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  • VDS MES graduate Marta Sudo

    21.02.24
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    Marta Sudo successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Host-microbe-environment interactions in sulphur-oxidising symbioses" on February 15, 2024. The board of examiners included Christiane Dahl (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Thomas Hanson (University of Delaware) and Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna). Congratulations, Marta!

  • VDS MES graduate Dennis Metze

    06.02.24
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    Dennis Metze successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Who's active in future soils?" on February 2, 2024. The board of examiners included Jennifer Pett-Ridge (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / University of California, Merced), Egbert Schwartz (Northern Arizona University) and Alexander Loy (University of Vienna). ...

  • VDS MES graduate Sampriti Chaudhuri

    06.12.23
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    Sampriti Chaudhuri successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The role of water chemistry and mineral amendments in the immobilization of metals and metalloids by biochars" on December 4, 2023. The board of examiners included Thorsten Hüffer (University of Vienna), Gerhard Herndl (University ...

  • VDS MES graduate Alexandra Schilder

    03.12.23
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    Alexandra Schilder successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Role of the bacterial small RNA 5'-phosphorylation state for target RNA regulation in vivo & functional characterization of the QseEGF threecomponent regulatory system in E. coli" on December 1, 2023. The board of examiners ...

  • DocSchool Winter Party

    10.11.23
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    VDS MES is organizing a winter party together with DocSchools VDSEE and CoBeNe! The party takes place on December 1st, from 5pm on, at the Aula Altes AKH. We hope to see many of you there to celebrate the end ...

  • VDS MES graduate Patrick Arthofer

    02.11.23
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    Patrick Arthofer successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Interactions of giant viruses with their hosts and symbiotic bacteria" on October 13, 2023. The board of examiners included Chantal Abergel (CNRS, University of Marseille, France), Frank Aylward (Virginia Tech, USA) and Silvia Bulgheresi ...

  • VDS MES graduate Anna Mueller

    18.10.23
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    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 Josh Neufeld (University of Waterloo), Eva Spieck (University of Hamburg) and Silvia ...

  • VDS MES graduate Marlies Dietrich

    04.10.23
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    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 ...

  • VDS MES graduate Charlotte Henkel

    06.09.23
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    Charlotte Henkel successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The Leaching of Phthalates from Polyvinyl Chloride Microplastics into Aquatic Environments – from Laboratory Experiments to Modeling" on September 5, 2023. The board of examiners included Gerhard Herndl, Thomas Böttcher and Stephan Krämer ...

  • VDS MES graduate Lukas Lüftinger

    08.08.23
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    Lukas Lüftinger successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Antibiotic Resistance Prediction from Sequencing Data by Machine Learning" on August 3, 2023. The board of ...

  • PhD, technician and postdoc positions in the Cluster of Excellence project "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health"

    14.07.23
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    The recently established Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" unites microbiome research in Austria, bringing together 8 leading research institutions with strengths in many highly relevant areas of microbiome research, from the human microbiome to global change microbiology.

    Our goal is ...

  • VDS MES graduate Yě Tián

    05.07.23
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    Yě Tián successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Long-term soil warming effects on soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling and soil organic matter dynamics" on June 26, 2023. The board of examiners included Johannes Rousk (Lund University), Jordi Sardans (CREAF, ...

  • VDS MES graduate Helene Walch

    24.06.23
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    Helene Walch successfully defended her PhD thesis "Heteroagglomeration of particulate contaminants with natural suspended particulate matter in surface waters" on June 22, 2023. The board of examiners included Lea Ann Dailey, Gerhard Herndl and Thilo Hofmann (all from the University of Vienna, ...

  • VDS MES graduate Florian Reithofer

    23.06.23
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    Florian Reithofer - pictured with his family - successfully defended his thesis entitled "The potential of CRISPR/Cas systems in treatment of Adenovirus infection" on June 22, 2023. The board of examiners included Irene Görzer (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria), Jürgen Neesen (Medical University Vienna, ...

  • VDS MES graduate Florian Moeller

    18.06.23
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    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 ...

  • VDS MES at the Life Science Career Fair 2023

    31.05.23
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    The ÖGMBT's second Life Science Career Fair on May 16 attracted over 500 participants from Austria and abroad. We are happy to look back at a very successful event. 

    We want to thank the attendees of the Life Science Career Fair ...

  • Presenting … Microbiologist Dania Randi

    08.05.23
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    Get a glimpse into one of our PhD students' work life as an early career researcher at the University of Vienna and our doctoral school: VDS MES student Dania Randi is featured in the newest entry of the University of Vienna's "Presenting ...

  • 5 PhD positions in the VDS MES Spring 2023 call

    26.04.23
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    The Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Science offers 5 PhD positions in our Spring 2023 recruitment ...

  • VDS MES graduate Zrinka Didara

    21.04.23
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    Zrinka Didara successfully defended her thesis entitled "Strategies for the knockout of the key adenovirus genes during infection" on March 24, 2023. The board of examiners included Doris Wilflingseder (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria), Dieter Blaas (Medical University Vienna, Austria) and Martin Polz ...

  • VDS MES graduate Lorenz Schwab

    21.04.23
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    Lorenz Schwab successfully defended his thesis entitled "Geochemical behavior of mercury in contaminated environments – Application of mercury stable isotopes for source and process tracing" on March 23, 2023. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer (University of Vienna, Austria), ...

  • New paper in Nucleic Acids Research

    30.03.23
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    VDS MES student Alexandra Schilder is first author of the newly released paper titled "Role of the 5′ end phosphorylation state for small RNA stability and target RNA regulation in bacteria". Congratulations on the publication!

    Find the abstract below - ...

  • VDS MES graduate Patrizia Pfohl

    03.02.23
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    Patrizia Pfohl successfully defended her thesis entitled "Aging of intentionally produced microplastic particles for innovative applications" on January 31, 2023. The board of examiners included LeaAnn Dailey, Thilo Hofmann and Michael Zumstein (all from the University of Vienna, Austria). Congratulations, Patrizia!

  • PhD position available in Shaul Pollak's group

    11.01.23
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    VDS MES group leader Shaul Pollak is currently looking for a PhD student in the field of environmental systems microbiology. The position will involve developing and combining state-of-the-art machine learning and experimental methods to tackle a grand challenge in environmental microbiology – predicting ...

  • VDS MES graduate Philipp Höhn

    11.01.23
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    Philipp Höhn successfully defended his thesis entitled "The potential of hydrogeophysics and deep reinforcement learning for better groundwater management" on December 21, 2022. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer, Thilo Hofmann and Michael Zumstein (all from the University of ...

  • VDS MES graduate Boris Meisterjahn

    11.01.23
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    Boris Meisterjahn successfully defended his thesis entitled "Methods for the investigation of the fate of engineered nanoparticles in the environment and complex matrices" on December 21, 2022. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer, Thilo Hofmann and Michael Zumstein (all ...