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

17.07.2019
 

"Ammonia Oxidation by the Arctic Terrestrial Thaumarchaeote Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus arcticus Is Stimulated by Increasing Temperatures"

10.07.2019
 

Microbial Oceanography Course

Date: 23/06/2019 – 5/07/2019

Location: Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, Banyuls sur Mer, France ...

10.07.2019
 

Practical course: Current topics in Bio-Oceanography: Role of Plastics in the Ocean

Date: 02/06/2019 – 14/06/2019

Location: Ruder Boskovic...

03.07.2019
 

On 3 July 2019 our Division made an excursion to the Wolf Science Center north of Vienna.

01.07.2019
 

After years of hard work, Nicole defended her PhD thesis with great success.

01.07.2019
 

"PTLiquid: Entwicklung eines Verfahrens zur mikrobiologischen Nutzung von CO2 und H2 zur Gewinnung von Ethanol"