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

01.06.2021
 

Congratulations Filipa!

31.05.2021
 

Enzyme promiscuity in natural environments: alkaline phosphatase in the ocean

26.05.2021
 

"Anaerobic Sulfur Oxidation Underlies Adaptation of a Chemosynthetic Symbiont to Oxic-Anoxic Interfaces"

21.05.2021
 

A research review paper published in ‘New Phytologist’ by Palak Chaturvedi, Arindam Ghatak and Wolfram Weckwerth, deciphers heat stress response (HSR)...

19.05.2021
 

With "Vivarium St. Marx" US-American artist Marc Dion has created a life sized, living sculpture for the new University Biology Building in St. Marx,...

14.05.2021
 

Potential and expression of carbohydrate utilization by marine fungi in the global ocean