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17.12.2022

Michael Wagner elected as member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

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

Open PhD position for ERC funded project “CHIMERA”

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

Dr. Maximilian Nepel

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

15.11.2022

Michael Wagner is Highly Cited Researcher 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

Dr. Tamara Halter

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

Ars Docendi recognition award for teaching on microbial ecology

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

Start of art exhibition “Holobiont. Life is Other“

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

“Breaking the Wall of Antibiotic Resistance Crisis” - Stanislava Králová wins Czech Falling Walls Lab

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

New paper in PNAS: Defensive symbiosis against giant viruses

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

08.08.2022

New paper in PNAS identifies first microorganism that oxidizes sulfur and methane

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

18.07.2022

The ecology and evolution of giant viruses: ERC Starting Grant for Anouk Willemsen

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

Dr. Jay Osvatic

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

New publication in Current Biology shows complex life cycles of bacteria in multicellular aggregates

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

Research consortium in final round for “Cluster of Excellence“

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

Dr. Daniela Trojan

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

23.06.2022

New Paper in PNAS reports on superfast single cell functional analyses of microbiome members

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

New publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution explores life of human follicular mites

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

New paper in Nature Microbiology discusses ethics of microbiome research

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

03.06.2022

Dome Trip to the Donau-Auen National Park

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

Photo Contest "Pictures of Life (Sciences)"

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 promoted to Associate Professor

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

MSCA Fellowships awarded to DOME: Three projects start in 2023

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

27.03.2022

Dr. Stephan Köstlbacher

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

27.02.2022

CMESS supports Ukrainian scientists and students

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

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