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FIVE “HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS” AT CEMESS

CeMESS proudly announces that five of its researchers are on the 2023 Clarivate list of the world's most highly cited researchers. This prestigious recognition places them in the top 1% for citations in their respective fields.

The celebrated researchers are ...

Dr. Anna Mueller

Anna Mueller successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Novel, cultivated marine nitrite oxidizers – characterization of their genomes, physiology and microbe-microbe interactions" on October 11, 2023. The board of examiners included Eva Spieck (University of Hamburg, Germany), Josh Neufeld (University ...

Dr. Marlies Dietrich

Marlies Dietrich successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The impact of environmental factors and small-scale interactions on the structure and activity of root-associated microbial communities" on September 29, 2023. The board of examiners included Dan Buckley (Cornell University), Gabriele Berg (TU Graz) and ...

AVINA grant for CeMESS group leader Shaul Pollak

Swiss independent AVINA Stiftung has awarded one of its sought-after grants to Shaul Pollak, a group leader at the Division for Microbial Ecology at CeMESS. The funding will support Pollak’s research in developing machine learning methods to predict microbial community ...

CeMESS Secures €2.1M FFG Funding for Advanced Microbiome Imaging Equipment

The Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna proudly announces a significant milestone: securing approximately 2.1 million Euros in funding from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Infrastructure Call 2022. This generous support will ...

Anouk Willemsen appointed Assistant Professor

Anouk Willemsen was promoted to the position of an Assistant Professor (tenure track) and will start a new ERC-funded group at DoME with a focus on the evolution of viruses. Congratulations, Anouk, great to have you on board!

Falling Walls Lab Austria at TU Graz

Dimitra Sakoula and Paula Rojas participated in the Falling Walls Lab Austria, held at the Technical University Graz, where they in 3 minutes pitched their innovative ideas on "Breaking the Wall of Earth’s Microbiome" and "Breaking the Wall of Excessive ...

Dr. Florian Moeller

Florian Moeller successfully defended his PhD thesis "Ecophysiology of the symbiont microbiome in the sponge Ianthella basta" on June 16, 2023. The board of examiners included Ute Hentschel Humeida (GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany), Jasper de Goeij (University of ...

DOME on tour

It was time again for the annual DOME trip: On June 13th we visited the Lainzer Tiergarten for a 14 km hike and enjoyed the beautiful view over Vienna, great weather, and yummy food and drinks.

Viral cooperation as a novel mechanism to overcome bacterial defenses: Jacob Bobonis receives EMBO and HFSP Fellowship

Jacob Bobonis received an EMBO fellowship as well as an HFSP Fellowship for his project “Viral cooperation as a novel mechanism to overcome bacterial defenses”.  Jacob's project revolves around the hypothesis that in the wild, in contrast to in ...