Lecture series

  • CANCELLED!! DOME Lecture: "Iron-sulfur proteins in microbial sulfur oxidation"

    Christiane Dahl
    Research Group Leader, University of Bonn, Germany
    15.02.2024
    12:00 h
    NA
  • CANCELLED!! DOME Lecture: "Phage communication: from mechanisms to ecology and evolution"

    Avigdor Eldar
    Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    07.12.2023
    12:00 h
    NA
  • CANCELLED!! DOME Lecture: "Genomes in Rhodnius prolixus symbiotic system"

    Eva Nováková
    Associate Professor, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
    09.11.2023
    12:00 h
    NA
  • DOME Lecture: "­Genome organization in giant viruses"

    Chantal Abergel
    French National Centre for Scientific Research, Marseille, France
    13.10.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB SR 2.1
  • DOME Lecture: "Coevolution of geosphere and biosphere: trace metals at the crossroad between metabolic evolution and ecosystem functions"

    Donato Giovannelli
    Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
    19.09.2023
    09:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2
  • DOME Lecture: "Gut microbiome profiling predicts antibiotic resistance of urinary tract infections"

    Marta Lukačišinová
    EMBO Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kishony Lab, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    01.06.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2
  • DOME Lecture: "Selection on the accessory genome can predict bacterial evolution"

    Bill Hanage
    Associate Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
    21.04.2023
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2
  • DOME Lecture: "Recycling versus loss: the pivotal role of nitrite in the marine nitrogen cycle"

    Laura Bristow
    Assistant Professor for Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    17.11.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1
  • DOME Lecture: "Microbial processing of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the mesopelagic ocean"

    Alyson Santoro
    Assoc. Prof. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
    27.10.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1
  • DOME Lecture: “'Dark oxygen' - an electron acceptor for productive and diverse microbial communities in ancient groundwaters"

    Emil Ruff
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
    15.06.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2
  • DOME Lecture: "Creating a “niche” and making the most of it: Bacteria – insect interactions in a mutualistic endosymbiosis"

    Anna Zaidman-Remy
    Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, France
    21.04.2022
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 2
  • DOME Lecture: "A physical niche regulates a complex microbiome in the Drosophila gut"

    William Ludington
    Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Science, Maryland, USA
    24.03.2022
    14:00 h
    Online
  • DOME Lecture: Considering Alternative Routes to Cooperation: The Role of Early Development and Individual Variation"

    Jessica Cusick
    Department of Biology, Utah Valley University, USA
    10.03.2022
    17:00 h
    Online
  • DOME Lecture: Ecological and evolutionary studies of exploitative bacterial interactions

    Shaul Pollak
    Cordero Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
    25.01.2022
    16:00 h
    Online
  • DOME Lecture: Microbial iron cycling in biogeochemical cycles past and present

    Casey Bryce
    University of Bristol, UK
    20.01.2022
    12:00 h
    Online
  • DOME Lecture: Gut microbiota mediate phytoestrogen-associated infertility in the white rhinoceros

    Candace Williams
    San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, San Diego, California
    18.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online
  • Sequence Matching in the Context of Extremely Large Sequence Collections

    Julian Regalado Perez
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    11.11.2021
    12:00 h
    hybrid, UBB HS 1
  • Protists and plants: community assembly, "microbiomes" and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in rhizosphere and phyllosphere

    Michael Bonkowski
    University of Cologne, Germany
    06.05.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar
  • Making chemistry visible in complex biological systems

    Klaus Koren
    Aarhus University, Demark
    22.04.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar
  • Exploring viral diversity from the global oceans to the human gut

    Ann Gregory
    KU Leuven, Belgium
    15.04.2021
    12:00 h
    Webinar
  • Physiological and immunological responses to gut bacterial translocation in humans

    Suzanne Devkota
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
    08.04.2021
    17:00 h
    Webinar
  • Imaging anatomic structure and metabolic function in animal-microbe symbioses

    Benedikt Geier
    Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
    28.01.2021
    10:00 h
    Webinar
  • Ecology of ammonia oxidizers in engineered aquatic environments

    Josh Neufeld
    Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada
    14.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Webinar
  • Defining and controlling gut microbial gene products for therapeutic gain

    Matthew Redinbo
    University of North Carolina, USA
    10.12.2020
    12:00 h
    Webinar
  • Exploring early life microbiota dynamics

    Lindsay Hall
    Technical University of Munich
    29.10.2020
    12:00 h
    Webinar
  • Ammonia oxidising archaea: From environments to enzymes

    Laura Lehtovirta-Morley
    University of East Anglia
    30.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
  • Metals and microbial respiration: the molecular basis of bioelectricity production and greenhouse gas destruction

    David Richardson
    University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
    23.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    David Richardson
  • Towards an in-depth understanding and accurate prediction of environmental biotransformation of chemicals

    Kathrin Fenner
    Department of Environmental Chemistry, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland
    16.01.2020
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Kathrin Fenner
  • Parammox: a new microbial ammonia oxidation pathway

    Shuang-Jiang Liu
    Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China
    12.12.2019
    10:00 h
    CUBE Seminar Room A.5.43
    Dr. Shuang-Jiang Liu
  • Non-genetic inheritance, trait evolution, and primary production in changing aquatic environments

    Sinead Collins
    Edinburgh University
    21.11.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
  • Exploring and Exploiting the Chemistry of Microbial Interactions

    Thomas Böttcher
    Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany
    17.10.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Thomas Böttcher
  • Advanced Chemical Microscopy for Life Science and Precision Medicine

    Ji-Xin Cheng
    Boston University, USA
    03.10.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
    Ji-Xin Cheng
  • Organizing principles of marine microbial communities

    Otto Cordero
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    06.09.2019
    14:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
  • Abiotic and biotic factors affecting diversity and distribution of nitrifying thaumarchaea

    Sung-Keun Rhee
    Chungbuk National University, South Korea
    27.06.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
    Sung-Keun Rhee
  • Viral Intrahost Evolution – a Race in Space and Time

    Andreas Bergthaler
    CeMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    06.06.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Deciphering population-specific activities of marine microbes with quantitative stable isotope probing

    William Orsi
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
    27.05.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS4, UZA2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien
  • Three amazing ideas about microbial biogeography that will blow your mind

    Daniel H. Buckley
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
    16.05.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
  • Is metabolic cooperation within microbial communities inevitable?

    Christian Kost
    University Osnabrück
    11.04.2019
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse14, 1090 Vienna
  • Soil ammonia oxidisers: microscopic instigators of a global Catch-22

    Jim Prosser
    University of Aberdeen
    14.03.2019
    16:45 h
    Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
  • O- and N-glycan breakdown by the human gut microbiota

    David Bolam
    Newcastle University, London, UK
    06.12.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Toward a predictive understanding of microbiome response to environmental change in peatlands

    Joel Kostka
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
    03.12.2018
    13:30 h
    Lecture Hall 5, UZA II
  • Uncovering the metabolic flexibility of aerobic soil bacteria: from enzymes to ecosystems

    Chris Greening
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    22.11.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall HS2, UZA1, Althanstrasse14, 1090 Vienna
  • Solving metabolic puzzles

    Boran Kartal
    MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
    18.10.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • What is the role of the immune system in controlling the intestinal microbiota?

    Emma Wetter Slack
    ETH Zürich
    04.10.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA I
  • From the shallow to the deep subsurface biosphere in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments

    Andreas Teske
    UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    24.09.2018
    10:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Exploring new branches on the tree of life

    Brett Baker
    University of Texas, Austin, USA
    06.09.2018
    12:00 h
    Lecture Hall 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
    Brett Baker
  • A single-cell perspective on the spatial self-organization of microbial systems

    Martin Ackermann
    ETH Zürich
    30.08.2018
    14:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations in the Wild

    Martin Polz
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    14.06.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
    Martin Polz
  • Modulation of the Human Gut Microbiota - An Ecological Perspective

    Jens Walter
    University of Alberta
    17.05.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Measurement of sulfur isotope fractionation by APS reductase and its biogeochemical implications

    Shawn McGlynn
    Earth-Life Science Institute Tokyo
    26.04.2018
    11:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • How biofilm modelling and kinetic theory led to the prediction of complete ammonia oxidation

    Jan-Ulrich Kreft
    University of Birmingham
    15.03.2018
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Microbiomics of the human gut and the ocean

    Peer Bork
    Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
    24.11.2017
    09:30 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • The rapidly expanding universe of giant viruses

    Chantal Abergel
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Aix-Marseille University
    29.06.2017
    16:30 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA 1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • The importance of growing slowly: roles for redox-active "antibiotics" in microbial survival and development

    Dianne Newman
    California Institute of Technology
    24.05.2017
    14:00 h
    Hörsaal 2, UZA1, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien
  • Harnessing Bacteria for Drug Discovery: from Bioprospecting to Synthetic Biology

    Sergey Zotchev
    Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna
    26.01.2017
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2. (UZA I), Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna
  • The tale of the rumen microbiome – from interaction with the host to plasmid mediated gene mobility

    Itzhak Mizrahi
    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    22.09.2016
    12:00 h
    Hörsaal 2. (UZA I)
  • Importance of chemosymbiotic lucinid bivalves in seagrass community functioning

    Matthijs van der Geest
    Université de Montpellier
    20.01.2016
    11:00 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309), UZA 1
  • The contribution of phage-mediated gene transfer to microbial genome evolution

    Tal Dagan
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
    23.10.2015
    13:30 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309)
  • Cool microbes: Assessing the role of acidobacteria communities in carbon and nitrogen cycling processes in arctic tundra soils

    Max Häggblom
    Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    11.09.2015
    11:00 h
    Seminar Room DOME (2.309)
  • The genus Pseudovibrio: versatile bacteria with the potential for a symbiotic lifestyle

    Stefano Romano
    Biomerit research centre, University College Cork
    10.09.2015
    12:00 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309)
  • Ciliates as natural reservoir of potentially pathogenic bacteria (CINAR PATHOBACTER): state of the art after a four years networking project

    Giulio Petroni
    University of Pisa
    13.08.2015
    12:00 h
    Seminar room DoME (2.309)
  • Mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

    Manuel Liebeke
    MPI für Marine Mikrobiologie
    05.03.2015
    12:00 h
    Seminar room
  • Metaproteomics for sub-surface habitats and the intestinal gut microbiota

    Dr. Nico Jehmlich
    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig Germany
    29.01.2015
    12:00 h
    Seminar room DOME
    Dr. Nico Jehmlich
  • First deployment of the European mobile laboratory in the course of the West-African Ebola outbreak

    Kilian Stoecker
    Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
    03.11.2014
    12:00 h
    Seminar room
  • Progress of developing Raman activated single cell sorting and genomics

    Dr. Wei Huang
    University of Oxford, UK
    18.06.2014
    12:00 h
    DOME Seminar Room
    Prof. Wei Huang
  • Minimal bacterial consortia and the gut liver-axis

    Dr. Tom Clavel
    TU München, Germany
    06.06.2014
    12:00 h
    Dome Seminar Room
    Dr. Tom Clavel
  • Ecology, evolution and physiology of food digestion by microbes

    Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    15.05.2014
    12:00 h
    DOME Seminar Room
    Jan Hendrik Hehemann
  • Chemosynthetic symbioses at vents and seeps: Tapping dark energy in the deep sea

    Dr. Jill Petersen
    Symbiosis Department Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
    08.05.2014
    12:00 h
    Dome Seminar room
    Dr. Jill Petersen
  • Same same but different: Ecological niche partitioning of planktonic freshwater bacteria

    Dr. Michaela Salcher
    University of Zurich
    06.02.2014
    12:15 h
    Seminarraum Mikrobielle Ökologie
    Michaela Salcher
  • Avoiding noise while embracing uncertainty in ecoinformatics

    Dr. Craig Herbold
    Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
    05.02.2014
    12:00 h
    Seminarraum Mikrobielle Ökologie
    Dr. Craig Herbold
  • Functional impact of metaproteomic studies in microbial ecology

    Prof. Dr. Martin von Bergen
    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
    23.10.2013
    12:00 h
    Seminarraum Mikrobielle Ökologie
    Martin van Bergen