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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Oswald, K., Graf, J. S., Littmann, S., Tienken, D., Brand, A., Wehrli, B., Albertsen, M., Daims, H., Wagner, M., Kuypers, M. M., Schubert, C. J., & Milucka, J. (2017). Crenothrix are major methane consumers in stratified lakes. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology, 11(9), 2124-2140. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.77
Legin, A., Schintlmeister, A., Eckhard, M., Reipert, S., Jakupec, M., Wagner, M., & Keppler, B. (2017). Ruthenium-based drug interactions with lipid turnover in cancer cells revealed by correlative NanoSIMS and TEM imaging. In Book of Abstracts: Metallomics 2017: The 6th International Symposium on Metallomics, 14. - 17.08.2017, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (pp. 101).
Pjevac, P., Schauberger, C., Poghosyan, L., Herbold, C. W., van Kessel, M. A. H. J., Daebeler, A., Steinberger, M., Jetten, M. S. M., Lücker, S., Wagner, M., & Daims, H. (2017). AmoA-Targeted Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers for the Specific Detection and Quantification of Comammox Nitrospira in the Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, [1508]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01508
El Abiead, Y., Pjevac, P., Schwaiger, M., Rampler, E., Daims, H., Wagner, M., & Köllensperger, G. (2017). Development of a metabolomics method for the investigation of apparent symbiosis. In T. Causon (Ed.), Book of Abstracts: 13 th ASAC JunganalytikerInnen - Forum; BOKU Vienna, 12th and 13th of May 2017 (pp. 6)
Sauder, L. A., Albertsen, M., Engel, K., Schwarz, J., Nielsen, P. H., Wagner, M., & Neufeld, J. D. (2017). Cultivation and characterization of Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus exaquare, an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from a municipal wastewater treatment system. The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology, 11(5), 1142-1157. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.192
Schulz, F., Yutin, N., Ivanova, N. N., Ortega, D. R., Lee, T. K., Vierheilig, J., Daims, H., Horn, M., Wagner, M., Jensen, G. J., Kyrpides, N. C., Koonin, E. V., & Woyke, T. (2017). Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components. Science, 356(6333), 82-85. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4657