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Michael Wagner as guest in the talkshow "Im Zentrum"

On September 19, Michael was invited to the talkshow "Im Zentrum" to discuss together with four other guests and the host Claudia Reiterer how to best protect children and schools from COVID-19.

New Publication in Cell Host & Microbe: Aberrant gut microbiota-immune-brain axis development in premature neonates with brain damage

Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. A collaboration between CMESS researchers, including DOME members David Seki and David Berry, and the Medical University of Vienna have now found possible targets for the early treatment of ...

FWF grant from the 1000 ideas program for Dimitra Sakoula

Dimitra Sakoula, working as a Postdoc in the nitrification group obtained funding from the “1000 Ideas Program” of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The aim of this program is to support daring and original research ideas that lie outside the ...

New Paper in Nature Communications: Pangenomics reveals alternative environmental lifestyles among chlamydiae

Chlamydiae are strictly intracellular bacteria and have long been considered primarily as major pathogens of humans. Yet, the phylum Chlamydiae is highly diverse, the host range unmatched among known microbes, and its members are increasingly also found in ...

Otto-Hahn-Medal for Katharina Kitzinger

On June 22nd 2021, Dr. Kath­ar­ina Kitzinger receives an Otto-Hahn Medal, with which the Max Planck So­ci­ety hon­ours its best doc­toral stu­dents. Kathi was supervised during her dissertation by Michael Wagner together with Hannah Marchant and Marcel Kuypers from the Max Planck In­sti­tute ...

New Publication in Nature Microbiology: Genomic insights into diverse bacterial taxa that degrade extracellular DNA in marine sediments

While best known as the code for genetic information, DNA is also a nutrient for specialised microbes. An international team of researchers led by Ken and Alex from DOME has discovered several bacteria in sediment samples from the Atlantic Ocean that ...

Jillian Petersen featured in "Uni Wien forscht"

Jill is featured in this month’s section of “Uni Wien forscht”, a video series portraying researchers from the University of Vienna. In the video Jill takes you on a tour through the lab and talks about her group's research ...

Young AMICI Symposium 2021 - 25. & 26.05.2021

DOME's PhD students Julia and Mathias joined the organising committee of the Young AMICI symposium 2021 to bring us a great event:

The Young AMICI symposium on environmental and host-associated microbiomes is organized by and mainly intended for ...

New publication in The ISME Journal: A green-diet sulfosugar is a select microbial nutrient and source of hydrogen sulfide in the human gut

Many functional properties of the human gut microbiome are still unknown. An international team of scientists around Buck, Dimitri, and Alex from DOME and David Schleheck from the University of Konstanz has now uncovered how gut bacteria utilize the sulfur-containing sugar ...

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 ...