Research units and junior research groups in the Department of Biology

• Applied Plant Ecology (Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen)
• Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology (Prof. Dr. Dieter Hanelt)
• Behavioral Biology (Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider)
• Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger)
• Evolutionary Immunogenomics (Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz)
• Experimental Biological Oceanography (Prof. Dr. Myron Peck)
• Experimental Marine Zooplankton Ecology (Prof. Nicole Aberle-Malzahn)
• Functional Ecology (Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dausmann)
• Functional Forest Ecology (Prof. Dr. Ina Meier)
• Genome Informatics (Prof. Dr. Stefan Kurtz)
• History of Science (Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirschner)
• Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Management (Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann)
• Marine Ecosystem Modeling (Prof. Dr. Inga Hense)
• Microbiology & Biotechnology  (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit)
• Molecular Evolutionary Biology (Prof. Dr Susanne Dobler)
• Molecular Plant Genetics (Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr)
• Molecular Plant Physiology (Prof. Dr. Stefan Hoth)
• Molecular Phytopathology (PD. Dr. Cornelia Heinze; i.V.)
• Molecular Animal Physiology (Prof. Dr. Christian Lohr; interim department head)
• Animal Network Ecology (Prof. Dr. Jochen Fründ)
• Organismic Botany and Mycology (Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow)
• Neurophysiology (Prof. Dr. Christian Lohr)
• Plankton ecology and evolution (Prof. Dr. Elisa Schaum)
• Plant Biochemistry & Infection Biology (Prof. Dr. Sigrun Reumann)
• Wood Biology (Prof. Dr. Jörg Fromm)
• Wood Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Bodo Saake)
• World Forestry (Prof. Dr. Michael Köhl)

Junior groups

• Ecological Modeling (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Porada)
• Ecology of Living Marine Resources (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Flemming Dahlke)
• Neuroendocrinology (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Esther Diekhof)
• Population Genomics (Prof. Dr. Kathrin Anna Otte)
• Wood Physics (Prof. Dr. Linnea Hesse)

The following associated units contribute to research in the Department of Biology:

• Animal Diversity, Centrum für Naturkunde (LIB; Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht)
• Arbovirology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM; Prof. Dr. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit)
• Cellular Parasitology Department, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM; Prof. Dr. Tim Gilberger)
• Herpetology and Ornithology, Centrum für Naturkunde (LIB; Prof. Dr. Alexander Haas)
• Food Microbiology (Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Weiß)
• Molecular Entomology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM; Prof. Dr. Esther Schnettler)
• Viral Transformation, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV; Prof. Dr. Thomas Dobner)

More groups:

• Biodiversity of Crop Plants (PD Dr. Sabine Lüthje)
• Aquatische Ökologie (PD Dr. Dörthe Müller-Navarra)

Former departments:

• List of former departments