News

New publication in Nature Microbiology

15.10.19

Publication

Scientists from the Division of Microbial Ecology, together with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany discovered that deep-sea mussels can associate with 16 distinct symbiont strains that all differ in the functions they fulfil for their hosts. ...
Michael Wagner receives Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford

05.10.19

People

Michael Wagner has been conferred the prestigious title of Visiting Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, commencing October 2019. Michael will develop and apply new Raman microspectroscopy approaches together with Prof. Ian Thompson and his his long-term ...
PhD program in Microbial Symbioses: Call 2020 now open!

20.09.19

News

The PhD program Microbial Symbioses offers new positions for dedicated and enthusiastic students interested in microbe-host interactions!

Our students have a background in microbiology, microbial ecology, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, cell biology, plant sciences, or marine sciences. They are interested ...
- Website of the PhD program
New Academy of Sciences blog post by Jillian Petersen

18.09.19

Outreach

Jillian Petersen wrote a blog post for the Young Academy of the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard. The article outlines what research on beneficial microbes in marine animals can tell us about our own human microbiome. ...
Dr. Katharina Kitzinger

30.08.19

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Kathi successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Metabolic versatility of nitrifiers playing a key role in global nitrogen cycling". Kathi performed her PhD work at the University of Vienna and the University of Bremen and was jointly supervised by ...
New publication in PNAS

19.08.19

Publication

Since their surprise discovery 7 years ago, the centimeter-long, electricity-conducting cable bacteria have been equally fascinating and enigmatic to scientists worldwide: unique internal fibers under their skin likely act as wires to transport electrons along the chain of 10.000s of cells ...
City of Vienna Promotion Award for Jillian Petersen

26.07.19

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The City of Vienna Awards are awarded anually to individuals who have made major achievements in areas ranging from architecture, literature and art to humanities and natural sciences. Jillian Petersen received the City of Vienna Promotion Award 2019 (Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien) in ...
DoME Participates in KinderUni 2019

12.07.19

Outreach

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, ...
- A journey into microbial life on earth
- KinderUni
Wittgenstein Award for Michael Wagner

17.06.19

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Michael Wagner receives the FWF Wittgenstein Award 2019, Austria's most prestigious science award. Congratulations, Michi!
Dr. rer. nat. Claus Pelikan

28.05.19

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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 Fatima Pereira

20.05.19

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Fatima has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “Adjusting the base: (Epi)transcriptomic RNA modification in inflammation & host-microbiome crosstalk”. The project will address relevant aspects and implications of RNA editing in inflammatory bowel diseases, ...
New FWF project for Astrid Collingro

20.05.19

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Astrid received funding for her project "Towards functional ecology of environmental chlamydiae" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!
Prof. Sung-Keun Rhee visiting professor at DOME

15.05.19

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Sung-Keun Rhee, professor at the Department of Microbiology of the Chungbuk National University, South Korea will spend the next 6 months at our division as a visiting professor. We are very much looking forward to many exciting collaborations on ammonia-oxidizing archaea and ...
New paper in mBio: Symbiont-mediated defense against Legionella in amoebae

14.05.19

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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 Cell Host & Microbe: Mucispirillum antagonizes Salmonella

25.04.19

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Buck Hanson, Alexander Loy, and David Berry were part of an international team led by Bärbel Stecher from Munich, Germany that succeeded in identifying the protective effects of the mouse gut commensal Mucispirillum schaedleri against infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The protective effect of Mucispirillum ...
New publication in Nature Communications: Comammox produces little N2O

23.04.19

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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 ...
Jillian Petersen elected to the Young Academy

16.04.19

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...