Several DMES members are involved in AMICI - a new initiative that links diverse Austrian scientific and medical societies to promote microbiome research in Austria. Alexander Loy is the general manager of AMICI, Thomas Rattei represents the Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences ...
Members of the DoME held a workshop entitled "A journey into microbial life on earth" at the KinderUni 2016. This workshop hosted children from 7 to 12 years of age and was aimed to illustrate the importance of microbes ...
HoloVir is a robust and flexible data analysis pipeline that provides an optimized and validated workflow for taxonomic and functional characterization of viral metagenomes derived from invertebrate holobionts. It has been ...
CONSPRED is a prokaryotic genome annotation framework that performs various intrinsic gene predictions, homology searches, predictions of non-coding genes, and complex features and integrates all evidence into a consensus annotation.
CONSPRED 1.28 has now been publicly released along with an applications ...
Raheleh has successfully defended her PhD thesis "ECF sigma factors: how endophytes sense the plants" this morning. The thesis was reviewed by Prof. Eva Stukenbrock, Kiel, and by Dr. Stefanie Wienkoop, University of Vienna. Congratulations, Raheleh!
Vincent Delafont received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship to work at DoME with Matthias Horn on his project "Host-microbe interactions involving microbial dark matter: biology and evolution of a ubiquitous group of intracellular bacteria (Hidden Life)". Congratulations!
Holger is awarded for his research on nitrite-oxidizing bacteria and complete ammonia oxidizers. The ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award rewards interdisciplinary research of unusual merit at the interface of microbial ecology and water/wastewater treatment. The award ceremony will take place during ...
Students and scientists of the DMES who are working in the field of soil microbial ecology and biogeochemistry met on May 20th for the first DMES Soil Ecology Workshop. This workshop was also the kick-off meeting for the new Soil ...