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

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...

30.03.2018
 

A story of the oceans, phytoplankton, trace elements and carbon. Eric Achterberg from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel will give...

29.03.2018
 

The Microbial Oceanography Course 2016 took place in Banyuls sur Mer in the south of France from the 4-15 July with 16 MSc students attending from the...