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 H2, by fixing N2 and CO2, and by respiring ...
The Petersen group is featured in a press release of the University of Vienna, including a comic developed by the University, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and illustrator Nana Swiczinsky.
PIs at the new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science came together in a retreat on March 25. For a full day, they discussed the progress in establishing the new centre, future developments and joint activities.
After a competitive review process Wolfgang has been appointed Full Professors for Physiological Ecology and Ecosystem Research as of April 1st, 2019.
Congratulations!
Alexander Loy gave a lecture and participated in a panel discussion on the human microbiome in the course of the Mini Med Studies. Together with Christoph Steininger and Thomas Reiberger from the Medical University of Vienna and the public, he discussed ...
Andreas Richter participated in a panel discussion at the Natural History Museum of Vienna organized by the Environmental Research Network of the University of Vienna. The interdisciplinary panel (including researchers of the IIASA and the University of Economics and Business) ...
A new PhD program in Microbial Symbioses will be funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project MAINTAIN and the University of Vienna. The central theme, addressed in 14 interconnected projects, is studying how symbiotic relationships between microbes and other organisms evolved ...
Alexander Loy was interviewed by the German science magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft for their story on the threatened diversity of the intestinal microbiome. The microorganisms in the human intestine play an important role for health. But at least in western societies, the ...
The European Union (EU) has adopted nano-specific provisions for cosmetics, food and biocides, among others, which include binding definitions of the term “nanomaterial”. Here we take an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the respective definitions from a legal and practical perspective. ...
Welcome to the new Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna! The new Centre brings together 15 working groups, and addresses two key scientific disciplines of the 21st century with enormous potential for synergy across disciplines. ...
