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CeMESS
 

We mourn the loss of our highly esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend Roland Albert. A plant physiologist and ecologist, he conducted his research...

EDGE
 

Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) ensure that rain jackets remain waterproof, are an essential ingredient to many firefighting foams and were...

DOME
 

An international research team led by former DOME guest professor Sung-Keun Rhee (Chungbuk National University) and including DOME members Dimitri...

CeMESS
 

Christina Kaiser has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. Since 2014, she has been a group leader and Assistant Professor...

TER
 

A new project (PI: Marianne Koranda) has received funding from Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project will investigate the effects of metabolites...

CeMESS
 

Anouk Willemsen, virologist at CMESS, receives a highly endowed ERC Starting Grant for her research on giant viruses. Anouk has devoted her career to...

TER
 

The Children's University programme started on Monday, 11 July, with a lecture on “Invisible diversity: on life in soil”: Andreas Richter, supported...

DOME
 

Jay Osvatic successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "A study on the life cycle of Lucinid symbionts and their availability in the environment:...

DOME
 

An international research team led by MIT scientists Julia Schwartzman and Otto Cordero, and including DOME member Ben Roller, examined how marine...

CeMESS
 

The pre-proposal for a Cluster of Excellence (CoE) grant on the topic “Microbiomes drive Planetary Health” has qualified for the next round of the...

DOME
 

Daniela successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Investigating the lifestyle of the Acidobacteriota, a phylum ubiquitous in terrestrial...

CUBE
 

Gabi Kaindl has been CUBie since the beginning, and has worked at the University of Vienna even three decades longer. Now, it has become time for Gabi...

CeMESS
 

Thomas Böttcher has recently been elected as a member of the Leibniz Association’s “Senate Competition Committee”. He holds a joint professorship for...

CeMESS
 

Aaron Kintzi has won first place in this year’s photo competition “My Research in one Picture” of the University of Vienna. Paula Rojas is among the...

EDGE
 

A new study analyses river pollution in Europe: In the most extensive study of its kind, international researchers including EDGE member Thilo Hofmann...

DOME
 

In close collaboration with the Cheng group in Boston, several DOME members developed a combination of two-photon fluorescence with Stimulated Raman...

DOME
 

Microscopic mites that live almost our entire lives in our pores may soon become one with us entirely: An international research team including DOME...

EDGE
 

Contamination of our environment is one of the most pressing global problems. Our overall goal is to inform solutions to these pressing problems....

TER
 

The physical and chemical changes that accompany permafrost thaw directly influence the microbial communities that mediate the decomposition of...

EDGE
 

Environmental chemical pollution threatens biodiversity. In the most recent issue of “Science” international researchers led by Gabriel Sigmund from...

CeMESS
 

A call for more thoughtful scientific practice that addresses community needs: In an article for Nature Microbiology, an international research group...