Nikolaus Fortelny is awarded the

Christian-Doppler-Preis

 

For his scientific achievements in the field of Computational Systems Biology and Leukemia Research, Focus Group leader of CTBI Nikolaus Fortelny was personally awarded the Christian-Doppler-Preis by Landeshauptmann Wilfried Haslauer.

Congratulations!

 

Read more:  Presseaussendung des Salzburger Landes

 

 

ACBN Newsletter #7 Available

2023-12-04 · The seventh ACBN Newsletter announces a major transition for our Center and introduces a new lab group:

• Founding and retired member Albert Duschl recalls some facets about the history of our Center and points out the new focus on tumor biology and immunology.
• We introduce Dirk Schmidt-Arras and his Tumour Immunology Group, who joined ACBN at the start of the year.

Citation: Duschl, A., & Schmidt-Arras, D. (2023). ACBN Newsletter #7 Jul-Dec 2023. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.10199915

 

Publication in Nature Communications

2023-06-27 · In a collaboration with the St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, the Computational Systems Biology Group has unraveled the role of monocytes in neuroblastoma bone marrow metastasis using single-cell RNA and ATAC sequencing. The open access publication is available  here. Also read our press release.

 

ACBN Newsletter #6 Available

2023-05-10 · The sixth ACBN Newsletter will again include information about recent developments, highlights, introductions and other items. In this edition you will find:

• We introduce Nikolaus Fortelny and his group, which joined ACBN at the start of the year. They bring in exciting competence in computational systems biology.
• A feature on nanoparticles and allergy by Martin Himly. Is there a connection between the two topics? You bet.
• An especially interesting paper on extracellular vesicles from Melanie Schürz and others, group of Nicole Meisner-Kober.

Citation: Nikolaus Fortelny, Martin Himly, & Melanie Schürz (2023). ACBN Newsletter #6 Jan-Jun 2023. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.7915867

ACBN Newsletter #5 Available

2022-11-04 · The fifth ACBN Newsletter will again include information about recent developments, highlights, introductions and other items. In this edition you will find:

• FWF board decided to fund the ESPRIT fellowship application submitted by Giorgia Nasi
• Functional Studies on Extra-lysosomal Legumain: START Project # Y01469 by Elfriede Dall
• The Molecular Immunology Lab

Citation: Giorgia Nasi, Elfriede Dall, Jutta Horejs-Höck, Theresa Neuper, Michael Unger, Hieu-Hoa Dang, Renate Bauer, Alexandra Fux, Tobias Frauenlob, Rita Ribeiro, & Helene Sieberer (2022). ACBN Newsletter #5 Jul-Dec 2022. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.7278163

ACBN Newsletter #4 Available

2022-07-04 · The fourth ACBN Newsletter will again include information about recent developments, highlights, introductions and other items. In this edition you will find:

• an excursion into our history
• an introduction of the Meisner-Kober lab: Extracellular vesicles and RNA drugs
• Scientific Moving Stories

Citation: Albert Duschl, Nicole Meisner-Kober, Vesna Stanojlovic, Marina Canadas-Ortega, & Angelika Lahnsteiner (2022). ACBN Newsletter #4 Jan-Jun 2022. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.6787107

NanoWeek in Limassol, Cyprus

2022-06-20 to 24 · Martin Himly from the Bio-Nano Group and Chair of the  EU NanoSafety Cluster Working Group A on Education, Training and Communication co-organizes the  NanoWeek in Limassol, Cyprus where >300 attendees, involved in the current EU projects on safety and sustainability of nano- and advanced materials, met for an entire week on presentations, discussions, trainings, pan-project interactions, collaboration within the  EU-US Communities of Research, etc. The PLUS team organized interactive training in Decision Support Systems for Safety-and-Sustainability-by-Design, Read Across, Development of OECD Test Guidelines, Adverse Outcome Pathways, and Quality Assurance for Research Data. The PLUS researchers Litty Johnson won the best oral presentation award of track 1 (human hazard) and Sabine Hofer (below the 2nd from left) won the first data FAIRification Award.

Nano-Training School in Venice

2022-05-15 to 20 · Martin Himly from the Bio-Nano Group co-organizes the traditional  Nano-Training School in Venice, IT where >150 attendees, many of them early in their career (PhD students, PostDocs), met in the grand old Auditorio Santa Margherita for an entire week to safety and sustainability issues of nano-sized and advanced materials provided by experts in the field. This included also nanomedical carriers, food ingredients and contact materials, so lots of discussions and interactive training on life cycle aspects in line with the  EU Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and  Green Deal was going on. From the PLUS team (besides Martin Himly also Sabine Hofer and Norbert Hofstätter were involved) sessions were organized into human hazard and exposure assessment & modelling, data FAIRness and risk governance.

Announcement of DSP Symposium

2022-04-27 · The upcoming DSP Symposium is scheduled for July 4th and 5th, 2022, in the UNIPARK. It will be organized as the last joint symposium between the Doctoral College “Immunity in Cancer and Allergy” and the Doctoral School DSP “Biomolecules”. Please register for the Symposium as soon as possible, giving titles for presentations when applicable. Registration needs to be finished by 24 May 2022. Faculty members please also register, of course you do not need to give details for presentations.

Announcement of joint ICA-DSPB Symposium

2021-11-22 · The upcoming ICA Symposium is scheduled for 1 to 3 February 2022 (via Webex). It will be organized as a joint symposium between the Doctoral College ICA and the Doctorate School DSP Biomolecules. Please register  here for the Symposium as soon as possible, giving titles for presentations when applicable. Registration needs to be finished by 12 December 2021. Faculty members please also register, of course you do not need to give details for presentations.

ACBN Newsletter #3 Available

2021-11-04 · The third ACBN Newsletter will again include information about recent developments, highlights, introductions and other items. In this edition you will find:

• information concerning the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization
• a portrait of the group of Andreas Uhl and their research: Analysis of Biomedical Visual Data – Model-based vs. Data Driven Research
• a photo gallery: ACBN @ many (beautiful) places
• an overview concerning 400 years Paris Lodron University Salzburg

Citation: Albert Duschl, Christian Huber, & Andreas Uhl. (2021). ACBN Newsletter #3 Jul-Dec 2021. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.5644671

Publication of the Month awarded to Sabine Hofer

2021-07-18 · Sabine Hofer was awarded the Publication of the Month Award 07/2021 for her  publication on COVID-19 aerosols. The publication is listed by the WHO as  Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease and has also been covered in the PLUS News and the Salzburger Nachrichten.

ACBN Newsletter #2 Available

2021-04-27 · The second ACBN Newsletter will include information about recent developments, highlights from the research performed in ACBN, introductions to new groups and faculty members, and other items. In this edition you will find:

• an update from Fritz Aberger, Head of the Department of Biological Sciences, on changes in the organization of the University that are relevant for us,
• an overview on particle and nano-sciences undertaken within ACBN both at the NaWi and in Itzling, as well as
• a portrait of the group of Iris Gratz and their research on immunity.

Citation: Fritz Aberger, Andrea Feinle, Nicola Huesing, Mark Geppert, Martin Himly, & Iris Gratz. (2021). ACBN Newsletter #2 Jan-Jun 2021. Zenodo. DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.4707396

Announcement of joint ICA-DSPB Symposium, July 2021

2021-04-20 · The upcoming ICA Symposium is scheduled for 1 and 2 July 2021. It will be organized as a joint symposium between the Doctoral College ICA and the Doctorate School DSP Biomolecules. Please register  here for the Symposium as soon as possible, giving titles for presentations when applicable. Registration needs to be finished by 15 May 2021. Faculty members please also register, of course you do not need to give details for presentations.

Cover story in the European Journal of Immunology

2021-02-26 · Theresa Neuper et al.’ s recent publication IL-31 transgenic mice show reduced allergen-induced lung inflammation was selected as  cover story for the European Journal of Immunology 1’21. Congratulations! The full publication is available  here.