daime is our digital image analysis and visualization software for analyzing 2D and 3D microscopy datasets of fluorescence- labeled microorganisms. Version 2.0 is a major update with many new features and improvements.
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 off: Amoebae as training ground for bacterial pathogens".
Roland Hatzenpichler received a Doc.Award from the City of Vienna for his doctoral thesis entitled "Identification and characterization of novel ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria". After his PhD at DoME, Roland is now at the California Institute of Technology.
Alex Loy and David Berry received funding for a new project from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund: Nutrition and the intestinal microbiota-host symbiosis -- A holistic stable isotope-labeling approach to decipher key microbial players and quantitatively link single cell ...
Milucka J, Ferdelman TG, Polerecky L, Franzke D, Wegener G, Schmid M, Lieberwirth I, Wagner M, Widdel F and Kuypers MMM. 2012. Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in marine methane oxidation. Nature doi:10.1038/nature11656 Markus Schmid and Michael Wagner ...
Penz T, Schmitz-Esser S, Kelly SE, Cass BN, Müller A, Woyke T, Malfatti SE, Hunter MS, Horn M. 2012. Comparative genomics suggests an independent origin of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii. PLoS Genetics 8: e1003012. Together with an international ...
Elena successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Diversity and ecology of bacteriocyte-associated symbionts in adelgids" and received the biggest doctoral cap ever. The board of examiners included Monika Bright, Wolfgang Miller, and Matthias Horn. Congratulations!
Mußmann M, Brito I, Pitcher A, Damsté JSS, Hatzenpichler R, Richter A, Nielsen JL, Nielsen PH, Müller A, Daims H, Wagner M, Head IM. 2011. Thaumarchaeotes abundant in refinery nitrifying sludges express amoA but are not obligate autotrophic ammonia oxidizers. ...
David Berry was promoted to the position of an Assistant Professor (tenure track) and will start a new group at DoME.
Congratulations, great to have you on board!
For the sixth time the DoME team held an interactive lecture for children between the age of seven and 12 at the KinderuniWien. The KinderuniWien is an annual summer school for children interested in science and the arts, with more ...
Barbara Sixt and Matthias Horn talk about a recent study demonstrating that the development of the ability to inhibit apoptosis was a key step in the evolution of chlamydiae as pathogens of humans and animals.
The cover of the May issue of Environmental Microbiology features an image taken by Elena Toenshoff. The image shows a 3-D reconstruction of bacteriocyte-associated symbionts in adelgids. In her study she describes the role of co-evolution and symbiont replacement during ...
DoME welcomes Dr. Dagmar Woebken as leader of the new NanoSIMS Group. She did her postdoctoral work at Stanford University/NASA Ames/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is with DoME since January.
Frederik Schulz received a PhD (DOC) fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for funding of his PhD project "Life inside the nucleus – an unusual symbiont of amoebae related to rickettsiae".
For the fifth time the DoME team held an interactive lecture for children between the age of seven and 12 at the KinderuniWien. The KinderuniWien is an annual summer school for children interested in science and the arts, with more ...
Gruber-Vodicka HR, Dirks U, Leisch N, Baranyi C, Stoecker K, Bulgheresi S, Heindl NR, Horn M, Lott C, Loy A, Wagner M, Ott J. 2011. Paracatenula, an ancient symbiosis between thiotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. ...
