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"Bewusst gesund" with DOME

13.09.17

News

Alexander Loy and Matthias Horn contributed to the ORF's (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) themed week on the topic "Bewusst gesund: Aus dem Bauch"/ "Consciously healthy: Out of the belly". In a one-hour radio interview with the ORF's principal cultural and ...
New paper in Nature: Comparative kinetic characterization of comammox

23.08.17

Publication

After more than four years of cultivation work, we obtained the first pure culture of a complete nitrifier (comammox) and show that it has a higher substrate affinity than many ammonia oxidizing archaea. On the other hand, this comammox microbe has an unexpectedly low affinity ...
New paper in Science: A new contractile injection system in an amoeba symbiont

17.08.17

Publication

Protein secretion systems are key mechanisms of intracellular bacteria to infect eukaryotic host cells. Matthias Horn and his team at DoME together with Martin Pilhofer’s lab at the ETH Zürich now discovered and characterized a novel secretion system in the amoeba symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus. ...
DoME at Kinderuni 2017

25.07.17

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In addition to the opening family lecture, members of the DoME held multple sessions at this year's Kinderuni. These sessions included the following: "A journey into microbial life on earth", "Warum sind Bakterien für uns so wichtig?", and "Wie ...
- Homepage KinderuniWien [German]
ICoN5 Conference in Vienna

23.07.17

Event

Holger Daims, Michael Wagner and their teams are organizing together with Christa Schleper's group the Fifth International Conference on Nitrification and Related Processes (ICoN5), which is taking place at the campus of the University of Vienna from 23-27 July 2017. We are excited ...
- ICoN5 homepage
Family lecture at Kinderuni 2017

09.07.17

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Holger Daims gave one of the opening family lectures of this year's KinderuniWien. About 300 children (age 7 to 12 years) and parents learned about the human gut microbiome, its functions and importance for our health. The KinderuniWien is an ...
- Homepage KinderuniWien [German]
New FWF project for Holger Daims

07.07.17

People

Holger received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. Holger will investigate the "Physiology and Environmental Importance of Comammox".
New paper in The ISME Journal: Evidence for motility of marine chlamydiae

06.07.17

Publication

Chlamydia are generally characterized by a highly conserved intracellular life style. Astrid Collingro and Matthias Horn together with an international team have now discovered a surprising divergence from this lifestyle in marine chlamydiae. Using single-cell genomics, they detected nearly complete ...
FWF Hertha Firnberg Stipend for Anne Daebeler

06.07.17

People

Anne won the prestigious stipend with an application entitled "Ecology of Novel Nitrite-Oxidizers in the Phylum Chloroflexi", which aims to support women at the start of their scientific university careers. Congratulations Anne!
City of Vienna Promotion Award for David Berry

06.07.17

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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. David Berry received the City of Vienna Promotion Award 2017 (Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien) in ...
- City of Vienna Award Description
DOC fellowship awarded to Sarah Zauner

20.06.17

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DoME congratulates Sarah Zauner on her DOC fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! In her project "From Bacteria to Birds: Inter-kingdom Interactions in a Marine Symbiosis", Sarah will work together with Jill Petersen.
DOME at Traismauer

19.06.17

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The DOME members enjoyed a trip to the town of Traismauer including a hike in the surrounding hills and a bath in the beautiful "Naturbadesee Traismauer"!
Michael Wagner elected as EMBO Member

16.06.17

People

Michael is one among the 65 researchers from across the world to be honoured with election to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). Election to EMBO Membership is recognition of research excellence and EMBO Members are actively involved in the execution ...
- EMBO press release
- APA Press Release [German]
Jim Tiedje Award for Michael Wagner

12.06.17

People

This award is given in recognition of a lifetime contribution to microbial ecology and is celebrated with a dedicated reception and evening lecture during ISME17 in August 2018, in Leipzig. Previous recipients of the Tiedje Award are Sally Chisholm, Nancy Moran, Stephen ...
New paper in Science: Discovery in Sewage Plant Klosterneuburg Sheds New Light on Giant Virus Evolution

06.04.17

Publication

Giant viruses can have genome sizes larger than that of some bacteria, but their evolutionary history is a mystery. In this study that was performed in collaboration between three US research teams and scientists from DOME, a novel giant virus genome was assembled ...
Microbiome, antibiotics and human health [German]

14.03.17

People

In collaboration with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard and the University of Vienna, Michael Wagner discusses in a series of articles, interviews and videos challenges and opportunities of microbiome and antibiotics research for human health
ORF III Science Talk with Michael Wagner [German]

13.03.17

Event

In the ORF III science.talk, Michael will talk with Barbara Stöckl about the fascinating diversity of microorganisms and their roles for human and ...
- ScienceTalk on YouTube
Doc Award of the University and the City of Vienna for Hanna Koch

18.01.17

People

Hanna Koch, a former PhD student in the group of Holger Daims, has received the Doc Award of the University and the City of Vienna. This dissertation prize honors outstanding research achievements by graduates of the University of Vienna. Hanna ...
- Announcement on the website of the University of Vienna [German]
Interdisciplinary research cluster grant for David Berry

12.01.17

News

David Berry and Angelika Berger (Medical University of Vienna) were awarded a grant for their project "The premature gut microbiome and the influence on neonatal immunity, brain development and white matter injury – The PreMiBraIn study". The interdisciplinary research clusters ...
We are now on Twitter @DOME_Vienna

30.12.16

News

Follow us on Twitter if you want to receive information on the latest DOME news and publications.
The MObiota Movember team supported men's health

02.12.16

Event

Our team raised 275€ and ranked #31 in Austria. Check the gallery for some decent moustaches.
New Paper in Nature Microbiology: Minimal microbiota with maximal protection against Salmonella

21.11.16

Publication

An international team, led by Bärbel Stecher from the LM-University Munich and including DOME members Carina Pfann, Alexander Loy and David Berry, used genomic information from individual mouse intestinal strains and comparative metagenomics to assemble and test a minimal microbiota that provides ...
Michael Wagner Highly Cited Researcher 2016

21.11.16

People

Michael is among the 20 scientists in Austria that were recognized in 2016 as Highly Cited Researchers by Thomson Reuters and among 10 researchers in Austria that received this distinction also in 2014 and 2015.
- Thomson Reuters
Movember 2016

01.11.16

Event

DMES participates in Movember. Our team 'The MObiota' welcomes any donations to support this movement.
New paper in Nature Microbiology: Nitrogen fixation by chemosynthetic symbionts

24.10.16

Publication

Marine symbiotic bacteria may help to ‘fertilize’ animal growth in the oceans. An international team led by Jillian Petersen, Group Leader at DOME, have discovered that chemosynthetic bacteria in marine animals can fix nitrogen as well as carbon. This is ...

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