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Life Sciences

Research Areas

Life Sciences at IST Austria are currently represented by:

Evolutionary Genetics
Nick Barton

Hormonal Cross-Talk in Plants
Eva Benkova

RNA-based Gene Regulation
Carrie Bernecky

Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
Sylvia Cremer

Systems Neuroscience
Jozsef Csicsvari

High-resolution Optical Imaging for Biology
Johann Georg Danzl

Genes, Circuits, and Behavior
Mario de Bono

Developmental and Cell Biology of Plants
Jiri Friml

Systems and Synthetic Biology of Genetic Networks
Călin Guet

Physical Principles in Biological Systems
Edouard Hannezo

Morphogenesis in Development
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Genetic Dissection of Cerebral Cortex Development
Simon Hippenmeyer

Synaptic Communication in Hippocampal Microcircuits
Peter Jonas

Neuroethology
Maximilian Jösch

Tissue Growth and Developmental Pattern Formation
Anna Kicheva

Evolutionary Genomics
Fyodor Kondrashov

Self-Organization of Protein Systems
Martin Loose

Genetic and Molecular Basis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Gaia Novarino

Structural Biology of Membrane Protein Complexes
Leonid Sazanov

Structural Biology of Cell Migration and Viral Infection
Florian Schur

Molecular Neuroscience
Ryuichi Shigemoto

Neuroimmunology in Health and Disease
Sandra Siegert

Invasive Migration of Immune Cells
Daria Siekhaus

Morphodynamics of Immune Cells
Michael Sixt

Information Processing in Biological Networks
Gašper Tkačik

Sex-Chromosome Biology and Evolution
Beatriz Vicoso