Michael was appointed as senior editor for the ISME Journal. Great to be on board and looking very much forward to working also in the future with the ISME team.
The 15 participants from 11 countries and 4 continents learned the essentials of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in several seminars and by applying FISH techniques to selected pure cultures and their own environmental and clinical samples in the lab.
F1000 member Sebastian Suerbaum recommended our recent article "The 5300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman" (Science 2016) as being of special significance in its field.
Karoline Klaus successfully defended her Master thesis entitled „A novel approach to measure microbial carbon use efficiency by estimating growth from 18O incorporation into DNA". Excellent, Karo!
We are glad to invite you and your collaborators to the 16th Spring School in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. The course will be held at Bertinoro, Italy, from 12th through 16th of March. The course addresses Ph.D. students and post-docs ...
Hanna successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Alternative roles of nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospira within the nitrogen cycle and beyond". The board of examiners included Graeme Nicol (University of Lyon, France), Andreas Farnleitner (TU Wien, Austria), and Martin Wagner (University of Veterinary ...
Five thousand years ago in the European Alps, a man was shot by an arrow, then clubbed to death. His body was subsequently mummified by ice until glacier retreat exhumed him in 1991. Subsequently, this ancient corpse has provided a ...
New master thesis projects are available in Prof. Ines Heiland's group at the University Tromso, the Arctic University of Norway. The projects cover chronobiology, disease characterization, parasite-host interactions of parasitic plants, and microbial communities of arctic soils.
A new platform for Bioinformatics in Austria has been established in 2015 and is currently brought into a formal structure. Recently the web portal of this initiative has been launched. It provides access to the main activities of the platform. Please support ...