As part of the Vienna BioCenter Climate initiative Climate@MaxPerutzLabs seeks to share knowledge, create awareness, motivate and inspire action among researchers and students to become more energy efficient, reduce waste and cut transport emissions in their day-to-day work.
It started as a small note of self-reflection on a poster at a conference, triggered a lively discussion about what "I as an individual" can do in terms of climate sustainability and led to a guest commentary invited by EMBO. In this article Climate@MaxPerutzLabs discusses what is known about the negative impact of research on climate and how we can become part of a solution.
The Climate@MaxPerutzLabs initiative has received the Sustainability Award 2022 by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology for their work.
The prize is awarded every two years and recognizes innovative and sustainable projects at Austrian Universities and Higher Education institutions.
More information about the award (in German)
In order to share knowledge as well as learn from other universities, research institutes and companies, Climate@MaxPerutzLabs has kick-started the Vienna BioCenter Climate Lecture Series. Lecture topics covered by international speakers range from exchanging best practices on energy reduction, waste avoidance and other aspects of sustainability in the lab, covering all aspects of climate change.
The Climate@MaxPerutzLabs team has initiated various projects, ranging from analyzing plastic waste to reducing freezer energy consumption. Projects are generally part of a broader collaboration with the Vienna BioCenter Climate group and climate initiatives at other Austrian universities.
Teaching students of life sciences at all levels how to make lab work more sustainable, Climate@MaxPerutzLabs designs and leads practical lab courses. The course curriculum includes plastic analysis of the lab courses to show participants first-hand how to avoid, reuse, and recycle lab plastics. In cooperation with the Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training programme, Climate@MaxPerutzLabs also hosts the Climate Café for students, providing room for discussion on how labs can become more sustainable.
Ubiquitin & Friends Symposium 2024
The Ubiquitin & Friends Symposium is an annual international meeting taking place in the beautiful capital of Austria, aiming to bring together scholars from various fields studying ubiquitin/Ubl biology and protein degradation in a personal, family-like atmosphere, as suggested by the name.
Trash or treasure: Modulation of the tumor degradome drives immune evasion
The evolution and development of mollusc shells
Unraveling the Complexity of Crossover Regulation in C. elegans
Dynamics of 3D Genome Structure and Function
How superworms can help to solve our plastic waste crisis
Title to be announced
New players in an old pathway: biology of methanogens of the TACK superphylum
Targeting a gerozyme to reverse muscle aging and increase healthspan
Shaping morphogen gradients: from molecules to tissues and back
Title to be announced
Studying stressed cells by in situ structural biology
Exploring Microbial Resilience: Unravelling Escherichia coliand#x27;s Stress Response at the Level of Protein Synthesis
Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function
Deep homology and deep diversity: Evolving genetic toolkits for making and sensing light
The evolution of cell type identity and tissue microecology at the fetal-maternal interface
The unanticipated roles of PICIs and phages in bacterial evolution
Chemical targeting of subcellular protein localization
Origin and diversification of gut-derived organs in chordates
Job's Dilemma for the Genome: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Chromosomes
Connections between carbon and nitrogen cycling in the ocean
Understanding how the DNA-loop-extruding protein complex Condensin folds a chromatinized genome into mitotic chromosomes
DrugMap: A quantitative pan-cancer analysis of cysteine ligandability
From Roads to Rivers? Occurrence and environmental fate of tire and road wear particles and of tire-related chemicals
FENS 2024 Satellite event: Home cage behavior monitoring at the interface of animal welfare and neuroscience
Striking physiology and cell biology of (marine) environmental microorganisms
Mechanisms controlling maintenance of cohesin dependent loops
Title to be announced