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
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction
Markus Teige - Plant signalling

Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Steffen Waldherr Computational methods for systems biology

Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography

News

05.03.2019
 

Filipa Sousa presents her new ERC Starting Grant

01.03.2019
 

"Chromosome segregation in non-model bacteria – daring a leap into the cellular anatomy of animal symbionts"

28.02.2019
 

Christa Schleper and Ulrich Technau talk about the great challenge of balancing family, research and the occasional time off.

27.02.2019
 

Exciting workshop coming up! We invite you to the DK+ event, co-organized with the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

25.02.2019
 

"Evolutionary and physiological aspects of potentially carboxydotrophic Archaea"

22.02.2019
 

We are looking for a master student doing system-level investigation of CAM photosynthesis both in the Costa Rica rainforest and in our lab in Vienna.