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
Katrin Attermeyer - Carbocrobe
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

 

 

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Palak Chaturvedi - Crops in a Changing Climate Environment
Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Markus Teige - Plant signalling
Steffen Waldherr - Computational methods for systems biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

21.11.2018
 

"Ecophysiology and Methane Productivity of Carboxydotrophy-Based Archael Co-Cultures"

16.11.2018
 

Do not miss us tomorrow on (Austrian)TV! We will be appearing on a small documentary about our research on Microplastics (at 18:35 in ORF 1) and a...

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.