Biodiversity and Evolution
- Plant Biodiversity and Evolution (Dirk Albach)
- Biodiversity and Evolution of animals (Gabriele Gerlach)
- Plant Evolutionary Genetics (Sascha Laubinger)
- Functional Ecology of Plants (Gerhard Zotz)
- Marine Biodiversity (Pedro Martinez Arbizu)
- Ecological Genomics (Arne Nolte)
- Systematics and Evolutionary of Biology (Olaf Bininda-Emonds)
- Behavioural Genomics (Miriam Liedvogel)
Former Groups
- Landscape Ecology (Kleyer)
- Soil Science (Giani)
- Didactics of Biology (Kattmann)
- Genetics (Wackernagel)
- Hydrology (Bormann)
- Molecular Neurobiology/Neurochemistry (Richter-Landsberg)
- Neurobiologie (Weiler)
- Plantecology (Janiesch)
- Physical Geography and Cartography (Hagen)
- Spatial Planning (Peithmann)
- Terrestrial Ecology (Haeseler)
- Zoosystematics and Morphology (Schminke)
Research Networks
Current networks
- Collaborative Research Centre 1372 “Magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates: from biophysics to brain and behaviour”, University of Oldenburg, Institute of Avian Research/Wilhelmshaven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology/Plön, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Cologne, Weizmann Institute of Science/Rehovot, Israel (start 2019, spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU), University of Oldenburg)
- Collaborative Research Centre 2716 “Spatial community ecology in highly dynamic landscapes: from island biogeography to metaecosystems [DynaCom]”, University of Oldenburg, Georg-August-University Göttingen, iDiv German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, National Park Authority, National Park Wadden Sea of Lower Saxony Wilhelmshaven, Senckenberg, Technical University of Munich, Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster (start 2019, spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand, University of Oldenburg)
- „Makroplastik in der südlichen Nordsee" – Quellen, Senken und Vermeidungsstrategien", Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU), University of Oldenburg, NLWKN Betriebsstelle Brake/Oldenburg, Nationalparkverwaltung Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, New Bedford, USA, Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, UK and others (2016-2020, Prof. Dr. Jörg-Olaf Wolff, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg)
- „Assessment of ground- and porewater-derived nutrient fluxes into the German North Sea – Is there a ‘Barrier Island Mass Effect' (BIME)", Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
(MPI Bremen), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU), University of Oldenburg (2016-2020, Ministry of Science and Education in Lower Saxony (MWK), spokespersons und
- DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1885 "Molecular basis of sensory biology" (start 2013; Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Koch, DfN, Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU), University of Oldenburg)
- PhD Research Training Group “The Ecology of Molecules", Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU), Institute for Chemistry (IfC), Jade University of Applied Sciences (Jade UAS) (coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg)