The Board of Directors of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health’. From left to right: Leonid Sazanov (ISTA), Christina Kaiser (Uni Vienna), Alexander Moschen (JKU Linz), Michael Wagner (Director of Research, Uni Vienna), Bernhard Lendl (TU Wien), Christine Miossl-Eichinger (Deputy Director of Research, Med Uni Graz), Andreas Bergthaler (Med Uni Wien), and Angela Sessitsch (AIT). ©FWF/Daniel Nowotny
Over the next 5 years, scientists from fields as diverse as environmental and medical microbiome research, spectroscopy, gastroenterology, atomic force microscopy, microfluidics, and analytical chemistry will join forces to break down the walls between environmental and medical microbiome research.
We are 30 scientists from eight leading research institutions in Austria, with one joint vision: to unlock the microbiome’s potentials for planetary health. We will use our multi-disciplinary background in environmental, medical, and methodological microbiome research, to move beyond the traditional boundaries and to identify unifying principles of how microbiomes are structured and how they function in complex environments.