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

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...

30.09.2017
 

This year's practical course "Extremophilic and thiotrophic Microorganisms from Volcanic Environments" took us to amazing sites where we climbed...

01.09.2017
 

"Physiological proteomics of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis - the model organisms of the 7th order of methanogens"

 

2017-2018

01.09.2017
 

"NitroFix: Prototypenentwicklung zur mikrobiologischen Stickstofffixierung"