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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 1d

A stunning microscopy image created @dome-vienna.bsky.social by Adnan Hodžić and Martin Kunert is featured on the cover of @cp-starprotocols.bsky.social!

The 3D visualization reveals the tick endosymbiont Midichloria mitochondrii using DOPE-FISH.

Take a look🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Image created at DOME featured on STAR Protocols cover

Ticks are home to a diverse mix of microbial communities – some harmless or even beneficial, others pathogenic. A striking microscopy image by Adnan Hodžić and Martin Kunert (DOME | CeMESS) captures t...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 26d

Great week hosting the 28th European Nitrogen Cycle Meeting (ENC28) at #CeMESS, @univie.ac.at! Over 70 researchers from 13 countries came together to dive into microbial nitrogen cycling. & Congrats to Carolin Otersen & Nils Ganzwohl for best posters!

More info:🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

28th European Nitrogen Cycle Meeting held at CeMESS

The 28th edition of the annual European Nitrogen Cycle Meeting (ENC28) brought together more than 70 participants from institutions in 13 countries at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Sys...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 20d

Ever wondered what soil research looks like in Canada’s North? 🌱 Researchers from @ter-cemess.bsky.social share their fieldwork experiences in an article for @univie.ac.at's magazine #Rudolphina.

Curious? Find out more: 🔗 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/climate-r...

Climate research in Canada

Why do field research in Canada? What drives researchers like us to dig in forests and peat bogs in all kinds of weather, armed with bear spray and mosquito repellent? Why do we put up with dirty fing...

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · 27d

Nice summary from Songcan & Marc 🙏 on our discovery of a new microbial energy metabolism 🦠 🧫 ⚡ 🔌

Microbial Iron oxide respiration coupled to Sulfide Oxidation (MISO)

@nature.com Research Briefing 😍 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

📰 Original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky #microbiomesky

Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling

A species of bacteria grows when both ferrihydrite and sulfide are present, but not when either is absent.

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 26d

Von Wien nach Kanada: #Permafrost und heiße Quellen ❄️♨️
Warum macht man eigentlich #Feldforschung in #Kanada? 🔍 Was treibt uns Forscher*innen dazu, mit Bären- und Mosquitospray bewaffnet, bei jedem Wetter in Wäldern oder #Mooren zu graben? 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
Erfahre mehr darüber in der #Rudolphina: ⤵️

Klimaforschung in Kanada

Warum macht man eigentlich Feldforschung in Kanada? Was treibt uns Forscher*innen dazu, mit Bären- und Mosquitospray bewaffnet, bei jedem Wetter in Wäldern oder Mooren zu graben? Warum nehmen wir schm...

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DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social · 28d

Application deadline: 17 September 2025

Apply now to join us at CeMESS!

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DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social · 28d

Application deadline: 17 September 2025

Apply now to join us at CeMESS!

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Aug 28

An exciting new study from Alexander Loy and team (@loyteam.bsky.social), now in @nature.com!

It describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism: Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation (MISO).

Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Example of a habitat of MISO bacteria - Marine sediment: cup with a soil sample from an Arctic fjord in Svalbard.
Credit: CeMESS Alexander Loy

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic news: Megan Sørensen has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project TRANSITIONS! In her upcoming research at #CeMESS she will explore how endosymbiosis evolves, from protist partnership to organelle.

Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

Megan Sørensen receives ERC Starting Grant

Microbiologist Megan Sørensen has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, securing significant funding for her upcoming research on the evolution of endosymbiosis at CeMESS. It is one of three ERC Startin...

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Sep 4

3 @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants, die mit je rund 1,4 bis 1,7 Millionen Euro dotiert sind, gehen an die #univie: Historikerin Eva-Maria Muschik, Mikrobiologin Megan Sørensen & Geschichtssoziologin Agata Zysiak erhalten die prestigeträchtige Förderung für ihre Forschung. Wir gratulieren herzlichst! 🥳

3 ERC Starting Grants für die Universität Wien

Förderung für Historikerin Eva-Maria Muschik, Mikrobiologin Megan Sørensen und Geschichtssoziologin Agata Zysiak

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Anouk Willemsen @willemsenanouk.bsky.social · 29d

Proud moment to see the first Master student of the team (Lotte Mayer) successfully defend her Master's thesis work digging into viral factories of #giantViruses.

A link to part of her work:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@erc.europa.eu @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 1

Nature research paper: Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation

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Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - Nature

Genomic and biochemical analyses of prokaryotic sulfur metabolism identify diverse microorganisms with the capacity to oxidize sulfide using iron(iii).

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Austrian Microbiome @amicimicrobiome.bsky.social · Sep 1

Final program of the 8th AMICI Symposium is now set! 🦠🧫
microbiome.at/sites/microb...

September 22, 2025 ‪@bokuvienna.bsky.social
Vienna, Austria

Register now and for free! tinyurl.com/AMICI8-ATBI

#AMICI8 #AMICI2025 #ATBI #microbiome #bioinformatics #microbiomesky #microsky

8th AMICI Symposium and Austrian Bioinformatics Workshop 2025 - Joint Event

AMICI joins forces with the Austrian Bioinformatics Workshop on latest developments in microbiome research and bioinformatics

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Aug 28

Bacteria that 'breathe' rocks and sulphur. 🦠🧫
An international team of scientists led by #microbiologists @loyteam.bsky.social and Marc Mussmann have uncovered #bacteria that remove toxic sulfide and use iron #minerals for growth. 🧪🧑‍🔬
Read more here: ⤵️ @cemess.bsky.social

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 New paper in @nature.com

Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals

I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡

🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - Nature

Genomic and biochemical analyses of prokaryotic sulfur metabolism identify diverse microorganisms with the capacity to oxidize sulfide using iron(iii).

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · Aug 21

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#MicroSky

Elio (1928-2025)

by The STC Team — Losing a close friend always saddens one deeply, regardless of age. Losing a person who has so immensely influenced our worldview through his guidance and example makes the sadness e...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Aug 14

Novel plastoquinone forms with essential roles in key nitrogen-cycling microbes identified! Study conducted by the Comammox Research Platform at @univie.ac.at and supported by the #FWF funded @microbesplanet.bsky.social.

Read more: 🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

New study: Unusual quinones found in Nitrospira

A new study, supported by the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes drive Planetary Health” and the Comammox Research Platform of the University of Vienna, identifies new plastoquinone forms w...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Aug 13

Leafy greens may do more than nourish you! A new study by #CeMESS researchers @julkras.bsky.social and @loyteam.bsky.social shows that sulfoquinovose is metabolized by key gut microbes into hydrogen sulfide, revealing intriguing prebiotic potential.

Read more:🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

New paper highlights a green-diet-derived sulfur compound as a potential prebiotic

The effects of individual dietary compounds on the gut microbiome and human health remain poorly understood. A new study reveals that a sulfosugar derived from green plants and algae is not metabolize...

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · Aug 14

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in Cell! An international study, including CoE Researcher Martin Polz @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, uncovers the significant and underestimated contribution of fungi to ocean biomass and the global carbon cycle. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Aug 14

Looking for a read for the long-weekend? Check out this @profil.at article with Alexander Loy (@loyteam.bsky.social) on the possible link between gut microbes and chronic pain (paywall)🔗 www.profil.at/wissenschaft...

Photo of opened article in "Profil" with garden in the background.
Photo: CeMESS/Stephanie Scholz

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky

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Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome

Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...

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Kathi Kitzinger @kathikitzinger.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

RECLESS_Postdoc_single_cell_UniVie.pdf

u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.

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Kathi Kitzinger @kathikitzinger.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

RECLESS_TA_molecular_UniVie.pdf

u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.

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Isabella Wagner @isabellacwagner.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨💩Very proud to share a new preprint of the lab ~~ we show that gut microbial diversity and inferred capacity for butyrate production predict cortisol stress reactivity in humans ~~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Jul 9

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k

We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals

Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound conseque...

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