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Honorary doctorate for Michael Wagner

11.04.14

People

Michael received an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University (Denmark) in the framework of its 40 year jubilee for his distinguished efforts in the field of Natural Sciences. The certificate was presented to him in the presence of crown prince Frederik. ...
New Paper in The ISME Journal

12.02.14

Publication

If the biogeography of microorganisms in the environment is also determined by limitations in passive dispersal is still under debate. By using endospores of thermophilic bacteria in cold marine sediments as indicators, Albert Müller and Alexander Loy now show that ...
New Paper in Nature Communications

17.12.13

Publication

The majority of bacteria possess a peptidoglycan sacculus consisting of a disaccharide backbone crosslinked by peptide chains, which is crucial for cell division, maintaining cell shape and resisting osmotic stress. Whether chlamydiae contain this structure has long been debated, but ...
- Article
- Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Microbiology
Postdoctoral fellowships "Interdisciplinary Cancer Research" (INDICAR)

10.12.13

News

Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Marie Curie project "Interdisciplinary Cancer Research" (INDICAR) at the University of Vienna are available. We welcome applications of postdocs interested in intestinal microbiota and cancer research.
Please contact David Berry or Alexander Loy.
- Further information
Movember at DoME

02.11.13

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Thirteen Bros and Sistas from DoME joined
this year's Movember movement.
- Movember
DoME at castle Riegersburg

30.10.13

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The DoME team visited a famous chocolate factory in Styria and conquered castle Riegersburg.
New collaborative large-scale project with the JGI

28.10.13

News

Michael Wagner and Holger Daims together with members of the Joint Genome Institute will sequence and analyze the whole genome amplification (WGA) products of 100 nitrifier microcolonies from a single activated sludge sample. The microcolonies will be identified by Raman ...
- CSP Sequencing Plans 2014 of DOE JGI
New Master curriculum Microbial Ecology

15.10.13

News

We have revised and updated the master curriculum Microbial Ecology. Studying microbial ecology is now part of the master studies Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, and Immunobiology. The new master is held completely in English; students are trained in microbial ecology, ...
- Program overview and courses
- Announcement [German]
EMI cover image

14.10.13

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The cover of the November issue of Environmental Microbiology features an image taken by Barbara Sixt. The cover page shows chlamydiae infecting terrestrial isopods after recovery in insect cell lines and immunofluorescence staining. The corresponding article is entitled "Developmental cycle ...
- Article
New paper in the American Journal of Gastroenterology

30.09.13

News

Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna, Alexander Loy and David Berry explored if and how fecal microbiota transplantation support microbial recolonization of the gut of ulcerative colitis patients. They show that temporal bacterial community dynamics and therapy ...
New Paper in PLoS Pathogens

09.08.13

News

Chlamydial elementary bodies have mostly been thought of as dormant, spore-like particles. However, Barbara Sixt, Alexander Siegl, Matthias Horn and colleagues now demonstrate metabolic activity in chlamydial elementary bodies that is linked to infectivity. Challenging textbook knowledge, these results suggest ...
- Article
- uni:view Magazin [German]
Open Postdoc and PhD student positions in Microbial Experimental Evolution

09.08.13

News

Two positions are available in the group of Matthias Horn within the ERC StG Project EVOCHLAMY. The project comprises aspects of evolutionary biology, microbiology, genomics, and bioinformatics.
- Job advertisement Postdoc [PDF]
- Job advertisement PhD student[PDF]
DOME partnership with DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)

17.05.13

News

The DOE JGI has recently launched the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) in order to develop partnerships with groups developing new technologies that DOE JGI could establish to add value to the high throughput sequencing it currently carries out for ...
- News release at DOE JGI website
New paper in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

16.05.13

News

Novel avenues are available for the analysis of intestinal ecophysiology to yield new insights into complex host-symbiotic microbiota-pathogen processes, such colonization resistance against infections. This review summarizes bioinformatics tools for revealing hypothetical interactions from metagenomic data and highlights the value ...
- Article
Chinese Academy of Sciences honors Michael Wagner with 2013 Einstein Professorship

13.05.13

News

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has named Michael Wagner an Einstein Professor for 2013. As part of the professorship, Michael will visit several institutes in China early next year. He subsequently will host two Chinese scholars for several months at ...
- uni:view [German]
DoME to be member of the new Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

08.05.13

News

DoME joins forces with the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research and the Division of Computational Systems Biology to form the new Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science. Michael Wagner will serve as head of the new department for the first ...
- Homepage
Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Sixt

17.04.13

News

Barbara successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Host-free metabolic activity of chlamydial symbionts of amoebae and their interaction with the cellular suicide machinery of metazoan host cells". The board of examiners included Jan Rupp, Thomas Decker, and Matthias Horn. Congratulations!
...
Federal Minister Töchterle visits DoME

03.04.13

News

Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research Karlheinz Töchterle visited DoME today. Together with Eva Nowotny, head of the executive board of the University of Vienna, Heinz W. Engl, rector of the University of Vienna, Karl Schwaha, vice rector, and ...
New FWF project

02.04.13

News

Dagmar Woebken and Stephanie Eichorst received funding for a new project from the Austrian Science Fund. The project will focus on the active free-living diazotrophs in terrestrial ecosystems and the factors influencing their activity using a single cell approach.
- FWF Project database
New paper in PNAS

05.03.13

News

A DOME team encompassing David Berry, Alexander Loy, Arno Schintlmeister, Jochen Reichert, and Michael Wagner used NanoSIMS to identify mucus-degrading bacteria in the mouse gut. Together with collaborators providing expertise in IR-MS measurements and animal experiments, they showed that this ...
- Article text
New papers in Environmental Microbiology and Frontiers in Microbiology

04.03.13

News

DOME teams around Michael Wagner and Holger Daims led two genome projects of nitrifying microorganisms representing lineages of global importance. The ammonium-oxidizing archaeon Ca.Nitrososphaera gargensis is the first member of the so-called soil group or group I.1b whose genome was sequenced. ...
- Article on Nitrososphaera gargensis
- Article on Nitrospina gracilis
Michael Wagner elected as fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology

21.02.13

News

The American Academy of Microbiology is the leadership group of the American Society for Microbiology, the world's oldest and largest life-science organization. Academy fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement ...
- Homepage of the American Academy of Microbiology
New paper in Genome Biology

21.02.13

News

In this international collaboration Ilias Lagkouvardos and Matthias Horn contributed the analysis of the impact of lateral gene transfer on the evolution of amoeboid genomes to suggest that in amoebae, lateral gene transfer is reflective of trophic strategy and driven ...
- Article text
ERC Advanced Grant for Michael Wagner

12.12.12

News

Michael Wagner has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project "Nitrification Reloaded – a Single Cell Approach (NITRICARE)". This is the second ERC grant for a member of DoME this year.
- European Research Council
Two new FWF projects

06.12.12

News

Holger Daims and Alex Loy received funding for new projects from the Austrain Science Fund. Alex will work on "The cold microbial majority - marine sulfate-reducing microorganisms". Holger aims at "Illuminating the Ecology of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria".
- FWF Project database

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Open Postdoc and PhD student positions in Microbial Experimental Evolution

DOME partnership with DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)

New paper in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Chinese Academy of Sciences honors Michael Wagner with 2013 Einstein Professorship

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