A recent article in Science highlights advances on a state-of-the-art concept for celltypes. Stefanie Widder was one of the invitees to a work group at the Santa Fe Institute, USA, with goal to develop the definition using gene regulatory networks and ...
Michael Wagner has earned the 2015 Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers award by being among the top 1% most cited microbiologists in the world. Michael, who was also on the list in 2014, is the only Austrian microbiologist who earned ...
Michael is awarded for his research on the diversity and function of microorganisms. The Erwin Schrödinger Prize is the highest award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for lifetime achievement in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences. It is ...
Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils,
C. Kaiser, O. Franklin, A. Richter & U. Dieckmann, Nature Communications 6: 8960
Anna successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Controls on soil organic matter decomposition along a latitudinal transect in Western Siberia". Well done, Anna!
Nitrification has always been considered as a two-step process catalyzed by microorganisms oxidizing either ammonia or nitrite. This functional separation has puzzled microbiologists for a century. Holger Daims, Michael Wagner, and a team of researchers from Vienna, Russia, Denmark, and ...
Welcome back: David Zezula and Andreas Richter just returned from a sampling campaign at the Inselberg Camp at the Nouragues Field station, French Guayana. Yield: 32 kg of fresh soil samples – lab work can start soon!
DoME congratulates Max Nepel on his DOC fellowship from the Austrian academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! In his project, Max will work together with Dagmar Woebken on identifying the key players of nitrogen fixation in temperate biological soils crusts (BSCs).
