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Chinese Academy of Sciences honors Michael Wagner with 2013 Einstein Professorship

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has named Michael Wagner an Einstein Professor for 2013. As part of the professorship, Michael will visit several...

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DoME to be member of the new Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

DoME joins forces with the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research and the Division of Computational Systems Biology to form the new Department of...

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Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Sixt

Barbara successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Host-free metabolic activity of chlamydial symbionts of amoebae and their interaction with the...

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Federal Minister Töchterle visits DoME

Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Karlheinz Töchterle visited DoME today. Together with Eva Nowotny, head of the executive board of...

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New FWF project

Dagmar Woebken and Stephanie Eichorst received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. The project will focus on the active...

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New papers in Environmental Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology

DOME teams around Michael Wagner and Holger Daims led two genome projects of nitrifying microorganisms representing lineages of global importance. The...

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Michael Wagner elected as fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology

The American Academy of Microbiology is the leadership group of the American Society for Microbiology, the world's oldest and largest life-science...

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New paper in Genome Biology

In this international collaboration Ilias Lagkouvardos and Matthias Horn contributed the analysis of the impact of lateral gene transfer on the...

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ERC Advanced Grant for Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project "Nitrification Reloaded – a Single Cell Approach (NITRICARE)". This is the second...

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New daime version released

daime is our digital image analysis and visualization software for analyzing 2D and 3D microscopy datasets of fluorescence- labeled microorganisms....

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Two new FWF projects

Holger Daims and Alex Loy received funding for new projects from the Austrain Science Fund. Alex will work on "The cold microbial majority - marine...

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Karin Aistleitner, Alex Siegl win Pecha Kucha contest

Karin Aistleitner and Alex Siegl won the Pecha Kucha contest "Biology on Stage - 400 Seconds of Life" with her presentation "Training in the gym pays...

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City of Vienna Award for Alex Loy

Alex Loy was awarded with the "Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien 2012" from the City of Vienna.

 

 

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Doc.Award for Roland Hatzenpichler

Roland Hatzenpichler received a Doc.Award from the City of Vienna for his doctoral thesis entitled "Identification and characterization of novel...

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New paper in Nature

Milucka J, Ferdelman TG, Polerecky L, Franzke D, Wegener G, Schmid M, Lieberwirth I, Wagner M, Widdel F and Kuypers MMM. 2012. Zero-valent sulphur is...

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New WWTF project

Alex Loy and David Berry received funding for a new project from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund: Nutrition and the intestinal microbiota-host...

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New paper in PLoS Genetics

Penz T, Schmitz-Esser S, Kelly SE, Cass BN, Müller A, Woyke T, Malfatti SE, Hunter MS, Horn M. 2012. Comparative genomics suggests an independent...

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Dr. rer. nat. Elena Tönshoff

Elena successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Diversity and ecology of bacteriocyte-associated symbionts in adelgids" and received the biggest...

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David Berry, Assistant Professor

David Berry was promoted to the position of an Assistant Professor (tenure track) and will start a new group at DoME.

Congratulations, great to have...

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DoME up in the trees

This summer the DoME team followed the tracks of our great ape ancestors in a high ropes course

in the Vienna Woods.

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DoME at the KinderuniWien 2012

For the sixth time the DoME team held an interactive lecture for children between the age of seven and 12 at the KinderuniWien. The KinderuniWien is...