News

New paper in mBio: Symbiont-mediated defense against Legionella in amoebae

14.05.19

Publication

Lena König and Cecilia Wentrup with members of the symbiosis group headed by Matthias Horn and with researchers from Institut Pasteur and the University of Michigan revealed how chlamydial symbionts protect free-living amoeba from infection with Legionella pneumophila.

Legionella pneumophila is an ...
Servus TV broadcasts on the work of EDGE on microplastic

13.05.19

News

The recent debate on effects of plastic debris and microplastics in the aquatic environment has raised the awareness that contaminants reach the aquatic environment not only in dissolved, but also in particulate form. It has been recognized that both the ...
New publication in Environmental Science Nano: In-situ remediation of subsurface contamination using nanotechnology and advanced materials

26.04.19

Publication

Thilo Hofmann from EDGE participated at an international workshop in Nankai, China, where he is honoured as guest professor. Subsurface contamination by both legacy pollutants and emerging contaminants continue to threaten groundwater resources. These groundwater pollutants are also a human ...
- Full text at Environmental Science Nano
New publication in Cell Host & Microbe: Mucispirillum antagonizes Salmonella

25.04.19

Publication

Buck Hanson, Alexander Loy, and David Berry were part of an international team led by Bärbel Stecher from Munich, Germany that succeeded in identifying the protective effects of the mouse gut commensal Mucispirillum schaedleri against infections with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The protective effect of Mucispirillum ...
New publication in Nature Communications: Comammox produces little N2O

23.04.19

News

Physiological studies with the only comammox pure culture Nitrospira inopinata revealed that it tightly controls its aerobic NO production and releases much less N₂O than ammonia-oxidizing proteobacteria. Furthermore, Dimitri Kits, Man-Young Jung together with other members of the nitrification research groups ...
Jillian Petersen elected to the Young Academy

16.04.19

News

Jillian Petersen was elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Announcement of the Academy [German]
- News article in Der Standard about the work of Jillian and her Research Group [German]
DoME at the WissensDurst Festival 2019

16.04.19

Outreach

Petra and Franziska joined the team of the WissensDurst Festival to organize three evenings focused on science outreach and microbiome research. From May 6th to May 8th, four Viennese Pubs will host a total of 24 Vienna-based scientists to ...
Michael Wagner part-time (20%) Distinguished Professor at the University of Aalborg

09.04.19

News

Michael Wagner accepted a part-time (20%) Distinguished Professor offer from the University of Aalborg, Denmark. On April 8, 2019 he presented his inaugural speech at Aalborg University. This position will further intensify the long-lasting and highly productive collaboration of DoME with ...
- News release Aalborg University
- Center for Microbial Communities
New Raman tools published in Nature Microbiology and the ISME Journal

09.04.19

News

The group led by Michael Wagner has published in collaboration with the teams of Roman Stocker (ETH Zürich) and Per Nielsen (Aalborg University) two new Raman-based methods for microbial ecology. In the Nature Microbiology paper an automated optomicrofluidic cell sorted ...
New paper in PNAS: Cultivation of an air-eating microbe

09.04.19

News

Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Craig Herbold, and Arno Schintlmeister were part of an international team led by Mette Svenning from Norway that cultured and characterized a microbe that grows on air by consuming atmospheric CH₄, CO and H_2,by fixing N₂and CO₂, and by respiring ...