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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...

CUBE
 

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...

DOME
 

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

TER
 

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

CUBE
 

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

DOME
 

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

DOME
 

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

DOME
 

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...

DOME
 

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

DOME
 

The City of Vienna Awards are awarded anually to individuals who have made major achievements in areas ranging from architecture, literature and art...

DOME
 

Anne won the prestigious stipend with an application entitled "Ecology of Novel Nitrite-Oxidizers in the Phylum Chloroflexi", which aims to support...

DOME
 

Chlamydia are generally characterized by a highly conserved intracellular life style. Astrid Collingro and Matthias Horn together with an...

TER
 

A new Horizon 2020 project has been granted to a large European consortium for researching into “Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast”....