Annual Meeting 2025
Welcome to the
CoE Microplanet Annual Meeting 2025!
We are very happy to welcome you to the second Annual Meeting of our Cluster ‘Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health’ from Oct 19 to 21, 2025 at Burg Schlaining. We hope that you will enjoy the scientific and social program, both aimed at scientific exchange and fostering ongoing and future collaborations across the Cluster.
Meeting Time Table
This time table will give you a general overview of the activities at the second CoE Annual Meeting.
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Oral Presentations
The CoE Annual Meeting is designed to bring together CoE members from all project partners involved in environmental or medical research or the development of new methods. The oral presentations at the CoE Annual Meeting will inform attendees about successes and progress, as well as challenges in microbiome research. Use the drop-down function for each session to access information on talk titles and presenters.
Sunday, October 19th
Session 1 – 16:30 – 18:30
– Welcome and CoE Status Update
– CoE Publications Highlights
– Austrian Microbiome Research Awards Ceremony
Michael Wagner (CoE Director of Research) University of Vienna
Christine Moissl–Eichinger (CoE Deputy Director of Research) Medical University of Graz
Monday, October 20th
Session 2 – 8:30 – 10:05
Chair: Christina Kaiser
| 08:30 – 08:35 WP1.1: SIBOme Study Update Alex Ralser (PhD student, JKU Linz) | |
| 08:35 – 08:55 WP1.2: Plant-microbe interactions in the invasion of Impatiens glandulifera Saee Joshi (PhD student, Uni Vienna) | |
| 08:55 – 09:00 WP2.1: Preliminary insights into chemical mapping of the ectomycorrhizal interface and responses of ectomycorrhizal-associated bacteria to warming and drought Stefan Gorka (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) | |
| 09:00 – 09:10 WP2.2: Control of Eukaryotic Microbial Populations by Viral Parasites Nisha Goyal (Postdoc) Sofia Rigou (Postdoc) Flo Panhölzl (PhD student, all Uni Vienna) | |
| 09:10 – 09:30 WP2.3: Induction of prophages during intestinal inflammation Nir Even (PhD student, Uni Vienna) Clarissa Campbell (KR, CeMM) | |
| 09:30 – 09:35 MF10: Life Science Compute Cluster Thomas Rattei (KR, Uni Vienna) | |
| 09:35 – 09:55 MF2: Advancing Activity-based (Meta)proteomics: Functional Profiling of Serine Hydrolases and Oxidoreductases in Microbiomes and Beyond Sarah Reindl (PhD student, TU Wien) | |
| 09:55 – 10:00 MF9: Direct observation of DNA dynamics using high-speed AFM Yoo Jin Oh (Postdoc, JKU Linz) | |
| 10:00 – 10:05 MF11: Chemical Synthesis Facility Concept presentation Thomas Böttcher (KR, Uni Vienna) |
Session 3 – 10:50 – 12:20
Chair: Gregor Gorkiewicz
| 10:50 – 11:00 WP3.1: From Gut to Wastewater: How Microbes Transform and Respond to Pharmaceuticals David Seki (Postdoc) Maximilian Eiser (PhD student, both Uni Vienna) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 WP3.2: Impact of organic contaminants on environmental and human microbiomes Introduction Elena Tiis Göksu Celik (Postdoc) Claire Lamb (Postdoc) Elena Tiis (PhD student, all Uni Vienna) |
| 11:20 – 11:40 MF3+4: Of transcripts and giant cells – single-cell mRNA FISH and expansion microscopy Anton Strunov (Senior Scientist) Stefan Thiele (TA, both Uni Vienna) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 MF5: Linking stable isotope and high-resolution mass spectrometry to decipher soil lipid, sulfur, and nitrogen dynamics MF5: Mid-IR laser-based trace gas sensing in small volumes Rahul Samrat (PhD student, Uni Vienna) Johannes Paul Waclawek (Postdoc, TU Wien) |
| 12:00 – 12:20 MF6: Multi-modal chemical imaging: MF6 capabilities, applications, and future directions Margaux Petay (PhD student, TU Wien) Stefanie Imminger (TA, Uni Vienna) |
Data Standarization – 16:30 – 17:30
| Towards FAIR Microbiome Data: MIxS, NFDI4Microbiota, and Data Brokering in Practice Philipp Münch (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) |
Tuesday, October 21st
Session 4 – 8:30 – 10:20
Chair: Michael Zumstein
| 08:30 – 08:35 WP4.1: The Effect of Recurrent Drought on the Soil Microbiome Cornelia Rottensteiner (PhD student) Valentin Waschulin (Postdoc, both Uni Vienna) |
| 08:35 – 08:40 WP4.2: Continents Apart, Microbes Alike? A First Glimpse into Peatland Microbiomes in the DR Congo and Canadian Permafrost Region Chin Chin Too (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) |
| 08:40 – 09:00 WP4.3: A novel method for the extraction and measurement of 15N-hydroxylamine in soils Nathalie Heldwein (PhD student, Uni Vienna) |
| 09:00 – 09:20 MF8: Wiring the Nitrification Powerhouse: Structural Insights into Comammox Enzymes Georg Mlynek (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) Jakob Andersson (Postdoc, ISTA) |
| 09:20 – 09:40 WP5.1: Wastewater Microbiomes: A Novel Lens on Public Health Berna de Vries (PhD student, Uni Vienna/TU Wien) Gergel Ódor (Postdoc, Meduni Vienna) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 WP5.2: Chronicles of FMT: Akkermansia, the gut–brain axis, and the virome Klara Filek (Postdoc, Meduni Graz) Rebecca Gallo (PhD student, Uni Vienna) Büsra Külekci (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) |
| 10:00 – 10:20 WP5.3: I Eat, Ergo I Tolerate – Ergothioneine in gut immunity Felix Grössing (PhD student, CEMM) |
Session 5 – 13:30 – 14:45
Chair: Alexander Moschen
| 13:30 – 13:50 WP6.1: Wheat nitrogen nutrition mediated by rhizosphere microbiota Lisa Carolin Bilz (PhD student, AIT) Aline Ballot (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) | |
| 13:50 – 14:10 WP6.2: Microbial Drivers of Silicate Weathering and MAOM Degradation: Who Are They and How Do They Do It? Kristina Vukovic (PhD student) Jiahiu Wu (Postdoc, both Uni Vienna) | |
| 14:10 – 14:30 WP6.3: Role of Selective Sulfur Nutrients across Human and Environmental Microbiomes Clara Priemer (PhD student) Sebastian Tanabe (Postdoc, both Uni Vienna) | |
| 14:30- 14:35 MF1: JMF/MF1 – news and services Petra Pjevac (KR, Uni Vienna) | |
| 14:35 – 14:45 MF7: MF7 – Developed Microfluidic and Organ-on-a-Chip Systems Edo Danilyan (PhD student, Uni Vienna) Martin Frauenlob (Group Leader, TU Wien) |
Session 6 – 15:15 – 16:00
Chair: Ruth Birner-Grünberger
| 15:15 – 15:35 WP7.1: Microbial growth in progress: perspective and experimental framework. Edo Danilyan (PhD student) Yujia Luo (Postdoc, both Uni Vienna) | |
| 15:35 – 15:55 WP7.2: Auxotrophy of key functional players in wastewater treatment plants / First insights into the small intestinal microbiome Eliska Sedlácková (PhD student, Meduni Graz) Ruizhe Pei (Postdoc, Uni Vienna) | |
| 15:55 – 16:00 WP7.3: Exploring microbial adaptations to seasonal anoxia in the coastal Baltic Sea Kira Lange (PhD student, Uni Vienna) |
Poster Presentations
In this Poster Session, CoE members from WPs and MFs have the chance to present a poster that complements or extends their oral presentation. The poster session will take the format of a guided tour: Groups of approx. 15 people will be led by one CoE Key Researcher and one CoE Postdoc through the poster displays. The poster session at the CoE Annual Meeting will take place on Monday, October 20th, from 14:15 to 16:15. Please use the drop-down function to inform yourself about poster presenters and titles.
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| Nr 1. WP 1.1. Strategies for investigating the small intestinal microbiome Eliska Sedlackova, Charlotte Neumann, Alex Ralser, Klara Filek, Alexander Moschen, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Christian Diener, Alexander Loy, Christina Watschinger, and Christine Moissl-Eichinger |
| Nr 2. WP 2.1. Cross-kingdom interactions in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis Stefan Gorka, Giorgia Cantini, Margaux Petay, Georg Ramer, Stefanie Imminger, Arno Schintlmeister, Florian Selinger, Martin Frauenlob, Carlos Arellano-Caicedo, Mark Anthony, Christina Kaiser |
| Nr 3. WP 2.2. Control of Eukaryotic Microbial Populations by Viral Parasites Sofia Rigou, Nisha Goyal, Florian Panhölzl, Vitalii Kovtunyk, Matthias Horn |
| Nr 4. WP 3.1. Red + Green = Brown? Connecting Gut and Wastewater Microbiome Research on Pharmaceuticals David Seki, Maximilian Eiser, Verena Filz, Thomas Böttcher, Michael Zumstein, David Berry, Michael Wagner |
| Nr 5. WP 3.2. Environmental Fate of Organic Contaminants and Their Effects on the Human Gut Microbiome Göksu Çelik, Claire Lamb, Alexander Loy, Thilo Hofmann |
| Nr 6. WP 4.1. The Effect of Recurrent Drought on the Soil Microbiome Valentin Waschulin, Cornelia Rottensteiner |
| Nr 7. WP 4.2. Continents Apart, Microbes Alike? A First Glimpse into Peatland Microbiomes in the DR Congo and Canadian Permafrost Region Chin Chin Too |
| Nr 8. WP 4.3. SYNONIM: SYNthetic cOmmunity desigN via approxIMation Ben Coltmann |
| Nr 9. WP 5.1. Wastewater Microbiomes: A Novel Lens on Public Health Emily Grubb, Berna De Vries, Gergely Ódor, Julia Vierheilig and Andreas Bergthaler |
| Nr 10. WP 5.2. Therapeutic microbiome modulation in inflammatory bowel disease Gregor Gorkiewicz |
| Nr 11. WP 5.3. Investigating interdomain signals and modulators David Szamosvari, Felix Groessing, Clarissa Campbell, Thomas Böttcher |
| Nr 12. WP 6.1. Wheat nitrogen nutrition mediated by rhizosphere microbiota Aline Ballot, Carolin Bilz |
| Nr 13. WP 6.2. Microbial Drivers of Silicate Weathering and MAOM Degradation: Who Are They and How Do They Do It? Kristina Vukovic, Jiahui Wu, Petra Pjevac, Stephan Krämer |
| Nr 14. WP 6.3. Sulfonolipid biosynthesis and degradation in soil bacteria Clara Priemer, Tomohisa Sebastian Tanabe, Theresa Villunger, Lea Arneth, Nick Ahrends, Julia Krasenbrink, Guoqing Guan, Marvin Vogelgesang, Dávid Szamosvári, Thomas Böttcher, Wolfgang Wanek, Alexander Loy |
| Nr 15. WP 7.1. Microbial growth in progress: conceptual and experimental framework Yujia Luo, Edo Danilyan |
| Nr 16. WP 7.3. Exploring microbial adaptations to seasonal anoxia in the coastal Baltic Sea Kira Lange, Travis B. Meador, Jay Osvatic, Hermann W. Bange, and Barbara Bayer |
| Nr 17. MF 2. Exploratory Workflows for Metaproteomics Data Evaluation Without Matching Genomes or Clear Species Identity Laura Liesinger |
| Nr 18. MF 3+4. Deciphering catabolic metabolic heterogeneity in comammox bacteria with spatial transcriptomics Anton Strunov, Nicole Geerlings, Stefan Thiele, Michael Wagner, Holger Daims |
| Nr 19, MF 5. Linking stable isotope and high-resolution mass spectrometry to decipher soil lipid, sulfur, and nitrogen dynamics Rahul Samrat |
| Nr 20. MF 5. Compact Trace Gas Sensing by Balanced-Detection Interferometric Cavity-Assisted Photothermal Spectroscopy (ICAPS) Johannes P. Waclawek, Harald Moser, and Bernhard Lendl |
| Nr 21. MF 6. Nanoscale chemical imaging of extracellular vesicles Georg Ramer, Nikolaus Hondl, Lena Neubauer, Julia Kuligowski, Eva Sevcsik, Margaux Petay, Bernhard Lendl |
| Nr 22. MF 6. Transmission Optical Photothermal Imaging for Label-Free Chemical Imaging Georg Ramer, Elisabeth Holub, Sebastian Wöhrer, Bernhard Lendl |
| Nr 23. MF 7. Current Progresses in Microfluidic and Organ-on-a-Chip Development Florian Selinger, Edo Danilyan, Helena Thumfart, Silvia Schobesberger, Martin Frauenlob, Martin Polz und Peter Ertl |
| Nr 24. MF 7. Modeling the Junction Between the Intestinal Epithelium and Enteric Neurons Using a Microphysiological System Alexandra Lorenz, Inês Araújo Deus, Peter Ertl, Catarina Custodio, Silvia Schobesberger, Peter Ertl, Mano João und Martin Frauenlob |
| Nr 25. MF8. Structure of Ammonia Monooxygenase from the Comammox Organism Nitrospira Inopinata Jakob Andersson |
| Nr 26. MF8. Beyond the Canonical NXR: Functional and Structural analysis of Nitrospira inopinata Nitrite Oxidoreductase (NXR) Georg Mlynek, Shankar Kundapura, Katharina Kitzinger, Petra Pjevac, Daan Speth, Michael Wagner, Holger Daims, Kristina Djinovic-Carugo |
| Nr 27. MF 9. Plant-derived anti-HER2 antibody suppresses Trastuzumab-resistant breast cancer with enhanced nanoscale binding Yoo Jin Oh |
| Nr 28. Synthesis. Learning the Effects of Community Composition on Strain Gene Content Thomas Gaehtgens |
| Nr 29. Synthesis. Ecology of Extracellular Decomposition Rahul Mallikarjun |
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