News

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 ...
ERC Starting Grant for David Berry

08.09.16

News

David Berry has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Illuminating Functional Networks and Keystone Species in the Gut". This is the fourth ERC grant for a current member of DoME. Congratulations!
- News Release
- Der Standard
Virus Orthologous Groups: A novel resource for virus (meta)genomics

21.08.16

News

Orthologous groups are a central resource for comparative (meta-)genomics. At CUBE we have established a novel resource of Virus Orthologous Groups (VOGs), which is based all current RefSeq genomes. It therefore represents all viral lineages of which complete genomes are available. ...
- VOG download
Normalization visualization tool (NVT) released

21.08.16

Publication

Measuring differential gene expression is a common task in the analysis of RNA-Seq data. To identify differentially expressed genes between two samples, it is crucial to normalize the data sets. While multiple normalization methods are available, all of them are ...
- NVT Download
- Publication
Mussels use 'phantom' hydrothermal vents to traverse the deep sea

01.08.16

News

An international team of scientists including DOME Group Leader Jillian Petersen has shown that hydrothermal vents must be far more common in the deep sea than we thought.