About Us

The MetaBac Research Platform is a joint initiative of members of the Faculty of Life Sciences, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science and the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna.

  • We combine metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics to study secondary metabolite synthesis in host-associated and environmental microbiomes
  • We cultivate microorganisms and establish defined communities for secondary metabolite production
  • We identify and characterize produced secondary metabolites

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30.03.2021
 

Stanislava was awarded a highly competive, 2-year Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc fellowship from the European Commission. She also receives funding...
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30.09.2020
 

Using various nutrient media, several hundred bacterial isolates have been recovered from a macerated sample of Cristatella mucedo. Molecular taxonomy...
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20.08.2020
 

Sampling of the bryozoan Cristatella mucedo along with the sediment and water was done by Andrey Ostrovsky, Inmaculada Tocino Márquez and Chris...
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Latest Publications

Secondary Metabolite Production Potential in a Microbiome of the Freshwater Sponge Spongilla lacustris

Graffius S, Garzón JFG, Zehl M, Pjevac P, Kirkegaard R, Flieder M, Loy A, Rattei T, Ostrovsky A, Zotchev SB

2023 - Microbiol Spectr, e0435322 

Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling.

Flieder M, Buongiorno J, Herbold CW, Hausmann B, Rattei T, Lloyd KG, Loy A, Wasmund K

2021 - ISME J, 11: 3159-3180