News

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.
Jim Tiedje Award of the ISME for Michael Wagner

18.08.18

News

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

News

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

News

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.