Economic Principles in Cell Biology          

Information for participants
Please see the Information for Participants (pdf).

Place and date
The summer school will take place on July 23-26, 2025, at the University of Vienna.

Registration
There are not in-person places left. For free online participation, please register here to obtain a zoom link valid for all the online lectures (see program). After registering, you will receive an email with information about joining the meeting.

Program
The program can be found on the Schedule and teachers page.

Recordings
We will record the lectures and plan to make the videos available online after the course.

Join the Young Scholars group!
The Young Scholars group is a network of graduate students and postdocs, fostering informal exchanges and mutual support. A zoom seminar is organized once a month. If you would like to get to know us, please get in touch anytime!

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Give us your feedback!
We kindly ask all (on-site and on-line) participants to give us their feedback about the course.

1. Feedback about individual lectures can be given directly after the session in an online form:
   docs.google.com/forms/d/1DTUiYwWXybpJTxQKZoIR5yxK2kp0S7MrFGCz0UnBhfI/.
2. After the summer school, please give us your general feedback about the course in this extra form:
   docs.google.com/forms/d/1CGMEjX5DAw2vmYYi0lH-PkMi-4wDPMgXN1wAvhkDFoY/.

Online participation
Lectures (but no other activities) will be held in a hybrid format using zoom. To participate, please register here to obtain a zoom link valid for all the lectures. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the meeting.

Zoom chat
During the lectures, please keep your camera off and mute your mike at all times. If you have questions, please write them in the chat. Each lecture has a chat moderator. During the discussion after the lecture, the moderator invites online participants to ask their questions to the teacher in the chat.

Troubleshooting
In case of technical/zoom-related problems, please contact Diana Széliová. If there are technical problems that are likely to also concern others, please tell us about them in the chat.

Hands-on sessions ("Practical work")
The computer exercises sessions cannot be attended online. The sessions are based on juypter notebooks, which can be obtained here.

Venue
University of Vienna Main Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien (Map),

Posters
Please bring a poster about your own research for the poster session on Wednesday.

Laptops
Please bring your laptop or tablet for the computer exercises sessions. A few laptops can be provided by the organizers.

Student fee
Participation in the summer school is free. However, for administrative reasons, on-site student participants who are not enrolled with an Austrian university have to pay the ÖH student fee of 25 Euros.

Organizers
Diana Széliová, Elad Noor, Hidde de Jong, Jürgen Zanghellini, Meike Wortel, Ohad Golan, Steffen Waldherr, Wolfram Liebermeister

Contact for practical/administrative questions
Asja Hocevar

Night Science
Martin Lercher

The summer school will take place in HS 21 (Lecture Room 21) at the University of Vienna main building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien.
Venue location: Main Building Map (PDF)

Vienna is well connected to the international railway network. Major train stations include:

• Wien Hauptbahnhof (Vienna Main Station)
• Wien Mitte / Landstraße

From either station, you can easily reach the University via underground lines, trams, or buses.

• Take U1 (direction Leopoldau) → Change at Karlsplatz to U2 (direction Seestadt) → Get off at Schottentor-Universität (approx. 15 minutes)

• Take U4 (direction Heiligenstadt) → Change at Schottenring to U2 (direction Karlsplatz) → Get off at Schottentor-Universität
  (approx. 10 minutes)

• Take U2 (direction Karlsplatz) → Get off at Schottentor-Universität

Option 1: Vienna Airport to Vienna Main Station (Wien Hauptbahnhof)

• ÖBB Railjet
• Daily service from 6:33 am to 12:02 am (every 30 minutes)
• Schedule and tickets

Option 2: Vienna Airport to Wien Mitte / Praterstern

• S-Bahn (S7) – Rapid transit railway
• Daily service from 4:49 am to 1:19 am (every 30 minutes)
• Schedule and tickets

Option 3: Vienna Airport to Wien Mitte

• City Airport Train (CAT) – Non-stop service (but more expensive)
• Daily service from 6:07 am to 11:37 pm (every 30 minutes)
• CAT Schedule and tickets

• Taking the CAT from the Airport to Vienna is quite expensive. Any other train from the Airport to the City will cost less than 5 Euros.
• If you already have tickets for public transport in the city (you can get them here), then the ticket from the airport to the city is only about 2.50 Euros (please select Airport to Vienna and then click “Stadtgrenze”, “city border” at the vending machine).
• Several lines currently have service interruptions/changed routes due to repair work. This affects in particular tram #1, #D, and #71, which pass by the university. In any case, you can plan your trip here.

Vienna has an excellent public transport system including subways, trams, and buses. Tickets and travel cards and special visitor cards are available:

• At ticket machines in subway stations
• Online
• WienMobil app (also useful for route planning)
• At the airport and most hotels (e.g., Vienna Card)

More information: Wiener Linien - Public Transport

Vienna is (somewhat) bike-friendly and definitely a walkable city, with well-marked bike paths and pedestrian zones. It’s a great way to explore Vienna’s historic and cultural landmarks. If you download the WienMobil app, you can use the discount code KULTUR25 to get two free 30-minute rides on the city bikes.

Below you can find some hotels in the vicinity by category (see map of hotels)

1. Uncategorized
   1. Hilton Vienna Plaza
   2. Hotel Boltzmann
   3. Palais Strudlhof
2. 4*
   1. Hotel Regina
   2. Hotel Pension Baron am Schottentor
   3. Hotel Rathauspark Wien, a member of Radisson Individuals
   4. Hotel Pension Baronesse
   5. Hotel The Harmonie Vienna
3. 3*
   1. Hotel-Pension Bleckmann
   2. Pension Andreas
   3. Pension Ani-Falstaff
4. 2*
   1. Pension Ani