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Kathi Kitzinger
@kathikitzinger.bsky.social
environmental microbiologist fascinated by the unseen majority | scientist at division of microbial ecology, university of vienna
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My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨Exciting 🧪👩‍🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk

Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Still 10 days left to apply! 🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬
Come work with my team in beautiful Vienna!
🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
RECLESS_Postdoc_single_cell_UniVie.pdf
u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.
ucloud.univie.ac.at
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Still 10 days left to apply! 🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬
Come work with my team in beautiful Vienna!
🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
RECLESS_TA_molecular_UniVie.pdf
u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.
ucloud.univie.ac.at
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
New preprint from our team! Experimental evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea in sponges use branched chain amino acids as substrates - possibly also key for host interaction

#Nitrification
#MicroSky 🧪 #ArchaeaSky
@bglasl.bsky.social @kathikitzinger.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean? A new study in @nature.com, led by @barbarabayer.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shows that ammonia‐oxidizing microbes contribute much less to dark carbon fixation than previously thought – leaving room for unknown players.
Read more: 🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean?
A new study led by Barbara Bayer (CeMESS, University of Vienna) discovered that ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms contribute much less to carbon fixation in the ocean than previously assumed. The study...
dome.univie.ac.at
September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Surprising finding:

#Nitrobacter can dynamically modulate nitrite affinity in response to both nitrite concentration and pH, conferring a flexible adaptation strategy

Great collaboration with the Sung-Keun Rhee lab

#MicroSky 🧪 #nitrification #kinetics

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Kinetic Plasticity of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria Containing Cytoplasmic Nitrite Oxidoreductase
Nitrite oxidation, the second step of nitrification, is essential to the global nitrogen cycle. Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) are classified into two groups based on the cellular localization of th...
www.biorxiv.org
August 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
RECLESS_TA_molecular_UniVie.pdf
u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.
ucloud.univie.ac.at
August 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
RECLESS_Postdoc_single_cell_UniVie.pdf
u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.
ucloud.univie.ac.at
August 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Great podcast recording with Nicole Geerlings for #MattersMicrobial about weird and wonderful cable bacteria! I truly enjoyed the session. Releasing next week. @nmjgeerlings.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
We're hiring! Join CeMESS @univie.ac.at as a DATA STEWARD and help shape the future of research data management. Collaborate with top researchers and drive innovation in Open Science.

Apply now! 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/career-educa...
Data Steward
The University of Vienna plans to expand the existing Research Data Management services by offering discipline-specific support through a new Data Stewardship program tailored to meet the discipline-s...
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k
We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals
Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound conseque...
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Open postdoc position combining all the good things: #Ocean, #Nitrogen-cycling, #OxygenMinimumZones, #Biogeochemistry🧪🌊🔬

Check out this postdoc opening with my great colleague and friend #LauraBristow at #Uni #Gothenburg - part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in Oxygen-Depleted Waters
The Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, (https://www.gu.se/en/marina-vetenskaper The Department of Marine Sciences conducts
web103.reachmee.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Big congratulations to Dagmar Woebken (@dagmarwoebken.bsky.social) who has been awarded an #ERC Advanced Grant for her project "WinMicAct" to explore how desert microbes thrive on non-rainwater.

🔗 More info: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Dagmar Woebken
CeMESS Assoc Prof. Dagmar Woebken has secured a highly competitive ERC Advanced Grant for her project 'Windows of microbial activity in deserts afforded by non-rain water (WinMicAct)'.
cemess.univie.ac.at
June 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
#ASTRA-Preise zum ersten Mal vergeben: Der FWF vergibt 22 Millionen Euro für aufstrebende Spitzenforscher:innen. 🌟
Die neuen Preise ermöglichen 18 fortgeschrittenen Postdocs den Sprung an die Spitze ihres Forschungsfelds. Wir gratulieren herzlich! 👏

www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
FWF-ASTRA-Preise: 22 Millionen Euro für aufstrebende Spitzenforscher:innen
Hochtalentierte Forschende im internationalen Wettbewerb halten und gewinnen: Die neuen FWF-ASTRA-Preise mit einem Fördervolumen von je rund einer Million Euro ermöglichen fortgeschrittenen Postdocs d...
www.fwf.ac.at
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
A short preprint describing the GlobDB is now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11896

If you find the resource useful, please also check globdb.org for info on how to cite the underlying resources and tools.
I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org.

The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.
home | GlobDB
globdb.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Slowly it's sinking in 😍
Very excited about my new role as #Assistant #Professor @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social! 🦠👩‍🎓🔬

It's great to be part of this fantastic team of friends and colleagues!

🧪 #Microsky
So happy to read these @cemess.bsky.social news. Our centre at @univie.ac.at is really well positioned for future developments

@kathikitzinger.bsky.social
#MichaelZumstein

🧪 #Microsky
June 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Exciting news #1! Our CoE Deputy Director @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at received an ERC Advanced Grant to study Methanobrevibacter – a tiny archaeon with a huge impact on gut health and methane emissions. #Archaeasky #Microsky #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu @fwf-at.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Exciting news #2! CoE Key Researcher Dagmar Woebken (@cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at) receives an ERC Advanced Grant to explore how desert microbes thrive on non-rainwater (dew, water vapor).
#Microsky #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu @fwf-at.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It's not too late to present your #science at #European #N-Cycle #Conference: Abstract submission extended until July 1st! 😍🦠👩‍🎓
Join #European #N-cycle #Conference in beautiful Vienna in September 8-11 👩‍🎓🦠

Awesome speakers:
Laura Bristow
Jan Willem Erisman
Jörg Hartig
Jan Jansa
Sofia Pauleta
Sung-Keun Rhee
Leonid Sazanov
Barth Smets
Kendra Turk-Kubo
Tristan Wagner

Register till June 15: univie.eventsair.com/enc2025
June 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
Out now in its final peer-reviewed form @asm.org's Journal of Virology!

doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

@dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted by Kathi Kitzinger
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!
Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025
wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist
jobs.univie.ac.at
June 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM