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12.12.11
ERC Advanced Grant for Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project "Nitrification Reloaded – a Single Cell Approach (NITRICARE)". This is the second ERC grant for a member of DoME this year.
 Press release [German]
 European Research Council
9.12.11
Doc.Award for Roland Hatzenpichler
Roland Hatzenpichler received a Doc.Award from the City of Vienna for his doctoral thesis entitled "Identification and characterization of novel ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria". After his PhD at DoME, Roland is now at the California Institute of Technology.
 Roland Hatzenpichler
16.11.11
DOC Fellowship for Frederik Schulz
Frederik Schulz received a PhD (DOC) fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for funding of his PhD project "Life inside the nucleus – an unusual symbiont of amoebae related to rickettsiae".
 DOC - Doctoral Fellowship Programme
    of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
 Project summary
20.09.11
New paper in PNAS
Mußmann M, Brito I, Pitcher A, Damsté JSS, Hatzenpichler R, Richter A, Nielsen JL, Nielsen PH, Müller A, Daims H, Wagner M, Head IM. 2011. Thaumarchaeotes abundant in refinery nitrifying sludges express amoA but are not obligate autotrophic ammonia oxidizers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., in press.
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 Der Standard [German]
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20.09.11
Open postdoc positions at DoME   Read more ...
16.09.11
DoME goes Monsterroller
Fear is not an option - the DoME team drove down mountain Hirschkogel on Monsterrollers during this year's summer trip.     Join Thomas on his Monsterroller in this video [WMV]
25.07.11
ERC Starting Grant for Matthias Horn
Matthias Horn has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project "The Evolution of the Chlamydiae - an Experimental Approach (EVOCHLAMY)".
 Press release [German]
 European Research Council

20.07.11
DoME at the KinderuniWien 2011
For the fifth time the DoME team held an interactive lecture for children between the age of seven and 12 at the KinderuniWien. The KinderuniWien is an annual summer school for children interested in science and the arts, with more than 4400 registered participants this year.
 Homepage KinderuniWien [German]
 DoME an der KinderuniWien
The lecture of DoME at the KinderuniWien was kindly supported by
12.07.11
New paper in PNAS
Gruber-Vodicka HR, Dirks U, Leisch N, Baranyi C, Stoecker K, Bulgheresi S, Heindl NR, Horn M, Lott C, Loy A, Wagner M, Ott J. 2011. Paracatenula, an ancient symbiosis between thiotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. , in press.
Members of DoME have contributed Raman microspectroscopy analyses among other things to characterize at the single cell level the bacterial symbionts investigated in this collaboration with the Department of Marine Biology at the University of Vienna.
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22.06.11
Dr. rer. nat. Roland Hatzenpichler
Roland successfully defended his PhD thesis. The board of examiners included James Prosser, Thomas Rattei and Michael Wagner. Roland will start to work as postdoc at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
22.06.11
New paper in MBE
Collingro A, Tischler P, Weinmaier T, Penz T, Heinz E, Brunham RC, Read TD, Bavoil PM, Sachse K, Kahane S, Friedman MG, Rattei T, Myers GSA, Horn M. (2011) Unity in variety – the pan-genome of the Chlamydiae. Mol. Biol. Evol., online early.
An international collaboration led by Matthias Horn reports on novel insights into the evolution of chlamydiae by phylogenomic anaysis.
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28.04.11
New paper in PNAS
Tourna M, Stieglmeier M, Spang A, Koenneke M, Schintlmeister A, Urich T, Engel M, Schloter M, Wagner M, Richter R, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , in press.
Michael Wagner and Arno Schintlmeister from DoME and the NanoSIMS Lab have contributed in this collaboration with the Department of Genetics in Ecology at the University of Vienna to the first isolation and in-depth characterization of an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil.
     Press release
     NanoSIMS Lab at the University of Vienna
Master curriculum Microbial Ecology
The master curriculum Microbial, Molecular & Chemical Ecology is a joint of project of the Departments of Microbial Ecology, Genetics in Ecology, Chemical Ecology and Ecosystems Research, and Computational Systems Biology. Students are trained in interdisciplinary sciences such as microbial ecology, symbiosis research, molecular biology & evolution, genetics, environmental chemistry, and bioinformatics. They interact with internationally renowned researchers, and acquire practical experience through courses in top-class laboratories with high-end instrumentation.
Masterstudium Mikrobielle Ökologie
Die Vertiefung Mikrobielle, molekulare und chemische Ökologie des Masterstudiengangs Ökologie bietet eine umfassende Ausbildung im Bereich der modernen molekularen mikrobiellen Ökologie. Diese Vertiefung ist ein gemeinsames Angebot der Departments Mikrobielle Ökologie, Ökogenetik, Computational Systems Biology und Chemische Ökologie und Ökosystemforschung.
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