Alwin Köhler is the Scientific Director of the institute. He is Professor of Molecular Biology and appointed at both the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. His research covers many aspects of the cell nucleus, including the nuclear envelope, chromatin and nuclear pores.
Fabien Martins is the Administrative & Finance Director of the Max Perutz Labs. He works closely with our two stakeholders to ensure that we can operate under the best financial conditions conducive to our future growth and development.
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is composed of internationally renowned scientists who regularly evaluate the quality of research at the Max Perutz Labs.
Cheryl Arrowsmith is the director of the Toronto Node of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally recognized expert in cancer related structural biology & chemical biology and epigenetics.
Ivan Dikic is Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and director of the Institute of Biochemistry II. He is also the founding director of the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), where he until today sustains an outstation lab.
Benjamin G. Neel is Professor at the Department of Medicine at the New York University, and the director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center, where he leads a rigorous academic community of clinician–scientists and basic scientists, as well as a team of physicians.
Lori Passmore is a cryo electron microscopist and structural biologist who leads a research group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. Her lab is focused on studying protein complexes that regulate gene expression.
Chromatin as a gatekeeper of chromosome replication
Mind matters. VBC mental health awareness
The multiple facets of Hop1 during meiotic prophase
Chromosomes as Mechanical Objects: from E.coli to Meiosis to Mammalian cells
Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation
Viral envelope engineering for cell type specific delivery
New ways of leading: inclusive leadership and revising academic hierarchies
How an opportunistic human pathogen colonizes surfaces - From pathogen behavior to new drugs
Title to be announced
Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Probing the 3D genome architectural basis of neurodevelopment and aging in vivo
How to tango with four - the evolution of meiotic chromosome segregation after genome duplication
Multidimensional approach to decoding the mysteries of animal development
Connecting mitotic chromosomes to dynamic microtubules - insight from biochemical reconstitution
Membrane remodeling proteins at the junction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Neurodiversity in academia: strengths and challenges of neurodivergence
Gene expression dynamics during the awakening of the zygotic genome
When all is lost? Measuring historical signals
Suckers and segments of the octopus arm
Using the house mouse radiation to study the rapid evolution of genes and genetic processes
CRISPR jumps ahead: mechanistic insights into CRISPR-associated transposons
Title to be announced
Enigmatic evolutionary origin and multipotency of the neural crest cells - major drivers of vertebrate evolution
Visualising mitotic chromosomes and nuclear dynamics by correlative light and electron microscopy
Bacterial cell envelope homeostasis at the (post)transcriptional level
Polyploidy and rediploidisation in stressful times
Prdm9 control of meiotic synapsis of homologs in intersubspecific hybrids
RNA virus from museum specimens
Programmed DNA double-strand breaks during meiosis: Mechanism and evolution
Title to be announced