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

01.10.2020
 

Simon Rittmann receives Innovation Voucher

"Analyse der Biozönose während der mikrobiellen Umsetzung von Kohlenmonoxid zu Methan"

25.09.2020
 

„The Physiology and Biotechnological Potential of Artificial Microbial Hydrogen Producing Ecosystems"

23.09.2020
 

Madeleine will defend her thesis „Effects of heat on the endomembrane system in developing barley endosperm." on Friday, 25.9.2020 at 10:00.

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”