Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (English: "Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology" MPICE ) is based on the Beutenberg campus in Jena, Thuringia. In March 1996, the Max Planck Society has established in the university city to operate the Institute for Basic Research. The focus of research is the study of the relationships between plants, insects that eat plants, and their environment. Focusing in particular on the chemical interaction in the foreground, which is being investigated by the eponymous chemical ecology.

About 175 scientists, including many graduate students and students who work in five departments and three research groups.

• Department of Molecular Ecology, headed by Ian T. Baldwin
• Department of Bioorganic Chemistry under the direction of Wilhelm Boland
• Department of Biochemistry under the direction of Jonathan Gershenzon
• Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, under the direction of Bill S. Hansson
• Department of Entomology under the direction of David G. Heckel
• Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis under the direction of Martin Kaltenpoth
• Research Group Biosynthesis / NMR, led by Bernd Schneider
• Research Group for Mass Spectrometry / Proteomics led by Aleš Svatoš

International Max Planck Research School ( IMPRS )

The MPI for Chemical Ecology is involved in the International Max Planck Research School of Ecological EnterActions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques in Jena. Other partners in the IMPRS are the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology in Jena and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben. The IMPRS is an English doctoral program, Speaker of the IMPRS is David G. Heckel. The IMPRS is in turn part of the " Jena School for Microbial Communication ", which was founded in 2006 and includes three doctoral schools.