Research units and junior research groups in the Department of Biology
- Animal Ecology and Conservation (Prof. Dr. Jörg Ganzhorn)
- Applied Plant Ecology (Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen)
- Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology (Prof. Dr. Dieter Hanelt)
- Behavioral Biology (Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider)
- Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology (Prof. Dr. Norbert Jürgens)
- Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger)
- Evolutionary Immunogenomics (Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz)
- Experimental Biological Oceanography (Prof. Dr. Myron Peck)
- 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 (Dr. Andrej Fabrizius; i.V.)
- Organismic Botany and Mycology (Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow)
- Neurophysiology (Prof. Dr. Christian Lohr)
- Plant Biochemistry & Infection Biology (Prof. Dr. Sigrun Reumann)
- Population Dynamics of Marine Resources (Prof. Dr. Axel Temming)
- Systematics and Evolution of Plants (Prof. Dr. Jens Gunter Rohwer)
- Wood Biology (Prof. Dr. Jörg Fromm)
- Wood Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Bodo Saake)
- Wood Physics (Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause)
- World Forestry (Prof. Dr. Michael Köhl)
Junior groups
- Ecological Modeling (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Porada)
- Ökologie lebender mariner Ressourcen (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Flemming Dahlke)
- Neuroendocrinology (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Esther Diekhof)
- Plankton ecology and evolution (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elisa Schaum)
- Population genomics (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mathilde Cordellier)
- Systems Biology of Human Parasites (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Michael Filarsky)
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)
- Molecular Entomology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin (BNITM; Prof. Dr. Esther Schnettler)
- Viral Transformation, Heinrich-Pette-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Experimentelle Virologie (HPI; Prof. Dr. Thomas Dobner)
More groups:
- Biodiversity of Crop Plants (PD Dr. Sabine Lüthje)
- Aquatische Ökologie (PD Dr. Dörthe Müller-Navarra)