WHERE DO THE SCIENTISTS OF IST AUSTRIA COME FROM? Take a look inside to find out. CONTENTS FOREWORDS Foreword by the President 03 Foreword by the Chair of the Professorial Committee 04 THE INSTITUTE IST Austria at a Glance 06 Long-Term Financing 08 Lab Building East 10 The IST Austria Graduate School & ISTFELLOW Program 12 RESEARCH Close-up: Cell biology at IST Austria 14 Current Research at IST Austria 16 Nick Barton Group 18 Jonathan P. Bollback Group 19 Tobias Bollenbach Group 20 Krishnendu Chatterjee Group 21 Sylvia Cremer Group 22 Jozsef Csicsvari Group 23 Herbert Edelsbrunner Group 24 Călin Guet Group 25 Carl-Philipp Heisenberg Group 26 IMPRINT Thomas A. Henzinger Group 27 Simon Hippenmeyer Group 28 Institute of Science and Technology Austria Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg Harald Janovjak Group 29 Phone: +43 (0)2243–9000 Peter Jonas Group 30 [email protected] www.ist.ac.at Vladimir Kolmogorov Group 31 Christoph Lampert Group Editor: 32 Sophie Cate Krzysztof Pietrzak Group 33 Daria Siekhaus Group Texts: 34 IST Austria Michael Sixt Group 35 Gašper Tkačik Group Graphic design: 36 Starmühler Agentur & Verlag Caroline Uhler Group 37 Schellinggasse 1, 1010 Wien Chris Wojtan Group www.starmuehler.at 38 Christine Starmühler IST Austria Professors 2013 40 Sofie Mayer Research Grants 2012 42 Photography: Publications 2012 44 Lisa Cichocki Roland Ferrigato OUTREACH Göran Gnaudschun (Portrait Peter Fratzl) Oliver Lehmann Scientific Events 48 Rita Newman Communicating Science Lukas Schaller 50 Jürgen Skarwan Harold Vladar Bernhard Wenzl ORGANIZATION Diverse Funds 52 Print: Boards of IST Austria 53 Bösmüller Administration and Scientific Service Units 54 Paper: Munken Polar 300g, 150g CAMPUS Copyright: Location & Directions 56 Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2013 48 62 83 1 3 7 18 104 125 21 2 10 4 5 8 13 27 34 55 77 140 30 41 42 45 61 72 142 11 14 23 25 26 28 39 40 58 78 87 88 89 113 141 64 96 32 38 98 109 65 IST AUSTRIA SCIENTISTS (December 31, 2012) PROFESSORS (last appointment before IST Austria) 1 Nick Barton University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 70 2 Eva Benková Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 3 Jonathan Bollback University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 4 Tobias Bollenbach Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 5 Krishnendu Chatterjee University of California, Santa Cruz, USA 6 Sylvia Cremer University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 7 Jozsef Csicsvari University of Oxford, Oxford, UK POSTDOCS (institution of PhD degree) 8 Herbert Edelsbrunner Duke University, Durham, USA 29 Anna Andersson University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 9 Laszlo Erdös Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany 30 Alice Alvernhe University of Provence, Marseille, France 10 Jiři Friml Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 31 Itaru Arai University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 11 Călin Guet Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 32 Gloria Arque University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 12 Carl-Philipp Heisenberg Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and 33 Ulrich Bauer University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Genetics, Dresden, Germany 34 Tobias Bergmiller ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 13 Thomas A. Henzinger EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 35 Karel Blahna Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 14 Simon Hippenmeyer Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA 36 Charlotte Boccara Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 15 Björn Hof Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Trondheim, Norway Göttingen, Germany 37 Udi Boker Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 16 Harald Janovjak Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany 38 Vicente Botella-Soler University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 17 Peter Jonas University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 39 Pavol Cerny University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 18 Vladimir Kolmogorov University College London, London, UK 40 Remy Chait Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 19 Christoph Lampert Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, 41 Guillaume Chevereau ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France Germany 42 Julien Compagnon University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot, Paris, France 20 Krzysztof Pietrzak Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, 43 Marjon de Vos FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands 44 Desiree Dickerson University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 21 Robert Seiringer McGill University, Montreal, Canada 45 Cezara Dragoi University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot, Paris, France 22 Ryuichi Shigemoto National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), 46 Leila El Masri Kiel University, Kiel, Germany Okazaki, Japan 47 David Field University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia 23 Daria Siekhaus NYU Medical Center, New York, USA 48 Jian Gan University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 24 Michael Sixt Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany 49 Ashutosh Gupta Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany 25 Gašper Tkačik University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 50 Hua Hu University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 26 Caroline Uhler University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA 51 Stefan Jeschke University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany 27 Uli Wagner EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 52 Eva Kiermaier University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 28 Chris Wojtan Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA 53 Klaus Koren Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria 86 36 50 29 84 82 94 122 124 95 117 20 43 56 85 110 63 79 100 35 67 99 121 106 33 46 49 51 54 59 71 76 93 103 101 108 123 129 132 111 115 131 135 136 52 53 57 74 80 90 6 9 12 15 16 97 102 107 111 112 118 119 127 128 133 68 81 92 116 134 17 19 24 91 137 120 31 60 75 22 (nationality) 37 138 139 PHD STUDENTS 91 Hande Acar Turkey 92 Vanessa Barone Italy 93 Martin Behrndt Germany 94 Vera Belyaeva Russia 95 Morten Bojsen-Hansen Denmark 69 105 114 96 Pedro Campinho Portugal 126 130 97 Daniel Capek Austria 98 Barbara Casillas Perez Mexico 99 Martin Chmelik Czech Republic 100 Przemyslaw Daca Poland 101 Marta Dravecka Slovakia 102 Jakob Egger Austria 103 Alexander Eichner Germany 104 Thomas Ellis Great Britain 105 Sarit Goswami India 106 Igor Gridchyn Ukraine 107 David Hahn Austria 54 Janina Kowalski Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 108 Katarina Hríbiková Slovakia 55 Stephan Krenn University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland 109 Mabel Iglesias-Ham Cuba 56 Gabby Krens University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands 110 Fabienne Jesse Netherlands 57 Anne Kupczok University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 111 Matthias Konrad Germany, Austria 58 Abraham Martin Del Campo Texas A&M University, College Station/Houston, USA 112 Alexander Leithner Austria 59 José Martinez-Guzman University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 113 Catherine McKenzie USA 60 Hitoshi Morita National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan 114 Rajiv Mishra India 61 Christine Moussion Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France 115 Karin Mitosch Germany 62 Joseph O'Neill University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 116 Maurizio Morri Italy 63 Jan Otop University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland 117 Sidsel Nag Denmark 64 Tiago Paixao University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 118 Sebastian Novak Austria 65 Alejandro Pernia-Andrade Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela 119 Florian Pausinger Austria 66 Melinda Pickup The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 120 Andreas Pavlogiannis Greece 67 Jitka Polechova University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 121 Pavel Payne Czech Republic 68 Maria Pia Postiglione University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy 122 Anastasia Pentina Russia 69 Aparna Ratheesh University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India 123 Maroš Pleška Slovakia 47 66 70 Rodrigo Redondo Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 124 Ekaterina Pukhlyakova Russia 71 Jan Reininghaus Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany 125 Christopher Pull Great Britain 72 Anne Reversat University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot, Paris, France 126 Arjun Radhakrishna India 73 Sasha Rubin University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 127 Johannes Reiter Austria 74 Verena Ruprecht Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria 128 Georg Rieckh Austria 75 Keisuke Sako Osaka University, Osaka, Japan 129 Michal Rybar Slovakia 76 Philipp Schmalhorst Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 130 Sriram Kumar Sankaran India 77 Philipp Schönenberger Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland 131 Jan Schwarz Germany 78 Ali Sezgin University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 132 Viktoriia Sharmanska Ukraine 79 Mateusz Sikora Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 133 Konstanze Simbriger Austria 80 Michael Smutny University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 134 Magdalena Steinrück Austria 81 Olga Symonova University of Trento, Trento, Italy 135 Miriam Stock Germany 44 73 82 Rustem Takhanov Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 136 Thorsten Tarrach Germany 83 Julia Tischler University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 137 Murat Tugrul Turkey 84 Line Vej Ugelvig University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 138 Bo Wu China 85 Harold Vladar University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands 139 Haibing Xu China 86 Kari Vaahtomeri University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 140 Damien Zufferey Switzerland 87 Meghan Vyleta Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA 88 Nicholas P. Vyleta Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA (graduated in 2012) 89 Daniel Benjamin Weissman Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA 141 Sooyun Kim USA 90 Stefan Wieser Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria 142 Jean-Leon Maitre France BASICCuriosity RESEARCH Driven INDEPENDENTBoard of Scientists English Language INTERNATIONAL