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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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Scientific excellence and social relevance are two sides of the same coin. These days, it is commonplace to assert that science should be done in ways...

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Yuntao successfully defended his PhD thesis "Decomposition and stabilization of soil high molecular weight organic nitrogen" on Thursday 24th August....

DoME congratulates Tamara Halter on her uni:docs fellowship from the University of Vienna! In her project "Genomic diversity of natural populations of...

On August 16, Michael received the lifetime achievement award of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) at the biannual meeting in...

Jillian Petersen has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project '400 Million Years of Symbiosis: Host-Microbe Interactions in Marine Lucinid Clams...

Dagmar Woebken, Arno Schintlmeister, and Michael Wagner participated in a team of researchers led by Michael Sander at ETH Zürich, which was able to...

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Congratulations to Victoria Martin and Werner Mayerhofer, who successfully defended their Master's thesis on Thursday July 19th. Their topics were...

Members of the DoME held two sessions at this year's KinderUni. These sessions included the following: "A journey into microbial life on earth" and...

We are proud to announce the launch of our new logo. Since 2003 DoME has grown and evolved, and we felt it was time for a change. The new, refreshed...

The DoME team enjoyed a trip to the beautiful national park Thayatal in northern Lower Austria, including a hike along the river Thaya and lunch at a...

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Quantifying soil carbon dynamics is of utmost relevance in the context of global change because soils play an important role in land–atmosphere gas...

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TER - the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research - met at Schloss Drosendorf, an idyllic castle North of Vienna at the Czech border, for a two-day...