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Members of the Research Network "Chemistry meets Microbiology" (cmm), a joint initiative of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science and...

Albert successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Microbial biogeography, carbon degradation, and temperature adaptation: Insights from ecological...

The DoME website has been redesigned by pion. The responsive webdesign now also offers optimized views on tablets and smart phones.

 

 

Dr. Dagmar Woebken was elected as a new member of The Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations, Dagmar!

 

 

David Berry received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. David will investigate "Eco-evolutionary processes in gut...

Primary plastids descend from the cyanobacterial endosymbiont of an ancient eukaryotic host, but the initial selective drivers that stabilized the...

TER
 

Members of the Faculty of Chemistry and the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science teamed up for a novel transdisciplinary research unit....

DoME congratulates Cecilia Wentrup and Fatima Pereira on their Marie Curie Fellowships. Fatima will work with David Berry on her project "Competition...

This year the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science hosts the 13. German Chlamydia Workshop, an annual meeting on all aspects of chlamydia...

Jillian Petersen (currently at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen) has received a prestiguous WWTF Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators...

TER
 

We welcome Amanda Daly, from Stuart Grandy’s Lab at the University of New Hampshire, who joins TER for a year to study the effect of microbes and soil...

Deuterium from heavy water is incorporated into the biomass of active microbial cells. An international team led by Michael Wagner and David Berry now...

Thomas successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Genomic insights into molecular interactions of two Bacteroidetes symbionts with their...

Dagmar Woebken has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project "Revealing the function of dormant soil microorganisms and the cues for their...

Ilias successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Evolutionary history and phylogenetic diversity of Chlamydiae". The board of examiners included...

In an international collaboration led by a team at the University of Regensburg, Markus Schmid, Arno Schintlmeister, and Michael Wagner contributed...

Nitrospira are the key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in most natural habitats and wastewater treatment plants. So far, they were considered as...

Thomson Reuters has generated in 2014 a new list of Highly Cited Researchers in the sciences and social sciences. In total 114 microbiologists earned...

Jan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel molecular tools for microbial ecology: development and application to decipher trophic...

N2 fixation is an important process in photosynthetic microbial mats, but the contribution of different diazotrophs is still poorly understood.