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

02.04.2018
 

A team of researchers from our lab has been in the last few days/weeks on a oceanographic cruise in the Southern Ocean

01.04.2018
 

Microorganisms that fix inorganic carbon dissolved in the deep sea have a significant impact on the global carbon cycle. The diversity of...

30.03.2018
 

A story of the oceans, phytoplankton, trace elements and carbon. Eric Achterberg from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel will give...

29.03.2018
 

The Microbial Oceanography Course 2016 took place in Banyuls sur Mer in the south of France from the 4-15 July with 16 MSc students attending from the...

18.03.2018
 

The prestigious endorsement was awarded for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) proposal "Ecology and Activity of Bathyarchaeota in wetland...

12.03.2018