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

14.11.2018
 

"Physiological & Ecological Characterisation of Methanomassiliicoccales"

14.11.2018
 

Join us in this symbiosis workshop where researchers of nine labs present their work and exchange ideas.

24.10.2018
 

There we have it! Another Master student from our department has been granted her title!

02.10.2018
 

During a three-day retreat at Rax mountain, we celebrated the 10th aniversary of Mosys.

 

26.09.2018
 

OeAD scholarship holder Andrea Söllinger provides insights into her research

21.09.2018
 

The International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO) elected Stefanie Wienkoop as new Vice President during this years Conference in Padova....