News
Check out the latest news from our consortium.
- SFB F78 2025 Retreat
Today, we had our SFB retreat, where SFB F78 Neurostem Modulation consortium members came together at the IMP, Vienna Biocentre, to exchange the latest developments in their consortium projects. We had talks from most of our consortium PIs and Angeliki Spathopoulou from the Edenhofer Lab, as well as 20 posters from junior researchers across our consortium.
Our non-PI members also participated in a group-building activity. In one hour, they had to produce a 30-second short video for a project. The results were truly excellent, and our members are clearly highly creative and exceptional scientists!
We thank everyone involved for making this such a great day.
- Thomas Minchington, new SFB project manager
Are we that short on news that I’m writing a post about myself? Yes.
Moving from his postdoc position in Anna Kicheva’s lab, Tom will take over Emmanouella’s responsibilities as project manager in the SFB F78 consortium.
- Anna Kicheva was promoted to Professor at ISTA
SFB F78 consortium member Anna Kicheva has been promoted to Professor at ISTA. Well done to Ani and her lab on this big career achievement!
- Gaia Novarino becomes Executive Vice President at ISTA
Gaia Novarino becomes Executive Vice President at ISTA
- Elly Tanaka becomes Scientific Director of IMBA
After seven years at the IMP, SFB F78 member Elly became the Scientific Director of IMBA. Congratulations, and we wish you luck in your new role!
- Meet the newbies
Welcome, Lora Sweeney, Sofia Grade and Igor Adameyko!
Lora Sweeney
The Sweeney Lab uses frog metamorphosis to unpack the molecular, cellular and behavioral aspects of swim-to-walk transition, define the common/divergent circuit features, and the mechanism that drives their specification.
Sofia Grade
The Grade Lab investigates the functional integration of transplanted neurons and rescue of injury in brain injury models.
Igor Adameyko
The Adameyko lab performs comparative analysis of neural crest cells and their interaction with glia to produce different cell types in adulthood.
- SFB F78 Renewed for a second phase!
We are excited to announce that our SFB F78 consortium has been extended for a second round! The FWF has decided to fund our consortium through to the second phase.
The Arndt group will be retiring from the consortium in this round. Still, we are grateful for their excellent contributions in the first funding round and for contributing to our joint success.
We are also happy to welcome three new groups to the consortium: Igor Adameyko, Sofia Grade and Lora Sweeney.