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TER
 

TER - the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research met at the Kahlenberg in the Vienna Woods for a one-day retreat on Monday February 26, 2018....

DOME
 

Sulfite- and sulfate-reducing microbes play an important role in the global sulfur and carbon cycles. In wetlands they control the production of the...

DOME
 

Holger Daims, Michael Wagner, Kristina Djinovic-Carugo, and Andreas Richter received funding from the University of Vienna for a new research platform...

TER
 

Arctic plant productivity is often limited by low soil N availability. This has been attributed to slow breakdown of N-containing polymers in litter...

DOME
 

Dimitri Kits received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship to work with Alexander Loy on the project "Interspecies hydrogen transfer in the...

DOME
 

David Berry was appointed Full Professor for Intestinal Microbiology at the University of Vienna as of January 1, 2018. Great start into the new year,...

TER
 

Congratulations to Stefan Gorka, who successfully defended his Master thesis "Carbon and nitrogen exchange between plant roots, ectomycorrhizal fungi...

TER
 

Jörg Schnecker has recently received funding for a new project called "SEACUE - Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial carbon sequestration" from the...

DOME
 

Saint Nicholas visited DOME to hand out presents to the good Domies and to encourage them to continue doing their best, making DOME a fun and...

DOME
 

Marc received funding for a 2 PhD student project from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for investigating the function of the cryptic Woeseiaceae that...

DOME
 

Michael was ranked among Clarivate’s top 1% of reseachers for most cited publications in microbiology. He received this honor the fourth year in a...

TER
 

The 15th Stable Isotope Network Austria (SINA) Meeting is organized by the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science and the Department of...

DOME
 

Nitrate, which is mainly produced by nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), is by far the largest pool of fixed nitrogen in the world's oceans. Despite the...

DOME
 

Jillian Petersen, Marc Mussmann, and Alexander Loy are organizing together with Monika Bright the 5th International Symposium on Microbial Sulfur...

DOME
 

13 participants from all over the world learned the essentials of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in several seminars and by applying...

CUBE
 

The paper about the first round of the "Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation" (CAMI) challenge was published in Nature Methods. The...

DOME
 

After a competitive international review process in the context of the tenure track system at the University of Vienna, Alex and Holger have been...

DOME
 

Science magazine's Elizabeth Pennisi spoke to DOME researcher Jillian Petersen to find out what's new in hydrothermal vent research, on the 40th...

DOME
 

Alexander Loy and Matthias Horn contributed to the ORF's (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) themed week on the topic "Bewusst gesund: Aus dem Bauch"/...

TER
 

Most heterotrophic organisms feed on substrates that are poor in nutrients compared to their demand, leading to elemental imbalances that may...

DOME
 

After more than four years of cultivation work, we obtained the first pure culture of a complete nitrifier (comammox) and show that it has a higher...