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Dr. rer. nat. Claus Pelikan

28.05.19

People

Claus successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Ecophysiology and genomics of sulfate-reducers and other necromass-degrading microorganisms in arctic marine sediments". The board of examiners included William Orsi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany), Bert Engelen (University of Oldenburg, Germany), and Silvia Bulgheresi. Congratulations ...
21st Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting in Vienna

24.05.19

Event

The 21st meeting of the Genomic Standards Consortium was hosted by the University of Vienna and CUBE. The meeting from May 20-23, and additional workshops on May ...
- Meeting homepage
- GSC21 Blog
New FWF Project for Fatima Pereira

20.05.19

News

Fatima has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “Adjusting the base: (Epi)transcriptomic RNA modification in inflammation & host-microbiome crosstalk”. The project will address relevant aspects and implications of RNA editing in inflammatory bowel diseases, ...
New FWF project for Astrid Collingro

20.05.19

News

Astrid received funding for her project "Towards functional ecology of environmental chlamydiae" from the Austrian Science Fund. Congratulations!
Prof. Sung-Keun Rhee visiting professor at DOME

15.05.19

People

Sung-Keun Rhee, professor at the Department of Microbiology of the Chungbuk National University, South Korea will spend the next 6 months at our division as a visiting professor. We are very much looking forward to many exciting collaborations on ammonia-oxidizing archaea and ...
Beijings vice mayor Yang Bin visits CMESS

15.05.19

News

Beijings vice mayor Yang Bin - responsible for transport, environment and ecology - and his delegation visited the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science on May 10 for a presentation on the Centre's research held by Centre head Michael ...
- uni:view article [German]
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 ...