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Habilitation of Marc Mussmann

19.10.18

News

Marc Mussmann received his Venia Legendi from the University of Bremen after his habilitation lecture "Microbial sulfur oxidation in coastal marine sediments" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology. Congratulations Privatdozent Dr. Marc!
Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung funding for Petra Pjevac and Andrew Giguere

12.10.18

News

The Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung of the City of Vienna awarded funding to Petra and Andrew for their project "Can soil help the city breathe?". Petra and Andrew will investigate the capacity of different types of urban green spaces to serve as ...
ORF3 TV documentary on the human microbiome

04.10.18

Outreach

Arno Schintlmeister, Buck Hanson, David Berry, and Alexander Loy are featured on Austrian TV (ORF3) in the documentary 'Treffpunkt Medizin: Superorgan Mikrobiom' about the human microbiome. They talk about the importance of the gut microbiota for human health, such as for the ...
- ORF3 Treffpunkt Medizin: Superorgan Mikrobiom [German]
A successful Vienna Research Festival 2018

28.09.18

News

Over 13 000 visitors came to this year’s Wiener Forschungsfest to learn about new ideas, innovations and technologies in research at more than 40 different stations.

We teamed up with the Vienna Open Lab and Open Science to set up a station about “Microorganisms ...
15 Years of DOME!

28.09.18

News

DOME celebrated its 15th anniversary with a day-long event on September 12, 2018. Six of our longstanding collaborators and friends (Nicole Dubilier, Nicole Webster, Mike Jetten, Per Nielsen, Andreas Schramm and Dave Stahl) gave talks at a Microbial Ecology Symposium. ...
- uni:view magazine
DOME participates in the Vienna Research Festival 2018

13.09.18

Outreach

DOME has teamed up with Open Science and the Vienna Open Lab at the Wiener Forschungsfest - a family event for science education. Please come and join Franziska, Petra, Christopher, Annelieke, and Ben to learn more about 'Microorganisms ...
uni:docs fellowship awarded to Tamara Halter

20.08.18

News

DoME congratulates Tamara Halter on her uni:docs fellowship from the University of Vienna! In her project "Genomic diversity of natural populations of environmental chlamydiae: The case of Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis", Tamara will work together with Matthias Horn.
Jim Tiedje Award of the ISME for Michael Wagner

18.08.18

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On August 16, Michael received the lifetime achievement award of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) at the biannual meeting in Leipzig, Germany. As part of the award Michael presented a one-hour look back on "25 years of functional analyses ...
- University of Vienna Media Page
ERC Starting Grant for Jillian Petersen

27.07.18

News

Jillian Petersen has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project '400 Million Years of Symbiosis: Host-Microbe Interactions in Marine Lucinid Clams from Past to Present'. This is the fifth ERC Grant for a current member of DOME. Congratulations, Jill!! ...
- Press release of the University of Vienna (German)
- Der Standard (German)
New paper in Science Advances: Microbial degradation of plastic in soil

26.07.18

Publication

Dagmar Woebken, Arno Schintlmeister, and Michael Wagner participated in a team of researchers led by Michael Sander at ETH Zürich, which was able to directly demonstrate for the first time microbial degradation of agricultural plastic in soil. Using state-of-the-art analytical methods, ...
DoME Participates in KinderUni

18.07.18

Outreach

Members of the DoME held two sessions at this year's KinderUni. These sessions included the following: "A journey into microbial life on earth" and "Wie Bakterien zu Krankheitserregern wurden". They aimed to illustrate the importance of microorganisms in nature, ...
Introducing our new logo

06.07.18

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We are proud to announce the launch of our new logo. Since 2003 DoME has grown and evolved, and we felt it was time for a change. The new, refreshed logo reflects a modern look and captures who we are ...
DoME at Natural Park Thayatal

04.07.18

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The DoME team enjoyed a trip to the beautiful national park Thayatal in northern Lower Austria, including a hike along the river Thaya and lunch at a traditional wine tavern (Heuriger).
Michael Wagner elected as member of the SAB of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)

19.06.18

News

Michael will serve during the next three years as member of the scientific advisory board of the Helmholtz center at Leipzig, Germany. A great way to learn more about the excellence science done at the UFZ.
We are celebrating the 15th anniversary of DOME

05.06.18

Event

The Division of Microbial Ecology (DOME) was founded in 2003 at the University of Vienna and consists of more than 80 people excited in all aspects of microbiology and microbiome research. We will be celebrating our 15th anniversary with a Microbial Ecology ...
In the thicket of sulfur microorganisms

15.05.18

Outreach

The recent newsletter of the Research Network Environmental Sciences of the University of Vienna features research on the ecology of sulfur microorganisms in the marine sediments and wetlands by Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy. ...
- Im Dickicht der Schwefelbakterien [German]
Dagmar Woebken participates in the Young Academy of the ÖAW Blog

09.05.18

News

Dagmar Woebken contributes an article to the blog of the Young Academy of the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard. In her article, she discusses dormant microorganisms in soils and their implications in ecosystem processes. ...
- Article in Der Standard [German]
New Paper in PNAS

08.05.18

Publication

This paper demonstrates electron flow in individual cable bacteria by using confocal resonance Raman microspectroscopy. Thanks for a fantastic collaboration with Andreas Schramm & Lars Peter Nielsen from Aarhus University.
Many thanks to all participants of ISMSM-5 in Vienna

19.04.18

Event

Jillian Petersen, Marc Mussmann, and Alexander Loy have organized together with Monika Bright the 5th International Symposium on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism (ISMSM-5). 114 participants from 19 countries enjoyed three days in Vienna (16-18 April 2018) with presentations centered around sulfur metabolism but spanning diverse research ...
- ISMSM-5 website
Dagmar Woebken participates in the Uni Wien Semesterfrage 2018 - How to save our climate?

18.04.18

People

Dagmar Woebken contributes an article for the "Semesterfrage 2018” ...
New papers in The ISME Journal: Novel Acidobacteria species with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism

28.02.18

News

Sulfite- and sulfate-reducing microbes play an important role in the global sulfur and carbon cycles. In wetlands they control the production of the greenhouse gas methane by competing effectively with methanogenic archaea. An international team led by Alexander Loy has for the ...
New comammox research platform at the University of Vienna

23.02.18

News

Holger Daims, Michael Wagner, Kristina Djinovic-Carugo, and Andreas Richter received funding from the University of Vienna for a new research platform on comammox organisms. Aims of the platform are to study fundamental aspects of comammox physiology and to elucidate the ...
- Further information on research platforms at the University of Vienna
Marie Curie Fellowship for Dimitri Kits

31.01.18

News

Dimitri Kits received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship to work with Alexander Loy on the project "Interspecies hydrogen transfer in the mammalian gut: How interactions between fermenters and hydrogenotrophs influence colonic homeostasis (H2Gut)". Congratulations Dimitrije!
David Berry appointed Full Professor

09.01.18

People

David Berry was appointed Full Professor for Intestinal Microbiology at the University of Vienna as of January 1, 2018. Great start into the new year, congratulations!
Saint Nicholas was here!

06.12.17

News

Saint Nicholas visited DOME to hand out presents to the good Domies and to encourage them to continue doing their best, making DOME a fun and welcoming place for everyone!
- Saint Nicholas' speech on YouTube