News

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...

21.09.2021
 

On September 19, Michael was invited to the talkshow "Im Zentrum" to discuss together with four other guests and the host Claudia Reiterer how to best...

08.09.2021
 

The FWF presents in its scilog magazine a video portrait of Michael Wagner that was produced by West4Media.

07.09.2021
 

Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage. A collaboration between CMESS researchers, including DOME members David Seki and...

28.08.2021
 

A large consortium with Michael Wagner as a senior author evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the mandatory antigen-based SARS-CoV-2...

30.07.2021
 

Three Divisions of CMESS now have a new home: Together with CUBE and TER – two of its sister divisions – DOME has moved to the new University of...

13.07.2021
 

This pandemic year has seen us confined to our homes and restricted from travelling the world. Not so for some microscopic bacteria in the ocean:...

07.07.2021
 

Soils are one of the most diverse habitats on the planet. More than thousand microbial species that significantly influence numerous environmental...

07.07.2021
 

Dimitra Sakoula, working as a Postdoc in the nitrification group obtained funding from the “1000 Ideas Program” of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)....

29.06.2021
 

Chlamydiae are strictly intracellular bacteria and have long been considered primarily as major pathogens of humans. Yet, the phylum Chlamydiae is...

24.06.2021
 

The SARS-CoV-2 monitoring consortium headed by Michael Wagner has now assembled the results of the measurement rounds 4 and 5, which were conducted in...

22.06.2021
 

On June 22nd 2021, Dr. Kath­ar­ina Kitzinger receives an Otto-Hahn Medal, with which the Max Planck So­ci­ety hon­ours its best doc­toral stu­dents....

18.06.2021
 

Bacterial viruses (phage) are ubiquitous enemies of bacteria, able to efficiently infect and kill their hosts. Because phage rely on their host as a...

15.06.2021
 

While best known as the code for genetic information, DNA is also a nutrient for specialised microbes. An international team of researchers led by Ken...