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

31.08.2021
 

"Linking 16S rRNA Gene Classification to amoA Gene Taxonomy Reveals Environmental Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeal Clades in Peatland Soils"

31.08.2021
 

We are happy to share this Green Labs Austria short movie with you!

23.08.2021
 

MENTOR is a novel Austrian PhD program dedicated to uncover molecular mechanisms of plant resilience. We are looking for highly motivated applicants...

16.08.2021
 

Our new address:

University of Vienna (UBB), Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria

04.08.2021
 

CLOSED

Current Research in Biotechnology (CRBIOT) is releasing a special issue (SI) on Archaea Biotechnology edited by Dr. Simon K.-M.R. Rittmann and...

02.08.2021
 

"Design and engineering of artificial microbial consortia for biohydrogen production"