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
Katrin Attermeyer - Carbocrobe
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

 

 

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Palak Chaturvedi - Crops in a Changing Climate Environment
Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Markus Teige - Plant signalling
Steffen Waldherr - Computational methods for systems biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

13.12.2022
 

Decoupling of respiration rates and abundance in marine Prokaryoplankton

01.12.2022
 

"Raupenförmige Bakterien in unserem Mund"

30.11.2022
 

Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome

29.11.2022
 

"Exploring the diversity of ammonia oxidizing archaea in pristine arctic and agricultural soils"

28.11.2022
 

Genomes and phenomes of microbial individuals in their natural environment

18.11.2022
 

Lena S. Kutschera successfully defended her Master thesis

Congratulations to Lena S. Kutschera for the successful defense of her Master

thesis "Comparative genome analysis of photosynthetic flexible Clusia...