News

09.02.2023
 

Shaul Pollak has joined CMESS as a new Junior Research Group Leader at DOME. He enriches the research portfolio of the Centre with his focus on...

20.01.2023
 

A new study including DOME members Martin Polz, Xiaoqian A. Yu, and Anna J. Mueller for the first time identifies dominant as well as active microbial...

12.01.2023
 

Annelieke Overbeeke successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Bacterial degradation of polysaccharides in the gut mucosal eco-system" on December...

10.01.2023
 

Chlamydiae is known for the infamous human pathogen Chlamydia, but this group of bacteria evolved over a billion years ago. Despite being ancient and...

17.12.2022
 

Michael has been elected as member of the class Technical and Environmental Sciences of the Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea. The Academy’s...

26.11.2022
 

An opportunity to delve into research on giant viruses: Anouk Willemsen, virologist at CMESS, is seeking a PhD student to work within her project...

19.11.2022
 

Maximilian Nepel successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “N2-fixing microbial communities in two distinctive terrestrial ecosystems - grassland...

15.11.2022
 

DOME member Michael Wagner is among the most cited researchers in the world. Alongside his CMESS colleagues Thomas Rattei (CUBE), Andreas Richter...

07.11.2022
 

Tamara Halter successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Ecology and evolution of chlamydial symbionts of arthropods" on Nov 2, 2022. The board of...

12.10.2022
 

In the context of the “Ars Docendi State Prize for Excellent Teaching”, DOME members Holger Daims, Matthias Horn and Alexander Loy received a...

12.10.2022
 

An art exhibition involving David Berry is on display at the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIT, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna). Under the title...

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...