Mission Statement

The Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology within the Faculty of Life Sciences aims at a mechanistic understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes from organismic to ecosystem scale. Specifically, we study and teach biodiversity, symbioses, metabolic pathways, ecophysiology and ecosystem functioning in light of environmental change.

Units

Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics

Christa Schleper - Archaea Ecology and Evolution
Silvia Bulgheresi - Environmental Cell Biology
Simon Rittmann - Archaea Physiology & Biotechnology
Filipa Sousa - Genome Evolution and Ecology

Limnology

Christian Griebler - Groundwater Ecology
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction
Markus Teige - Plant signalling

Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Steffen Waldherr Computational methods for systems biology

Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography

News

28.02.2020
 

Our paper "Resolving subcellular plant metabolism" recently received an Outstanding Paper Awards by The Plant Journal

26.02.2020
 

Filipa Sousa on the progress potential through interdisciplinary and integrative approaches

21.02.2020
 

Ingeborg Lang is partner in 4-year WWTF project on 3D imaging and modeling of transient stomatal responses in plant leaves under dynamic environments.

13.02.2020
 

Congratulations to Cristina Romera-Castillo on the Lindeman Award of the Association of the Society of Limnology and Oceanography.

11.02.2020
 

"Expression, purification and functional analysis of proteins putatively mediating the Laxus-Thiosymbion symbiosis"

 

07.02.2020
 

In a new study published in Cell Reports the research teams of the system biologist and biochemist Wolfram Weckwerth and the immunologist Thomas...