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

21.09.2020
 

"Comparative CRISPR type III-based knockdown of essential genes in hyperthermophilic Sulfolobales and the evasion of lethal gene silencing"

06.09.2020
 

Congratulations to Elisabeth Clifford on her PhD thesis defense.

24.08.2020
 

“Ecology and biotechnology of biohydrogen producing Enterobacter aerogenes and Clostridium acetobutylicum in mono-culture and co-culture”

19.08.2020
 

"Metagenome assembled‐genomes reveal similar functional profiles of CPR/Patescibacteria phyla in soils"

17.08.2020
 

Independent interdomain transfers lead to the current distribution of sulfate reduction in Archaea

14.08.2020
 

"Biohydrogen production beyond the Thauer limit by precision design of artificial microbial consortia"