Stem cells are key for the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Some animals in addition have remarkable regenerative capacities, which also rely on the activation of stem cells. In this research platform we aim to study the regulation of stem cells during development, regeneration and maintenance in a variety of animals with different life history strategies in order to unravel the mechanisms of regulation that lead to the activation of stem cells. We employ modern single cell technologies in combination with functional genomics approaches.  We also seek to develop new bioinformatic tools for the analysis of single cell transcriptome data.

06.08.2019
 

Nature Ecology and Evolution paper on ancient genome architecture by Bob Zimmermann, Nicolas Robert, Ulrich Technau and Oleg Simakov

01.06.2019
 

FWF grant awarded to Grigory Genikhovich

05.05.2019
 

Oleg Simakov has been named a Whitman Center Early Career Fellow

12.04.2019
 

Prof. Ulrich Technau was elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

09.04.2019
 

Luohao Xu and Qi Zhou et al. published their work in Nature Ecology and Evolution on songbird sex chromosome evolution.

26.03.2019
 

Prof. Ulrich Technau is now an ambassador for Young Science