Diethard Mattanovich
@dmattanovich.bsky.social
Prof. of Microbial Biotechnology at BOKU University Vienna, Austria
metabolic engineering • synthetic biology • C1 biotechnology • yeast • home baking • art & science
metabolic engineering • synthetic biology • C1 biotechnology • yeast • home baking • art & science
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The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Microbiologists, take a bit of your time to advise FEMS online!
Learned societies are the backbone of science - let's support them (and let them support us)
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Final 48 Hours!
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has already completed the FEMS survey. Your input is shaping the future of microbiology.
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A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has already completed the FEMS survey. Your input is shaping the future of microbiology.
Have not finished yet? Please take a few more minutes to complete it. Every completed response is vital.
If you haven't started, click here: buff.ly/ZghfWnM
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Microbiologists, take a bit of your time to advise FEMS online!
Learned societies are the backbone of science - let's support them (and let them support us)
Learned societies are the backbone of science - let's support them (and let them support us)
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Every bit of feedback makes a difference. By taking part, you will help identify the priorities and challenges facing microbiologists across Europe and ensure that your perspective is represented at the European level.
Don't wait, complete the survey now. buff.ly/ZghfWnM
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
3 DAYS TO GO⏳
Every bit of feedback makes a difference. By taking part, you will help identify the priorities and challenges facing microbiologists across Europe and ensure that your perspective is represented at the European level.
Don't wait, complete the survey now. buff.ly/ZghfWnM
Every bit of feedback makes a difference. By taking part, you will help identify the priorities and challenges facing microbiologists across Europe and ensure that your perspective is represented at the European level.
Don't wait, complete the survey now. buff.ly/ZghfWnM
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📣 Open position:
We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️, who will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the #SILVA taxonomy🌳.
Read and share!
👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...
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We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️, who will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the #SILVA taxonomy🌳.
Read and share!
👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...
🧪🦠🌱🦋💽
November 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
You can meet me there tomorrow!
🧫🎨 What happens when a microbiologist opens his lab to artists?
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You can meet me there tomorrow!
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🧫🎨 What happens when a microbiologist opens his lab to artists?
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🧫🎨 What happens when a microbiologist opens his lab to artists?
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Prof. @dmattanovich.bsky.social Diethard Mattanovich is a leading researcher in microbial biotechnology he opened his lab to artists to meet science. 🧫🎨
#ArtScience #iGEM2025 #SynBio @bokuvienna.bsky.social
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Great conference coming up... Please share!
magic-molfun.dtu.dk/np21c-confer...
Application deadline 31.10.2024
magic-molfun.dtu.dk/np21c-confer...
Application deadline 31.10.2024
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Great conference coming up... Please share!
magic-molfun.dtu.dk/np21c-confer...
Application deadline 31.10.2024
magic-molfun.dtu.dk/np21c-confer...
Application deadline 31.10.2024
Meet you next week in Paris! @igemhq.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Meet you next week in Paris! @igemhq.bsky.social
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Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
8 PhD projects announced in a joint programme of BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social TU Vienna @tuwien.at University Vienna @univie.ac.at on Green Chemistry!
Check details via the link ⬇️
The first 2 projects will be realised in my lab at BOKU.
www.tuwien.at/greenchem/en...
Check details via the link ⬇️
The first 2 projects will be realised in my lab at BOKU.
www.tuwien.at/greenchem/en...
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
8 PhD projects announced in a joint programme of BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social TU Vienna @tuwien.at University Vienna @univie.ac.at on Green Chemistry!
Check details via the link ⬇️
The first 2 projects will be realised in my lab at BOKU.
www.tuwien.at/greenchem/en...
Check details via the link ⬇️
The first 2 projects will be realised in my lab at BOKU.
www.tuwien.at/greenchem/en...
🚂 Save the night trains Paris-Berlin and Paris-Vienna!
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🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne
Signez la pétition maintenant !
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October 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🚂 Save the night trains Paris-Berlin and Paris-Vienna!
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We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
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September 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
New paper out:
Based on our autotrophic yeast, we demonstrate the production of > 10 g/L itaconic acid directly from CO2. Great work by Özge Ata and her team, achieved by interlinked strain and process design.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#acib
Based on our autotrophic yeast, we demonstrate the production of > 10 g/L itaconic acid directly from CO2. Great work by Özge Ata and her team, achieved by interlinked strain and process design.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#acib
September 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
New paper out:
Based on our autotrophic yeast, we demonstrate the production of > 10 g/L itaconic acid directly from CO2. Great work by Özge Ata and her team, achieved by interlinked strain and process design.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#acib
Based on our autotrophic yeast, we demonstrate the production of > 10 g/L itaconic acid directly from CO2. Great work by Özge Ata and her team, achieved by interlinked strain and process design.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
#acib
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REMINDER: There is only one week left to submit abstracts for our upcoming special issue on the three #yeast conferences of 2025. The deadline is on Tuesday 30th September. Hurry up and don't miss this opportunity!!!
More information and instructions on how to submit are in the post below 👇
More information and instructions on how to submit are in the post below 👇
We are very happy to announce that #Yeast is launching a new special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025: #ICYGMB32, #pombe2025 and #ISSY38. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2025. Hurry up!!!
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Yeast Call for Papers: International Yeasts Meetings of 2025
Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
REMINDER: There is only one week left to submit abstracts for our upcoming special issue on the three #yeast conferences of 2025. The deadline is on Tuesday 30th September. Hurry up and don't miss this opportunity!!!
More information and instructions on how to submit are in the post below 👇
More information and instructions on how to submit are in the post below 👇
Ok, ja gibt es und die tatsächliche Auswahl ist viel besser!
Mein favorite ist aber der Physikpreis.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mein favorite ist aber der Physikpreis.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Ok, ja gibt es und die tatsächliche Auswahl ist viel besser!
Mein favorite ist aber der Physikpreis.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mein favorite ist aber der Physikpreis.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And now for something completely different
September 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
And now for something completely different
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Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!
Location: DTU Biosustain
🦠🧬🔬
Starting in 01/2026!
Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
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Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!
Location: DTU Biosustain
🦠🧬🔬
Starting in 01/2026!
Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Please repost!
Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!
Location: DTU Biosustain
🦠🧬🔬
Starting in 01/2026!
Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism!
Location: DTU Biosustain
🦠🧬🔬
Starting in 01/2026!
Fell free to reach out if you have questions!
efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Für unsere Stabsstelle am Department für Naturwissenschaften und nachhaltige Ressourcen suchen wir ein*e Office Manager*in im Bereich Forschung. Deadline am 18.9.! Join a great team @bokuvienna.bsky.social
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
September 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Für unsere Stabsstelle am Department für Naturwissenschaften und nachhaltige Ressourcen suchen wir ein*e Office Manager*in im Bereich Forschung. Deadline am 18.9.! Join a great team @bokuvienna.bsky.social
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
This made me laugh so hard
I want to start a new global movement:
Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.
Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.
September 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This made me laugh so hard
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We are very happy to announce that #Yeast is launching a new special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025: #ICYGMB32, #pombe2025 and #ISSY38. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2025. Hurry up!!!
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Yeast Call for Papers: International Yeasts Meetings of 2025
Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We are very happy to announce that #Yeast is launching a new special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025: #ICYGMB32, #pombe2025 and #ISSY38. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2025. Hurry up!!!
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
More info in the thread below.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
That's content I am here for
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
That's content I am here for
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Prioritising Microbiology in Secondary Education Addresses Emerging Scientific-Social-Educational Challenges and Competency Needs
#MicrobialBiotech by Lara Amorim, Conceição Santos, and Kenneth Timmis
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MicrobialBiotech by Lara Amorim, Conceição Santos, and Kenneth Timmis
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Prioritising Microbiology in Secondary Education Addresses Emerging Scientific‐Social‐Educational Challenges and Competency Needs
This work highlights how microbiology education can empower secondary school students with critical and systems thinking, fostering STEM literacy, overcoming barriers and preparing informed, responsi...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Prioritising Microbiology in Secondary Education Addresses Emerging Scientific-Social-Educational Challenges and Competency Needs
#MicrobialBiotech by Lara Amorim, Conceição Santos, and Kenneth Timmis
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#MicrobialBiotech by Lara Amorim, Conceição Santos, and Kenneth Timmis
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.
"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.
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BOKU University in Vienna is recruiting a full professor for Biochemistry! Check out the description below, apply and join us in beautiful Vienna.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
🧪🧪🧪
short.boku.ac.at/53e6g6
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
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short.boku.ac.at/53e6g6
Biochemie / Biochemistry::BOKU
short.boku.ac.at
August 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
BOKU University in Vienna is recruiting a full professor for Biochemistry! Check out the description below, apply and join us in beautiful Vienna.
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
🧪🧪🧪
short.boku.ac.at/53e6g6
@bokuvienna.bsky.social
🧪🧪🧪
short.boku.ac.at/53e6g6
Das ist für mich der erste und wichtigste Grund auf allen Geräten die Autokorrektur auszuschalten
Dem Menschen, der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass Microsoft Word "DNA" automatisch auf "DANN" ausbessert, wünsche ich von Herzen, dass alle seine fallengelassenen Marmeladebrote mit der bestrichenen Seite nach unten auf dem Boden aufkommen.
August 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Das ist für mich der erste und wichtigste Grund auf allen Geräten die Autokorrektur auszuschalten
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An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !
Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭
Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social
Please PM if you got questions.
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social
Please PM if you got questions.
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
Professorship (W2-level) in “Molecular Crop Improvement”
stellen.uni-muenster.de
August 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !