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DoME at castle Riegersburg

The DoME team visited a famous chocolate factory in Styria and conquered castle Riegersburg.

 

 

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New collaborative large-scale project with the JGI

Michael Wagner and Holger Daims together with members of the Joint Genome Institute will sequence and analyze the whole genome amplification (WGA)...

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New Master curriculum Microbial Ecology

We have revised and updated the master curriculum Microbial Ecology. Studying microbial ecology is now part of the master studies Molecular...

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EMI cover image

The cover of the November issue of Environmental Microbiology features an image taken by Barbara Sixt. The cover page shows chlamydiae infecting...

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New paper in the American Journal of Gastroenterology

Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna, Alexander Loy and David Berry explored if and how fecal microbiota transplantation...

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Open Postdoc and PhD student positions in Microbial Experimental Evolution

Two positions are available in the group of Matthias Horn within the ERC StG Project EVOCHLAMY. The project comprises aspects of evolutionary biology,...

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New Paper in PLoS Pathogens

Chlamydial elementary bodies have mostly been thought of as dormant, spore-like particles. However, Barbara Sixt, Alexander Siegl, Matthias Horn and...

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DOME partnership with DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)

The DOE JGI has recently launched the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) in order to develop partnerships with groups developing new...

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New paper in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Novel avenues are available for the analysis of intestinal ecophysiology to yield new insights into complex host-symbiotic microbiota-pathogen...

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Chinese Academy of Sciences honors Michael Wagner with 2013 Einstein Professorship

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has named Michael Wagner an Einstein Professor for 2013. As part of the professorship, Michael will visit several...

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DoME to be member of the new Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

DoME joins forces with the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research and the Division of Computational Systems Biology to form the new Department of...

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Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Sixt

Barbara successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Host-free metabolic activity of chlamydial symbionts of amoebae and their interaction with the...

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Federal Minister Töchterle visits DoME

Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Karlheinz Töchterle visited DoME today. Together with Eva Nowotny, head of the executive board of...

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New FWF project

Dagmar Woebken and Stephanie Eichorst received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. The project will focus on the active...

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New papers in Environmental Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology

DOME teams around Michael Wagner and Holger Daims led two genome projects of nitrifying microorganisms representing lineages of global importance. The...

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Michael Wagner elected as fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology

The American Academy of Microbiology is the leadership group of the American Society for Microbiology, the world's oldest and largest life-science...

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New paper in Genome Biology

In this international collaboration Ilias Lagkouvardos and Matthias Horn contributed the analysis of the impact of lateral gene transfer on the...

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ERC Advanced Grant for Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project "Nitrification Reloaded – a Single Cell Approach (NITRICARE)". This is the second...

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New daime version released

daime is our digital image analysis and visualization software for analyzing 2D and 3D microscopy datasets of fluorescence- labeled microorganisms....

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Two new FWF projects

Holger Daims and Alex Loy received funding for new projects from the Austrain Science Fund. Alex will work on "The cold microbial majority - marine...

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Karin Aistleitner, Alex Siegl win Pecha Kucha contest

Karin Aistleitner and Alex Siegl won the Pecha Kucha contest "Biology on Stage - 400 Seconds of Life" with her presentation "Training in the gym pays...