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

18.04.2018
 

Congratulations to Tobias Viehböck for winning the Best Poster Award at ISMSM-5!

17.04.2018
 

"Linking the pylogeny of Thaumarchaea with their environmental and functional diversity"

16.04.2018
 

In the ocean, plastics release copious amounts of dissolved organic carbon which is stimulating bacterioplankton activity, a new study of the...

05.04.2018
 

New installment on the Southern Ocean sampling cruise blog[German].

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.