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Primary plastids descend from the cyanobacterial endosymbiont of an ancient eukaryotic host, but the initial selective drivers that stabilized the...

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David Berry received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. David will investigate "Eco-evolutionary processes in gut...

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DoME congratulates Cecilia Wentrup and Fatima Pereira on their Marie Curie Fellowships. Fatima will work with David Berry on her project "Competition...

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This year the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science hosts the 13. German Chlamydia Workshop, an annual meeting on all aspects of chlamydia...

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Jillian Petersen (currently at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen) has received a prestiguous WWTF Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators...

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Deuterium from heavy water is incorporated into the biomass of active microbial cells. An international team led by Michael Wagner and David Berry now...

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Thomas successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Genomic insights into molecular interactions of two Bacteroidetes symbionts with their...

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Dagmar Woebken has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project "Revealing the function of dormant soil microorganisms and the cues for their...

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Ilias successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Evolutionary history and phylogenetic diversity of Chlamydiae". The board of examiners included...

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In an international collaboration led by a team at the University of Regensburg, Markus Schmid, Arno Schintlmeister, and Michael Wagner contributed...

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Nitrospira are the key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in most natural habitats and wastewater treatment plants. So far, they were considered as...

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Thomson Reuters has generated in 2014 a new list of Highly Cited Researchers in the sciences and social sciences. In total 114 microbiologists earned...

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N2 fixation is an important process in photosynthetic microbial mats, but the contribution of different diazotrophs is still poorly understood.

 

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Jan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel molecular tools for microbial ecology: development and application to decipher trophic...

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Dagmar talks about her research in this University of Vienna video feature (in German).

 

 

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David was awarded the prize from the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventative Medicine (ÖGHMP) in recognition of a study he...

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The Focus of Excellence Award of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna is granted annualy to promote young research scientists....

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DoME welcomes Dr. Craig Herbold. Craig was a postdoc at the University of Waikato (NZ), a research affiliate at the Joint Genome Institute and is now...

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Michael received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University (Denmark) in the framework of its 40 year jubilee for his distinguished efforts in the...

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If the biogeography of microorganisms in the environment is also determined by limitations in passive dispersal is still under debate. By using...

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New Paper in Nature Communications

The majority of bacteria possess a peptidoglycan sacculus consisting of a disaccharide backbone crosslinked by peptide chains, which is crucial for...