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EUR-Organic wants you!

EUR-Organic application deadlines: March 15 for Non-EU-students resp. June 1 for EU-students for WS 2016. Get your international career started & apply now!

Speed Mentoring

Thursday 17.03.2016, 16:00 - 18:30, Assembly Hall BOKU (Muthgasse I)

Talk to your professors about your personal and professional future, your aspired career path and learn from their experience!

Launch of the network 'we4DRR' – women exchange for Disaster Risk Reduction

From 2nd to 4th of March a symposium for the network launch of 'we4DRR' - women exchange for Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Hittisau, Austria. Numerous international female experts, working in the context of disaster risk reduction, met in the Frauenmuseum Hittisau (women´s museum), Vorarlberg, to set the basis for a network in Europe.

BOKU/acib

Workshop on Analytical Chemistry

March 31 – April 1, 2016, VIENNA

Unusual glycan modifications identified in a marine snail

Invertebrate molecules can be rather diverse, possessing unexpected variations. A suitable glycomic approach needs to be applied especially in terms of determination of sugar structures. In this study the N-and O-glycans from a marine snail (Volvarina rubella) were purified and identified using different biochemical and mass spectrometric methods. Thereby unusual sugar modifications could be revealed, such as methyl-aminoethylphosphonate or hexuronic acid on branched antennal fucose. This study appeared in the February 2016 issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.

Novel glycan epitopes identified in filamentous fungi

A comparative N-glycomics study of three Penicillium species appeared in the January 2016 issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics; biochemical and mass spectrometric methods revealed new glycan epitopes with phosphoethanolamine and galactofuranose. First author is the Theodor-Körner-Prize Awardee Alba Hykollari from the Molecular Glycobiology group.

Bio-plastics

in service of environment

2015 two projects of IFA-Tulln were nominated for the Lower Austrian innovation award in the category "research institutions".

Peaceful Holidays

The Rectorate would like to thank all staff members for their commitment in the past year and wishes every BOKU member and their families blessed holidays, a peaceful time and most importantly health.

intercultural snapshots @ boku

December 16th, 3 pm

The Equal Opportunities Working Party BOKU (AKGL BOKU) invites you to a filmpresentation and panel discussion.

Michael Graf receives 2 Science Awards

The biotechnologist Dr. Michael Graf was awarded the AGRANA Research Award and the Special Science Award of the Federal State of Vorarlberg for his PhD thesis "Probing the active site of pyranose dehydrogenase by experimental and computational means".

5th Science Film Festival

04. – 06. 12.2015

The European science film festival is held 2015 at the BOKU Vienna.

10th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting

September 14th-16th 2016 @ BOKU

Save the date for the 10th TNAM! Jointly organized by BOKU, GMI and MFPL: www.tnam2016.org

BOKU Spin-off TAmiRNA GmbH

wins High-tech award in this years ‘GEWINN’ young entrepreneur competition

Wanted!

Participants for the opening ceremony of the BOKU Ball 2016

First BOKU-graduates of the "Promotionskolleg Agrarökonomik" from BOKU

Dr. Mathias Kirchner and Dr. Hermine Mitter have been first to graduate from the "Promotionskolleg Agrarökonomik". Congratulations!

3rd DocDay

at UFT

An inter-departmental conference for PhD students took place at UFT on 13th October 2015.

GAIA Masters Student Paper Award

Submission deadline: 021115

Have your work awarded and published in a renowned scientific journal!

"Biofuels' Unbalanced Equations:

Theoretical Demand, Misleading Statistics, and Measured Soil Capabilities"

A guest contribution by Dr. Kate Showers from the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex and Five Colleges, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA to the 5th annual CAS-Congress, 20.11.2015, 9:30 -16:00, EH05, Exnerhaus, BOKU Wien.

Inge Dirmhirn

Prize/Scholarship 2015

EUSDR-Conference

Potential to tackle crisis in the Danube region?

Due to currently prevailing political, economic and social crises, the conference to be held at Donau-Universität Krems on November 11th, 2015 questions the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) as a possible way out.

Smart-Heat

Project for energy cascading in a production facility wins Austrian State Prize in the category Energy and Efficiency.

Vid Bakovic

Winner of the Poster Session at the 12th Croatian Biological Congress

Congratulations to Vid Bakovic, PhD-student at the Department of Soil and Forest Sciences, Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection who was in September 2015 awarded as winner of the Poster Session with the title "The potential role of ecological adaptation and Wolbachia infection in the diversification of Rhagoletis ceras".

Methanol metabolism

of yeasts defined

Brigitte Gasser and Diethard Mattanovich from the Department of Biotechnology uncovered the entire methanol metabolism of the yeast Pichia pastoris.

BOKU with president Fischer in Iran

Conference: LuWQ 2015

International Interdisciplinary Conference on Land use and Water Quality

21-240915

Daycare facilities

at BOKU

remaining places for winter term 2015

ISWFPC

The 18th ISWFPC hosted by the Department of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry of Renewable Resources.

Studies

of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Natural Sciences, Technology and Business Sciences enable profound knowledge about renewable resources.

New Atomic weight for Ytterbium

Atomic Weight of Ytterbium revised at BOKU.

Bioeconomy in Action: National Bio-Economy Strategies in Comparison

European Forum Alpbach 2015

Poster Prize

at the 42nd HPLC Conference in Geneva

Tim Causon, Senior Scientist from the Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and Metabolomics research group at BOKU Department of Chemistry was awarded a Poster Prize at the 42nd HPLC Conference in Geneva.

SFRR-E Young Investigator Award

for Markus Schosserer

Markus Schosserer was awarded with the Young Investigator Award of the Society for Free Radical Research – Europe (SFRR-E) for his poster „Methylation of ribosomal RNA by NSUN5 is a conserved mechanism modulating organismal lifespan and stress resistance“ at the Oxygen Club of California World Congress 2015 in Valencia.

"Decoding" gene regulation

A recent discovery in alternative splicing provides fundamental insights into gene regulation and alternative splicing evolution.

Hannes Frech

receives "Green Product Award"

Of 400 submissions coming from 21 countries, Hannes Frech, MSc, from the Institute for Natural Materials Technology (IFA Tulln), and his co-workers, has taken home the "Green Product Award", in the product category "Kids".

CLARA project

presented @ EDD15

Why wildlife?

On April 27-29, 2015 the Global Challenges University Alliance (GCUA) organized the workshop “Why Wildlife? – Global opportunities and challenges”.

Support for the survivors of the earthquake in Nepal

Please donate!

On April 25th 2015, Nepal was hit by the worst earthquake in the history of the country. Recently the country has been hit by another strong earthquake.

TRANSIT:

First research results published

Twelve networks of transformation, sustainable development and social innovation have been studied.

BOKU checklist

How to prepare for traveling abroad on university business, for a (master) thesis research abroad? What to do in case of an emergency?

Visiting Professor Marion Roberts

Lecture and Excursion at the ILAP

Global Aspects in Landscape Planning This seminar puts the focus on global aspects which play a role in landscape and spatial planning issues. A variety of global aspects such as e.g. demographic change, political changes, urbanization, climate change have a significant impact on the spatial development and socio-economy on different scales.

Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Conference

CASTLE-Conference in Barcelona, Spain (October 2015)

Training School

on controlling Ragweed

Grant Buchanan Prize

to Barbara POKORNY

PhD-student at the Department of Chemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry.

PACT-Symposium “The Fountain of Youth”

13th & 14th April 2015, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna

The Steering Group for the Platform for Advanced Cellular Therapies PACT cordially invites you to a Symposium entitled “The Fountain of Youth”. This title was chosen to reflect and focus on the efforts of “younger” researchers in the field of regenerative medicine and cell based therapies in and around Austria.

Geo-spatial technologies for agriculture

Event: April 21st, Geo-spatial technologies for agriculture: international workshop at BOKU.

Neptun Wasserpreis 2015

awarded to Karolina Härnvall

The ÖH Calendar

for March

ÖH BOKU loves you!

Are you young, motivated and open to the world?

Then come and join AIESEC, the world's largest student-run organisation. Develop your leadership skills and have a positive impact on society!

SFB Fusarium

New mycotoxin discovered

Researchers from the BOKU special research project (SFB) Fusarium in collaboration with partners from the University of Technology Vienna and researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture discovered a novel mycotoxin produced by Fusarium graminearum, a pathogen of small grain cereals and maize.

U-Multiranking

BOKU among the 27 best-rated academic institutions in the „International Orientation“-category.