Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Wagner

 

 

 

 

 

Vice Director of the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

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✉ michael.wagner@univie.ac.at

Humans are strongly impacting the global nitrogen cycle by massive use of nitrogen fertilisers. Nitrification leads to fertiliser loss, eutrophication, and greenhouse gas emission, but is essential for efficient wastewater treatment. Research in Michael Wagner‘s group focuses on the ecology, physiology, and evolution of nitrifying microorganisms. Michael Wagner’s group has discovered, cultured, and characterised important new nitrifying bacteria and archaea, including the long sought-after complete nitrifiers, describing unexpected physiological traits in the process.
Michael also has a strong interest in microbial communities driving sewage treatment and in the microbiomes of marine sponges. His group also develop innovative single cell tools to study functional properties of microbes in their natural environment. Michael is an EMBO member, has received an ERC Advanced Grant, the FWF Wittgenstein Award (highest Austrian science award), the Jim Tiedje Award of the International Society for Microbial Ecology, and the Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the director of the FWF Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Heath”.

Ongoing Research Projects

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Teaching

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Group Members

 Publications

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Pester, M., Rattei, T., Gröngröft, A., Richter, A., Overmann, J., Reinhold-Hurek, B., Loy, A., & Wagner, M. (2012). amoA-based consensus phylogeny of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions. Environmental Microbiology, 14(2), 525-539. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02666.x
Pester, M., Brambilla, E., Alazard, D., Rattei, T., Weinmaier, T., Han, J., Lucas, S. M., Lapidus, A., Cheng, J-F., Goodwin, L., Pitluck, S., Peters, L., Ovchinnikova, G., Teshima, H., Detter, J. C., Han, C. S., Tapia, R., Land, M. L., Hauser, L., ... Loy, A. (2012). Complete Genome Sequences of Desulfosporosinus orientis DSM765(T), Desulfosporosinus youngiae DSM17734(T), Desulfosporosinus meridiei DSM13257(T), and Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus DSM22704(T). Journal of Bacteriology, 194(22), 6300-6301. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3486391/
Briers, Y., Staubli, T., Schmid, M. C., Wagner, M., Schuppler, M., & Loessner, M. (2012). Intracellular Vesicles as Reproduction Elements in Cell Wall-Deficient L-Form Bacteria. PLoS ONE, 7(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038514
Yilmaz, S., Loy, A., Wright, E. S., Wagner, M., & Noguera, D. R. (2012). Modeling Formamide Denaturation of Probe-Target Hybrids for Improved Microarray Probe Design in Microbial Diagnostics. PLoS ONE, 7(8), e43862. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043862
Wagner, M., & Haider, S. (2012). New trends in fluorescence in situ hybridization for identification and functional analyses of microbes. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 23(1), 96-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2011.10.010
Sorokin, D. Y., Lücker, S., Vejmelkova, D., Kostrikina, N. A., Kleerebezem, R., Rijpstra, W. I. C., Damste, J. S. S., Le Paslier, D. L., Muyzer, G., Wagner, M., Van Loosdrecht, M., & Daims, H. (2012). Nitrification expanded: discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology, 6(12), 2245-2256. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.70