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EDGE
 

In the project KOKOSAN II an innovative biochar based in-situ soil remediation method with a particularly favorable overall environmental footprint...

EDGE
 

The Iron Gate I Reservoir is the largest impoundment on the Danube River. It retains >50% of the incoming total suspended solids load and the...

DOME
 

Sulfate-reducing microbes control the production of the greenhouse gas methane in wetlands by competing effectively with methanogenic archaea. A...

DOME
 

Dimitri Meier and Dagmar Woebken along with members of the Joint Genome Institute will sequence the microbial community in ultra-saline microbial mats...

EDGE
 

The Marie Curie ITN 'P-TRAP' on phosphate capture from diffuse agricultural sources and its recycling has been granted to a consortium including the...

CUBE
 

CUBE wishes all colleagues and friends a happy and successful new year 2019!

CUBE
 

A new paper in Nature BIotechnology introduces quality and data standards for viral metagenomics and genomes of uncultivable viruses.

DOME
 

Alex received funding for his project "The wetland sulfur microbiome - intra- and interspecies metabolic interactions" from the Austrian Science Fund....

DOME
 

Bela successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel uncultured peatland bacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism". The board of examiners...

TER
 

Christina Kaiser has received an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project 'SomSOM: Self Organisation of microbial soil organic matter turnover'....

DOME
 

This week, DoME hosted the 11th „Let’s talk about symbiosis“ workshop. For one day, students, PhD students, postdocs and PIs interested in microbial...

DOME
 

Jillian Petersen and David Berry participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome and the environment at the Natural History Museum of...

DOME
 

Marc Mussmann received his Venia Legendi from the University of Bremen after his habilitation lecture "Microbial sulfur oxidation in coastal marine...

DOME
 

The Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung of the City of Vienna awarded funding to Petra and Andrew for their project "Can soil help the city breathe?". Petra...

DOME
 

Arno Schintlmeister, Buck Hanson, David Berry, and Alexander Loy are featured on Austrian TV (ORF3) in the documentary 'Treffpunkt Medizin: Superorgan...

CUBE
 

The German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) is an annual, international conference devoted to all areas of bioinformatics. This year, the Austrian...

DOME
 

DOME celebrated its 15th anniversary with a day-long event on September 12, 2018. Six of our longstanding collaborators and friends (Nicole Dubilier,...

DOME
 

Over 13 000 visitors came to this year’s Wiener Forschungsfest to learn about new ideas, innovations and technologies in research at more than 40...

TER
 

Soil microorganisms control carbon losses from soils to the atmosphere, yet their responses to climate warming are often short-lived and...

DOME
 

DOME has teamed up with Open Science and the Vienna Open Lab at the Wiener Forschungsfest - a family event for science education. Please come and join...

TER
 

In most terrestrial ecosystems, plant growth is limited by nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Adding either nutrient to soil usually affects primary...