Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
We investigate how organisms interact with chemical signals.
We do research in the lab to better understand interactions at a molecular level.
We do research in the glasshouse and in the field to better understand interactions and signals in their natural environment.
Photo: Anna Schroll
Training and international collaborations are key features of our work.
We believe diversity and inclusion leads to the best science.
Research News
Current News and Announcements
Jamilur Rahman, Ian Thomas Baldwin, and Klaus Gase, "California TRV-based VIGS vectors mediate gene silencing at elevated temperatures but with greater growth stunting," BMC Plant Biology 21, 553 (2021).
Rajarajan Ramakrishnan, Jaromír Hradecký, Amit Roy, Blanka Kalinová, Rya C Mendezes, Jiri Synek, Jaromír Bláha, Aleš Svatoš, and Anna Jirošová, "Metabolomics and transcriptomics of pheromone biosynthesis in an aggressive forest pest Ips typographus", in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, (2021).
The biochemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has been elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences.
Sarah O'Connor to receive the 2022 Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products of the American Chemical Society.
The young Max Planck researcher studied how poplars defend themselves against two attackers at the same time: voracious caterpillars and pathogenic fungi.