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DoME Participates in KinderUni 2019

DoME members held a workshop entitled "A journey into microbial life on earth" at the KinderUni 2019. This workshop hosted children from 7 to 9 years of age and was aimed to illustrate the importance of microbes in nature, ...

Dr. rer. nat. Claus Pelikan

Claus successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Ecophysiology and genomics of sulfate-reducers and other necromass-degrading microorganisms in arctic marine sediments". The board of examiners included William Orsi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany), Bert Engelen (University of Oldenburg, Germany), and Silvia Bulgheresi. Congratulations ...

New FWF project for Astrid Collingro

Astrid received funding for her project "Towards functional ecology of environmental chlamydiae" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!

New paper in mBio: Symbiont-mediated defense against Legionella in amoebae

Lena König and Cecilia Wentrup with members of the symbiosis group headed by Matthias Horn and with researchers from Institut Pasteur and the University of Michigan revealed how chlamydial symbionts protect free-living amoeba from infection with Legionella pneumophila.

Legionella pneumophila is an ...

New publication in Nature Communications: Comammox produces little N2O

Physiological studies with the only comammox pure culture Nitrospira inopinata revealed that it tightly controls its aerobic NO production and releases much less N₂O than ammonia-oxidizing proteobacteria. Furthermore, Dimitri Kits, Man-Young Jung together with other members of the nitrification research groups ...

DoME at the WissensDurst Festival 2019

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 ...

New Raman tools published in Nature Microbiology and the ISME Journal

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 ...

Adult education and panel discussion on the human microbiome

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 ...

Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German Science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'

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 ...

New publication in mBio: Rare but mighty

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 ...