Stephan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Uncovering the hidden diversity and ancestral states of Chlamydiae genomes". The board of examiners included Martin Embley, Lionel Guy, and Silvia Bulgheresi. Congratulations, Stephan!
CMESS expresses its solidarity with Ukraine and endorses the plea of “The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities”, which calls for support for Ukrainian academic staff and students. Therefore, our Centre with its four divisions CUBE, DOME, EDGE, and TER ...
From 23 February to 11 March, visitors of the “Degrees of Life” art exhibition have the chance to interact artistically with their microbial environment. David Berry and Andreas Heberlein from DOME are part of the interdisciplinary team of researchers and ...
Jillian Petersen, Head of Marine Symbiosis Group at DOME, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief at The ISME Journal. She is now co-responsible for the pre-selection of scientific publications and the supervision of the peer review process, ensuring a high quality of ...
David Berry has been appointed Full Professor for Human Microbiome Research this week. He has been with DOME since 2009 and most recently held a 5-year professorship. During this time he has advanced research on intestinal microbiology, microbial ecology and evolution ...
We are inviting applications for a tenure track position in Environmental Systems Research competitively awarded in conjunction with a call for junior group leader issued by the WWTF - the Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators. We are particularly interested in young and dynamic ...
DOME members Holger Daims and Michael Wagner are among the most cited researchers in the world. Alongside their CMESS colleagues Thomas Rattei (CUBE) and Andreas Richter (TER) they have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from ...
Bacteria are constantly exposed to viral attacks. A research team led by Martin Polz, microbiologist at DOME, has studied how bacteria defend themselves against viral predators. The study – now published in Science – shows that bacteria have exchangeable genetic ...
Five DoME relay teams of three runners each participated in the 2021 International Vienna Fall Half Marathon, in a 21 km course through the Vienna Prater - and we all finished among the top 20 teams (out of 20 teams in total ...
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.
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 ...
A large consortium with Michael Wagner as a senior author evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the mandatory antigen-based SARS-CoV-2 screening programme in Austrian schools (data from March 2021). By using gargling-RT-qPCR data from a representative sample of 244 schools for ...
Three Divisions of CMESS now have a new home: Together with CUBE and TER – two of its sister divisions – DOME has moved to the new University of Vienna Biology Building (UBB) in Vienna's third district. Jointly, the three ...
This pandemic year has seen us confined to our homes and restricted from travelling the world. Not so for some microscopic bacteria in the ocean: Throughout the globe, they partner up with clams from the family Lucinidae, which live unseen ...
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 ...
Soils are one of the most diverse habitats on the planet. More than thousand microbial species that significantly influence numerous environmental processes live here per gram soil. Yet, the living conditions that soil microorganisms encounter are unpredictable and challenging. As ...
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 ...
The SARS-CoV-2 monitoring consortium headed by Michael Wagner has now assembled the results of the measurement rounds 4 and 5, which were conducted in April and May 2021, respectively. In total, more than 16.500 pupils and teachers were tested via ...
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 ...
Bacterial viruses (phage) are ubiquitous enemies of bacteria, able to efficiently infect and kill their hosts. Because phage rely on their host as a resource for reproduction, they are thought to be under strong selective pressure to maintain compact genomes and ...
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 ...
The first Young AMICI Symposium took place on the 25th and 26th of May 2021. The aim of the conference was to give young researchers a platform to present their exciting research and to network with other young researchers in ...
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 ...
The University of Vienna has extended the Comammox Research Platform, which was founded in 2018, until June 2024. Aims of the platform are to study fundamental aspects of comammox physiology and to elucidate the ecological roles and impact of complete nitrifiers. Subprojects ...
