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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.