Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
@istaresearch.bsky.social
The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is dedicated to cutting-edge basic research and graduate education.
www.ista.ac.at
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Our fully-funded PhD program is open for applications!
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
Quantum theory remains a complex field of study, and it is quite distinct from classical physics. These two areas of research do not speak the same language.
But could classical physics hold the key to cut through the complexity of some puzzling quantum systems?
More: ista.ac.at/en/news/reac...
But could classical physics hold the key to cut through the complexity of some puzzling quantum systems?
More: ista.ac.at/en/news/reac...
Reaching for the (Quantum) Scars
Quantum many-body scars are challenging our understanding of when and how quantum systems reach equilibrium. After recently demonstrating that they are more common than anticipated, researchers from t...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Quantum theory remains a complex field of study, and it is quite distinct from classical physics. These two areas of research do not speak the same language.
But could classical physics hold the key to cut through the complexity of some puzzling quantum systems?
More: ista.ac.at/en/news/reac...
But could classical physics hold the key to cut through the complexity of some puzzling quantum systems?
More: ista.ac.at/en/news/reac...
Safeguarding privacy is crucial. Differential privacy offers a mathematically rigorous approach to preserving privacy in the analysis of data. How does it work? What makes it important?
Learn more at the ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork from @harvard.edu.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4qC9fH8
Learn more at the ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork from @harvard.edu.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4qC9fH8
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Safeguarding privacy is crucial. Differential privacy offers a mathematically rigorous approach to preserving privacy in the analysis of data. How does it work? What makes it important?
Learn more at the ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork from @harvard.edu.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4qC9fH8
Learn more at the ISTA Lecture with Cynthia Dwork from @harvard.edu.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4qC9fH8
“In-person meetings have a quality that online conferences simply cannot provide,” says ISTA professor @paulschanda.bsky.social.
But can we make conference travel more sustainable?
Read more: ista.ac.at/en/news/carb...
But can we make conference travel more sustainable?
Read more: ista.ac.at/en/news/carb...
Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel
International meetings offer researchers worldwide the chance to explore the cutting edge of science, generate new ideas, and strike up collaborations. Having a wide geographical distribution of atten...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“In-person meetings have a quality that online conferences simply cannot provide,” says ISTA professor @paulschanda.bsky.social.
But can we make conference travel more sustainable?
Read more: ista.ac.at/en/news/carb...
But can we make conference travel more sustainable?
Read more: ista.ac.at/en/news/carb...
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100 Jahre #Quanten 💫 Im Wiener Rathaus feierten gestern Vertreter:innen aus der Welt der Quanten bei einer Veranstaltung von Quantum Science Austria. Mit dabei waren @univie.ac.at @tuwien.at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @jku.at @istaresearch.bsky.social. Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/800-gae...
800 Gäste feierten die Quantenphysik
Österreich ist auf der internationalen Landkarte der Quantenphysik ein echter Hotspot. Zum Abschluss des UNESCO-Jahres zu 100 Jahren Quantentheorie feierte die österreichische Physik-Community die Err...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
100 Jahre #Quanten 💫 Im Wiener Rathaus feierten gestern Vertreter:innen aus der Welt der Quanten bei einer Veranstaltung von Quantum Science Austria. Mit dabei waren @univie.ac.at @tuwien.at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @jku.at @istaresearch.bsky.social. Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/800-gae...
Scott Waitukaitis wins the #APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research. This honor highlights his work with soft electrified materials, solving the mystery of contact electrification, and bringing clarity to complex soft matter challenges through innovative experiments. Congratulations, Scott!
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Scott Waitukaitis wins the #APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research. This honor highlights his work with soft electrified materials, solving the mystery of contact electrification, and bringing clarity to complex soft matter challenges through innovative experiments. Congratulations, Scott!
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Meet Monika Henzinger, Prof at @istaresearch.bsky.social 🇦🇹, ELLIS Fellow in the ELLIS Unit Vienna.
Her research covers: differential privacy, especially in continual setting.
Her advice for young scientists? Write high-quality publications: quality is more important than quantity.
#WomenInELLIS
Her research covers: differential privacy, especially in continual setting.
Her advice for young scientists? Write high-quality publications: quality is more important than quantity.
#WomenInELLIS
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Meet Monika Henzinger, Prof at @istaresearch.bsky.social 🇦🇹, ELLIS Fellow in the ELLIS Unit Vienna.
Her research covers: differential privacy, especially in continual setting.
Her advice for young scientists? Write high-quality publications: quality is more important than quantity.
#WomenInELLIS
Her research covers: differential privacy, especially in continual setting.
Her advice for young scientists? Write high-quality publications: quality is more important than quantity.
#WomenInELLIS
After discovering this in one of our labs, we simply had to Post-it. 😜
#ISTAresearch #art #postit #postitnotes #stickynotes #postitart
#ISTAresearch #art #postit #postitnotes #stickynotes #postitart
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
After discovering this in one of our labs, we simply had to Post-it. 😜
#ISTAresearch #art #postit #postitnotes #stickynotes #postitart
#ISTAresearch #art #postit #postitnotes #stickynotes #postitart
Thinking of an internship or a PhD at ISTA? Join us for our Virtual Student Open Day to find out what it's like to conduct research at ISTA, and get all your questions answered directly by our students and faculty.
Register now to secure your spot!
👉 https://phd.ista.ac.at/student-open-day/
Register now to secure your spot!
👉 https://phd.ista.ac.at/student-open-day/
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Thinking of an internship or a PhD at ISTA? Join us for our Virtual Student Open Day to find out what it's like to conduct research at ISTA, and get all your questions answered directly by our students and faculty.
Register now to secure your spot!
👉 https://phd.ista.ac.at/student-open-day/
Register now to secure your spot!
👉 https://phd.ista.ac.at/student-open-day/
Who is that playing trick-or-treat? That cheeky monster flashing its spook-tacular grin is actually a visual trick. Captured here are mouse brain cells using expansion microscopy. This approach has various applications, incl. tracing neurons for connectomics studies & also scaring the onlookers. 👻
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Who is that playing trick-or-treat? That cheeky monster flashing its spook-tacular grin is actually a visual trick. Captured here are mouse brain cells using expansion microscopy. This approach has various applications, incl. tracing neurons for connectomics studies & also scaring the onlookers. 👻
When autumn colors unfold like this in front of your eyes, you feel like you are living in a magic aquarelle. In reality, it's all the beauty of our campus in the fall. 🍁
#autumf="/hashtag/autumvibes" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autumvibes #autum
#autumf="/hashtag/autumvibes" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autumvibes #autum
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
When autumn colors unfold like this in front of your eyes, you feel like you are living in a magic aquarelle. In reality, it's all the beauty of our campus in the fall. 🍁
#autumf="/hashtag/autumvibes" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autumvibes #autum
#autumf="/hashtag/autumvibes" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#autumvibes #autum
Our fully-funded PhD program is open for applications!
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our fully-funded PhD program is open for applications!
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
Join us to conduct cutting-edge research at top facilities with guidance from world-class faculty. Through our interdisciplinary training, you can tailor your PhD experience to match your interests and curiosity.
Apply now: phd.ista.ac.at
Explore. Connect. Shape Your Career.
Join us at the first Vienna Postdoc Career Day! Meet inspiring role models, gain insights from industry experts, and network with fellow #postdocs from various institutions.
Check out the program and register here: https://cc.lbg.ac.at/careerday/
Join us at the first Vienna Postdoc Career Day! Meet inspiring role models, gain insights from industry experts, and network with fellow #postdocs from various institutions.
Check out the program and register here: https://cc.lbg.ac.at/careerday/
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Explore. Connect. Shape Your Career.
Join us at the first Vienna Postdoc Career Day! Meet inspiring role models, gain insights from industry experts, and network with fellow #postdocs from various institutions.
Check out the program and register here: https://cc.lbg.ac.at/careerday/
Join us at the first Vienna Postdoc Career Day! Meet inspiring role models, gain insights from industry experts, and network with fellow #postdocs from various institutions.
Check out the program and register here: https://cc.lbg.ac.at/careerday/
Are we alone in the cosmos, or not? This question took center stage at yesterday’s ÖAW-ISTA Lecture with Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
@oeaw.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Are we alone in the cosmos, or not? This question took center stage at yesterday’s ÖAW-ISTA Lecture with Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
@oeaw.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
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Kiss, Shrink, Run ⛹🏻♀️ New Perspective in @science.org about one of my favourite topics: how synapses and their tiny vesicles communicate in the brain. Chang-Lu Tao and colleagues reveal a previously unknown pathway for vesicle release. Read more here: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @istaresearch.bsky.social
Kiss, shrink, run
A unified mechanism directs synaptic vesicle release
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Kiss, Shrink, Run ⛹🏻♀️ New Perspective in @science.org about one of my favourite topics: how synapses and their tiny vesicles communicate in the brain. Chang-Lu Tao and colleagues reveal a previously unknown pathway for vesicle release. Read more here: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @istaresearch.bsky.social
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📢 New preprint:
Experiment-guided AlphaFold3 resolves accurate protein ensembles.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
AlphaFold3 is incredible, but has crucial limitations: it typically collapses to a single conformation, ignoring the inherent dynamics of proteins. And it can be wrong. Here's a solution. 🧵👇
Experiment-guided AlphaFold3 resolves accurate protein ensembles.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
AlphaFold3 is incredible, but has crucial limitations: it typically collapses to a single conformation, ignoring the inherent dynamics of proteins. And it can be wrong. Here's a solution. 🧵👇
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
📢 New preprint:
Experiment-guided AlphaFold3 resolves accurate protein ensembles.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
AlphaFold3 is incredible, but has crucial limitations: it typically collapses to a single conformation, ignoring the inherent dynamics of proteins. And it can be wrong. Here's a solution. 🧵👇
Experiment-guided AlphaFold3 resolves accurate protein ensembles.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
AlphaFold3 is incredible, but has crucial limitations: it typically collapses to a single conformation, ignoring the inherent dynamics of proteins. And it can be wrong. Here's a solution. 🧵👇
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🚨 Abstract submission extended to Oct 21!
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium (Nov 11–12) at @istaresearch.bsky.social / ISTA 🇦🇹
Explore cutting-edge cryo-EM, meet top speakers, and visit beautiful Vienna.
👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium (Nov 11–12) at @istaresearch.bsky.social / ISTA 🇦🇹
Explore cutting-edge cryo-EM, meet top speakers, and visit beautiful Vienna.
👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at
October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🚨 Abstract submission extended to Oct 21!
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium (Nov 11–12) at @istaresearch.bsky.social / ISTA 🇦🇹
Explore cutting-edge cryo-EM, meet top speakers, and visit beautiful Vienna.
👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium (Nov 11–12) at @istaresearch.bsky.social / ISTA 🇦🇹
Explore cutting-edge cryo-EM, meet top speakers, and visit beautiful Vienna.
👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at
This was the VISTA Opening Festival 2025!
We listened to keynote speakers, got exciting insights from scientists and artists, and were amazed by the first exhibition „Science in the Making“.
We feel proud to have celebrated this milestone with you. Thank you for joining us for this amazing event.
We listened to keynote speakers, got exciting insights from scientists and artists, and were amazed by the first exhibition „Science in the Making“.
We feel proud to have celebrated this milestone with you. Thank you for joining us for this amazing event.
October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This was the VISTA Opening Festival 2025!
We listened to keynote speakers, got exciting insights from scientists and artists, and were amazed by the first exhibition „Science in the Making“.
We feel proud to have celebrated this milestone with you. Thank you for joining us for this amazing event.
We listened to keynote speakers, got exciting insights from scientists and artists, and were amazed by the first exhibition „Science in the Making“.
We feel proud to have celebrated this milestone with you. Thank you for joining us for this amazing event.
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Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Temporal and spatial coordination of DNA segregation and cell division in an archaeon | PNAS
Cells must coordinate DNA segregation with cytokinesis to ensure that each daughter
cell inherits a complete genome. Here, we explore how DNA segre...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
ISTA Professor Sandra Siegert was honored with a recognition prize at the Lower Austrian Science Awards for shedding light on how the interplay between neurons and microglia can affect brain function and lead to diseases.
Congratulations to @siegertlab.bsky.social & the other recipients! 👏
Congratulations to @siegertlab.bsky.social & the other recipients! 👏
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ISTA Professor Sandra Siegert was honored with a recognition prize at the Lower Austrian Science Awards for shedding light on how the interplay between neurons and microglia can affect brain function and lead to diseases.
Congratulations to @siegertlab.bsky.social & the other recipients! 👏
Congratulations to @siegertlab.bsky.social & the other recipients! 👏
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ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis!
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Tenure-based Research Staff Scientist Position in Computational Structural Biology
ISTA (www.ista.ac.at) is seeking a highly skilled Staff Scientist in Computational Structural Biology to support and advance the Institute’s structural biology research through the development and imp...
ista.ac.at
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ISTA @istaresearch.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track staff scientist in Computational Structural Biology, to develop tools for cryo-EM, cryo-ET, structural prediction methods and protein interaction analysis!
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Please spread the word!
ista.ac.at/en/job/tenur...
Are glaciers taking it too cool? While ambient temperatures have been increasing steadily worldwide, the near-surface temperatures of glaciers seem to be lagging behind.
But how long can glaciers continue to fight back by cooling the air that touches their surfaces?
ista.ac.at/en/news/dest...
But how long can glaciers continue to fight back by cooling the air that touches their surfaces?
ista.ac.at/en/news/dest...
Destined to Melt
Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. But for how long? The Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Are glaciers taking it too cool? While ambient temperatures have been increasing steadily worldwide, the near-surface temperatures of glaciers seem to be lagging behind.
But how long can glaciers continue to fight back by cooling the air that touches their surfaces?
ista.ac.at/en/news/dest...
But how long can glaciers continue to fight back by cooling the air that touches their surfaces?
ista.ac.at/en/news/dest...
Kicking off the rotation phase of ISTA's PhD program today!
Wishing the new cohort all the best in finding their perfect research group fit. 💪
Wishing the new cohort all the best in finding their perfect research group fit. 💪
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Kicking off the rotation phase of ISTA's PhD program today!
Wishing the new cohort all the best in finding their perfect research group fit. 💪
Wishing the new cohort all the best in finding their perfect research group fit. 💪
Innovation needs ecosystems that connect ideas, people, and infrastructure. That's exactly what bigX 2025 was all about!
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Innovation needs ecosystems that connect ideas, people, and infrastructure. That's exactly what bigX 2025 was all about!
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium from Nov 11–12 at ISTA! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/
#cryoEM
#cryoEM
October 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Join us for the Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium from Nov 11–12 at ISTA! Top speakers, cutting-edge cryo-EM, and a chance to explore Vienna & the ISTA campus. Register now 👉 cryoem-symposium.pages.ist.ac.at/registration/
#cryoEM
#cryoEM