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

23.11.2019
 

2 Stellen für technische Assistenten zu vergeben

22.11.2019
 

"Heterologous Expression of Proteins from the Extremely Thermophilic Thaumarchaeon Candidatus Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis in Sulfolobus solfataricus"

21.11.2019
 

„Molecular characterization of an Oceanospirillales bacterium associated to males of the marine nematode Laxus oneistus“

28.10.2019
 

- Fully controlled lab conditions confirm that first rain brings most contaminants.

- Weather and season are crucial in wet adsorption of metals in...

23.10.2019
 

New publication from Zink et al. in Nature Communications: "CRISPR-mediated gene silencing reveals involvement of the archaeal S-layer in cell...

23.10.2019
 

Isabelle and Kevin contribute a behind the paper article to Nature Communications