Research Areas
Plants are primary producers and the basis of human life on earth. Our general research focus is on development, evolution and ecology of plants thereby integrating plant anatomy and cell biology, genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, signalling and metabolic modeling, systems theory and ecosystems research. An applied focus is on large whole genome germplasm collections of crop species, e.g. legumes, potato, tomato, wheat, pearl millet, barley and grapevine. We investigate gene functions in the environmental and agroecological context, with a focus on plant stress physiology, plant-microbe interaction and adaptation in the era of a global climate crisis.
- Molecular Ecophysiology
- Plant anatomy and physiology
- Plant signalling
- Plant-microbe interaction
- System theory in biology and ecology
Team:
Wolfram Weckwerth
Speaker
Research Areas: Molecular Systems Biology
- Contact
- Web: Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Unit Molecular Systems Biology - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology; and VIME - Vienna Metabolomics Center
Verena Ibl
Research Areas: Plant cell biology in crop seeds (dealing with protein trafficking during the endosperm development with the focus on the ESCRT protein machinery)
- Contact
- Web: CELBICS - Cell Biology in Crop Seeds of the Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology;
Steffen Waldherr
Starting his position in Q3/2021
- Contact
- Web: Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
Stefanie Wienkoop
Research Areas: Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction