News

09.09.2022
 

Stanislava Králová, microbiologist at DOME, has made the first place in the national round of the Falling Walls Lab competition. As a winner of the...

30.08.2022
 

Protists are important regulators of microbial communities and key components in food webs. Their activity is shaped by diverse intracellular...

08.08.2022
 

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

18.07.2022
 

Anouk Willemsen, virologist at DOME, receives an ERC Starting Grant for her research on giant viruses. Anouk has devoted her career to the study of...

08.07.2022
 

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

06.07.2022
 

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

05.07.2022
 

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...

04.07.2022
 

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

23.06.2022
 

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

23.06.2022
 

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

13.06.2022
 

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

03.06.2022
 

This year, our annual Dome Trip took us to the floodplains of the Danube in the Vienna Lobau. We recharged our batteries with a walk through the last...

03.06.2022
 

We congratulate our colleague Alejandro Manzano Marín on the 2nd place in the photo contest “Pictures of Life (Sciences)” of the Faculty of Life...

20.05.2022
 

Dagmar Woebken has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. Dagmar joined DOME as a Group Leader in 2012. She has been an...

16.05.2022
 

Three current and future DOME researchers receive a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF). Songcan Chen, Anna...

27.03.2022
 

Stephan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Uncovering the hidden diversity and ancestral states of Chlamydiae genomes". The board of...

27.02.2022
 

CMESS expresses its solidarity with Ukraine and endorses the plea of “The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities”, which calls for support...

23.02.2022
 

From 23 February to 11 March, visitors of the “Degrees of Life” art exhibition have the chance to interact artistically with their microbial...

15.02.2022
 

Jillian Petersen, Head of Marine Symbiosis Group at DOME, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief at The ISME Journal. She is now co-responsible for the...

04.02.2022
 

David Berry has been appointed Full Professor for Human Microbiome Research this week. He has been with DOME since 2009 and most recently held a...

22.12.2021
 

We are inviting applications for a tenure track position in Environmental Systems Research competitively awarded in conjunction with a call for junior...

16.11.2021
 

DOME members Holger Daims and Michael Wagner are among the most cited researchers in the world. Alongside their CMESS colleagues Thomas Rattei (CUBE)...

22.10.2021
 

Bacteria are constantly exposed to viral attacks. A research team led by Martin Polz, microbiologist at DOME, has studied how bacteria defend...

12.10.2021
 

Five DoME relay teams of three runners each participated in the 2021 International Vienna Fall Half Marathon, in a 21 km course through the Vienna...