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

11.03.2020
 

change to remote learning and FAQs

11.03.2020
 

„Nitrogen fixation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic Archaea"

28.02.2020
 

Our paper "Resolving subcellular plant metabolism" recently received an Outstanding Paper Awards by The Plant Journal

26.02.2020
 

Filipa Sousa on the progress potential through interdisciplinary and integrative approaches

21.02.2020
 

Ingeborg Lang is partner in 4-year WWTF project on 3D imaging and modeling of transient stomatal responses in plant leaves under dynamic environments.

13.02.2020
 

Congratulations to Cristina Romera-Castillo on the Lindeman Award of the Association of the Society of Limnology and Oceanography.