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

05.06.2020
 

Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Verena Ibl for her recent habilitation!

Dr. Ibls habilitation colloquium on the topic "Cell Biology in Crop Seeds"...

22.05.2020
 

How the germplasm can be improved for higher yield and nutrition with the current state of research: Can Green Systems Biology, Multiomics, Genome...

18.05.2020
 

There we have it! Two Master students from our department has been granted their title!

13.05.2020
 

The life processes of plants such as root growth or photosynthesis are invisible to humans. The students of the TransArts class approach these...

02.05.2020
 

Johannes B. Herpell and colleagues from the Weckwerth group found that the Betaproteobacterium Paraburkholderia sp. strain Msb3 exhibits significant...

21.04.2020
 

"The Potato Yam Phyllosphere Ectosymbiont Paraburkholderia sp. Msb3 Is a Potent Growth Promotor in Tomato"