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Stanislava Kralova receives Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc fellowship

Stanislava was awarded a highly competive, 2-year Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc fellowship from the European Commission. She also receives funding for an extra year from the University of Viennna as one of the 10 top-ranked MSCA European Fellowships at the University of Vienna.

Stanislava will ...

Re-start of school monitoring study

On March 1st 2021, the nationwide SARS-CoV-2 school monitoring study was re-started. During the next three weeks selected pupils and teachers from 250 Austrian schools, representing about 6% of all schools in the country, will again provide gargle samples for ...

Preprint describing the first results (round 1 & 2) from the Austrian School-SARS-CoV-2 study available

The Austrian School-SARS-CoV-2 consortium (scientifically coordinated by Michael Wagner) has assembled a manuscript describing the first results from the "gargling study" in almost 250 Austrian schools. In total almost 14.000 tests were performed to determine the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among pupils ...

Gesund & Fit Award for Michael Wagner

Today, Michael received the Gesund & Fit Award together with Manuela Födinger and Johannes Zuber from the Media Group Austria for their development of the gargling test for SARS-CoV-2 detection and its application for the Austrian school monitoring project. Additional awards were presented ...

Establishing interactions in a dynamic environment: Introducing the PhD program Microbial Symbioses

On Thursday, over 50 people interested in symbioses came together online for the kick-off event of the PhD program Microbial Symbioses. Among them, the ten new PhD candidates and 15 affiliated students of the doctoral program, faculty, and guests. A ...

Stephanie Schnorr receives 3-year REWIRE postdoc fellowship

Stephanie won a 3-year Post-Doc fellowship from the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) COFUND Programme, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions COFUND project funded by the European Commission.  

Stephanie will work in David’s team and aims to identify novel microbial ...

New publication in Nature Communications: Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization

Many intestinal pathogens such as Clostridioides difficile use mucus-derived sugars to establish in the gut. In this study, a team around Fatima Pereira and David Berry identified commensal gut bacteria that efficiently use mucus-derived sugars using single-cell stable isotope probing, Raman-activated cell sorting and mini-metagenomics. Using this information, they assembled a probiotic cocktail of five species that impeded C. difficile’s access to mucosal ...

Two new group leaders at DOME - Liz Hambleton and Dimitri Kits

We cordially welcome Elisabeth (Liz) Hambleton and Dimitri Kits as new group leaders at DOME. We are looking foward to many exciting collaborations on microbial symbiosis and physiology in our endeavour to understand Earth's microbiomes. Great to have you aboard, Liz & Dimitri!

New publication in PNAS: Evolution of virulence in a chlamydial symbiont

Microbe–host relationships are determined by the mode of symbiont transmission from host to host. In this study, a team around Paul Herrera and Matthias Horn describes how bacterial symbionts related to the pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis increased in infectivity and virulence ...

Jillian Petersen promoted to associate professor

We are excited to announce that Jillian Petersen has been promoted to associate professor at the University of Vienna. Congratulations Jill on your well-deserved promotion. Great to have you in our team!

Bettina Glasl receives 3-year REWIRE Post-Doc as well as FWF Hertha-Firnberg Fellowships

Bettina won a 3-year Post-Doc fellowship from the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) COFUND Programme, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions COFUND project funded by the European Commission as well as a 3 year Post-Doc fellowship from the FWF in the framework of the ...