
OEGMBT Annual Meeting
Biomolecules in/for the 21st century
From September 21-23 a virtual meeting room will stage the Kick off event. Following the Kick off event, a virtual meeting room will open its’ doors for bi-weekly Life Science Tuesdays from Oct 2020 - Mar 2021.
Registration and abstract submission is open - more: https://oegmbt.at/jahrestagung

International Microorganism Day
Publication in Nature Biotech
The industrial yeast Pichia pastoris is converted from a heterotroph into an autotroph capable of growth on CO2. (2019) Gaßler, T., Sauer M., Gasser B., Egermeier M., Troyer Ch., Causon T., Hann St., Mattanovich D., Steiger M. Nature Biotechnology doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0363-0
New Publication
A time travel story: metagenomic analyses decipher the unknown geographical shift and the storage history of possibly smuggled antique marble statues. (2019), Pinar, G; Poyntner, C; Tafer, H; Sterflinger, K. Annals of Microbiology Vol 69, p 1001-1021. doi.org/10.1007/s13213-019-1446-3
BOKU Invention Award 2019 for Brigitte Gasser, Diethard Mattanovich, Michael Sauer and Thomas Gaßler


The secretome of Pichia pastoris in fed-batch cultivations is largely independent of the carbon source but changes quantitatively over cultivation time.

Diethard Mattanovich re-elected Vice-President of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB).

Transforming CO2 into animal feed
Wissenschaft trifft Kunst: BOKU-Projekt bei der diesjährigen Ars Electronica
Fermenting Futures ist ein Kunst- und Wissenschaftsprojekt, das vom Institut für Mikrobiologie und Mikrobielle Biotechnologie an BOKU entwickelt und in Zusammenarbeit mit dem acib und der Abteilung Medientheorie der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien durchgeführt wird. >mehr darüber
What’s the yeast doing inside my bread?

Soon on BBC News - Crowd Science
If you’re one of the millions of people who used lockdown to try something new like baking sourdough bread, you may well be wondering what’s happening chemically inside your loaf, especially if the end result keeps changing.
A BBC News Podcast about baking and yeast with Prof. Diethard Mattanovich as interview partner. - available from Aug 21, 23:32 (UTC+2)
Latest Publication
Sonakshi De, Corinna Rebnegger, Josef Moser, Nadine Tatto, Alexandra B Graf, Diethard Mattanovich, Brigitte Gasser
FEMS Yeast Res. 2020 Aug; 20(5): foaa044. Published online 2020 Aug 7. doi: 10.1093/femsyr/foaa044 PMCID: PMC7419694

BOKU Story with Katja Sterflinger-Gleixner
Subcellular Proteome Atlas
A subcellular proteome atlas of the yeast Komagataella phaffii. (2020) Valli M, Grillitsch K, Grünwald-Gruber C, Tatto NE, Hrobath B, Klug L, Ivashov V, Hauzmayer S, Koller M, Tir N, Leisch F, Gasser B, Graf AB, Altmann F, Daum G, Mattanovich D. FEMS Yeast Res. 2020 Feb 1;20(1). pii: foaa001. doi: 10.1093/femsyr/foaa001.

Back to the Salt Mines: Genome and Transcriptome Comparisons of the Halophilic Fungus Aspergillus salisburgensis and Its Halotolerant Relative Aspergillus sclerotialis. (2019) Tafer H., Poyntner C, Lopandic K., Sterflinger K., and Piñar G. Genes (Basel). May; 10(5): 381. doi: 10.3390/genes10050381

GOLD medal for iGEM Vienna Team @Giant Jamboree 2019 in Boston

Spotlight on biodiversity of microbial cell factories for glycerol conversion.

Recombinant Protein Production in Yeast
Genschalter in Hefe entdeckt


Join the Bad Bugs Book Club
on the occasion of World Antimicrobioal Awareness Week 2020
New Publication
Shotgun proteomics reveals putative polyesterases in the secretome of the rock-inhabiting fungus Knufia chersonesos. (2020) Tesei, D; Quartinello, F; Guebitz, GM; Ribitsch, D; Nöbauer, K; Razzazi-Fazeli, E; Sterflinger, K. Sci Rep. 2020; 10: 9770. Published online 2020 Jun 17. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66256-7

ICY15 meets ICYGMB 30 - save the date - AUG 22-26, 2021
New Publication

Totaro, D; Rothbauer, M; Steiger, MG; Mayr, T; Wang, HY; Lin,YS; Sauer, M; Altvater, M; Ertl, P; Mattanovich, D;Biotechnol Bioeng. 2020 Jul; 117(7): 2046–2057. Published online 2020 Apr 6. doi: 10.1002/bit.27338

Rapid diagnosis of biological colonization in cultural artefacts using the MinION nanopore sequencing technology. (2020) Pinar, G; Poyntner, C; Lopandic, K; Taferl, H; Sterflinger, K. doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2020.104908
BOKU Inventor 2019


Rudolf Sallinger Special Award for CarboFeed

Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biotechnology of Glycerol

Christian Doppler Laboratory for Growth-Decoupled Protein Production in Yeast
Nature Com. Publication
