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Since their surprise discovery 7 years ago, the centimeter-long, electricity-conducting cable bacteria have been equally fascinating and enigmatic to...

The City of Vienna Awards are awarded anually to individuals who have made major achievements in areas ranging from architecture, literature and art...

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Christina was promoted to the position of an Assistant Professor (tenure track) as of July 15th, 2019. Congratulations, Christina!

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Together with a group of 7-10 year old kids, members of TER explored SOIL. From soil sampling and sieving, to measuring soil pH and respiration, and...

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...

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Flora Brocza, Stephan Kraemer and Jan Wiederhold, together with colleagues from the University of Braunschweig (Germany), published a new research...

Michael Wagner receives the FWF Wittgenstein Award 2019, Austria's most prestigious science award. Congratulations, Michi!

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Christina Kaiser talks about her research on self organisation of soil organic matter decomposition. Soil is home to the greatest biodiversity of all...

Claus successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Ecophysiology and genomics of sulfate-reducers and other necromass-degrading microorganisms in...

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The 21st meeting of the Genomic Standards Consortium was hosted by the University of Vienna and CUBE.

Astrid received funding for her project "Towards functional ecology of environmental chlamydiae" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!

Fatima has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “Adjusting the base: (Epi)transcriptomic RNA modification...

Sung-Keun Rhee, professor at the Department of Microbiology of the Chungbuk National University, South Korea will spend the next 6 months at our...

Lena König and Cecilia Wentrup with members of the symbiosis group headed by Matthias Horn and with researchers from Institut Pasteur and the...

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Thilo Hofmann from EDGE participated at an international workshop in Nankai, China, where he is honoured as guest professor. Subsurface contamination...

Buck Hanson, Alexander Loy, and David Berry were part of an international team led by Bärbel Stecher from Munich, Germany that succeeded in...

Physiological studies with the only comammox pure culture Nitrospira inopinata revealed that it tightly controls its aerobic NO production and...

Jillian Petersen was elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Petra and Franziska joined the team of the WissensDurst Festival to organize three evenings focused on science outreach and microbiome research. From...

Michael Wagner accepted a part-time (20%) Distinguished Professor offer from the University of Aalborg, Denmark. On April 8, 2019 he presented his...

Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Craig Herbold, and Arno Schintlmeister were part of an international team led by Mette Svenning from Norway that...