Metamenu

Lecture series

  • CeMESS Lecture: "Hydrologic extremes alter mechanisms and pathways of carbon export from mountainous floodplain soils"

    Marco Keiluweit
    Associate Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    18.01.2024
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CeMESS Lecture Series: "Principles of dormancy and microbial complexity"

    Jay Lennon
    Professor, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
    14.12.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CeMESS Lecture: "Phage therapy for treating bacterial infections: a double-edged sword"

    Shawna McCallin
    Group Leader, Balgrist University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
    11.12.2023
    01:30 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 3

  • CANCELLED!! DOME Lecture: "Phage communication: from mechanisms to ecology and evolution"

    Avigdor Eldar
    Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    07.12.2023
    12:00 h
    NA

  • CMESS Lecture: Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Assessing Biogeochemical Processes in Soils

    Ass.-Prof. Meret Aeppli
    École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    30.11.2023
    12:00 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • CeMESS Lecture: "Tropical forests and belowground interactions in a warmer world"

    Andrew Nottingham
    NERC Independent Research Fellow, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
    16.11.2023
    16:00 h
    online

  • CANCELLED!! DOME Lecture: "Genomes in Rhodnius prolixus symbiotic system"

    Eva Nováková
    Associate Professor, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    09.11.2023
    12:00 h
    NA

  • CMESS Lecture: Benign by Design - From Green Chemistry to Sustainable Chemistry

    Prof. Klaus Kümmerer
    Leuphana University Lüneburg
    19.10.2023
    12:00 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • DOME Lecture: "­Genome organization in giant viruses"

    Chantal Abergel
    French National Centre for Scientific Research, Marseille, France
    13.10.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB SR 2.1

  • EDGE Lecture: The Renaissance of Arsenic: Can we Convert an Infamous Contaminant to a Critical Raw Material?

    Dr. Case van Genuchten
    Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
    12.10.2023
    16:30 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • CeMESS Lecture: "Intercellular interactions in the bee gut microbiome"

    Waldan Kwong
    Principal Investigator, Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Portugal
    05.10.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CeMESS Lecture: "Microbiome innovations to support plant and one health"

    Gabriele Berg
    Professor, Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Austria
    29.09.2023
    13:15 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • DOME Lecture: "Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere: trace metals at the crossroad between metabolic evolution and ecosystem functions"

    Donato Giovannelli
    Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
    19.09.2023
    09:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Top down and bottom up exploration of human gut microbial communities"

    Karoline Faust
    Associate Professor, Microbial Systems Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium
    29.06.2023
    15:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Microbial trait-based scaling from single populations to communities with consequences for ecosystem processes"

    Ashish Malik
    Lecturer in Biogeochemistry, University of Aberdeen, UK
    22.06.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Natural, Incidental and Engineered Nanomaterials in Surface Waters: Occurrence and Catalytic Reactivity Influences on Micro Pollutant Degradation Plus Phosphorus Turnover Rates

    Prof. Paul Westerhoff
    Arizona State University
    20.06.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Marine symbioses fueled by wood"

    Dan Distel
    Director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL), Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, USA
    15.06.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • DOME Lecture: "Gut microbiome profiling predicts antibiotic resistance of urinary tract infections"

    Marta Lukačišinová
    EMBO Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kishony Lab, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    01.06.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Towards Principles of Microbial Community Assembly"

    Otto Cordero
    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, USA
    25.05.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • CMESS Lecture: Abiotic RNA Hydrolysis in the Environment: Implications for the Environmental Fate of Emerging RNA Interference Biopesticides

    Ass. Prof. Kimberly Parker
    Washington University of St. Louis
    11.05.2023
    16:30 h
    online

  • CMESS Lecture: "Exploring the soil microbial processes using microfluidics"

    Carlos Arellano
    Junior Research Group Leader, CeMESS, University of Vienna
    04.05.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • DOME Lecture: "Selection on the accessory genome can predict bacterial evolution"

    Bill Hanage
    Associate Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
    21.04.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Agricultural Water Reuse: The Dark Side of the Moon

    Prof. Benny Chefetz
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    20.04.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Diversity and ecological interactions of giant viruses"

    Matthias Fischer
    Research Group Leader, MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
    13.04.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Diversity and Persistence of Toxins from Cyanobacteria - from Lakes to Alpine Rocks

    Dr. Elisabeth Janssen
    Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
    30.03.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: An Interfacial Geochemical Perspective on DNA Preservation in Sediments: Implications for Bacterial Evolution and Ecological Inference

    Dr. Karina Sand
    University of Copenhagen
    23.03.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Combining machine-learning, ecological theory, and experiments to study bacterial interactions across scales"

    Shaul Pollak
    Junior Research Group Leader, CeMESS, University of Vienna
    23.03.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Approaches for Tackling the Planetary Boundary for Chemical Pollution

    Prof. Ian Cousins
    Stockholm University
    09.03.2023
    17:00 h
    online

  • CMESS Lecture: "Role of pelagic fungi in the oceanic water column"

    Federico Baltar
    Associate Professor, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna
    26.01.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • EDGE Lecture: The untapped potential of fungi for contaminant biodegradation

    Dr. Lukas Wick
    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
    19.01.2023
    12:00 h
    HS 1, UBB University Biology Building

  • EDGE Lecture: Clustering Methods with Potential Applications in Geosciences

    Prof. Claudia Plant
    University of Vienna
    12.01.2023
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Where microbes meet metals, minerals and magnetism

    Dr. James M. Byrne
    University of Bristol, UK
    01.12.2022
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Going Underground: Unearthing the Role of the Soil Microbiome in a Warmer, Fertilized World"

    Serita Frey
    Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, USA
    01.12.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • EDGE Lecture: Lead in archeological human bones/teeth reflecting historical changes in lead production

    Prof. Yigal Erel
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    24.11.2022
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • DOME Lecture: "Recycling versus loss: the pivotal role of nitrite in the marine nitrogen cycle"

    Laura Bristow
    Assistant Professor for Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    17.11.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • EDGE Lecture: Tracking complex mixtures in the environment and wildlife with in vitro bioassays

    Prof. Beate Escher
    Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Germany
    16.11.2022
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: "You are what you eat: Visualising and quantifying microbial glycan metabolism in situ"

    Greta Reintjes
    Emmy Noether Group Leader, MPI for Marine Microbiology, Germany
    10.11.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • EDGE Lecture: Playing with fire: microbial traits and responses governing community resilience following severe wildfire

    Prof. Mike Wilkins
    Colorado State University, USA
    03.11.2022
    16:30 h
    online

  • DOME Lecture: "Microbial processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the mesopelagic ocean"

    Alyson Santoro
    Assoc. Prof. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
    27.10.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CMESS Lecture: "Seasonality in a temperate forest: the interplay of activity of tree roots, fungi and bacteria"

    Petr Baldrian
    Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
    20.10.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CMESS Lecture: "The phage-bacterium arms race of CRISPR-Cas and phage evasion strategies"

    Peter Fineran
    Professor for Molecular Microbiology, University of Otago, New Zealand
    13.10.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • EDGE Lecture: The Mountain Drinking Water Project: Community-Engaged Research and Action on Drinking Water Disinfection By-products in the United States

    Prof. Jason Unrine
    University of Kentucky, USA
    23.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: "Tales of Two Antarctic Lakes"

    Wei Li
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
    23.06.2022
    16:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: “'Dark oxygen' - an electron acceptor for productive and diverse microbial communities in ancient groundwaters"

    Emil Ruff
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
    15.06.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Fate of synthetic biodegradable polymers in soils

    Prof. Michael Sander
    ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    09.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal Geologie (2B204, UZA II)

  • CMESS Lecture: "Carbon storage by microorganisms: an important but overlooked pathway of microbial biomass growth in soils"

    Michaela Dippold
    Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
    09.06.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Tuning agrochemical chemistry at the nanoscale to enhance stress tolerance, crop nutrition and yield

    Dr. Jason C. White
    The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA
    02.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Nanoparticles for Efficient Delivery of Agrochemicals in Crop Plants: Challenges and Opportunities

    Prof. Subhasis Ghoshal
    McGill University, CAN
    24.05.2022
    16:00 h
    Seminar room "M. Neumayr" (2A502, UZA 2)

  • CMESS Lecture: "What is feeding microbial life in modern groundwater?"

    Kirsten Küsel
    Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
    12.05.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • CMESS Lecture: "Multiple global change factors in terrestrial ecosystems"

    Matthias Rillig
    Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
    05.05.2022
    12:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Reduction of hexavalent uranium by magnetite

    Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
    École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, FR
    28.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: "A look into the past: the multidisciplinary analysis of paleofeces provide important insights into our dietary history and the evolution of our gut microbiome."

    Frank Maixner
    Institute for Mummy Studies, Eurac Research, Italy
    27.04.2022
    15:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Context matters: agathokakological roles for redox-active “antibiotics”

    Prof. Dianne K. Newman
    California Institute of Technology, USA
    21.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: "Creating a “niche” and making the most of it: Bacteria – insect interactions in a mutualistic endosymbiosis"

    Anna Zaidman-Remy
    Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, France
    21.04.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Molecular Recognition Microscopy & Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine

    Prof. Peter Hinterdorfer
    Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Austria
    07.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal (2B204, UZA2)

  • CMESS Lecture: "Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Understand the Gut Microbiome"

    Seth Rakoff-Nahoum
    Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts, USA
    31.03.2022
    15:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: "A physical niche regulates a complex microbiome in the Drosophila gut"

    William Ludington
    Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Science, Maryland, USA
    24.03.2022
    14:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: "From plants to soils: How soil carbon persistence is regulated at microscale interfaces"

    Carsten Müller
    Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    17.03.2022
    12:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: Considering Alternative Routes to Cooperation: The Role of Early Development and Individual Variation"

    Jessica Cusick
    Department of Biology, Utah Valley University, USA
    10.03.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: "Customized Medicine for Corals"

    Raquel Peixoto
    Marine Microbiome Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
    03.03.2022
    12:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: Microbial sulfur metabolism in acidic environments

    Irene Sanchez Andrea
    Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Uni Wageningen, Netherlands
    27.01.2022
    12:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: Ecological and evolutionary studies of exploitative bacterial interactions

    Shaul Pollak
    Cordero Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
    25.01.2022
    16:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Nanoplastics in Our Environment: Small Particles with Big Challenges

    Prof. Dr. Nathalie Tufenkji
    McGill University, CAN
    20.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: Microbial iron cycling in biogeochemical cycles past and present

    Casey Bryce
    University of Bristol, UK
    20.01.2022
    12:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: Gut microbiota mediate phytoestrogen-associated infertility in the white rhinoceros

    Candace Williams
    San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, San Diego, California
    18.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: Traits and trade-offs in soil microbiomes

    Eoin Brodie
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley Lab, California
    13.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Microbial mercury methylation: investigating a decades-long (ongoing) biogeochemical mystery

    Dr. John Moreau
    University of Glasgow, UK
    13.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Sustainability science for societal transformations: Aspirations, Realities, and Opportunities

    Dr. Guido Caniglia
    Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg
    16.12.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: Biological control of waterborne viruses

    Tamar Kohn
    Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland
    16.12.2021
    12:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "On the Persistence and Mobility of Organic Contaminants in Freshwater Resources"

    Prof. Hans Peter Arp
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), NOR
    02.12.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: " A window to the underground - soil chips allow investigation of soil processes at microbial scale"

    Edith Hammer
    Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, Sweden
    02.12.2021
    12:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "How iron oxidation can direct the fate of organic matter and iron mineral composition in redox dynamic soils"

    Prof. Aaron Thompson
    Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, USA
    11.11.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • DOME Lecture: "Sequence Matching in the Context of Extremely Large Sequence Collections"

    Julian Regalado Perez
    GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    11.11.2021
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1

  • CMESS Lecture: "Biogeochemical Fe cycling with a focus on physiology, ecology and environmental consequences of iron-oxidizing bacteria"

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Kappler
    Professor for Geomicrobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
    04.11.2021
    12:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "Bulk X-ray absorption spectroscopy for a molecular approach in environmental chemistry. Inputs from field studies."

    Prof. Guillaume Morin
    Institute of Mineralogy, Physics of Materials and Cosmochemistry, Sorbonne Université, France
    21.10.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "Coal Ash Wastes: An Environmental Risk or Environmental Resource?"

    Prof. Heileen Hsu-Kim
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA
    14.10.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • CMESS Lecture: "What came first: the microbiota or the Treg?"

    Clarissa Campbell
    CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
    07.10.2021
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS1

  • EDGE Lecture: Microbial metabolites for metal scavenging, defense, and signaling

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Böttcher
    Department of Biological Chemistry, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    24.06.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: A Silent Killer: An under-recognized contaminant and driver of contaminant cycles

    Prof. Dr. Samantha Ying
    Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California-Riverside, USA
    10.06.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Opening the river bioreactor blackbox: Considering chemical diversity of natural organic matter in river networks

    Prof. Dr. Gabriel Singer
    Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    27.05.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Biogeochemical Cycling of Soil Organic Matter within Wildfire and Permafrost Thaw Affected Ecosystems

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Borch
    Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, USA
    20.05.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Protists and plants: community assembly, "microbiomes" and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in rhizosphere and phyllosphere

    Michael Bonkowski
    University of Cologne, Germany
    06.05.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar

  • Impacts of Rises in the Sealevel on the Biogeochemistry of Estuarine Systems

    Prof. Satish C. Myneni
    Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, US
    22.04.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Making chemistry visible in complex biological systems

    Klaus Koren
    Aarhus University, Demark
    22.04.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar

  • Exploring viral diversity from the global oceans to the human gut

    Ann Gregory
    KU Leuven, Belgium
    15.04.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar

  • Physiological and immunological responses to gut bacterial translocation in humans

    Suzanne Devkota
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
    08.04.2021
    17:00 h
    Webinar

  • Emerging antibiotic resistance in soil and plant systems

    DR. WEI ZHANG
    Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA
    11.03.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • The habits of microplastic

    Prof. Dr. Bart Koelmans
    Wageningen University, Netherlands
    28.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Imaging anatomic structure and metabolic function in animal-microbe symbioses

    Benedikt Geier
    Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
    28.01.2021
    10:00 h
    Webinar

  • The role of human behaviour in plastic pollution

    Prof. Dr. Sabine Pahl
    Fakultät für Psychologie, Universität Wien
    21.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Ecology of ammonia oxidizers in engineered aquatic environments

    Josh Neufeld
    Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada
    14.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Webinar

  • Organic Biomolecule-Mineral Interactions in the Origins of Life

    Prof. Dr. Nita Sahai
    Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, USA
    17.12.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Defining and controlling gut microbial gene products for therapeutic gain

    Matthew Redinbo
    University of North Carolina, USA
    10.12.2020
    12:00 h
    Webinar

  • Environmental Geochemistry of Dissolved Mn(III) Species: Where are we now?

    Prof. Dr. Zimeng Wang
    Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Fudan University, China
    03.12.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Photochemically produced halogen radicals: contaminant degradation, organic matter bleaching and coral death

    Prof. Dr. William Mitch
    Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA
    19.11.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Speleothems and Sediments as Archives for Paleogenetic Research on Human Evolution

    Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt
    Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
    12.11.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Sustaining Groundwater in the Twenty-First Century

    Prof. Dr. Scott Fendorf
    Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, USA
    29.10.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Exploring early life microbiota dynamics

    Lindsay Hall
    Technical University of Munich
    29.10.2020
    12:00 h
    Webinar

  • The End of the Pipe: Using Aquatic Chemistry to Control Lead Concentrations in Tap Water

    Prof. Dr. Daniel Giammar
    Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, USA
    08.10.2020
    17:00 h
    Online (recording available at https://bit.ly/3jDmTpT)

  • Organic Contaminants in Reclaimed Wastewater – Environmental Fate and Accumulation in Crop Plants

    Prof. Dr. Joel Pedersen
    Department of Soil Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
    08.06.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Ancient DNA from Speleothems: A New Archive for Paleogenetic Research

    Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt
    Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
    04.05.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • New insights into the fate of silver nanoparticles in natural waters

    Prof. Dr. Subhasis Goshal
    Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Canada
    27.04.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Carbon trading in the rhizosphere: Interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and soil microbes

    Dr. Christina Kaiser
    Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna, Austria
    30.03.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Exposomics: A New Paradigm for Investigating Fate, Toxicity and Exposure of Environmental Contaminants

    Dr. Benedikt Warth
    Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria
    09.03.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Ammonia oxidising archaea: From environments to enzymes

    Laura Lehtovirta-Morley
    University of East Anglia
    30.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

  • ESR as a tool to investigate environmentally persistent and short-lived radicals

    Prof. Dr Marc Pignitter
    Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
    27.01.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Metals and microbial respiration: the molecular basis of bioelectricity production and greenhouse gas destruction

    David Richardson
    University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
    23.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    David Richardson

  • The environment as training ground: evolution and biology of intracellular microbes

    Prof. Dr Matthias Horn
    Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    20.01.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Towards an in-depth understanding and accurate prediction of environmental biotransformation of chemicals

    Kathrin Fenner
    Department of Environmental Chemistry, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland
    16.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Kathrin Fenner

  • Traces in the absolute dark: Cave sediments and their unique record of long-term terrestrial environmental change

    Prof. Dr Christoph Spötl
    Quaternary Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    16.12.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Parammox: a new microbial ammonia oxidation pathway

    Shuang-Jiang Liu
    Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China
    12.12.2019
    10:00 h
    CUBE Seminar Room A.5.43
    Dr. Shuang-Jiang Liu

  • Climate Change Impacts on Rice: Soil Microbiome Controlling Grain Quantity and Quality

    Dr Marie Mühe
    Department of Geomicrobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
    02.12.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Non-genetic inheritance, trait evolution, and primary production in changing aquatic environments

    Sinead Collins
    Edinburgh University
    21.11.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

  • Carbon cycling in groundwater ecosystems – what do we know and where are the knowledge gaps?

    Prof. Dr Christian Griebler
    Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Austria
    18.11.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Global wildfires - trends, impacts and their role in the carbon cycle

    Dr Cristina Santin, Prof. Dr Stefan Doerr
    Department of Geography, Swansea University, UK
    11.11.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Computational modeling and learning methods for metagenomics of microbial and viral communities

    Prof. Dr Thomas Rattei
    Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    21.10.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Exploring and Exploiting the Chemistry of Microbial Interactions

    Thomas Böttcher
    Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany
    17.10.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Thomas Böttcher

  • Advanced Chemical Microscopy for Life Science and Precision Medicine

    Ji-Xin Cheng
    Boston University, USA
    03.10.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Ji-Xin Cheng

  • Uncovering the poorly explored microbial diversity in the human microbiome

    Adrian Tett
    CIBIO - University of Trento, Italy
    16.09.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Organizing principles of marine microbial communities

    Otto Cordero
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    06.09.2019
    14:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

  • Abiotic and biotic factors affecting diversity and distribution of nitrifying thaumarchaea

    Sung-Keun Rhee
    Chungbuk National University, South Korea
    27.06.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
    Sung-Keun Rhee

  • Microbial ecology of nitrogen cycling in paddy soils

    Yong-Guan Zhu
    Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences & Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    27.06.2019
    09:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS 5, UZA2 (Geocentre), Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

  • New insights into the global biogeochemical cycle of selenium

    Prof. Dr. Lenny Winkel
    Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    17.06.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Viral Intrahost Evolution – a Race in Space and Time

    Andreas Bergthaler
    CeMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    06.06.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Nanomaterials : Not the next asbestos or What 20 years of nanomaterial implication research has taught us

    Prof. Dr. Mark Wiesner
    Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, USA
    03.06.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Deciphering population-specific activities of marine microbes with quantitative stable isotope probing

    William Orsi
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
    27.05.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS4, UZA2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

  • Is predicting function from meta-omics data possible?

    Michael Wagner
    Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    22.05.2019
    18:00 h
    Aula, Campus of the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • Biobanking BBMRI-ERIC

    Kurt Zatloukal
    Medical University of Graz, Austria
    21.05.2019
    18:00 h
    Aula, Campus of the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • Mining sequence data — GTDB taxonomy

    Phil Hugenholtz
    Australian Center for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    20.05.2019
    18:00 h
    Aula, Campus of the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  • Environmental redox-processes on the microscale - redox-active biofilms analyzed by modern X-ray microscopy

    Prof. Dr. Martin Obst
    BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Germany
    20.05.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Three amazing ideas about microbial biogeography that will blow your mind

    Daniel H. Buckley
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    16.05.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Is metabolic cooperation within microbial communities inevitable?

    Christian Kost
    University Osnabrück
    11.04.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse14, 1090 Vienna

  • Soil ammonia oxidisers: microscopic instigators of a global Catch-22

    Jim Prosser
    University of Aberdeen
    14.03.2019
    16:45 h
    Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna

  • New insights into N-cycle microbiology: Combining omics, chemical imaging, and physiology

    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Wagner
    Dean of the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
    04.03.2019
    17:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstraße 14 UZAII, 1090 Vienna

  • O- and N-glycan breakdown by the human gut microbiota

    David Bolam
    Newcastle University, London, UK
    06.12.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Toward a predictive understanding of microbiome response to environmental change in peatlands

    Joel Kostka
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
    03.12.2018
    13:30 h
    Lecture Hall 5, UZA II

  • Uncovering the metabolic flexibility of aerobic soil bacteria: from enzymes to ecosystems

    Chris Greening
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    22.11.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse14, 1090 Vienna

  • How to meet the Paris 2°C target: Which are the main constraints that will need to be overcome?

    Ivan Janssens
    Centre of Excellence of Global Change Ecology, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    15.11.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2 (UZA 1), Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Soil C dynamics –when are microbial communities in control?

    Naoise Nunan
    Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences IEES Paris, France
    25.10.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2 (UZA 1), Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Solving metabolic puzzles

    Boran Kartal
    MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
    18.10.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • What is the role of the immune system in controlling the intestinal microbiota?

    Emma Wetter Slack
    ETH Zürich
    04.10.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA I

  • From the shallow to the deep subsurface biosphere in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments

    Andreas Teske
    UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    24.09.2018
    10:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Exploring new branches on the tree of life

    Brett Baker
    University of Texas, Austin, USA
    06.09.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
    Brett Baker

  • A single-cell perspective on the spatial self-organization of microbial systems

    Martin Ackermann
    ETH Zürich
    30.08.2018
    14:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations in the Wild

    Martin Polz
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    14.06.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
    Martin Polz

  • When are Mycorrhizas Mutualisms?

    Nancy Collins Johnson
    Northern Arizona University, USA
    22.05.2018
    16:15 h
    Hörsaal 2 (UZA 1), Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

  • Modulation of the Human Gut Microbiota - An Ecological Perspective

    Jens Walter
    University of Alberta
    17.05.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Plant-soil interactions mediating drought effects in grasslands

    Pierre Mariotte
    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    09.05.2018
    16:00 h
    Seminar Room Microbial Ecology, Room number 2.309, UZA 1 Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Measurement of sulfur isotope fractionation by APS reductase and its biogeochemical implications

    Shawn McGlynn
    Earth-Life Science Institute Tokyo
    26.04.2018
    11:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Routing while Scouting: How a Slime Mould Optimizes its Transportation Network during Exploration

    DANIEL SCHENZ
    Hokkaido University, Japan
    24.04.2018
    15:00 h
    Seminar room DOME, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

  • How biofilm modelling and kinetic theory led to the prediction of complete ammonia oxidation

    Jan-Ulrich Kreft
    University of Birmingham
    15.03.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • From bedside to bench and back: Pathways linking host-microbe interaction with intestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis.

    Alexander Moschen
    Medical University Innsbruck
    14.12.2017
    12:00 h
    HS2, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Klebsiella pneumoniae – insights into population dynamics and the spread of antimicrobial resistance from WGS

    Eva Heinz
    Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
    07.12.2017
    12:00 h
    HS2, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Microbiomics of the human gut and the ocean

    Peer Bork
    Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
    24.11.2017
    09:30 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Microbiomics of the human gut and the ocean

    Peer Bork
    EMBL Heidelberg
    24.11.2017
    09:30 h
    HS2, UZA1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Advanced strategies for genome resolved metagenomics

    Christian Sieber
    University of Berkeley / DOE Joint Genome Institute
    25.07.2017
    11:00 h
    Seminar room DOME 2.309; Althanstr. 14 UZA1, Level 2, Section 4)

  • The rapidly expanding universe of giant viruses

    Chantal Abergel
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Aix-Marseille University
    29.06.2017
    16:30 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • The importance of growing slowly: roles for redox-active "antibiotics" in microbial survival and development

    Dianne Newman
    California Institute of Technology
    24.05.2017
    14:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • PhD defense: Bioinformatic analysis of host-pathogen interactions in the light of second generation sequencing technologies

    Thomas Eder
    Medical University of Vienna
    18.04.2017
    13:00 h
    Lecture Hall IV, UZA2, Althanstr. 14

  • Microbial function in relation to plant productivity and root exudation in contrasting tundra communities

    Konstantin GAVAZOV
    Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden
    20.03.2017
    14:00 h
    Seminar Room 'Konferenzraum Ökologie' UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • The peptidome: A treasure trove of future peptide drugs

    Harald Marx
    Coon Research Group, University of Wisconsin
    16.03.2017
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Harnessing Bacteria for Drug Discovery: from Bioprospecting to Synthetic Biology

    Sergey Zotchev
    Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna
    26.01.2017
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2. (UZA I), Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna

  • LC-MS Approaches in Metabolomics

    Gunda Köllensperger, Prof.
    University of Vienna, Department of Analytical Chemistry
    12.01.2017
    11:15 h
    Seminar Room Microbial Ecology, UZA 1, room no 2.309

  • Venturing into new realms? Microorganisms in space (-related environments)

    Christine Moissl-Eichinger
    Medical University Graz
    01.12.2016
    12:00 h
    Lecture hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizas and organic nitrogen in soil – and the other microbes involved

    Jan Jasna
    Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
    11.10.2016
    16:00 h
    Friedrich-Becke Seminar Room, UZA 2 (Geozentrum), Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • The tale of the rumen microbiome – from interaction with the host to plasmid mediated gene mobility

    Itzhak Mizrahi
    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    22.09.2016
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2. (UZA I)

  • Microbes, nitrogen and plant responses to elevated CO2

    César Terrer
    Imperial College, London
    19.07.2016
    11:00 h
    Conference room “Ökologie” Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien

  • Searching for Influencers via Optimal Percolation: from Twitter to the Brain

    Flaviano Morone
    Levich Institute
    04.07.2016
    13:00 h
    City College of New York

  • Microbial ecology, phylogeny and biochemistry in the soil cabon cycle

    Bruce Hungate, Prof.
    Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, USA
    22.01.2016
    10:30 h
    Lecture Hall 4, UZA 2 (Geozentrum), Althanstraße 14,1090 Vienna

  • Importance of chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves in seagrass community functioning

    Matthijs van der Geest
    Université de Montpellier
    20.01.2016
    11:00 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309), UZA 1

  • Exploring viral diversity through (meta-) genomics: towards a thorough characterization of the unseen majority

    Simon Roux
    Sullivan Lab, Department of Microbiology
    18.12.2015
    14:00 h
    Ohio State University

  • Analysis of the genome of sugar beet: Current status, next steps

    Heinz Himmelbauer
    Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)
    11.11.2015
    13:15 h
    Vienna

  • The contribution of phage-mediated gene transfer to microbial genome evolution

    Tal Dagan
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
    23.10.2015
    13:30 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309)

  • Cool microbes: Assessing the role of acidobacteria communities in carbon and nitrogen cycling processes in arctic tundra soils

    Max Häggblom
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    11.09.2015
    11:00 h
    Seminar Room DOME (2.309)

  • The genus Pseudovibrio: versatile bacteria with the potential for a symbiotic lifestyle

    Stefano Romano
    Biomerit research centre, University College Cork
    10.09.2015
    12:00 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309)

  • Chloroplast I/O: RNA editing, effectors and evolution

    Dr. Michael Tillich
    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
    26.06.2015
    13:00 h
    DOME Seminar room

  • From Symbiosis to Microbial Dark Matter

    Christian Rinke
    Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
    15.06.2015
    13:00 h
    Seminar room DOME

  • Ecological time-series modeling for inference, prediction and therapy optimization

    Richard Stein
    Computational Biology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
    11.06.2015
    15:00 h
    Seminar room DOME