The CMESS Lecture Series has started with a talk by Peter Fineran from the University of Otago (New Zealand). He granted insights into “The phage-bacterium arms race of CRISPR-Cas and phage evasion strategies”. Five more talks by renowned international researchers ...
An art exhibition involving David Berry is on display at the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIT, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna). Under the title “Holobiont. Life is Other”, the curators of the exhibition, Judith Reichart, Lucie Strecker, Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser ...
In the context of the “Ars Docendi State Prize for Excellent Teaching”, CMESS professors Holger Daims, Matthias Horn and Alexander Loy received a recognition award for their teaching concept on microbial ecology. The jury of the award praised the close ...
The Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Science offers a fully funded PhD position in Adrian Tett's group, in the field of microbial metagenomics.
Find more information, including how to apply, here.
Organic soil amendments such as compost or biochar can change the dynamics of nutrients and pollutants in the soil: Researchers from our Division of Environmental Geosciences (EDGE) partnered up in an international research project that investigates the effects of these ...
CMESS researchers are part of this year’s European Researchers’ Night (ERN) that is taking place on Friday, September 30. From 3pm until midnight visitors may gain insights into the “world of microbes” at our two neighbouring stands. The ERN takes ...
Congratulations to Joana Séneca Cardoso da Silva, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled " The impacts of single and multiple global change drivers on soil microbial communities and functions" on September 27, 2022. The board of examiners comprised Kristen ...
Stanislava Králová, microbiologist at DOME, has made the first place in the national round of the Falling Walls Lab competition. As a winner of the Falling Walls Lab Czech Republic 2022 that took place on September 13 in Prague, she ...
Successful applicants get a 4-year position and a €100k research budget: Excellent early-stage postdocs may now apply for a position in Environmental Micropollutants in the context of the Moritz Schlick early-career programme (MSECP). This new funding programme ensures intensive mentoring ...
Protists are important regulators of microbial communities and key components in food webs. Their activity is shaped by diverse intracellular parasites, including bacterial symbionts and viruses. In a study now published in PNAS, a team from the University of Vienna ...
