108 years ago on May 19th 1914, Max Ferdinand Perutz was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. His life was shaped by emigration to the UK, time in prison, and as an enemy alien. Years of tireless research followed, which saw him lead the world-famous Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK and win the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1962 - a biography that illustrates a tremendous amount of effort and determination.
"Beyond his outstanding scientific achievements, Max Perutz remained a disarmingly modest man who used his impressive intellect and quiet charm relentlessly in the cause of peace and freedom", says Scientific Director Alwin Köhler. "Never a really political person, Max Perutz occupied the larger public stage by his popular and accessible science books and his brilliant lectures."
The exhibition was created in cooperation with science writer and Max Perutz´ biographer, Georgina Ferry: "The story of a small Viennese schoolboy with a passion for climbing mountains, who later would go on to win the Nobel prize for discovering how breath connects to blood, is one of the most inspiring adventures in 20th century science", she says. The design of the multimedia exhibition pavilion was inspired by the shape of a red blood cell, which is packed with hemoglobin, Max’s favorite molecule.
From his youth as a student at the University of Vienna and throughout his entire life Max Perutz remained a passionate mountaineer. Breathing at High Altitude brings together his personal biography and his research: the lifelong, unremitting endeavor to discover the structure of hemoglobin and his love for mountains.
Profiling and programming in vitro human neuronal diversity at single-cell resolution
18th Microsymposium on RNA Biology
The „Microsymposium on RNA Biology“ is an international conference that brings together young scientists, junior and senior group leaders, and company representatives from all over the world to present and discuss their latest findings in the exciting field of small RNAs and beyond. The Microsymposium was founded in 2005 and has established itself as the major small RNA meeting in Europe. It is organized by the four research institutions IMBA, IMP, GMI and the Max Perutz Labs as well as by the RNA community of the Vienna BioCenter.
Transformation Reactions of Organic Contaminants and Oxygen: From Field Sites to Reaction Mechanisms
Title to be announced
Multiscale plant bioimaging using advanced microscopy
Parthenogenesis, cryptobiosis, and the survival in extreme environmental conditions
Evading ageing: Mitochondrial and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes
Genomes in Rhodnius prolixus symbiotic system
Stem cells, immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer
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.
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
New players in an old pathway: biology of methanogens of the TACK superphylum
Shaping morphogen gradients: from molecules to tissues and back
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
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