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Research consortium with CMESS lead in final round for “Cluster of Excellence“ grant

05.07.22

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The pre-proposal for a Cluster of Excellence (CoE) grant on the topic “Microbiomes drive Planetary Health” has qualified for the next round of the application process. Michael Wagner, deputy head of CMESS and group leader in the Division of Microbial ...
- Press Release by the FWF
- Press Release (German)
New Paper in PNAS reports on superfast single cell functional analyses of microbiome members

04.07.22

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In close collaboration with the Cheng group in Boston, members of our Division of Microbial Ecology (DOME) developed a high-throughput technique to simultaneously determine the identity and metabolic activity of individual bacterial cells in milliseconds. To this end, they combined ...
Thomas Böttcher is a new member of the Leibnitz Senate Committee

29.06.22

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Thomas Böttcher has recently been elected as a member of the Leibniz Association’s “Senate Competition Committee”. He holds a joint professorship for Microbial Biochemistry at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS) and at the Faculty of Chemistry. ...
- Thomas Böttcher - CV and Research Areas
- Website of the Leibniz Association
Picture competitions: CMESS researchers successful in visualising their research

29.06.22

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Aaron Kintzi has won first place in this year’s photo competition “My Research in one Picture” of the University of Vienna. Paula Rojas is among the five finalists of the infographics competition “My Research in a Graphic”. And Alejandro Manzano ...
After four decades at the Unversity: Farewell to Gabi Kaindl

29.06.22

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Gabriele Kaindl, who worked in the administration of the university for almost 40 years, has taken a well-deserved retirement. She has been part of the Division of Computational Systems Biology (CUBE) since its beginning, and has worked at the University ...
Tracing pharmaceuticals continues: New research project analyses pollution of European rivers

28.06.22

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A new study analyses river pollution in Europe: In the most extensive study of its kind, international researchers including EDGE member Thilo Hofmann and his team are tracing pharmaceuticals in several hundred European rivers. Last Thursday (June 23), Hofmann reported ...
- News on related PNAS Paper
- TV report ORF programme "Studio 2" (German)
New publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution explores life of human follicular mites

23.06.22

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Microscopic mites that live almost our entire lives in our pores may soon become one with us entirely: An international research team including DOME member Alejandro Manzano Marín has conducted the first ever genome sequencing study of the Demodex folliculorum ...
- Paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution
- News release [German]
Open Tenure-Track Position "Environmental Contaminants"

22.06.22

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Contamination of our environment is one of the most pressing global problems. Our overall goal is to inform solutions to these pressing problems. Therefore, our Centre is filling a Tenure-Track Professorship in the field of Environmental Contaminants. The successful candidate ...
- Tenture-Track Professorship "Environmental Contaminants"
Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

20.06.22

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The physical and chemical changes that accompany permafrost thaw directly influence the microbial communities that mediate the decomposition of formerly frozen organic matter, leading to uncertainty in permafrost–climate feedbacks. Although changes to microbial metabolism and community structure are documented following ...
- Paper in Global Change Biology
New letter in Science urges to consider a broader range of chemicals that threaten biodiversity

17.06.22

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Environmental chemical pollution threatens biodiversity. In the most recent issue of “Science” international researchers led by Gabriel Sigmund from EDGE and Ksenia Groh from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) argue that the complexity of this ...
- Letter in "Science"
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After four decades at the Unversity: Farewell to Gabi Kaindl

Tracing pharmaceuticals continues: New research project analyses pollution of European rivers

New publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution explores life of human follicular mites

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