📢 Vetmed Campus Open Day | Come along and experience animal research up close! 🐾 ----- 📅 Saturday, 27 September 2025 | 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 📍 Vetmeduni Campus, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna 🌞 Admission free!

At our final #WilhelminenberSeminarTalk last semester, we got a history lessen by our own Elmira Mohandesan, who spoke about the impact of the Roman conquest of the northern Alpine foreland in 15 BCE on local horse populations! 🐴 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

📢Congratulations to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for the publication of her first PhD thesis chapter, "Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing"! 👏🥳🐥 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @fusanilab.bsky.social 📸: Wikipedia

Yesterday on "Wien heute" (ORF), our pathologist Anna-Kübber Heiss and Angelika Auer from Vetmeduni spoke about the current rising infections of myxomatosis in rabbits and hares. Watch it here: on.orf.at/video/142847... (in German)

Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

We had the pleasure of having Sylvain Giroud as a speaker for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk and he gave us insights into early-life metabolic flexibility and its lifelong and intergenerational effects in a small hibernator 🐭 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Thank you to Kang Nian Yap who spoke about an integrative approach to studying lifehistory trade-offs: The roles of endoplasmic reticulum physiology, bioenergetics, and oxidative stress at his #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk🗣️ @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Tomorrow is dormouse day 🐹 Here at the FIWI, we are not only researching its hibernation, but also its adaptability and way of life 🔍 Take a closer look at this nocturnal animal: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-...

🔔NEW PAPER by the @pennzalalab.bsky.social! "Pre- and post-copulatory traits are affected by experimental inbreeding, but they are not correlated" out now in BMC Biology🐭 pbs.twimg.com/media/GtIyYn... 📸: Wikipedia

Last week, @biobiiana.bsky.social was one of the plenary speakers at the European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (#EMPSEB30) in Milovy (Czech Republic), a conference for PhD students organised by PhD students! 🐸

Hathaipat Rattanathanya, Valentina Weiland, and Szilvia Kalogeropoulu from the FIWI Wildlife Medicine Group presented their research at the ZWHC in Györ, covering oxygen delivery in anaesthetized ungulates, Asiatic black bear anaesthesia, and post-euthanasia EEG studies in lions.

Aletta Bonn held a wonderful online #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about biodiversity: "Biodiversity is good for you! Street trees, urban nature, citizen science, and health", convincing us (even more!) that it is crucially important and beneficial for us all! 🌲🐸 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We had a great AVA Spring Meeting, read more about it here: vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-... Thank you to all the supporters! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Another enjoyable and informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk, this time by Wibke Peters: "Informing wildlife management through research on the spatial ecology of ungulates" - thank you for sharing your research with us! 📊 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We very much enjoyed the #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Thomas Müller - he spoke about "Animal movement in the Anthropocene", specifically about the benefits of monitoring animal movement and the difficulties of interpreting the collected data. 🐾

🔥Thrilled to share our OA review "Life at new extremes: Integrating stress physiology and the bio‐exposome in the Anthropocene"✨ with D Costantini, M Sebastiano, & S Messina #ecophysiology #wildlife nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fiwivienna.bsky.social #VetmeduniVienna #Unitus

We had a great time with Jéremy Lemaire, who gave a wonderful and entertaining #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about mercury monitoring and it's impacts in Caimans 🐊 💧🧪 @univie.ac.at @fiwivienna.bsky.social

Save the date! Next month, the #BiosphärenparkWienerwald will be hosting the #BiosphärenparkCup & @biobiiana.bsky.social will be there with a stand on #firesalamanders 🟡🦎⚫️ Join us! @carodittrich.bsky.social 📆 24.05 📌Kartäuserplatz 2, 3001 Mauerbach ⏰ 11-16:30 More info 👉 bpww.at/de/veranstal...

We were very happy to welcome Martin Kuhlwilm for a #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk at the beginning of April. He spoke about "Great ape genome diversity and museomics" 🦧🧬 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Don't miss this exciting workshop on "Honest signalling and communication: from microbes to humans", next week in Leiden. #SarahZala is one of the scientific organizers, and we are looking forward to this event!🗣️🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social @lorentzcenter.bsky.social @pennzalalab.bsky.social

#FriederikePohlin represented the FIWI at the XIII International Conference of FAUNA in Lisbon and gave two great talks about the complexity of rhino translocations and about wildlife anaesthesia monitoring. @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Another great #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk was given by Julia Walochnik about medical parasitology🔬, specifically about emerging parasitic infections and current research projects - thank you so much for sharing your reasearch with us! 🥼🧪 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

In March Peter Adamík visited us and shared his informative #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk with us. He spoke about cavity-nesting birds and dormice and gave an overview of half a century of interactions from a nest box population! 🐭🌲 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Many thanks to @alicebalard.bsky.social who opened our #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk series for the summer semester 2025 with a great talk about the role of methylation in adaptive response to environmental pressures. @klivvvienna.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Come and join us! 🤝🌳

What a great weekend at the #WienerForschungsfest! 100s of visitors learned about how the spots of fire salamanders work as fingerprints, which we can use to count them in the wild (even faster now, with the help of AI!) ⚫️🟡🦎🟡⚫️ @klivvvienna.bsky.social MASSIVE thanks to our wonderful helpers! 🙏🏼

Tomorrow is the first #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, with @alicebalard.bsky.social from UCL @ucl.ac.uk who will be talking about the role of methylation in adaptive response to environmental pressures. Join us! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Don't miss out on this free webinar about the use of Medetomidine in wildlife immobilisations, held by #JohannaPainerGigler, on the 5th of March, at 6pm (7pm UTC+2)! You can join via this link: wildpharmwebinars.co.za (and the webinar will be recorded and available afterwards)

You can still apply and work on your Master-Thesis at the FIWI, working with edible dormice 🐭 and looking at the effects of nest box density on the population.🌳 Don't miss this opportunity and apply now: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

"A single gene orchestrates androgen variation underlying male mating morphs in ruffs" New paper featuring @fusanilab.bsky.social out now in @science.org ! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... www.science.org/doi/full/10....

We concluded our #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalks for the semester with Pablo Salmón @pablosalmon.bsky.social from "Vogelwarte Helgoland" @ifv-whv.bsky.social who showed us how we can measure mitochondrial function and why that's important!🐦‍⬛ @klivvvienna.bsky.social

📢New paper by #SusanaFerreira! Read all about the study that looked at the way gut microbiome and host animals interact: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/research-... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Last week Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social gave an insightful #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk about the benefits and challenges of mammal monitoring by citizens! 🦊🎥Thank you for your visit! @klivvvienna.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social

This January #GabrielleStalder became an Associate Editor at the Journal of Conservation Physiology!✍️🥳

Join us for the final #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk this semester, online or in person!🎤💻 Our guest is Pablo Salmón @pablosalmon.bsky.social from the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social! Details: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/departmen... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

We are delighted that @davinahill.bsky.social (left) followed the invitation of @valeriamarasco.bsky.social and visited the FIWI! Davina's #WilhelminebergSeminarTalk focused on behavioural and physiological responses to social and climatic stress in small mammals. @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow, in person at the FIWI, 1160 Wien or online! --> www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/departmen... @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Looking for a Master Thesis? We have an opportunity at the FIWI, working with edible dormice 🐭 and looking at the effects of nest box density on the population. Find all the details and apply here: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/... @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Many thanks to #BerdLepenies from LMU München, who visited us for a #WilhelimenbergSeminarTalk about immunology, focusing on C-type lectin receptors and answered all of our questions patiently! @klivvvienna.bsky.social

🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭

Last week we enjoyed a captivating and inspiring #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Tyler Stevenson @stevensonlab.bsky.social about the molecular mechanisms behind seasonal adaptations in Djungarian hamsters (and more!)🐹 @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

📢New paper by #SusanaFerreira & Co looking at (and distinguishing between) both the genetic and environmental effects shaping the intestinal microbial communities (bacteria, fungi, and parasites) of house mice.🐭 @rsocpublishing.bsky.social @VetmeduniVienna royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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