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VDS MES is a unique doctoral program that offers interdisciplinary training at the interfaces of microbiology, ecology, and environmental geosciences to address current challenges in the 21st century society, including the role of microbiomes, adaptation and resistance mechanisms, biogeochemistry, pollutant dynamics and nutrient fluxes in global change and for human, animal,  plant, and environmental health. Our students will acquire a comprehensive understanding of microbes at all levels, from molecular circuits determining the fate of single cells to microbial communities to ecosystem processes and of pollutant dynamics and nutrient and geochemical cycles.

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12.11.2025
 

Veer Vikram Singh successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Role of mineral surface adsorption in the long-term persistence of DNA in the...

05.11.2025
 

Calin Rares Lucaciu successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Computational Challenges in the Assembly and Analysis of Non-Model Plant Genomes...

11.09.2025
 

Julia Krasenbrink successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Ecophysiology of sulfoquinovose-metabolizing gut bacteria in humans, mice, and cows"...

05.08.2025
 

Sarah Zauner successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "From bivalves to microbes to birds: ecological interactions in a marine symbiosis" on July...

11.07.2025
 

Linnea Kop successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "From (Meta)Genomes to Ecosystems: Unraveling the Ecophysiology and Phylogenetic Diversity of...

11.07.2025
 

Franziska Bauchinger successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Insights into community composition, function and structure of the human gut...