News

Remembering Karin

04.04.19

People

Earlier this week our dear former Domie and PhD student Karin Aistleitner died - entirely unexpectedly - after a brief but serious illness. She will be missed.

Karin joined DoME as Master’s student and then took on a PhD ...
- Obituary [German]
Our research as a comic

03.04.19

Outreach

The Petersen group is featured in a press release of the University of Vienna, including a comic developed by the University, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and illustrator Nana Swiczinsky.
- Press release
- Comic
Adult education and panel discussion on the human microbiome

27.03.19

Outreach

Alexander Loy gave a lecture and participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome in the course of the Mini Med Studies. Together with Christoph Steininger and Thomas Reiberger from the Medical University of Vienna and the public, he discussed ...
- Mini Med: Wie uns unsere Mikroben gesund erhalten [German]
- MeinBezirk.at [German]
FWF funding for new PhD program in Microbial Symbioses

20.03.19

News

A new PhD program in Microbial Symbioses will be funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project MAINTAIN and the University of Vienna. The central theme, addressed in 14 interconnected projects, is studying how symbiotic relationships between microbes and other organisms evolved ...
Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German Science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'

08.03.19

Outreach

Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft for their story on the threatened diversity of the intestinal microbiome. The microorganisms in the human intestine play an important role for health. But at least in western societies, the ...
- Spektrum der Wissenschaft: Unsere Darmvielfalt ist bedroht [German]
DoME is part of new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

28.02.19

News

DoME is a proud member of the new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna! The new Centre brings together 15 working groups, and addresses two key scientific disciplines of the 21st century with enormous potential ...
- News release (University of Vienna)
- Der Standard [German]
New publication in mBio: Rare but mighty

21.02.19

Publication

Sulfate-reducing microbes control the production of the greenhouse gas methane in wetlands by competing effectively with methanogenic archaea. A research team with Bela Hausmann, Alexander Loy (DOME), and Michael Pester (DSMZ Braunschweig) has now discovered a new sulfate-reducing bacterium in wetlands, Candidatus Desulfosporosinus infrequens, which ...
New Collaborative Project with the JGI on ultra-saline microbial mats

15.02.19

News

Dimitri Meier and Dagmar Woebken along with members of the Joint Genome Institute will sequence the microbial community in ultra-saline microbial mats at the coast of Oman. The goal of the project is to reveal the microorganisms responsible for functional ...
New FWF project for Alexander Loy

07.12.18

News

Alex received funding for his project "The wetland sulfur microbiome - intra- and interspecies metabolic interactions" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!
Dr. rer. nat. Bela Hausmann

04.12.18

People

Bela successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Novel uncultured peatland bacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism". The board of examiners included Joel Kostka (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Andreas Richter, and Marc Mussmann. Many thanks also to Kirsten Küsel (University ...
Michael Wagner recognized as Highly Cited Researcher 2018

27.11.18

News

Like in the last 4 years, Michael was listed among the top-cited scientists internationally. In total 40 scientists from Austria are on this list including Thomas Rattei and Andreas Richter from our department.
DoME hosted "Let's talk about symbiosis" workshop

16.11.18

Event

This week, DoME hosted the 11th „Let’s talk about symbiosis“ workshop. For one day, students, PhD students, postdocs and PIs interested in microbial symbiosis got together to discuss their current and future research. The workshop is one of the activities ...
Panel discussion on "Microbiome and the environment"

13.11.18

Outreach

Jillian Petersen and David Berry participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome and the environment at the Natural History Museum of Vienna. Together with other Viennese researchers and the public, they discussed the microbiome and its impact on ...
Habilitation of Marc Mussmann

19.10.18

News

Marc Mussmann received his Venia Legendi from the University of Bremen after his habilitation lecture "Microbial sulfur oxidation in coastal marine sediments" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology. Congratulations Privatdozent Dr. Marc!
Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung funding for Petra Pjevac and Andrew Giguere

12.10.18

News

The Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung of the City of Vienna awarded funding to Petra and Andrew for their project "Can soil help the city breathe?". Petra and Andrew will investigate the capacity of different types of urban green spaces to serve as ...
ORF3 TV documentary on the human microbiome

04.10.18

Outreach

Arno Schintlmeister, Buck Hanson, David Berry, and Alexander Loy are featured on Austrian TV (ORF3) in the documentary 'Treffpunkt Medizin: Superorgan Mikrobiom' about the human microbiome. They talk about the importance of the gut microbiota for human health, such as for the ...
- ORF3 Treffpunkt Medizin: Superorgan Mikrobiom [German]
A successful Vienna Research Festival 2018

28.09.18

News

Over 13 000 visitors came to this year’s Wiener Forschungsfest to learn about new ideas, innovations and technologies in research at more than 40 different stations.

We teamed up with the Vienna Open Lab and Open Science to set up a station about “Microorganisms ...
15 Years of DOME!

28.09.18

News

DOME celebrated its 15th anniversary with a day-long event on September 12, 2018. Six of our longstanding collaborators and friends (Nicole Dubilier, Nicole Webster, Mike Jetten, Per Nielsen, Andreas Schramm and Dave Stahl) gave talks at a Microbial Ecology Symposium. ...
- uni:view magazine
DOME participates in the Vienna Research Festival 2018

13.09.18

Outreach

DOME has teamed up with Open Science and the Vienna Open Lab at the Wiener Forschungsfest - a family event for science education. Please come and join Franziska, Petra, Christopher, Annelieke, and Ben to learn more about 'Microorganisms ...
uni:docs fellowship awarded to Tamara Halter

20.08.18

News

DoME congratulates Tamara Halter on her uni:docs fellowship from the University of Vienna! In her project "Genomic diversity of natural populations of environmental chlamydiae: The case of Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis", Tamara will work together with Matthias Horn.
Jim Tiedje Award of the ISME for Michael Wagner

18.08.18

News

On August 16, Michael received the lifetime achievement award of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) at the biannual meeting in Leipzig, Germany. As part of the award Michael presented a one-hour look back on "25 years of functional analyses ...
- University of Vienna Media Page
ERC Starting Grant for Jillian Petersen

27.07.18

News

Jillian Petersen has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project '400 Million Years of Symbiosis: Host-Microbe Interactions in Marine Lucinid Clams from Past to Present'. This is the fifth ERC Grant for a current member of DOME. Congratulations, Jill!!
- Press release of the University of Vienna (German)
- Der Standard (German)
New paper in Science Advances: Microbial degradation of plastic in soil

26.07.18

Publication

Dagmar Woebken, Arno Schintlmeister, and Michael Wagner participated in a team of researchers led by Michael Sander at ETH Zürich, which was able to directly demonstrate for the first time microbial degradation of agricultural plastic in soil. Using state-of-the-art analytical methods, ...
DoME Participates in KinderUni

18.07.18

Outreach

Members of the DoME held two sessions at this year's KinderUni. These sessions included the following: "A journey into microbial life on earth" and "Wie Bakterien zu Krankheitserregern wurden". They aimed to illustrate the importance of microorganisms in nature, ...
Introducing our new logo

06.07.18

News

We are proud to announce the launch of our new logo. Since 2003 DoME has grown and evolved, and we felt it was time for a change. The new, refreshed logo reflects a modern look and captures who we are ...