DOC Fellowships awarded to numerous Vienna BioCenter Phd Students
Max Perutz Labs Vienna
Kathleen Berkun and Elizabeth Ethier (Hallacli lab), María García Gallardo (Buecker lab), Aswini Kumar Panda (Falk lab), Sebastian Platzer and Kavya Shetty (Hein lab), and Mateusz Walter (Querques lab) received this highly competitive fellowship.
Their work spans a wide range of topics, from neurodegenerative diseases to fundamental protein biology.
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Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Myrto Chatziangelou (Stark Lab) Johannes Suwita (Pauli Lab), Constanze Gremmelmaier (Plaschka Lab).
The fellowships will support their doctoral research on fertilisation mechanisms, long-range gene regulation, and splicing quality control.
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Gregor Mendel Institute
Hing Pan Ng (Ma Lab) was awarded a DOC fellowship for his research on the molecular mechanisms that gall-inducing insects use to remodel plant cell walls during gall development.
Read more about his work here
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS)
Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano (Petersen Group). The fellowship will support his doctoral research on host–microbe interactions in lucinid clams.
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Joana Góis Valério (Pollak Group). With this competitive grant, she will explore how microbial newcomers successfully establish themselves in existing bacterial communities – a question central to her doctoral research on root microbiomes.
Read more about her work here