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

24.04.2018
 

"Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes"

24.04.2018
 

"Cultivation and Characterization of an Extremely Thermophilic Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon"

19.04.2018
 

News article from the austrian newspaper der Standard about our publication on the thermophilic thaumarchaeon Candidatus Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis.

19.04.2018
 

"In Vivo Studies of Strong and Regulatable Promoters in Sulfolobus solfataricus"

18.04.2018
 

Congratulations to Tobias Viehböck for winning the Best Poster Award at ISMSM-5!

17.04.2018
 

"Linking the pylogeny of Thaumarchaea with their environmental and functional diversity"