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

04.03.2021
 

"Pharmacological inhibition of tumor anabolism and host catabolism as a cancer therapy"

20.02.2021
 

"Luca" paper served as inspiration for artist Helena Kauppila to create an installation, now in exhibition in Berlin.

15.02.2021
 

Ruth Taubner et al.'s paper "Experimental and Simulation Efforts in the Astrobiological Exploration of Exooceans" made an impact

12.02.2021
 

2021 it's the Methanothermobacter

11.02.2021
 

What we can learn from Archaea about early evolution (and about a scientist)

11.02.2021
 

Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Jakob Weiszmann for his recent PhD defense the topic "Effects of low temperature on photosynthesis and primary...