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

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...

24.04.2018
 

"Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes"

24.04.2018
 

"Cultivation and Characterization of an Extremely Thermophilic Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon"

19.04.2018
 

News article from the austrian newspaper der Standard about our publication on the thermophilic thaumarchaeon Candidatus Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis.

19.04.2018
 

"In Vivo Studies of Strong and Regulatable Promoters in Sulfolobus solfataricus"