Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology - IMAG4379

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology is located on

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. It was founded in March 1996 and is one of 80 institutes of the

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(Max Planck Gesellschaft).

Chemical ecology A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wi ...

examines the role of chemical signals that mediate the interactions between plants, animals, and their

environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

, as well as the evolutionary and behavioral consequences of these interactions. The managing director of the institute is

Jonathan Gershenzon Jonathan Gershenzon (born 1955) is an American biochemist. Scientific career After studying biology as an undergraduate at the University of California in Santa Cruz, Gershenzon received his PhD in botany from the University of Texas in 1984. ...

. About 175 scientists, among them many PhD candidates and students, do their research in five departments and further independent research groups. * Department of Molecular Ecology (acting director:

Sarah O'Connor Sarah E. O'Connor is an American molecular biologist working to understand the molecular machinery involved in assembling important plant natural products – vinblastine, morphine, iridoids, secologanin – and how changing the enzymes involved ...

) * Department of Biochemistry (

) * Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology ( Bill S. Hansson) * Department of Insect Symbiosis (

Martin Kaltenpoth Martin Kaltenpoth (born in 1977 in Hagen) is a German evolutionary ecologist. Scientific career After studying biology at the University of Würzburg, which was supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ( Studienstiftung), Kalten ...

) * Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis (

) * Emeritus Group Entomology ( David G. Heckel) * Max Planck Research Group Predators and Toxic Prey (Hannah Rowland) * Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events (Huw S. Groucutt) * Lise Meitner Group Social Behavior (Yuko Ulrich) * Research Group Olfactory Coding (Silke Sachse) * Research Group Plant Defense Physiology (Axel Mithöfer) * NMR Group (Christian Paetz) * Mass Spectrometry Group (Rayko Halitschke) * Max Planck Fellow Group Plankton Community Interaction (Georg Pohnert)

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The International Max Planck Research School "The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques" is a graduate program jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, the

Friedrich Schiller University Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology in Jena. The IMPRS spokespersons are

and Ralf Oelmüller. The IMPRS is part of the "Jena School for Microbial Communication",JSMC - Jena School for Microbial Communication
/ref> which was founded in 2006 and consists of three graduate schools.

References

External links

Official site MPI-CE

Film about the institute in Youtube, Channel of the Max Planck Society
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Chemical Ecology A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wi ...