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News Feature "The Gut: Door to Life"
15.01.21OutreachThe recent research newsletter of the University of Vienna features an article about the "PreMiBrain" study. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna, including David ...
Establishing interactions in a dynamic environment: Introducing the PhD program Microbial Symbioses
30.11.20EventOn Thursday, over 50 people interested in symbioses came together online for the kick-off event of the PhD program Microbial Symbioses. Among them, the ten new PhD candidates and 15 ...
New publication in Current Biology: Plasmids drive genome evolution in intracellular bacteria
06.11.20PublicationIn this study, a team around Stephan Köstlbacher and Matthias Horn have unvestigated the plasmid inventory of an entire bacterial phylum, the Chlamydiae, a diverse group of ubiquitous and strictly intracellular ...
New publication in Nature Communications: Rational design of a microbial consortium of mucosal sugar utilizers reduces Clostridiodes difficile colonization
10.10.20PublicationMany intestinal pathogens such as Clostridioides difficile use mucus-derived sugars to establish in the gut. In this study, a team around Fatima Pereira and David Berry identified commensal gut bacteria that efficiently use mucus-derived sugars using single-cell stable isotope probing, Raman-activated cell sorting and mini-metagenomics. Using this information, they assembled ...
