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

21.12.2017
 

"Reproduction mechanisms of host (nematode) - attached bacteria"

 

Th, 21 December 2017, 1 p.m.

 

Lecture Hall II, UZA 1

15.12.2017
 

"S, C and N Metabolism in Chemosynthetic Nematode Symbioses"

 

Fr, 15 December 2017

19.10.2017
 

Between scientific breakthroughs and societal challenges

 

19 & 20 October 2017, Billrothhaus, Frankgasse 8, 1090 Vienna

04.10.2017
 

Registration open now!

 

We cordially invite you to join us for this blocked webinar in which we will discuss key topics in microbial...

01.10.2017
 

"Archaea as novel tumor homing therapeutics"

01.10.2017
 

"Archaea as novel tumor homing therapeutics"

 

Christa Schleper and Manfred Ogris received funding for the Establishment of an interdisciplinary...