News

New Paper in Nature Microbiology: Minimal microbiota with maximal protection against Salmonella

21.11.16

Publication

An international team, led by Bärbel Stecher from the LM-University Munich and including DOME members Carina Pfann, Alexander Loy and David Berry, used genomic information from individual mouse intestinal strains and comparative metagenomics to assemble and test a minimal microbiota that provides ...
Michael Wagner Highly Cited Researcher 2016

21.11.16

People

Michael is among the 20 scientists in Austria that were recognized in 2016 as Highly Cited Researchers by Thomson Reuters and among 10 researchers in Austria that received this distinction also in 2014 and 2015.
- Thomson Reuters
Movember 2016

01.11.16

Event

DMES participates in Movember. Our team 'The MObiota' welcomes any donations to support this movement.
Job opening: Group Leader Position

27.10.16

Personal

The Division of Computational Systems Biology at the University of Vienna is offering a

Group Leader Position in Bioinformatics

CUBE - the division of Computational Systems Biology - is part of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science of the ...
New paper in Nature Microbiology: Nitrogen fixation by chemosynthetic symbionts

24.10.16

Publication

Marine symbiotic bacteria may help to ‘fertilize’ animal growth in the oceans. An international team led by Jillian Petersen, Group Leader at DOME, have discovered that chemosynthetic bacteria in marine animals can fix nitrogen as well as carbon. This is ...
New outfit for the DOME football team

24.10.16

People

The DOME football team not only has the spirit - they now also have style! Interested in a match? Get in touch with us if you and your football team want to challenge those guys!
Dr. Alexander Tveit

11.10.16

People

Dr. Alexander Tveit (Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) has been awarded a grant from the Research Council for his project ’Time & Energy: Fundamental microbial mechanisms that control CH₄ dynamics in a warming Arctic’.
Within this project Alexander will ...
ÖGMBT Dissertation Award for Hanna Koch

27.09.16

News

Hanna Koch, a former PhD student in the group of Holger Daims, has received the Dissertation Award 2016 of the Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT) in the category "fundamental research in molecular life sciences and biotechnology". ...
- Announcement on the ÖGBMT Website [German]
New paper in Journal of Ecology: Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event

26.09.16

Publication

Watch Lucia Fuchslueger, former PhD student at TER, presenting her recent paper ‘Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event’ published in the September issue of Journal of Ecology in a YouTube video.
- video
- publication
New paper in Nature: Global Ocean Virome

22.09.16

Publication

By studying the global ocean virome, an international team led by Matthew Sullivan from Ohio State University, USA and including DOME group leader Alexander Loy now triples the known types of viruses in world's oceans. The identified virus populations contained an unexpected diversity ...