2024 Time to update our group picture...
2024 Mark is the 1st opponent in Trine Skulands Phd defense at the Institute of Clinical Medicine in Oslo
A Norwegian PhD defense is something quite special! Congrats to Trine Skuland for her excellent PhD defense!
2024 As a new member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Experimental Medicine in Prague, Mark joins the IEM PhD day 2024 at Chateau Trest
Thanks for inviting me - two days of impressive science and a lot of fun!
2024 Funke & Tawakalitu Visiting from Lagos, Nigeria
Thanks to Africa-UniNet!
2023 Epigenetic Workshop at CMUL, University of Lagos, Nigeria
What a great week at CMUL, University of Lagos. Thanks to AfricaUniNet for funding exchanges between African & Austrian research institutes and sponsoring our Epigenetic workshop! We met many amazing people! A big thank you to everybody who made our stay so special for us!
2023 Lab Outing - Ceramic Painting
2023 Field trip to Nancy - URAFPA, Université de Lorraine, France
Happy visiting our collaborator Berenice in Nancy and harvesting perch oocytes <3
2023 DevStem Regional Meeting


After a 2 year covid break - we were all happy to meet again the regional DevStem crowd and hear about all the science!
2023 Eddy receives a MSCA fellowship


Congrats Eddy! We are looking forward to have you in the lab!
see also an article about Eddy at the Africa-UniNet webpage
2022 Mark and Eddy at the 2nd Africa UniNet General Assembly in Kenia


2022 EMBO workshop "Epigenome inheritance and reprogramming in health and disease" in Split


Congrats to Kristeli for her poster prize!!
2022 Eddy and Funke visiting from Nigeria
2022 Proud Luka with his 1st place poster prize! Congrats Luka!


2022 Lab Outing - Hiking in Vienna
2021 MUW press release: EpiSperm project

The Wossidlo lab receives grant for the "EpiSperm" project as a joint initiative between MedUni Vienna and the University of Lagos in Nigeria. The grant is entitled "The epigenetics of the spermatozoa of HIV-I infected men".
"MedUni Vienna works with the University of Lagos to study side-effects of HIV treatments"
2021 Lab Outing - Disc Golf
2021 Contribution to National Geographic

Image of a human blastocyst showing viral particles of HERV-K (GAG, green) all over the embryo and concentrated in the inner cell mass (POU5F1, red)
2020 MUW press release: Publication

The Wossidlo group in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Medical University of Vienna, in cooperation with Stanford University, has identified the role of a factor in early embryonic development.