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New publication in Science Translational Medicine: Hair eruption initiates and skin microbiota aggravate side effects of targeted cancer therapy

Modern, targeted and efficient cancer therapies based on inhibition of the EGF receptor come at the expense of massive acne-like skin inflammations, severe side effects that often result in drug dose reduction or even end of cancer therapy. Buck Hanson, ...

Michael Wagner recognized as highly cited researcher 2019

Like in the last 5 years, Michael was listed among the top-cited scientists internationally. In total 44 scientists from Austria are on this list including Andreas Richter from our centre. 

Michael Wagner receives Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford

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 ...

New Academy of Sciences blog post by Jillian Petersen

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. ...

New publication in PNAS

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 ...

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 ...