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

07.02.2020
 

Read our publication "Protein sorting into protein bodies during barley endosperm development is putatively regulated by cytoskeleton members, MVBs...

28.01.2020
 

"Copper limiting threshold in the terrestrial ammonia oxidizing archaeon Nitrososphaera viennensis"

 

28.01.2020
 

Ruth-Sophie Taubner and Simon Rittmann published two articles on Exooceans in the journal Space Science Reviews.

23.01.2020
 

"Meet the relatives of our cellular ancestor"

23.01.2020
 

"Ecological and biotechnological aspects of mono- and multispecies hydrogen production systems"

15.01.2020
 

Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues for this great achievement!