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.

Live long and prosper

Specialized ribosomes counteract ageing

Does protein synthesis by specialized ribosomes improve the health span?

Call for papers: LuWQ 2015

International Interdisciplinary Conference on Land use and Water Quality

Call deadline: 010215

Schweighofer Prize 2015

Deadline: 020215

Innovation Award for the European Forest-based Sector.

Club Biotech Cinema

22nd of January 2015, 5:00 pm, SR 12 (Muthgasse 11)

Club Biotech wants to introduce you to the exciting word of stem cells and their fantastic properties. Take part at this movie event and discuss with our guest Dr. Susanne Wolbank.

The Raccoon

A Natural History and An Unnatural Future

Public Lecture by our Fulbright Professor - Prof. Sam Zeveloff, Weber State University, Utah. Date: 16th of January, 2015. Place: Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna (AQWU-EG/HO 5).

BOKU SpinOff TAmiRNA

wins Best of Biotech

The ÖH Calendar for December

University and Environment

Superior Achievement Awards

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano awarding to BOKU PhD student MSc. Bado Souleymane

The Superior Achievement Award for the “Rapid response in protecting wheat from Ug99” for the team of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications of the joint FAO/IAEA Laboratories in Seibersdorf – The Laimer Lab (Plant Biotechnology Unit of DBT) congratulates its PhD student!

EVERCYTE awarded Mercure Innovation Award 2014

3D Human Tissue Culture is winning the category Life Sciences

The ÖH BOKU Calendar for November

on equal terms

Inge Dirmhirn

Prize and Scholarship 2014

GAIA Masters Student Paper Award

The international journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society - invites Masters students to publish their research results in transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability science. EXTENDED submission date: 171114

Schlögl-Award 2014

The Karl-Schlögl Award 2014 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences was presented to Jean-Baptiste Farcet, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemistry.

Young Investigator Award

to graduate from BOKU/Department of Biotechnology

The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASMBR) has awarded the Young Investigator Price to Dr. Matthias Hackl for his work on “Circulating microRNAs as novel diagnostic targets for osteoporosis”. Dr. Hackl was invited to join the annual ASBMR meeting in Houston to present his work during the translational science session (12th to 15th September 2014).

Freshwater Metadata Journal

A new way of publishing information on freshwater datasets

The first journal set up to exclusively publish freshwater related metadata was launched online at the beginning of October.

ÖGMBT PhD Award 2014

On the occasion of the annual ÖGMBT meeting Christoph Hasenhindl, postdoc at the Department of Chemistry and graduate of the doctoral college BioToP, was given a PhD award for doctoral theses with potential for application.

How will agriculture look like in 2030?

A video message from the agrinatura Science Days, Vienna, May 5-8, 2014, hosted by BOKU

Kaplan Graduate Award for Khalil Karimov

Khalil Karimov, a graduate student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, was recently awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Kaplan Graduate Award.

EUSDR-Conference

Current developments and achievements as well as limits of the EU Strategy für the Danube Region (EUSDR) will be summed up and critically questioned at the conference on November 12th, 2014 at the Danube University Krems.

Poster Award

Manuela Maurer

Manuela Maurer, PhD student at the Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation and member of the doctoral program BioToP, won the Greta Pifat Mrzljak Award at the „12th International School of Biophysics“(Primošten, Croatia, October 2014).

Gregor-Johann-Mendel-Medal

of the Mendel University Brno (Czech Republic), awarded to Rupert Wimmer

European FooD-Studies and Training Alliance

BOKU coordinates one and is partner in another ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance project.

Best Talk & Poster prizes

for BioToP PhD students

Four students of the PhD program BioToP won prizes for both oral and poster presentations at the 6th Annual Meeting of the ÖGMBT (15.-19. September 2014).

Danube AgriFood Master

selected as Austrian “UN Dekadenprojekt”

The Master "Sustainability in Agriculture, Food Production and Food Technology in the Danube Region has been selected as an Austrian “UN Dekadenprojekt” for Education for Sustainable Development by the Austrian UNESCO Commission.

Accreditation

BOKU-assisted accreditation of the “Sarjana” program in Forest Products at Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia.

Professor Sam Zeveloff from Weber State University, Utah

is now teaching as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Club Biotech

Life Sciences and Entrepreneurship

Club Biotech is going to take a closer look at two biotechnology start-ups in order to provide answers concerning the development of an idea to its implementation at enterprise level. 10th of October 2014, 4:30 pm, HSXXI (Muthgasse 18)

AIESEC Recruitment

Are you young, motivated and open to the world? Then come and join AIESEC, the world's largest studen-run organisation and make a positive impact on our society!

The ÖH-BOKU-Calendar for October

Greetings from the Students Union : Let´s launch the new academic year

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