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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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Dr. Harald Marx is a Bioinformatician by training. During his PhD in Bernhard Kuster's Lab at TU Munich he developed tools and statistical approaches...

Protein secretion systems are key mechanisms of intracellular bacteria to infect eukaryotic host cells. Matthias Horn and his team at DoME together...

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Congratulations to Daniel Wasner and David Zezula, who successfully defended their Master thesis on ecological and physiological aspects of the...

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The CUBE team and the research focus "Computational Life Sciences" teamed up with David Kreil and Pawel Labaj (BOKU University) in organizing the...

In addition to the opening family lecture, members of the DoME held multple sessions at this year's Kinderuni.

Holger Daims, Michael Wagner and their teams are organizing together with Christa Schleper's group the Fifth International Conference on Nitrification...

Holger Daims gave one of the opening family lectures of this year's KinderuniWien. About 300 children (age 7 to 12 years) and parents learned about...

Holger received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. Holger will investigate the "Physiology and Environmental Importance of...