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

22.06.2018
 

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

05.06.2018
 

On May 14th 2018, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory elected Christa Schleper as a new member.

04.06.2018
 

Congratulations, Simon!

30.05.2018
 

We cordially invite you to Vienna to the 6th edition of the international conference “Molecular Biology of the Archaea: from mechanisms to ecology”. ...

14.05.2018
 

Congratulations to Kristin Bergauer on her PhD thesis defense “Hetero and chemoautotrophic substrate utilisation in marine prokaryotic communities” on...

14.05.2018
 

Tinkara Tinta received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship and will start working in the Microbial Oceanography group on the project...