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Julia Vierheilig
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Mol. Microbiol. in Sanitary Engineer. 🚽💩🦠🧬🔬 #tenuretrack @IWR_water @tuvienna & @ICCwaterhealth 🇦🇹; Alumna @DOME_Vienna & @KLKrems
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Happy to see our new paper out in #WaterResearch! A pleasure 2contribute2 this collaborative effort led by Matthew Thornton & fantastic team at @bergthalerlab.bsky.social.

It highlights how much the choice of virus enrichment #method shapes our view of the #wastewater #virome.

#WBE #PublicHealth
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A #podcast tip on Ö1 (in German):

Norbert Kreuzinger discusses the presence of #pharmaceutical residues in #water systems, their impact on #aquatic #organisms, and what we still largely don't know about the 'cocktail effects' of their mixture in the environment.

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oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Arzneimittelrückstände im Wasser | DO | 25 09 2025 | 19:05
Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.
oe1.orf.at
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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With the start of the academic winter term, we are pleased to announce the beginning of our new #waterquality management #seminar #series.
The series is part of the civil and environmental engineering curriculum, but it is #open to #everyone as a #forum for exchange and discussion.

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October 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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New insights into #wastewater #surveillance from a 1-year survey of the untreated influent at the Bucharest WWTP and an infectious diseases hospital.

Check out the full details in the latest publication by Elena Radu et al.:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Monitoring SARS‐CoV‐2 Dissemination in Wastewater and Virus Isolation in Cell Cultures: An Integrated Approach for Pathogen Detection and Surveillance
Our study presents wastewater (WW) monitoring data, focusing on determining the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 in the collected samples. Additionally, a panel of different viruses has been tested in the W...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🚨NEW COLLECTION LAUNCH🚨

I'm editing a new collection in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance:

"Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Environmental AMR"

Calling for submissions on environmental HGT, selection, invasion, mutation & more

Open till Apr 26

www.nature.com/collections/...
August 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happy to see our new paper out in #WaterResearch! A pleasure 2contribute2 this collaborative effort led by Matthew Thornton & fantastic team at @bergthalerlab.bsky.social.

It highlights how much the choice of virus enrichment #method shapes our view of the #wastewater #virome.

#WBE #PublicHealth
July 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This year, we once again took part at #Kinderuni and introduced the young students to the exciting world of #wastewatertreatment. We enjoyed giving an insight into our daily scientific work and hope to have inspired many children for this topic.

@boehler-s.bsky.social @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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#EU_WISH people participated in the 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference, held in the Netherlands.

Workshops were done, side events held, oral presentations given. Find the full list of our contributions at www.eu-wish.eu/news

Thank you for having us!

#wastewater #episky #science
June 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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As part of the #EU-WISH project, a serious game has been carried out during #WaterMicro2025.
💡 This interactive workshop gathered 50 participants to simulate key decisions in wastewater and environmental surveillance.
#PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #WES #episky #LIST
June 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2. 🦠🧫
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2
academic.oup.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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💧 Wiener #Trinkwasser: Positive Zwischenbilanz ViWa 2020+

Im Frühjahr fand das MidTerm-Symposium der Forschungskooperation #ViWa2020+ statt – mit 130 Stakeholdern aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung & Wasserwirtschaft.

#WienerWasser #Forschung #Wasserqualität @wien.gv.at

📷 © Wiener Wasser/Zinner

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May 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...
www.cell.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Wow

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome
May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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We have a PhD available at our Exeter Cornwall campus in collaboration with the University of Queensland on AMR in agricultural environments tinyurl.com/3m4pkmup the project can be tailored to the student's interests and expertise with an opportunity to spend 6 months in sunny Brisbane!
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!

@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.

There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
April 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe!
🦠😎👍
Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇
2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social
FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025 - FEMS
Menu: Introduction – Applications – Programme This has been the most valuable and enjoyable scientific event I’ve attended so far. The atmosphere was incredible, with inspiring co-directors and mentor...
fems-microbiology.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Meine Forschungsgruppe "Molekulare #Mikrobiologie in der #Siedlungswasserwirtschaft" (@iwr-water.bsky.social,
@tuwien.at) beschäftigt sich mit div. Aspekten der (Ab)wassermikrobiologie - mit dem Ziel aktiv zum Schutz der Gesundheit von Mensch, Tier und Umwelt beizutragen.

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April 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Our dear colleague Norbert Kreuzinger has been honoured w/ the #Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Silbernes #Ehrenzeichen) by Elmar Pichl, Dir. Gen. of #BMBWF.
This highly prestigious national decoration rightly recognises the important & pioneering role...

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March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Happy to share our newest publication on seasonally recurring patterns of #Crenothrix spp. in a Central European alluvial #drinkingwater well, led by Sophia Steinbacher, which is now available as pre-proof in #WaterResearch

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Seasonally recurring patterns of dominant Crenothrix spp. in a Central European alluvial drinking water well: significance and potential indicator role
Iron and manganese (Fe/Mn) often lead to aesthetic quality issues in water supply. Strong and problematic black-brown particle formation was persisten…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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We are tracking mutations of #RSV in #wastewater: genspectrum.org/swiss-wastew.... Why this matters and why you should re-tweet for visibility (a 🧵).
Swiss wastewater - RSV
GenSpectrum is an interactive dashboard to query and analyze pathogen sequences, currently available for Influenza H5N1, RSV, SARS-CoV-2 and the West Nile virus.
genspectrum.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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In case you missed it. My colleague sneaked out a
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
just before Christmas with an insane amount of HQMAGs from soil using a looooot of
@nanoporetech.com
data. Data should be public already. Have fun 🎉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recovery of highly contiguous genomes from complex terrestrial habitats reveals over 15,000 novel prokaryotic species and expands characterization of soil and sediment microbial communities
Genomes are fundamental to understanding microbial ecology and evolution. The emergence of high-throughput, long-read DNA sequencing has enabled recovery of microbial genomes from environmental sample...
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We are thrilled by the amount of abstract submissions we have received for FEMS MICRO Milan 2025.

To ensure everyone has a fair chance to participate, FEMS has decided to extend the deadline to 31 January.

Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation: buff.ly/40xqQ6T
January 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy to see our viewpoint article on enhancing the #policy relevance of #AMR data from #WBS published, shaped by great discussions at #EDAR7 with some of the leading experts in environmental AMR research. Big shout-out to Sheena Conforti & Amy Pruden for their outstanding lead! #microsky
Our new Viewpoint article led by Sheena Conforti & Amy Pruden originating from the #EDAR7 conference is now out in Environmental Science & Technology (@acs.org)

"Strengthening Policy Relevance of Wastewater-Based Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance"

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#AMR
January 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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A large group of leading international microbiologists headed by Ken Timmis has just published a report/manifesto on how microorganism can be our best allies for building a better human future—a ray of hope precisely these days 👏 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering
Click on the article title to read more.
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Come and join our team at @iwr-water.bsky.social at #TUWIEN!
🚀 #PhD position alert!
We're looking for a new project assistant in the Surface #WaterQuality & #RiverBasinManagement group.

Application possible until 15.02.2025! 📬

#job #vacancy #chemicals #environmentalfate #emissions #pfas #micropollutants #science #modelling

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January 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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22. September 2025

Save the date for the 8th AMICI Symposium at the BOKU in Vienna, Austria🇦🇹

#microbiome #amici8 #microsky #microbiomesky 🧫🧪🧬🔬
December 13, 2024 at 5:55 PM