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Julia Vierheilig

@4heilig.bsky.social

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Mol. Microbiol. in Sanitary Engineer. 🚽💩🦠🧬🔬 #tenuretrack @IWR_water @tuvienna & @ICCwaterhealth 🇦🇹; Alumna @DOME_Vienna & @KLKrems

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Jul 19

Happy to see our new paper out in #WaterResearch! A pleasure 2contribute2 this collaborative effort led by Matthew Thornton & fantastic team at @bergthalerlab.bsky.social.

It highlights how much the choice of virus enrichment #method shapes our view of the #wastewater #virome.

#WBE #PublicHealth

TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thrilled 2 share that our colleagues @4heilig.bsky.social & Gabriela Eder contributed 2 the recently published #openAccess article led by Matthew Thornton from @bergthalerlab.bsky.social‬ (@meduniwien.ac.at) in #WaterResearch (@iwapublishing.bsky.social)

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Comparative wastewater virome analysis with different enrichment methods

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has proven its value for public health. Physical concentration of virus particles is a crucial step for WBE to per…

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 2d

A #podcast tip on Ö1 (in German):

Norbert Kreuzinger discusses the presence of #pharmaceutical residues in #water systems, their impact on #aquatic #organisms, and what we still largely don't know about the 'cocktail effects' of their mixture in the environment.

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Arzneimittelrückstände im Wasser | DO | 25 09 2025 | 19:05

Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · 5d

With the start of the academic winter term, we are pleased to announce the beginning of our new #waterquality management #seminar #series.
The series is part of the civil and environmental engineering curriculum, but it is #open to #everyone as a #forum for exchange and discussion.

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · Sep 2

New insights into #wastewater #surveillance from a 1-year survey of the untreated influent at the Bucharest WWTP and an infectious diseases hospital.

Check out the full details in the latest publication by Elena Radu et al.:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Monitoring SARS‐CoV‐2 Dissemination in Wastewater and Virus Isolation in Cell Cultures: An Integrated Approach for Pathogen Detection and Surveillance

Our study presents wastewater (WW) monitoring data, focusing on determining the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 in the collected samples. Additionally, a panel of different viruses has been tested in the W...

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Uli Klümper @ulikluemper.bsky.social · Aug 4

🧬🦠💊
🚨NEW COLLECTION LAUNCH🚨

I'm editing a new collection in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance:

"Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Environmental AMR"

Calling for submissions on environmental HGT, selection, invasion, mutation & more

Open till Apr 26

www.nature.com/collections/...

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Jul 19

TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · Jul 19

Comparative wastewater virome analysis with different enrichment methods

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has proven its value for public health. Physical concentration of virus particles is a crucial step for WBE to per…

www.sciencedirect.com

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · Jul 9

This year, we once again took part at #Kinderuni and introduced the young students to the exciting world of #wastewatertreatment. We enjoyed giving an insight into our daily scientific work and hope to have inspired many children for this topic.

@boehler-s.bsky.social @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social

Photo (von links nach rechts): Maximilian Wukovits, Sebastian Böhler, Moritz Pellegrini, Gabriela Eder

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EU-WISH @eu-wish.bsky.social · Jun 23

#EU_WISH people participated in the 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference, held in the Netherlands.

Workshops were done, side events held, oral presentations given. Find the full list of our contributions at www.eu-wish.eu/news

Thank you for having us!

#wastewater #episky #science

Group foto of EU-WISH people standing on a stage with the EU-WISH and watermicro logos in the background.

Some EU-WISH people stand for a group foto with a curtain in the background. On the curtain, a projector projects microbes like virusses, bacteria and protists in white light. From left to right: Blandine Fauvel, Elisabete Valério, Leslie Ogorzaly, Márta Vargha, Raphael Janssens, Henry-Michel Cauchie, Anke Meyers

A selfie of 4 EU-WISH members smiling. From left to right: Elisabete Valério, Henry-Michel Cauchie, Leslie Ogorzaly, Blandine Fauvel

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EU-WISH @eu-wish.bsky.social · Jun 16

As part of the #EU-WISH project, a serious game has been carried out during #WaterMicro2025.
💡 This interactive workshop gathered 50 participants to simulate key decisions in wastewater and environmental surveillance.
#PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #WES #episky #LIST

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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social · May 26

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2. 🦠🧫
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2

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ICC Water & Health @iccwaterhealth.bsky.social · May 21

💧 Wiener #Trinkwasser: Positive Zwischenbilanz ViWa 2020+

Im Frühjahr fand das MidTerm-Symposium der Forschungskooperation #ViWa2020+ statt – mit 130 Stakeholdern aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung & Wasserwirtschaft.

#WienerWasser #Forschung #Wasserqualität @wien.gv.at

📷 © Wiener Wasser/Zinner

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · May 7

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...

www.cell.com

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · May 6

Wow

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

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Will Gaze @willhgaze.bsky.social · Apr 26

We have a PhD available at our Exeter Cornwall campus in collaboration with the University of Queensland on AMR in agricultural environments tinyurl.com/3m4pkmup the project can be tailored to the student's interests and expertise with an opportunity to spend 6 months in sunny Brisbane!

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

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Moreno Zolfo @azufre451.bsky.social · Apr 14

Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!

@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.

There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38

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Tillmann Lueders @luederslab.bsky.social · Mar 19

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe!
🦠😎👍
Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇
2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social

FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025 - FEMS

Menu: Introduction – Applications – Programme This has been the most valuable and enjoyable scientific event I’ve attended so far. The atmosphere was incredible, with inspiring co-directors and mentor...

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Apr 9

... dass die entsprechenden Anstrengungen und Unterstützungen in Zukunft noch stärker ausfallen werden. Als Mitglied der Wiener Forschungscommunity werde ich daran mitwirken. Denn ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien!
#IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Apr 9

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten in vielen Ländern schwieriger und finsterer geworden. Hier in Wien wurden die Bedingungen für Wissenschaft und Forschung in den letzten Jahren immer besser. Ich bin überzeugt davon, dass das auch so bleibt und ...

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Apr 9

Meine Forschungsgruppe "Molekulare #Mikrobiologie in der #Siedlungswasserwirtschaft" (@iwr-water.bsky.social,
@tuwien.at) beschäftigt sich mit div. Aspekten der (Ab)wassermikrobiologie - mit dem Ziel aktiv zum Schutz der Gesundheit von Mensch, Tier und Umwelt beizutragen.

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Mar 21

Welcome to the team, Berna! 🎉 Excited to have you on board and looking forward to working together on advancing wastewater microbiome research for next-gen public health monitoring.

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TU Wien Water Quality Management @iwr-water.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our dear colleague Norbert Kreuzinger has been honoured w/ the #Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Silbernes #Ehrenzeichen) by Elmar Pichl, Dir. Gen. of #BMBWF.
This highly prestigious national decoration rightly recognises the important & pioneering role...

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ICC Water & Health @iccwaterhealth.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happy to share our newest publication on seasonally recurring patterns of #Crenothrix spp. in a Central European alluvial #drinkingwater well, led by Sophia Steinbacher, which is now available as pre-proof in #WaterResearch

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Seasonally recurring patterns of dominant Crenothrix spp. in a Central European alluvial drinking water well: significance and potential indicator role

Iron and manganese (Fe/Mn) often lead to aesthetic quality issues in water supply. Strong and problematic black-brown particle formation was persisten…

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Julia Vierheilig @4heilig.bsky.social · Mar 3

Fantastic news! Huge congratulations, Jill! 🎉

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Tim Julian @trj2.bsky.social · Feb 27

We are tracking mutations of #RSV in #wastewater: genspectrum.org/swiss-wastew.... Why this matters and why you should re-tweet for visibility (a 🧵).

Swiss wastewater - RSV

GenSpectrum is an interactive dashboard to query and analyze pathogen sequences, currently available for Influenza H5N1, RSV, SARS-CoV-2 and the West Nile virus.

genspectrum.org

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Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard.bsky.social · Jan 30

In case you missed it. My colleague sneaked out a
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
just before Christmas with an insane amount of HQMAGs from soil using a looooot of
@nanoporetech.com
data. Data should be public already. Have fun 🎉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recovery of highly contiguous genomes from complex terrestrial habitats reveals over 15,000 novel prokaryotic species and expands characterization of soil and sediment microbial communities

Genomes are fundamental to understanding microbial ecology and evolution. The emergence of high-throughput, long-read DNA sequencing has enabled recovery of microbial genomes from environmental sample...

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FEMS @femsmicro.org · Jan 27

We are thrilled by the amount of abstract submissions we have received for FEMS MICRO Milan 2025.

To ensure everyone has a fair chance to participate, FEMS has decided to extend the deadline to 31 January.

Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation: buff.ly/40xqQ6T

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