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20.11.2024

Nina Bartlau featured in ARD Wissen documentary

DOME's Nina Bartlau shares her expertise on phage research in the ARD Wissen documentary, exploring innovative solutions to antibiotic resistance.

07.11.2024

BaMiKo: More Dietary Fibers for a Healthier Life!

As part of the science communication project BaMiKo, led by David Berry at CeMESS and funded by the FWF, students have created cooking videos...

05.11.2024

Katharina Kitzinger. Photo: Ludwig Schedl/CeMESS

ERC Synergy Grant awarded to Katharina Kitzinger

A new research project led by a team of four scientists, including CeMESS Senior Scientist Katharina Kitzinger, alongside researchers from Denmark,...

18.10.2024

Now out in Science: Catching prey with grappling hooks and cannons

Researchers at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with Martin Polz and Nina Bartlau at CeMESS, have studied the unusual arsenal of weapons of a predatory...

26.09.2024

Video portrait of Barbara Bayer in FWF scilog Magazine

Barbara Bayer, Assistant Professor at DOME and recipient of the prestigious FWF START Award, was recently featured in a scilog interview to discuss...

09.09.2024

Bettina Glasl is a new senior scientist at DOME

We are thrilled to announce that Bettina Glasl has joined our team as a senior scientist.

05.09.2024

Isabelle Anderson-Wagner. Photo: Melanie Lenger

ERC Starting Grant for Isabella Anderson-Wagner

Congratulations to Isabella Anderson-Wagner (DOME) who has been honored with a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her...

16.08.2024

New Nature article shows growth of comammox nitrifiers on guanidine

This unexpected finding revealed a fourth growth substrate for ammonia oxidizers and offers new insights into niche partitioning of nitrifiers,...

16.07.2024

FWF "Tausend Ideen" for Alejandro Manzano Marín

DOME Senior Scientist Alejandro Manzano Marín received funding for his project “SymBirth – Development of an artificial symbiont’s birth” from the...

12.07.2024

New FWF project for Stephanie A. Eichorst

Stephanie A. Eichorst, a Senior Scientist at DOME, received funding for her project “Beyond O2 – factors influencing the use of microbial terminal...

08.07.2024

Picture showing algal cells in blue, green, red and yellow on black background

New paper in Science Advances explores gravitational sinking in unicellular algae

Unicellular algae are the main primary producers in the ocean, collectively being responsible for about half of the globally fixed carbon dioxide....

27.06.2024

Image of a diatom with fluorescently labeled symbionts appearing in orange and green

Out in Nature: Novel diatom-rhizobia symbiosis with major contribution to marine nitrogen fixation

DOME senior scientists Katharina Kitzinger and Daan Speth recently co-authored a landmark paper in Nature led by a team from the Max Planck Institute...

24.05.2024

Barbara Bayer appointed Assistant Professor

DOME is excited to announce the appointment of Barbara Bayer as a new Assistant Professor (Tenure Track). Her research focusses on the interactions...

07.05.2024

Shaul Pollak appointed Assistant Professor

DOME welcomes a new addition to its faculty as Shaul Pollak joins as Assistant Professor (Tenure Track). His research explores how environmental...

25.04.2024

New paper in Nature Communications discovers unusual giant virus infecting deadly human parasites

The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from...

24.04.2024

Michael Wagner elected as member of the Academia Europaea

Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association whose objective is the advancement and promotion of scholarly work in Europe. It...

19.04.2024

New paper in Nature Communications provides insights into survival, resuscitation and growth of desert soil microorganisms

Desert soil microorganisms endure long droughts in a dormant state and rely on rain events for their reactivation. An international team around Dagmar...

22.03.2024