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
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
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

06.09.2018
 

„An interdisciplinary Approach: On the Habitability of Enceladus’ Potential Subsurface Water Reservoir“

05.09.2018
 

Congratulations to Erika Wimmer and Isabella Anna Zink for recieving the award for Best Poster at EMBoA6!

05.09.2018
 

we present there basic information about the role of the ocean for our life to the general public and present some instruments used in ocean research....

05.09.2018
 

EMBO funded international workshop on “Molecular Biology of Archaea: from mechanisms to ecology”

01.09.2018
 

Dissertation Completion Fellowship awarded to Isabella Anna Zink.

29.08.2018
 

Filipa Sousa has received an ERC Starting Grant for her project "Evolution of physiology: the link between Earth and Life", in the context of which...