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Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity
Institution
Section overview
Description
Questions of human evolution, as well as raised the pressure on the environment or the emergence of plant and fungal diversity of tropical habitats. Basic and applied research complement each other and lead to a network of our work in research groups within and outside the university. Cooperation professorships is a particularly intensive cooperation with the Research Institute Senckenberg.Unser Institute with its employees are currently engaged in academic teaching in the diploma courses biology and bioinformatics, many other courses with biology as a minor subject and in all teaching courses for biology.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Effects of increased structural complexity on microbial biodiversity in deadwood and wood degradation
- Importance of the climate for interactions between wood-degrading microorganisms and insects on a global scale
- Linking microclimate, deadwood microbial diversity, adaptation mechanisms, and ecosystem processes
- Role of the in soil gene pool as a donation source of virulent genotypes of Phytophthora plurivora
- Trilat. Project: Mango malformation: Epidemiology and simultaneous transcriptome analyses of host and fungal pathogen
Involved in research projects
Contact
Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity
Siesmayerstr. 70-72, Haus B
D-60054 Frankfurt am Main
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49-69/798-24743
Fax: +49-69/798-24822
Email: R.Wittig(@)em.uni-frankfurt.de