You are cordially invited to attend the inaugural lecture “Schimmelpilze - wenig beachtete Alleskönner mit vielseitigen Eigenschaften und Interaktionen” by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Zeilinger-Migsich on Wednesday 29 November (17:00) at the Großer Hörsaal, Technikerstr. 13 b.

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The ÖGMBT YLSA West host a networking event in the form of Törggelen, a mouthwatering tradition from South-Tirol with wine, chestnuts & more. Use this opportunity to meet colleagues and discuss most recent topics in life sciences. In addition, the YLSA will meet every 2nd Monday each month for a relaxed get-together and talk about Innsbruck’s life science community.

Nature Scientific Reports

The latest paper of the mycology research group based around Cornelia Lass-Flörl is out now. "Intrinsic short-tailed azole resistance in mucormycetes is due to an evolutionary conserved aminoacid substitution of the lanosterol 14α-demethylase"  appeared in Nature Scientific Report.

Frontiers in Microbiology

Understanding „fungal behaviour“ – The excretion of organic acids is an essential property of fungal organisms involving many parts of metabolism. In a recently finished project of the Austrian Science Fund three of these parts - adenine and pyridine nucleotides, alternative respiration, and the plasma membrane H+-ATPase – were studied simultaneously in Penicillium ochrochloron using chemostat culture with different nutrient limitations.

Martin Kirchmair hält ein verschimmeltes Holz, Susanne Zeilinger mit Salami-Edelschimmel (l.) und dem Trichoderma (r.), der andere Pilze vernichten kann.

Susanne Zeilinger and Martin Kirchmair were featured in the latest issue of Tiroler Tageszeitung.