Research

Research in the Department falls under the aegis of the Institute of Environmental Biology (IEB) and the Intitute for Biocomplexity and Bioinformatics (IBB).

The Department of Biology also organises the administration of the following research schools:

• Developmental Biology
• Biomembranes

and PhD programmes:

• Environmental Biology
• Computational Life Sciences 

In addition, the Department participates in the following eight inter-faculty or inter-university research schools, with one or more research chairs in each school:

• Experimental Plant Sciences
• Functional Ecology
• The Helmholtz Institute
• Pathophysiology of the Nervous System
• Biodiversity
• Geological Sedimentation
• CERES
• Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology