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
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

05.04.2018
 

The microbial oceanography course 2018 edition will take place in Banyuls sur Mer in the south of France from the 18-29 June with MSc students...

05.04.2018
 

Christa Schleper answers the University of Vienna's question of the summer term 2018.

05.04.2018
 

Interview with Christa Schleper in uni:view Magazin

02.04.2018
 

Organic Matter Procession by Microbial Communities in the Deep Ocean revealed by Metaproteomics

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...