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CUBE
 

Five thousand years ago in the European Alps, a man was shot by an arrow, then clubbed to death. His body was subsequently mummified by ice until...

CUBE
 

New master thesis projects are available in Prof. Ines Heiland's group at the University Tromso, the Arctic University of Norway. The projects cover...

CUBE
 

A new platform for Bioinformatics in Austria has been established in 2015 and is currently brought into a formal structure. Recently the web portal of...

CUBE
 

We wish all our team, our students, and our collaboration partners a happy, successful and peaceful new year!

 

 

DOME
 

Michael Wagner has earned the 2015 Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers award by being among the top 1% most cited microbiologists in the world. ...

DOME
 

Michael is awarded for his research on the diversity and function of microorganisms. The Erwin Schrödinger Prize is the highest award of the Austrian...

TER
 

Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils,

C. Kaiser, O. Franklin, A. Richter &...

TER
 

Congratulations! Anna successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Controls on soil organic matter decomposition along a latitudinal transect in...

DOME
 

Nitrification has always been considered as a two-step process catalyzed by microorganisms oxidizing either ammonia or nitrite. This functional...

DOME
 

The MoBros & MoSistas of DMES are proud of their colleagues for discovering and sciencing the hell out of the enigmatic Comammox. Well done!

 

 

TER
 

Welcome back: David Zezula (MSc Student) and Andreas Richter just returned from a sampling campaign at the Inselberg Camp at the Nouragues Field...

DOME
 

DoME congratulates Max Nepel on his DOC fellowship from the Austrian academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! In his project, Max will work together with Dagmar...

DOME
 

DOME
 

 

Regulatory networks in bacteria have been investigated in model microorganisms, but nearly nothing is known about the evolution and plasticity of...

DOME
 

Daryl successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Evolutionary genomics of the Chlamydiae". The board of examiners included Tal Dagan (University...

DOME
 

The three divisions CUBE, TER and DOME met for the first retreat of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science (DMES) from October 5-7 at...

DOME
 

TER
 

The three divisions CUBE, TER and DOME met for the first retreat of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science (DMES) from October 5-7 at...

CUBE
 

This years CUBE excursion started in Schwechat. There we visited the OMV refinery, in which about 200 different types of crude oils can be converted...

CUBE
 

The accessibility of almost complete genome sequences of uncultivable microbial species from metagenomes necessitates computational methods predicting...

TER
 

Microbial nitrogen dynamics in organic and mineral soil horizons along a latitudinal transect in Western Siberia. Wild, B., Schnecker, J., Knoltsch,...