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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...

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International FISH Course 2013:

Vienna, February 18-22. Registration is now open!

 

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Ö1 Radio feature about environmental chlamydiae and apoptosis

Barbara Sixt and Matthias Horn talk about a recent study demonstrating that the development of the ability to inhibit apoptosis was a key step in the...

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Habilitation awarded to Holger Daims

After a public lecture on Friday, April 20, the habilitation was awarded to Holger. Congratulations!

 

 

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Habilitation awarded to Alexander Loy

After a public lecture on Friday, April 13, the habilitation was awarded to Alex. Congratulations!

 

 

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EMI cover image

The cover of the May issue of Environmental Microbiology features an image taken by Elena Toenshoff. The image shows a 3-D reconstruction of...

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A full dozen

Since establishment of DoME in 2003 members of DoME had 11 children. The 12th was born yesterday. Welcome, and congratulations to the parents!

 

 

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Welcome, Dagmar!

DoME welcomes Dr. Dagmar Woebken as leader of the new NanoSIMS Group. She did her postdoctoral work at Stanford University/NASA Ames/Lawrence...

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DOC Fellowship for Frederik Schulz

Frederik Schulz received a PhD (DOC) fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for funding of his PhD project "Life inside the nucleus – an...

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DoME goes Monsterroller

Fear is not an option - the DoME team drove down mountain Hirschkogel on Monsterrollers during this year's summer trip.

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ERC Starting Grant for Matthias Horn

Matthias Horn has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project "The Evolution of the Chlamydiae - an Experimental Approach (EVOCHLAMY)".