Institutional boundaries have been broken at an unprecedented level to establish new testing capacity. Researchers across Vienna, including more than 200 highly-qualified scientists, have been recruited as volunteers in less than two weeks to meet these challenges. Standard laboratory infrastructure was contributed by the partner institutes and repurposed to build an automated pipeline for detection of the virus at the Vienna Biocenter.
To meet the challenges imposed by global shortages of required testing reagents, the initiative has developed several in-house reagents that make it largely independent from external sources. This is very important at a time when COVID-19 is exposing a high-dependency on diagnostics companiesand their proprietary testing kits.
Rapid transfer of knowledge is required by communities and governments to respond to the pandemic. The VCDI freely disseminates its operating procedures, know-how about building pipelines and their latest research findings. The goal is to aid other universities and research institutions to efficiently and productively contribute to the national testing capacity for COVID-19.
The VCDI is coordinated by Alwin Köhler, Scientific Director of the Max Perutz Labs:
“Many labs were shut down, the scientists sent home. But more and more came back, building a diagnostics pipeline from nothing. This was not like constructing a plane on the ground — we were building a plane that was flying while the blueprints were still being drawn. I am proud of the creative energy, ingenuity and passion of all the basic researchers involved. They stepped up without a moment’s hesitation!”
The VCDI has received an emergency seed-funding by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWFT) and is supported by the government.
Participating institutions (April 3rd, 2020)
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SANTILLAN Emilio (Cochella), HOLCIK Laurenz (Von Haeseler), KAWAGUCHI Akane (Tanaka)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Role of Pax5 in Igh locus contraction and VH gene recombination
Speaker: Louisa Hill
Institute: IMP - Busslinger Lab
The Bristol MultiBac Platform in the COVID19 Response: New avenues to combat the pandemic
Speaker: Imre Berger
Institute: University of Bristol
Host: Kristina Djinovic-Carugo
Histone variants and their chaperones a network in action
Speaker: Genevieve Almouzni
Institute: Institute Curie
Host: Fred Berger
Single-molecule imaging of cytoplasmic dynein reveals the mechanism of motor activation and cargo capture"
Speaker: Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
Institute: IISC Bangalore
Host: Roland Foisner
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: HAENDELER Simon (Von Haeseler), KRAMMER Teresa (Tanaka)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Emergent cellular ecosystems in melanoma revealed by single cell analysis
Speaker: Arjun Raj
Institute: University of Pennsylvania
Host: Alex Stark
Title to be announced
Speaker: Matthias Wilmanns
Institute: EMBL Hamburg
Host: Kristina Djinovic-Carugo
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEITNER Marie-Christin (Mendjan), YU Changwei (Brennecke), ALMEIDA Bernardo (Stark)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Inside: The Dark Side of the Cell
The "Inside: The dark side of the cell" online symposium will take place on 11-12 February 2021 on Zoom. An interesting lineup of keynote speakers will provide an overview of current research, challenges and advances in the field of proteostasis, autophagy, stem cells, gene expression and inflammation. The symposium is organised by students of the doctoral programme “Signaling mechanisms in cellular homeostasis” based at the Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna.
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: DENEKE Victoria (Pauli), HORN Sabrina (Peters), SEONG Jinwoo (Rivron)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SAAD RODRIGUES Carolina (Schloegelhofer), OTSUKI Leo (Tanaka), SCHMIDT Clara (Mendjan)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Ageing: a gut feeling
Speaker: Linda Partridge
Institute: MPI for Biology of Aeging
Host: Noelia Urban
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEV Itamar (Zimmer), SAVOVA Adriana(Martens), TAKACS Zsuzsanna (Gerlich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Oliver Hobert
Institute: Columbia University
Host: Luisa Cochella, Elly Tanaka
SFB plenary meeting on "Stem Cell Modulation in Neural Development and Regeneration"
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: BATTY Paul Daniel (Gerlich), JACOBS Jelle (Stark), BAUMANN Verena (Martens)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Silvia Cappello
Institute: MPI of Psychiatry Munich
Host: Sofia Grade
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: RITSCHKA Birgit (Tanaka), LEIENDECKER Lukas (Obenauf), PISUPATI Rahul Bharadwaj (Nordborg)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: VOGEL Antonia (Clausen), INCARBONE Marco (Mittelsten Scheid), TELONI Federico (Gerlich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Thijn Brummelkamp
Institute: Netherlands Cancer Institute
Host: Johannes Zuber
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: AYALA MUNOZ Farja Isabel (Plaschka), HOLZMANN Viktoria (Rivron), STALTNER Moritz (Ameres)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Doug Higgs
Institute: MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine
Host: Rushad Pavri
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: BASSAT Elad (Tanaka), RUANGROENGKULRITH Siwat (Tachibana), DOMBEY Rodolphe (Mari-Ordonez)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Institute: Janelia Farm
Host: Kristina Djinovic Carugo
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: FEDL Anna (Busslinger), TERIYAPIROM Isaree (Koo), LI Chong (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LIU Haijun (Nordborg), GEHRE Maja (Brennecke), NEMCKO Filip (Stark)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Martin Beck
Institute: MPI of Biophysics
Host: Clemens Plaschka, Shotaro Otsuka
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: NAVALAYEU Tsimafei (Ameres), ZMAJKOVIC Jakub (Zuber), JONSSON Gustav (Penninger)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Richard Flavell
Institute: Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Meinrad Busslinger
Title to be announced
Speaker: Rahul Satija
Institute: New York Genome Center
Host: Andi Pauli
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: HINTERNDORFER Matthias (Zuber), KORESHOVA Alevtina (Burga), REUMANN Daniel (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: NOGALES MORAL Adrian (Köhler), NAJM Ramsey K. (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Ulrich Hartl
Institute: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Host: Tim Clausen
Title to be announced
Speaker: David Gilbert
Institute: Florida State University
Host: Rushad Pavri
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: CHUGUNOVA Anastasia (Pauli), REITER Franziska (Stark), SGROMO Annamaria (Ameres)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: PHILLIPS Alexander William (Keays), WIDEN Sonya Angeline (Burga), VOICHEK Yoav (Nordborg)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Hitoshi Kurumizaka
Institute: University of Tokyo
Host: Kikue Tachibana
Title to be announced
Speaker: Jan Boettcher
Institute: TU Munich
Host: Anna Obenauf
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: RODIRUGEZ TERRONES Diego (Tanaka), KORDIC Darja (Clausen), CRESPO ENRIQUEZ Ivan (Urban)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Gioacchino Natoli
Institute: Humanitas University
Host: Meinrad Busslinger
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: GARCIA LEON Marta (Dagdas), KLAUS Loni (Stark), JAVALI Alok (Rivron)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: VOICHEK Maya Shinan (Brennecke), PETRZILEK Jan (Ameres), KALIS Robert (Zuber)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Dana Peer
Institute: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Anna Obenauf
Title to be announced
Speaker: Fanni Gergely
Institute: Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute
Host: Alex Dammermann
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: ELEWAUT Anais (Obenauf), ANDRIONE Mara (Zimmer), DAO Pauline (Tessmar)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Valter Longo
Institute: USC Leonard David School of Gerontology
Host: Noelia Urban
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SALAZAR THULA Oriana Ylida (Zimmer), DUKIC Dejan (Nordborg), HANDLER Dominik (Brennecke)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Stefano Di Talia
Institute: Duke University Medical Center
Host: Andi Pauli
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEE Du-Hwa (Belkhadir), PACHINGER Claudia (Dammermann lab), BAUMGARTNER Lisa (Brennecke)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: TRASSER Marieke (Mari-Ordonez), GERT Krista (Pauli)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: DE ALMEIDA Melanie (Zuber), BRADAMANTE Gabriele (Mittelsten Scheid), VEEDIN RAJAN Vinoth Babu (Tessmar)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: HARVEY Zachary (Berger), PACHECO FIALLOS Francis Belen (Plaschka), WU Szu-Hsien (Koo)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SESTINI Giovanni (Rivron), MORREALE Francesca (Clausen), PASAJILIC Djurdja (Martinez)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Taekjip Ha
Institute: Johns Hopkins University
Host: Clemens Plaschka
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: CORSI Flavia (Golobordko), BRUNNER Hanna (Haselbach), CRONIN Shona (Obenauf)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Holger Puchta
Institute: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Host: Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEHMANN Christian (Knoblich), MURPHY Paul (Clausen), HISANAGA Tetsuya (Berger)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Didier Stainier
Institute: MPI for Heart and Lung Research
Host: Elly Tanaka
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SPICER Maximilian (Gerlich), GRÜNBACHER Sarah (Busslinger), VERTESY Abel (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Richard Youle
Institute: NIH
Host: Sascha Martens
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: BUENDIA Daniel (Mari-Ordonez), POLIKARPOVA Anastasia (Tanaka), LEESCH Katrin Friederike (Pauli)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Andrew Dillin
Institute: University of California, Berkeley
Host: Yasin Dagdas
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: PANAROTTO-PERICLES Melanie (Peters), LEE Ho-Soek (Belkhadir), CHAKRABORTY Oisorjo (Grade)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEE Ji-Hyun (Koo), PETROVIC Mina (Gerlich), BELACIC Katarina (Haselbach)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Nevan Krogan
Institute: UCSF - Gladstone Institute
Host: Manuela Baccarini
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SHIRZADIAN YAZD Mehrta (Balzarotti), KOLESNIKOVA Sofia (Gerlich), BAUCELLS Julia Garcia (Dammermann)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: John Diffley
Institute: The Francis Crick Institute
Host: Rushad Pavri, Jan-Michael Peters
Title to be announced
Speaker: Azim Surani
Institute: Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Host: Andi Pauli
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: HOLSTEIN Felix (Obenauf), KHALDIEH Nina (Ameres), HOHMANN Ulrich (Brennecke/Plaschka)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Michael Lichten
Institute: NIH
Host: Peter Schlögelhofer
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: NAVA GARCIA Marintia Mayola (Köhler), TARDIVO Pietro (Tanaka), GEISMANN Maximilian (Balzarotti)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Julia Mahamid
Institute: EMBL
Host: Shamba Saha
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SCHMUECKER Anna (Berger), VOGT Vivien (Zuber), HEIDARI KHOEI Heidar (Rivron)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Institute: Stowers Inst. for Medical Research
Host: Elly Tanaka
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: ELLIS Thomas (Nordborg), JELENIC Stela (Saha)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Patrick Cramer
Institute: MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
Host: Alexander Stark, Clemens Plaschka
Title to be announced
Speaker: Steve Jackson
Institute: Gurdon Research Institute
Host: Rushad Pavri
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: TREPTE Philipp (Knoblich), ABDRAKHMANOV Alibek (Dagdas), EHRMANN Julian (Clausen)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Adele Marston
Institute: Wellcome Centre Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
Host: Daniel Gerlich, Joao Matos
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: ROSS James (Brennecke), ISBANER Sebastian (Balzarotti), STREUBEL Susanna (Dolan)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Kai Johnsson
Institute: MPI for Medical Research
Host: Daniel Gerlich
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: JUNKER Sabryna (Clausen), ZHAO Jierui (Dagdas), ISHIHARA Keisuke (Tanaka)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Xin Chen
Institute: Johns Hopkins University
Host: Fred Berger
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: VALLEBUENO Miguel (Swarts), SAJTOS Bettina (Zuber), NAGUMO WONG Sakurako (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LUST Katharina (Tanaka), CLAVEL Marion (Dagdas), TIKANOVA Polina (Burga)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: CTORTECKA Claudia (Mendjan), MULVEY Hugh (Dolan), LORBEER Franziska (Stark)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SCHELLHAAS Ulla (Plaschka), MEREITER Stefan (Penninger), RADHAKRISHNA PILLAI Balashankar (Saha)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: COLOZZA Gabriele (Koo), BLAHA Andreas (Pauli), PÜHRINGER Florian (Burga)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: JUNG Pauline (Obenauf), LICHT-MAYER Simon (Penninger), CAYGILL Samuel (Dolan)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: FALCON CHAVEZ Francisco Javier (Tanaka), KOK Jian Yi (Berger), VORLÄNDER Matthias (Plaschka)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SODERHOLM Adrian (Versteeg), NEUDOLT Andrea (Obenauf), ANDREEV Veselin (Brennecke)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: HUMER Theresa (Pauli), CECI GINISTRELLI Lavinia (Mendjan), SANCHEZ DE MEDINA HERNANDEZ Victor (Dagdas)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: CORIC Aida (Tessmar), GOGOVA Rebeca (Clausen), LEE Heetak (Koo)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: TAVERNINI Katherina (Urban), CASEY Chloe (Dolan), DOLESCHALL Balint (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: PORTELL I DE MONTSERRAT Julia (Brennecke), ATTRILL Sarah (Dolan), CALDERON DOMINGUEZ Lesly (Busslinger)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: REY Ulises (Zimmer), BOURGUET Pierre (Berger), UIJTTEWAAL Esther (Elling)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: BECERRIL PEREZ Fernando (Tanaka), KETTEL Paulina (Karagöz), PUSHPA BOSE Greeshma (Urban)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: DEYETT Alison Ann (Mendjan), FIESLER Charlie (Zimmer), PICCHIANTI Lorenzo (Dagdas)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: VÖLKL Isabella (Bücker), TSAREV Aleksandr (Ameres), GABARRO SOLANAS Rut (Urban)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Title to be announced
Speaker: Joan Massague
Institute: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Anna Obenauf
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: AULER Markus (Baccarini), MADHUSUDHANAN Jalaja (Zimmer), SCHENK Robyn (Busslinger)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: DA CUNHA E SILVA MARTINS COSTA Catarina (Knoblich), SHULKINA Alexandra (Versteeg), STOCKINGER Alexander (Raible)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: LEE Joonsun (Elling), MILJKOVIC Frane (Köhler), HOFBAUER Lorena (Stark)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: FAHRENBERGER Martin (Von Haeseler), RAUSCHMEIER Rene (Busslinger), GUPTA Ankit (Golobordko)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: SCHMÖLLERL Johannes (Zuber), FAAS Victoria (Clausen), ANISIMOVA Aleksandra (Karagöz)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: BRAGULAT TEIXIDOR Helena (Otsuka), SALEWSKIJ Kirill (Penninger), KAGAWA Harunobu (Rivron)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
Monday Seminar (Internal)
Speaker: CASEY Alexandra (Dolan), CERRON ALVAN Luis Miguel (Leeb), SIDHAYE Jaydeep (Knoblich)
Institute: Open only to IMP/IMBA/GMI/Max Perutz Labs
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