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

11.03.2021
 

"Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages"

05.03.2021
 

"Hyperthermophilic methanogenic archaea act as high-pressure CH4 cell factories"

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