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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Bjerg, J. J., Lustermans, J. J. M., Marshall, I. P. G., Mueller, A. J., Brokjær, S., Thorup, C. A., Tataru, P., Schmid, M., Wagner, M., Nielsen, L. P., & Schramm, A. (2023). Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37272-8
Engelberts, J. P., Robbins, S. J., Herbold, C. W., Moeller, F. U., Jehmlich, N., Laffy, P. W., Wagner, M., & Webster, N. S. (2023). Metabolic reconstruction of the near complete microbiome of the model sponge Ianthella basta. Environmental Microbiology, 25(3), 646-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16302
Bai, Y., Guo, Z., Pereira, F. C., Wagner, M., & Cheng, J.-X. (2023). Mid-Infrared Photothermal-Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for Functional Analysis and Genetic Identification of Single Cells. Analytical Chemistry, 95(4), 2398-2405. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04474
Engelberts, J. P., Abdul Wahab, M., Maldonado, M., Rix, L., Marangon, E., Robbins, S., Wagner, M., & Webster, N. (2022). Microbes from Mum: symbiont transmission in the tropical reef sponge Ianthella basta. ISME Communications, 2, Article 90. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00173-w
Ge, X., Pereira, F. C., Mitteregger, M., Berry, D., Zhang, M., Hausmann, B., Zhang, J., Schintlmeister, A., Wagner, M., & Cheng, J.-X. (2022). SRS-FISH: A high-throughput platform linking microbiome metabolism to identity at the single-cell level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(26), Article e2203519119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203519119
Singleton, C. M., Petriglieri, F., Wasmund, K., Nierychlo, M., Kondrotaite, Z., Peces, M., Dueholm, M. S., Wagner, M., & Nielsen, P. H. (2022). The novel genus, 'Candidatus Phosphoribacter', previously identified as Tetrasphaera, is the dominant polyphosphate accumulating lineage in EBPR wastewater treatment plants worldwide. ISME Journal, 16(6), 1605-1616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-022-01212-z