News

Jillian Petersen elected to the Young Academy

16.04.19

News

Jillian Petersen was elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Announcement of the Academy [German]
- News article in Der Standard about the work of Jillian and her Research Group [German]
DoME at the WissensDurst Festival 2019

16.04.19

Outreach

Petra and Franziska joined the team of the WissensDurst Festival to organize three evenings focused on science outreach and microbiome research. From May 6th to May 8th, four Viennese Pubs will host a total of 24 Vienna-based scientists to ...
Michael Wagner part-time (20%) Distinguished Professor at the University of Aalborg

09.04.19

News

Michael Wagner accepted a part-time (20%) Distinguished Professor offer from the University of Aalborg, Denmark. On April 8, 2019 he presented his inaugural speech at Aalborg University. This position will further intensify the long-lasting and highly productive collaboration of DoME with ...
- News release Aalborg University
- Center for Microbial Communities
New Raman tools published in Nature Microbiology and the ISME Journal

09.04.19

News

The group led by Michael Wagner has published in collaboration with the teams of Roman Stocker (ETH Zürich) and Per Nielsen (Aalborg University) two new Raman-based methods for microbial ecology. In the Nature Microbiology paper an automated optomicrofluidic cell sorted ...
New paper in PNAS: Cultivation of an air-eating microbe

09.04.19

News

Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Craig Herbold, and Arno Schintlmeister were part of an international team led by Mette Svenning from Norway that cultured and characterized a microbe that grows on air by consuming atmospheric CH₄, CO and H_2,by fixing N₂and CO₂, and by respiring ...
Remembering Karin

04.04.19

People

Earlier this week our dear former Domie and PhD student Karin Aistleitner died - entirely unexpectedly - after a brief but serious illness. She will be missed.

Karin joined DoME as Master’s student and then took on a PhD ...
- Obituary [German]
Our research as a comic

03.04.19

Outreach

The Petersen group is featured in a press release of the University of Vienna, including a comic developed by the University, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and illustrator Nana Swiczinsky.
- Press release
- Comic
Adult education and panel discussion on the human microbiome

27.03.19

Outreach

Alexander Loy gave a lecture and participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome in the course of the Mini Med Studies. Together with Christoph Steininger and Thomas Reiberger from the Medical University of Vienna and the public, he discussed ...
- Mini Med: Wie uns unsere Mikroben gesund erhalten [German]
- MeinBezirk.at [German]
FWF funding for new PhD program in Microbial Symbioses

20.03.19

News

A new PhD program in Microbial Symbioses will be funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project MAINTAIN and the University of Vienna. The central theme, addressed in 14 interconnected projects, is studying how symbiotic relationships between microbes and other organisms evolved ...
Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German Science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'

08.03.19

Outreach

Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft for their story on the threatened diversity of the intestinal microbiome. The microorganisms in the human intestine play an important role for health. But at least in western societies, the ...
- Spektrum der Wissenschaft: Unsere Darmvielfalt ist bedroht [German]
DoME is part of new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

28.02.19

News

DoME is a proud member of the new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna! The new Centre brings together 15 working groups, and addresses two key scientific disciplines of the 21st century with enormous potential ...
- News release (University of Vienna)
- Der Standard [German]
New publication in mBio: Rare but mighty

21.02.19

Publication

Sulfate-reducing microbes control the production of the greenhouse gas methane in wetlands by competing effectively with methanogenic archaea. A research team with Bela Hausmann, Alexander Loy (DOME), and Michael Pester (DSMZ Braunschweig) has now discovered a new sulfate-reducing bacterium in wetlands, Candidatus Desulfosporosinus infrequens, which ...
New Collaborative Project with the JGI on ultra-saline microbial mats

15.02.19

News

Dimitri Meier and Dagmar Woebken along with members of the Joint Genome Institute will sequence the microbial community in ultra-saline microbial mats at the coast of Oman. The goal of the project is to reveal the microorganisms responsible for functional ...
New FWF project for Alexander Loy

07.12.18

News

Alex received funding for his project "The wetland sulfur microbiome - intra- and interspecies metabolic interactions" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!
Dr. rer. nat. Bela Hausmann

04.12.18

People

Bela successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel uncultured peatland bacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism". The board of examiners included Joel Kostka (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Andreas Richter, and Marc Mussmann. Many thanks also to Kirsten Küsel (University ...
Michael Wagner recognized as Highly Cited Researcher 2018

27.11.18

News

Like in the last 4 years, Michael was listed among the top-cited scientists internationally. In total 40 scientists from Austria are on this list including Thomas Rattei and Andreas Richter from our department.
DoME hosted "Let's talk about symbiosis" workshop

16.11.18

Event

This week, DoME hosted the 11th „Let’s talk about symbiosis“ workshop. For one day, students, PhD students, postdocs and PIs interested in microbial symbiosis got together to discuss their current and future research. The workshop is one of the activities ...
Panel discussion on "Microbiome and the environment"

13.11.18

Outreach

Jillian Petersen and David Berry participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome and the environment at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. Together with other Viennese researchers and the public, they discussed the microbiome and its impact on ...
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.