Julia Vierheilig
@4heilig.bsky.social
Mol. Microbiol. in Sanitary Engineer. 🚽💩🦠🧬🔬 #tenuretrack @IWR_water @tuvienna & @ICCwaterhealth 🇦🇹; Alumna @DOME_Vienna & @KLKrems
🌿 Neue Ausschreibung des Österreichischen Biodiversitätsfonds gestartet! 5 Millionen Euro stehen für Projekte bereit, die Österreichs Natur stärken und wertvolle Lebensräume wiederherstellen. 📅 Einreichfrist: 15. September 2026 ℹ️ Alle Informationen zur Einreichung: biodiversitätsfonds.at
🌍The Call for Abstracts to #DIPCON conference is now OPEN 🌍 23rd #IWA International Conference on #DiffusePollution and #Eutrophication. 📍 #Vienna, Austria | 📅 24–27 November 2026 👉 iwadipcon2026.com #IWADIPCON2026 #WaterQuality #CallForAbstracts #TUWien 1/3
Super happy to see this piece finally out! 🎉 #ProudPI moment to share this publication as part of Gabriela Eder's PhD—very well done! It’s been a real pleasure working with her & all coauthors on this work. #WastewaterSurveillance #WES #WBE #PublicHealth #AircraftWastewater #ESTWater
TU Wien Water Quality Management@iwr-water.bsky.social · 6mo ago✈️🧪 We’re pleased to share our latest publication advancing #AircraftWastewater surveillance led by Gabriela Eder & @4heilig.bsky.social! 📄 #OpenAccess in ACS #ESTWater: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #WastewaterBasedEpidemiology #WBE #WES #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance @pubs.acs.org 1/7
If you're looking for a compact overview of the state of knowledge and legal framework regarding #PFAS aquatic #pollution in German, check out the new ÖWAV expert paper “PFAS in the Aquatic #Environment”. www.oewav.at/Publikatione... 1/3
#ProudPI moment! 💙🎬 #FemCEE video feat. Gabriela Eder, PhD student in my group at @iwr-water.bsky.social. Her work on #wastewater #surveillance strengthens #PublicHealth & shows how #WaterQuality research benefits society. Happy to see her scientific achievements gaining well-deserved visibility.
TU Wien Water Quality Management@iwr-water.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur dear colleague Gabriela Eder presents her PhD work on #wastewater #surveillance of #pathogens for #PublicHealth in Take 2 of the #FEMCEE video series „Women Building Sustainability”. 👉 youtu.be/3xwDeCpON1w #TUWien #EnvironmentalEngineering #CivilEngineering @tuwien.at 🎥 Matthias Heisler
Wien wird Standort eines Innovationshubs der neuen europäischen Initiative EIT Water! @bokuvienna.bsky.social & TU Wien bündeln ab 2026 ihre Expertise, um Innovationen im Wassersektor zu stärken, von Wasserknappheit bis Kreislaufwirtschaft. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...
BOKU und TU Wien bauen Innovationshub von „EIT Water“ auf
EIT Water bündelt Forschung, Wirtschaft und Bildung im Kampf gegen Wasserknappheit und ökologische Krisen. Ab 2026 entsteht in Wien, aufgebaut von BOKU und TU Wien, eines von acht zentralen Innovation...
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Have you registered your free place at the IOI ECR conference 2026 yet? It's a conference for early career researchers, designed by early career researchers. At the Saïd Business School on 20 March 2026, sign up for the chance to share your work with other early career researchers working in AMR!
ÖWAV #Februarseminar on 24./25.2.2026 at @tuwien.at! We are delighted to present an engaging programme designed & coordinated by Joerg Krampe on the technical, legal and operational challenges of treating #industrial #wastewater. Full Programme & Registration: www.oewav.at/Kurse-Semina... 1/3
New #EEA briefing published yesterday on European #Antibiotic awareness day: 👉 #AntimicrobialResistance in surface waters - developing #EnvironmentalMonitoring for better #RiskManagement Feeling very honoured to have contributed with my group ... #OneHealth #AMR #EAAD 1/2
European Environment Agency@eea.europa.eu · 9mo ago🆕 #EEABriefing Monitoring of #antimicrobialresistance (AMR) is needed to better protect public health, according to our EEA study out today. It identifies priorities for setting up Europe-wide monitoring of AMR in the aquatic environment. www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...
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. 1/2 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.
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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/... 1/2
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...
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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/...
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
TU Wien Water Quality Management@iwr-water.bsky.social · last yr.Thrilled 2 share that our colleagues @4heilig.bsky.social & Gabriela Eder contributed 2 the recently published #openAccess article led by Matthew Thornton from @bergthalerlab.bsky.social (@meduniwien.ac.at) in #WaterResearch (@iwapublishing.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4
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
#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
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
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
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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 1/6
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...
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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
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
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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
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...
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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. 1/3
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... 1/6
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... 1/2
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…
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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.
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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...
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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
