 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 and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology in Jena.The IMPRS spokespersons are Jonathan Gershenzon and Ralf Oelmüller.The IMPRS is part of the "Jena School for Microbial Communication", which was founded in 2006 and consists of three graduate schools.