Research Platforms

The bryozoan Cristatella mucedo: The new research platform MetaBac explores secondary metabolomes of bacterial communities (Copyright: J. Souto).

Next Generation Macrocycles to Address Challenging Protein Interfacess

MetaBac - Secondary Metabolomes of Bacterial Communities

The new research platform "MetaBac - Secondary Metabolomes of Bacterial Communities" pursues an innovative approach to create defined, fully tractable microbial communities that produce novel secondary metabolites with potential to be developed into drugs.

Vienna Research Platform on Accelerating Photoreaction Discovery (ViRAPID)

ViRAPID is a theoretical platform that combines expertise from theoretical chemistry, computational physics and mathematics, to develop a new generation of computational methods able to accelerate the discovery of photoreactions.

Characterisation of drug involved mechanisms

The research platform focuses on the investigation of interaction mechanisms of drug delivery systems on the skin. On the one hand, it aims to better understand the relationships between microstructure and physiological diffusion processes and, on the other, to use these insights for the development of new drug delivery systems with optimal drug release.

Marine Rhythms of Life

The interdisciplinary team of the University of Vienna research platform Marine Rhythms of Life is on track to unravel how monthly clocks can function on a molecular level and impact on reproduction and regeneration of the the marine bristleworm Platynereis dumerili. These questions are jointly tackled by Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Florian Raible (both MFPL), Christopher Gerner (Department of Analytical Chemistry) and Thomas Hummel (COSB, Faculty of Life Sciences). Together with Tobias Kaiser (Postdoc in Arndt von Haeseler's group at CIBIV), Kristin Tessmar-Raible and Thomas Hummel also try to find the molecular switches that evolution tinkers with to change daily and monthly timing in the marine midge Clunio marinus. The only clock understood so far on cellular or molecular level is the daily clock. Yet, the existence of multiple oscillators is likely the rule rather than the exception across the animal kingdom, including humans.

Vienna Metabolomics Center (ViMe)

The Vienna Metabolomics Center (ViMe) is dedicated to cross-faculty research into metabolites. Within the scope of this research platform, new analytical-methodical approaches based on mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy will be developed. Another focus is the development of bioinformatic tools for the automated evaluation and quality control of complex data sets. A total of 16 professors from the three faculties - the Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Earth Sciences, geography and Astronomy - participate in ViMe. This also underlines the broad application perspective of metabolomics, i.e. the undirected analysis of all the metabolic products of a biological sample. These include environmental chemistry, microbiology, bioanalytics and biomedicine, limnology and terrestrial ecology.