoration of neuronal function in models of brain disorders!

Seguir haciendo!

Welcome, Martin!

Martin joins us for an ERASMUS-funded internship in collaboration with Soojin Ryu’s group of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.

Great to have you and Good luck!