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Annual Meeting 2020 of the Austrian Life Science Community - virtual meeting with Life Science Tuesdays

13.07.20

Event

Our Annual Meeting is the melting pot of the Austrian Life Science Community - a place to listen to renowned speakers, for participants to present their latest work and for all of us to network in a family-like atmosphere. This ...
Dagmar Woebken interviewed by the Falter

09.07.20

News

Dagmar Woebken was interviewed by Heureka, the science magazine of the Viennese newspaper Falter. In this article, she discusses the survival strategies of soil bacteria when faced with water or carbon limitation.
- Heureka Article in the Falter
Bettina Glasl receives 3-year REWIRE Post-Doc as well as FWF Hertha-Firnberg Fellowships

09.07.20

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Bettina won a 3-year Post-Doc fellowship from the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) COFUND Programme, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions COFUND project funded by the European Commission as well as a 3 year Post-Doc fellowship from the FWF in the framework of the ...
- Link to REWIRE homepage
- Link to FWF project page
New project: “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil”

07.07.20

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Jörg Schnecker has been granted approval for a new project “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil” within the framework of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas Programme.

Congratulations Jörg!
- 1000 Ideas Programme
REWIRE Fellowship awarded to Lucia Fuchslueger

01.07.20

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Lucia Fuchslueger is starting a new PostDoc at TER on 1 August in the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) program of the University of Vienna.

Congratulations Lucia!
- About REWIRE
New publication in Water Research: Anthropogenic gadolinium in freshwater and drinking water systems

30.06.20

Publication

How to prevent the contamination of drinking water with MRT contrast agents? Gadolinium is used in contrast media during MRI examinations and is discharged into the sewage system via the patients' urine. As a result, river water and thus drinking ...
- Full text at Water Research
- University of Vienna press release
CUBE part of new Innovative Training Network VIROINF

04.06.20

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A team of CUBE and DOME researchers, and 14 other beneficiaries under the lead of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, have recently applied for a Innovative Training Network that aims at the understanding of (harmful) virus-host interactions 15 by linking ...
- Innovative Training Networks
Fact checking COVID-19 - Video series by Michael Wagner

03.06.20

People

Michael summarizes the current knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in a series of short videos. Till today videos covering the following topics have appeared:

1. Current COVID-19 related research activities at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

2. ...
- Video Series [German]
- Interview Kurier [German]
Hannes Schmidt welcomed as Committee Chair in the EGU Soil System Sciences Division

28.05.20

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Hannes Schmidt, PostDoc at TER, has been officially welcomed as the Committee Chair of the “Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity” section of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Together with Committee Members Prof. Ellen Kandeler (Universität Hohenheim, Germany) and Dr. Edith ...
- EGU Division of Soil Systems Science
New Publication in Environmental Technology and Innovation: Remediation of fluoride contaminated water using encapsulated active growing blue-green algae, Phormidium sp.

18.05.20

News

Elevated fluoride concentration in drinking water is a global concern that impacts health of millions. Developing low cost remediation methods empower communities with fewer resources available to protect their health.

Together with colleagues from CSIR India, and University of Tasmania ...
- Full text at Environmental Technology and Innovation