30.01. Biology

A. Bachelor's Degree Programme Biology

I. Introductory Phase (STEOP)

B-BIO 1 Basic module Biology 1

• 300001 VO STEOP: B-BIO 1 Introductory Lecture in Biology I - Anthropology, ecology, palaeobiology, plant sciences and zoology

B-BIO 2 Basic module Biology 2

• 300002 VO STEOP: B-BIO 2 Introductory Lecture in Biology II - biochemistry, cellbiology, genetics and microbiology

II. Block of Compulsory Modules

B-BIO 3 Chemistry 1

• 300195 VO General and Organic Chemistry

B-BIO 4 Physics and Statistics

• 300427 VO Physics for students of Biology
• 300718 VO Statistics in biology

B-BIO 5 Bioethics and Gender

• 300036 VO Bioethics and Research Ethics
• 300379 VO Nature in our hands - Introduction to species and area conservation
• 300420 VO Ethical aspects of nature- and species protection
• 300516 VO Gender in Science
• 300719 VO Gender in science

B-BIO 6 Evolution

B-BIO 7 Organisms, Structures and Functions

B-BIO 8 Physiology and Ecology

B-BIO 9 Molecular Biology and Genetics

B-BIO 10 Chemistry 2

• 300030 UE Chemical laboratory course for biologists
• 300141 SE Calculation in Chemistry - Accompanying Seminar for Basic Chemical Lab Course

III. ABCM Disciplines of Specialization

1. Anthropology

B-BAN 1 Anatomy and Human Physiology

• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BAN 2 Hominid Evolution

• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300346 UE Variations of epigenetic features and pathological variability of skeletal remains - (in Parallelen)
• 300399 UE Preparation exercises for ancient human skeletal remains
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History

B-BAN 3 Human Ecology and Social Anthropology

• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300289 VO Introduction Forensic Anthropology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology

B-BAN 4 Behavior and Human Genetics

• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology

B-BAN 5 Statistics, Mathematics and Electronic Data Processing (EDP) in Anthropology

• 300020 UE Applied Statistics for Anthropologists
• 300047 UE Exercises in mathematics and statistics
• 300398 UE Computer-assisted Evaluation Methods I

B-BAN 6 Methods of Anthropology

• 300153 UE Imaging methods in medicine for anthropologists
• 300266 UE Traditional measurements - (in Parallelen)
• 300377 SE Presentation techniques - (parallel courses)

B-BAN 7 Anthropology and Society

• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia

B-BAN 8 Cognition and Morphometrics

• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology

B-BAN 9 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300496 VO Marine Science
• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology

B-BAN 10 Bachelor - Module

• 300320 PP Project practicum III: human life history
• 300331 PP Basic Course IV: Human Ethology

2. Microbiology and Genetics

B-BMG 1 Methods in Molecular Biology

• 300080 UE [ de en ] Laboratory Course I B - Microbiology and Genetics
• 300626 UE [ de en ] Molecular Biology Course I A

B-BMG 2 Basics in Microbiology and Genetics

• 300211 VO General and Molecular Microbiology I
• 300501 VO General and Molecular Microbiology II

B-BMG 3 Biochemistry

• 300135 UE Laboratory Course II - Biochemistry
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry

B-BMG 4 Molecular Biology

• 300089 SE [ de en ] Seminar to Laboratory Course III A - for the specialization Microbiology/Genetics

B-BMG 5 Advanced Methods in Molecular Biology

• 300171 UE [ de en ] Course III A - Laboratory Work in Molecular Biology - for the specialization Microbiology/Genetics

B-BMG 6 Advanced Chemistry

• 300288 UE Spectroscopic methods in Biology - Practical Aplication
• 300370 VO [ en ] Physical Chemistry 1 - Physical Chemistry for Molecular Biologists 1
• 300372 VO [ en ] Physical Chemistry 2 - Physical Chemistry for Molecular Biologists 2

A: Organic Chemistry

• 300166 UE Practical Course in Analytical Chemistry for Biology Students - for the specialization Microbiology/Genetics

B: Analytical Chemistry

• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300403 UE Semicompulsory Lab Course Organic Chemistry

C: (Bio)physical Chemistry

B-BMG 7 Mathematics

• 300612 UE Laboratory course: Mathematics
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists

B-BMG 8 Cell-, Immune- and Infectious Biology

• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300344 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part B

B-BMG 9 Bioinformatics

• 300214 UE Course III B: Sequence analysis in molecular biology
• 300256 SE [ en ] Seminar on Chemistry in Molecular Structural Biology
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 300632 UE [ de en ] Exercises for Foundations of Bioinformatics

B-BMG 10 Molecular Developmental Biology and Evolution

• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology

B-BMG 11 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300203 VO Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Pathophysiology und Medizin
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300463 VO Immunbiology and immundiagnosis of parasitic infections of humans
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300496 VO Marine Science
• 300560 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in microbiology and genetics: molecular biology
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BMG 12 Bachelor - Module

B-BMG 12 A Bachelor - Module

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300358 PP Metabolomics
• 300553 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in microbiology and genetics: molecular biology - Molekulare Biologie
• 300559 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in microbiology and genetics - molecular biology
• 300560 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in microbiology and genetics: molecular biology

B-BMG 12 B Bachelor - Module

3. Molecular Biology

• 300629 UE Practical Course in Analytical Chemistry - for the specialization Molecular Biology

B-BMB 1 Methods in Molecular Biology

• 300080 UE [ de en ] Laboratory Course I B - Microbiology and Genetics
• 300626 UE [ de en ] Molecular Biology Course I A

B-BMB 2 Advanced Molecular Biology

• 300211 VO General and Molecular Microbiology I
• 300501 VO General and Molecular Microbiology II
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology

B-BMB 3 Biochemistry

• 300135 UE Laboratory Course II - Biochemistry
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry

B-BMB 4 Cell Biology

• 300253 UE Molecular Biology Laboratory Course III (Cell Biology)

B-BMB 5 Analytical and Physical Chemistry

• 300370 VO [ en ] Physical Chemistry 1 - Physical Chemistry for Molecular Biologists 1
• 300372 VO [ en ] Physical Chemistry 2 - Physical Chemistry for Molecular Biologists 2

B-BMB 6 Organic Chemistry

• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300615 UE Laboratory Course in Organic Chemistry - for the specialization Molecular Biology

B-BMB 7 Mathematics

• 300612 UE Laboratory course: Mathematics
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists

B-BMB 8 Quantitative Methods in Molecular Biology

• 300010 VO [ de en ] Quantiative methods in molekularbiology
• 300348 UE [ de en ] UE to Quantitative Methods in molekularbiology

B-BMB 9 Bioinformatics

• 300214 UE Course III B: Sequence analysis in molecular biology
• 300256 SE [ en ] Seminar on Chemistry in Molecular Structural Biology
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics

B-BMB 10 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300203 VO Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Pathophysiology und Medizin
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300463 VO Immunbiology and immundiagnosis of parasitic infections of humans
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300496 VO Marine Science
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BMB 11 Bachelor - Module

• 300189 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in molecular biology
• 300831 UE [ de en ] Advanced course in molecular biology

B-BMB 11 A Bachelor - Module A

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300358 PP Metabolomics

B-BMB 11 B Bachelor - Module B

4. Ecology

B-BOE 1 General Ecology

• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world

B-BOE 2 Physiological Basics and Fundamentals of Ecology

B-BOE 3 Structure and Diversity of Plants

• 300029 UE Plant Anatomy - (in parallel courses)

B-BOE 4 Biodiversity of Animals

B-BOE 5 Biodiversity of Microorganisms

• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1

B-BOE 6 Field Biology

B-BOE 7 Functional Ecology

B-BOE 8 Special Ecology 1

• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation

B-BOE 9 Special Ecology 2

• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes

B-BOE 10 Special Ecology 3

• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300496 VO Marine Science

B-BOE 11 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300466 VO [ de en ] Hygiene-related environmental microbiology: Medical Entomology - Epidemiology of water-borne medical parasites and aquatic vectors
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BOE 12 Project-related Research

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300118 PP Bioinformatics in Mass Spectrometry
• 300134 PP Ecology and Physiology of the Cells
• 300152 PP Soil Biology - The soil as a habitat for organisms, introduction in the ecology of the soil and taxonomy of selected soil organisms
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300220 PP [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300229 PP [ en ] Morphometrics: The study of biological forms
• 300245 PP Plant - endophyte - interaction
• 300277 PP Functional Cytology and Anatomy of Plants - Structure and function of glands of carnivorous plants
• 300358 PP Metabolomics
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)

B-BOE 13 Bachelor - Module

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300118 PP Bioinformatics in Mass Spectrometry
• 300134 PP Ecology and Physiology of the Cells
• 300152 PP Soil Biology - The soil as a habitat for organisms, introduction in the ecology of the soil and taxonomy of selected soil organisms
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300220 PP [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300229 PP [ en ] Morphometrics: The study of biological forms
• 300245 PP Plant - endophyte - interaction
• 300277 PP Functional Cytology and Anatomy of Plants - Structure and function of glands of carnivorous plants
• 300358 PP Metabolomics
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)

5. Palaeobiology

B-BPB 1 Palaeodiversity of Plants

B-BPB 2 Palaeodiversity of Vertebrates

• 300192 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Vertebrates
• 300481 VO Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates - Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates

B-BPB 3 Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates

• 300072 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates
• 300100 VO Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates

B-BPB 4 Applied Micropalaeontology

B-BPB 5 Palaeontological Research Methods - Lab

• 300483 UE Palaeontological Working Methods - Laboratory

B-BPB 6 Palaeontological Research Methods - Field

B-BPB 7 Research in Evolutionary Biology

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics

B-BPB 8 Diversity of Plants and Animals

• 300029 UE Plant Anatomy - (in parallel courses)

B-BPB 9 General Ecology

• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world

B-BPB 10 System Earth

• 280001 VO PM STEOP The Earth System (NPI)

B-BPB 11 Stratigraphy, History of the Earth and Phylogenesis

• 280028 VO+UE PM Earth History and Stratigraphy (PI)
• 280044 VO PM Biostratigraphy und Evolution of life (NPI)
• 280045 UE PM Biostratigraphy und Evolution of life (PI)
• 300649 SE+UE Earth History with Special Emphasis on the Geology of Austria - (in Parallelen)

B-BPB 12 Elective Biological Courses

• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BPB 13 Project-related Research

B-BPB 13/A Fundamentals of Vertebrate Palaeontology

B-BPB 13/B Applied Palaeobotany

• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany

B-BPB 13/C Biology of Marine Invertebrates

• 300496 VO Marine Science

B-BPB 14 Bachelor - Module

B-BPB 14/A Vertebrate Palaeontology

B-BPB 14/B Palaeobotany

B-BPB 14/C Marine Palaeoenvironments

• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300486 SE+UE Biology, Taphonomy and Application of Traces of Life and Trace Fossils (Project Module) - Marine Paläoenviroments

6. Plant Sciences

B-BPF 1 Cell Biology of Plants

• 300029 UE Plant Anatomy - (in parallel courses)
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell

B-BPF 2 Basics of Plant Molecular Biology

• 300080 UE [ de en ] Laboratory Course I B - Microbiology and Genetics
• 300212 VO Introduction to Plant Genetics
• 300343 VO [ en ] Genome structure and evolution

B-BPF 3 Basics of Plant Physiology

• 300606 UE Plant growth and metabolism

B-BPF 4 Evolution and Diversity of Algae, Mosses, Ferns, and Fungi

• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300043 UE Diversity and systematics of cryptogams and fungi
• 300545 UE Fungal diversity in their habitats

B-BPF 5 Evolution and Diversity of Seed Plants

B-BPF 6 Developmental Biology and Reproduction

• 300083 VO Molecular Developmental Biology of plants

B-BPF 7 Concepts and Methods in the Plant Sciences

• 300023 UE Concepts and methods in evolution, systematics and biogeography of plants
• 300376 UE Concepts and methods in reproductive, developmental and structural plant sciences

B-BPF 8 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300496 VO Marine Science
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists
• 300631 VO The Chemistry of Structural Biology
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BPF 9 Project-related Research

• 300134 PP Ecology and Physiology of the Cells
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300220 PP [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300245 PP Plant - endophyte - interaction
• 300277 PP Functional Cytology and Anatomy of Plants - Structure and function of glands of carnivorous plants
• 300358 PP Metabolomics

B-BPF 10 Bachelor - Module

• 300134 PP Ecology and Physiology of the Cells
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300220 PP [ de en ] Algal culturing techniques and ecophysiological experiments
• 300245 PP Plant - endophyte - interaction
• 300277 PP Functional Cytology and Anatomy of Plants - Structure and function of glands of carnivorous plants
• 300358 PP Metabolomics

7. Zoology

B-BZO 1 Anatomy and Morphology of Animals 1

• 300068 UE Practical courses in Zoology, part A - parallel courses

B-BZO 2 Anatomy and Morphology of Animals 2

B-BZO 3 Animal Physiology 1

• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BZO 4 Animal Physiology 2

• 300476 VO Animal Physiology II: Nerves, Muscles, Senses

B-BZO 5 Behavioral Biology

• 300299 VO Introduction to Animal Behavior
• 300475 UE Animal Behaviour - Introductory experiments in Animal Behaviour

B-BZO 6 Evolution and Development

• 300044 VO Introduction to animal development
• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory

B-BZO 7 Biodiversity of Animals

B-BZO 8 Field Biology

B-BZO 9 Animals in their Environments

• 300090 VO Introduction to the native fauna and their habitat
• 300380 EX Zoological basic excursions - Excursions in autumn and winter

B-BZO 10 Biology of Cognition

• 300026 VO [ en ] Introduction to Cognitive Biology

B-BZO 11 Elective Biological Courses

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300016 VO Lower plant diversity and phylogeny
• 300024 VO Concepts in Ecology - Concepts in Ecology
• 300027 VO Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300040 VO Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology
• 300048 VO Ecology of the ecozones of the world
• 300054 VO Applied Palaeobotany
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300227 VO Primatology
• 300231 VO Introduction in Social Biology
• 300248 VO Cell Biology of Plants - Structure and Function of the Plant Cell
• 300260 VO Immunology and Cellular Microbiology, Part A
• 300276 UE Exercises to applied Palaeobotany
• 300284 VO Principles of Biochemistry
• 300295 VO Macroevolution
• 300296 VO Mammal evolution - selected topics
• 300309 VO Genetics in Ecology
• 300311 VO Bioinformatics for the analysis of microbial genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes
• 300317 VO Biodiversity and molecular ecology of microorganisms 1
• 300324 VO Organic Chemistry for Molecular biology
• 300327 VO Introduction into Human Ethology
• 300341 VO Conservation Biology and Landscape Conservation
• 300385 VO Human Anatomy - Osteology and Arthrology
• 300426 VO Introduction into Human Ecology - Introduction into Human Ecology
• 300431 VO [ de en ] Evolution and Human Organization
• 300444 VO Cultural Anthropology and History of Ethiopia
• 300466 VO [ de en ] Hygiene-related environmental microbiology: Medical Entomology - Epidemiology of water-borne medical parasites and aquatic vectors
• 300485 VO Reefs in the History of the Earth
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History
• 300492 VO Human Anatomy 2 - Organ Morphology
• 300496 VO Marine Science
• 300590 VO Fundamental Bioinformatics
• 300609 VO Molecular Developmental Biology
• 300628 VO Mathematics for Molecular Biologists
• 300648 VO Animals Physiology I: Reproduction, Metabolism and Immunolgy

B-BZO 12 Project-related Research

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300021 PP Practical Course in Animal Behavior
• 300025 PP Project course: Histological methods
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300097 PP Practical Course: Vertebrates - Comparative Morphology of Vertebrates
• 300116 PP Practical course in Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
• 300119 PP Bioacoustic Project Course
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300229 PP [ en ] Morphometrics: The study of biological forms
• 300232 PP Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300338 PP Comparative Anatomy and Morphology of native Fishes
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300416 PP [ en ] 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)
• 300646 PP Neurobiology: Visual Systems
• 300674 PP Submicroscopical anatomy and preparatory techniques in electronmicroscopy
• 300703 PP Animal Acoustic Signals - Animal Acoustic Signals

B-BZO 13 Bachelor - Module

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300021 PP Practical Course in Animal Behavior
• 300025 PP Project course: Histological methods
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300097 PP Practical Course: Vertebrates - Comparative Morphology of Vertebrates
• 300116 PP Practical course in Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
• 300119 PP Bioacoustic Project Course
• 300205 PP [ de en ] PP Tropical botany and plant-animal-interactions in Costa Rica
• 300229 PP [ en ] Morphometrics: The study of biological forms
• 300232 PP Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300338 PP Comparative Anatomy and Morphology of native Fishes
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300416 PP [ en ] 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)
• 300646 PP Neurobiology: Visual Systems
• 300674 PP Submicroscopical anatomy and preparatory techniques in electronmicroscopy
• 300703 PP Animal Acoustic Signals - Animal Acoustic Signals

B. Master's Degree Programmes Biology (Curricula from WS 13)

1. Masterprogramme Anthropology (Version 2013)

1.1. Compulsory Modules

MAN 1 Compulsory module 1: Basic module in Anthropology

• 300293 VO Special Forensic Anthropology
• 300321 VO [ en ] Human Life History
• 300328 VO Theories and Paradigms of Anthropology
• 300332 VO Human Behavioral Ecology

MAN 2 Compulsory module 2: Practical training in Anthropology

• 300169 SE Departmental Seminar Anthropology
• 300333 UE Behaviour Analysis I
• 300335 UE Virtual Anthropology - 3D Applications and Software
• 300443 SE+UE [ en ] Scientific writing: abstracts and articles

1.2. Block of Elective Modules: Anthropology

MAN W1 Human Evolution

MAN W2 Human Behavioral Biology

• 300099 SE Seminar Human Ethology

MAN W3 Human Ecology

• 300061 VO Transition Studies I
• 300262 VO Sustainable Development and political ecology
• 300508 VO Methods of Human Ecology

MAN W4 Human Life History

• 300440 UE Practical studies in human osteology I

MAN W5 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology and Biometry

• 300038 UE Exercises to virtual anthropology

1.3. Individual Specialization

• 300481 VO Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates - Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates

MAN 3 Individual Specialization

• 300192 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Vertebrates
• 300258 UE LaTeX instead of Word - Professional Text Processing for Anthropologists
• 300479 UE Practical studies in human Osteology II
• 300491 UE Selected Statistical Methods: Time Series Analysis
• 300639 SE Sustainable Solutions of Real World Problems

2. Masterprogramme Botany

MBO1 Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

• 300412 VO [ en ] Plant Biogeography
• 300429 SE [ en ] Seminar in Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
• 300467 VO [ en ] Plant and Fungal Evolution and Diversity

MBO2 Structural Botany

• 300423 SE [ en ] Structural Botany
• 300424 VO [ en ] Plant Morphology and Palynology
• 300428 VO [ en ] Plant Ultra Structure and Cytology

MBO3 Molecular Biology of Plants

• 300409 VO [ en ] Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Plants
• 300415 SE [ en ] Molecular Biology of Plants
• 300417 VO [ en ] Molecular Biology of Plants

MBO4 Basic Methods of Botany

MBO5 Advanced Methods of Botany

• 300200 UE [ en ] DNA sequencing and molecular phylogenetics
• 300319 UE [ en ] Plant Chromosome Structure and Evolution: theory and practice - Chromosome analysis in flowering plants
• 300406 UE [ en ] Ultrastructure of Plant Cells

MBO6 Specific Research Project

• 300418 UE [ en ] The Plant Cell: Physiological and Ecological Aspects

MBO7 Individual Specialization (elective courses)

• 300017 SE [ en ] Seminar for Master-, Diploma- & PHD-Students in Structural and Functional Botany
• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1
• 300155 SE Reproduction ecology and life strategies of tropical plants - Preparation for Tropical Field courses
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300235 SE [ en ] Seminar in Plant Systematics and Evolution
• 300265 VO [ en ] Safety in the laboratory
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300283 SE [ en ] MPF W-2 Journal Club: Floral Morphology, Development and Evolution (30.03)
• 300470 UE [ de en ] Scientific Literature - Data retrieval and management
• 300471 SE [ en ] Seminar Chemodiversity Research - Phytochemistry, function, interpretation
• 300515 VO [ en ] Speciation and coevolution - Concepts und case studies
• 300536 SE [ en ] Botanical Nomenclature

3. Masterprogramme Ecology and Ecosystems

MEC-1 Evolutionary and ecological foundations of bidiversity

• 300450 VO [ en ] Evolutionary and ecological foundations of biodiversity

MEC-2 Ecosytem ecology and biogeochemistry

• 300435 VO [ en ] Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems

MEC-3 Biodiversity and ecosystems

• 300449 SE [ en ] Literature seminar on biodiversity and ecosystems

MEC-4 Introduction to biodiversity or ecosystem research

• 300378 UE [ en ] Introduction to biodiversity and ecosystem research

MEC-5 Experimental design and data analysis

• 300269 VO [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (VO) - univariate methods
• 300325 UE [ de en ] MEC-5 Multivariate statistical methods in ecology (MOE I-3)
• 300445 UE [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (UE) - univariate methods
• 300452 VO [ en ] Multivariate statistical methods in ecology

MEC-6 Techniques in biodiversity research

MEC-7 Techniques in biogeochemistry and ecosystem research

MEC-8 Specific research project

MEC-9 Individual specialization

• 300005 VO Application of Geographical Information Systems, Geo-statistics and Spatial Analysis in Bio-Sciences
• 300008 VO [ en ] Aquatic biodiversity - control and consequences
• 300015 VO Introduction Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300028 UE Ex: Application of Geographical Informat. Systems, Geo-statistics & Spatial Analysis in Bio-Sciences
• 300035 VO Mountain ecology
• 300052 VO Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1
• 300132 UE Plant Ecology and global context - Modellierung, Ökophysiologie, Photosynthese, Globales Klima und Kohlenstoffhaushalt, Biodiversität, Natürliche genetische Variabilität, Ökologie und Evolution, Genotyp-Phenotyp Zusammenhang, Next Generation Genome Sequencing
• 300160 VO Landscape Ecology - Introduction to Landscape Ecology - principles, methodes & case studies
• 300167 UE [ en ] Special Advances in Marine Ecology Part Two
• 300170 VO [ en ] Biological Oceanography
• 300264 VO Soil Ecology (interdisciplinary lecture)
• 300280 SE [ en ] Recent literature in Marine Ecology and Oceanography
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300290 UE Course in vegetation Ecology: Data interpretation and analysis
• 300294 VO Biology and ecology of the Lepidoptera
• 300307 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Molecular genetic and postgenomic analyses of microbial communities and model organisms
• 300326 VO [ en ] Marine Viral Ecology
• 300329 VO [ en ] Biogeochemistry of the Ocean
• 300359 SE+UE [ en ] Stable Isotopes in Ecology - Stable Isotope Tracing
• 300401 UE Scientific Practice in Microbial Ecology
• 300414 VO Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of stream and river ecosystems
• 300434 VO [ de en ] Fish ecology - Lecture Ecology of Fishes (species diversity; fish assemblages; food and feeding; bionergetics; growth; reproduction, biotic interactions; populationsdynamics; habitat selection).
• 300439 VO [ en ] Bird Ecology
• 300442 SE [ en ] Keystone Papers in Biogeochemistry of the Ocean
• 300446 SE [ en ] Advances in Marine Biology, Part 1 - Seminars for MS and PhD students in Dept. Marine Biology
• 300447 VO [ en ] Introduction to Tropical Ecology
• 300451 SE [ en ] From glaciers to oceans: Concepts in aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry - Students acquire conceptual knowledge in aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. A focus will be on concepts that are equally applicable to freshwater and marine ecosystems. The seminar will include paper reading, discussions and short presentations.
• 300469 UE [ en ] Management and analysis of spatial Data
• 300480 VO Syntaxonomy - Description, comparison and classification of plant communities
• 300484 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology - Diversity and function of uncultured microbes in medical and environmental samples
• 300487 PS [ en ] Proseminar Microbial Ecology
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)
• 300493 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Metagenomics and Physiology of Bacteria and Archaea
• 300519 SE [ en ] Dietary pathways in aquatic foodwebs
• 300657 UE Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - in Central European freshwaters
• 300659 SE [ en ] Limnology Seminar - Current research and ecological concepts

4. Masterprogramme Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology

4.1. Compulsory Module

MMEI I Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology

• 300091 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 1 - Molecular Microbiology
• 300107 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 3 - Immunobiology
• 300307 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Molecular genetic and postgenomic analyses of microbial communities and model organisms
• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300484 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology - Diversity and function of uncultured microbes in medical and environmental samples
• 300493 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Metagenomics and Physiology of Bacteria and Archaea
• 300841 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 1 - Molecular Microbiology
• 300842 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 3 - Immunobiology

4.2. ABCM (1) Molecular Microbiology

MMEI II-1.1 Proseminar Molecular Microbiology

• 300556 PS Proseminar in Molecular Microbiology

MMEI II-1.2 Advanced Molecular Microbiology

• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300177 SE [ en ] Chromatin and Transcription III
• 300240 SE [ en ] Advanced Seminar Molecular Microbiology
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300282 VO Bacterial Pathogenes, Molecular Diagnostics and Systematics
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300432 UE RNA Profiling in Microbiology/Immunology
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300610 SE [ en ] Seminar in Microbiology-Immunology

MMEI II-1.3 Scientific Practice in Molecular Microbiology

• 300201 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Molecular Microbiology - Microbiology

4.3. ABCM (2) Microbial Ecology

MMEI II-2.1 Proseminar Microbial Ecology

• 300487 PS [ en ] Proseminar Microbial Ecology

MMEI II-2.2 Advanced Microbial Ecology

• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300366 SE [ en ] Advances in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution

MMEI II-2.3 Scientific Practice in Microbial Ecology

• 300401 UE Scientific Practice in Microbial Ecology

4.4. ABCM (3) Immunobiology

MMEI II-3.1 Proseminar Immunobiology

MMEI II-3.2 Advanced Immunobiology

• 300177 SE [ en ] Chromatin and Transcription III
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300373 SE [ en ] Mouse genetics and development I
• 300432 UE RNA Profiling in Microbiology/Immunology
• 300588 VO Special Chapters of Immunology

MMEI II-3.3 Scientific Practice in Immunobiology

• 300095 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Immunobiology

4.5. Compulsory Module: Interdisziplinary Subjects

MMEI III Selected Interdisciplinary Subjects

• 300092 SE [ en ] Modern Concepts in Structural Biology I
• 300101 VO Epigenetics II - Stem cells, Cloning and Disease
• 300113 VO [ en ] Advanced Lecture Course in Developmental Biology
• 300123 SE New developments in chromosome biology III
• 300131 SE [ en ] Journal Club: Recent literature on autophagy and membrane biology II
• 300137 VO [ en ] Basics of Neuroscience
• 300138 SE [ en ] Population Genetics Journal Club
• 300147 SE Light, hormones and rhythms in plants and animals
• 300151 UE Practical Course in fluorescence-/confocal microscopy including image processing - for diploma, PhD and advanced students
• 300165 SE Reading and Discussing Publications in Biochemistry
• 300177 SE [ en ] Chromatin and Transcription III
• 300181 SE [ en ] Journal Club: Selected topics in Molecular Biophysics I
• 300184 SE [ en ] Journal Club: Recent literature on cnetrosomes and cilia III
• 300206 SE [ en ] Hot topics in mitochondrial medicine
• 300207 SE Seminar in Cell Biology
• 300217 SE [ en ] Journal Clubs II - DK Structure and Interaction of Biological Macromolecules
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300224 SE [ en ] Journal Club and Work in Progress Seminar II - DK Chromosome Dynamics
• 300240 SE [ en ] Advanced Seminar Molecular Microbiology
• 300250 SE Seminar - Genetics
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300282 VO Bacterial Pathogenes, Molecular Diagnostics and Systematics
• 300283 SE [ en ] MPF W-2 Journal Club: Floral Morphology, Development and Evolution (30.03)
• 300287 VO Structure and Function of Biomolecules
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300373 SE [ en ] Mouse genetics and development I
• 300392 SE [ en ] Projects on light reception, biological rhythms and hormone biology - Research Report
• 300407 VO [ en ] DNA-Tumor Viruses, from Cancer Agent to therapy - Elective Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300432 UE RNA Profiling in Microbiology/Immunology
• 300465 SE [ en ] Current Trends in Bioanalytical Technologies
• 300556 PS Proseminar in Molecular Microbiology
• 300557 VO [ en ] Principles in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300577 VO Biophysical methods in structural biology
• 300581 SE [ de en ] Cell Biology Today: Current Topics, Methodology, and Project Design
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300586 VO Molecular Medicine 2 - Molecular Aspects of Medical Research
• 300588 VO Special Chapters of Immunology
• 300598 VO GTPases: Structure and Function
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300610 SE [ en ] Seminar in Microbiology-Immunology
• 300693 VO [ en ] Macromolecular Crystallography
• 300696 VO Fundamentals in Systems Biology
• 300707 VO Embryos and Stemcells - Electiv Course in Molecular Medicine

4.6. Compulsory Module: Additional Scientifc Skills for Biologists

M-WZB Additional Scientific Skills for Biologists in the Master program

• 300052 VO Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• 300145 VO [ en ] The golden age of Molecular Biology - Scientists and strategies behind landmark discoveries in molecular biology
• 300267 VO Business in Biotech
• 300349 VO+SE Darwin would be surprised: Some results of molecular evolution appear absurd - seine Evolutionshypothese endgültig beweisen
• 300413 SE Seminar Mentoring of the Orientation Period Biology
• 300478 UE [ de en ] Advanced Techniques in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300482 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300584 UE Project management in science communication
• 300851 UE [ de en ] Advanced Biochemical Techniques
• 300852 UE [ de en ] Electiv Laboratory Course Advanced Biochemistry
• 300853 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology A - Basics
• 300854 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology B - Advanced Practical Course
• 300856 UE [ de en ] Advanced Cell Biology Techniques
• 300857 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course Cell Biology
• 300858 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 1
• 300859 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 2
• 300860 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course Advanced Neurosciences
• 300861 UE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Plant Biology and Physiology

B. Master's Degree Programmes Biology

1. Anthropology

1.1. Compulsory Modules

MAN 1 Scientific Research in Anthropology and Human Ecology

• 300258 UE LaTeX instead of Word - Professional Text Processing for Anthropologists
• 300328 VO Theories and Paradigms of Anthropology
• 300443 SE+UE [ en ] Scientific writing: abstracts and articles

MAN 2 Advanced Statistics in Anthropology

• 300491 UE Selected Statistical Methods: Time Series Analysis

1.2. ABCM (1) Human Evolution

MAN I-1 Advanced Topics in Hominid Evolution

• 300335 UE Virtual Anthropology - 3D Applications and Software

MAN I-2 Advanced Research Methods in Hominid Evolution

• 300038 UE Exercises to virtual anthropology

MAN I-3 Special Osteology

• 300440 UE Practical studies in human osteology I
• 300479 UE Practical studies in human Osteology II

MAN I-4 Palaeontology

• 300192 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Vertebrates
• 300481 VO Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates - Morphology and Palaeodiversity of vertebrates

1.3. ABCM (2) Human Ethology

MAN II-1 Biological Principles of Human Behavior

• 300332 VO Human Behavioral Ecology
• 300336 VO Urban Ethology
• 300355 SE Evolutionary Considerations about Sex and Gender

MAN II-2 Observing Human Behavior

• 300333 UE Behaviour Analysis I

MAN II-3 Analytical Methods in Human Behavior Research

MAN II-4 Applied Human Behavior Research

• 300099 SE Seminar Human Ethology

1.4. ABCM (3) Human Ecology

MAN III-1 Basic Concepts and Methods in Human Ecology

• 300508 VO Methods of Human Ecology
• 300639 SE Sustainable Solutions of Real World Problems

MAN III-2 Economical, Sociological and Anthropological Background

• 300032 VO Human and Social Ecology - Scientific foundations for sustainable development
• 300298 VO Cultural Ecology and Hunter-Gatherer Societies

MAN III-3 Selected Topics in Human Ecology

1.5. Block of Elective Modules: Anthropology

MAN W-1 Evolutionary Ecolgy

• 300221 VO Foundations of Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Theory
• 300507 VO Ecological Anthropology

MAN W-2 Transition Studies

• 300061 VO Transition Studies I

MAN W-3 Social Biology

MAN W-4 Reproductive Biology

• 300321 VO [ en ] Human Life History

MAN W-5 Sustainable Development and Political Ecology

• 300262 VO Sustainable Development and political ecology

2. Evolutionary Biology

2.1. Compulsory Modules

MEV 1 Basic Modul Evolutionary Biology

• 300009 VO Evolutionary Biology
• 300511 VO [ en ] Concepts in Evolutionary Biology
• 300515 VO [ en ] Speciation and coevolution - Concepts und case studies

MEV 2 Methods and Research Training in Evolutionary Biology

• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300232 PP Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300302 UE [ de en ] Practical Course in Cell and Developmental Biology
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)

2.2. Block of Elective Modules: Evolutionary Biology

MEV W-1 Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology

• 300003 VO Island biology Biogeography - Island biology Biogeography and evolutionary processes on islands
• 300055 VO Introduction into evolutionary biology - current topics in vertebrate systematics
• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1
• 300159 VO Evolutionary biology of birds
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300316 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters and PhD students - Current Trends in Metazoan Morphology, Systematics and Development
• 300355 SE Evolutionary Considerations about Sex and Gender
• 300525 SE+UE Scientific research at the Museum of Natural History - significance of scientific collections for evolutionary studies
• 300527 UE Practical course: molecular phylogeny based on museum specimens
• 300713 SE [ en ] Population genetics: theoretical and empirical approaches

MEV W-2 Developmental Biology

• 300222 VO Comparative embryology of animals
• 300489 VO [ de en ] Growth and Proportion - Basics of biosystemstheory II
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods

MEV W-3 Theoretical Biology

• 300183 VO Human "Evo-Devo": The evolution of human development
• 300188 VO [ de en ] Theoretical Morphology
• 300357 UE [ en ] Mathematical Basics for Theoretical Biology

MEV W-4 Advanced Topics of Hominide Evolution

• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution

MEV W-5 Processes and Methods in Plant Evolution and Speciation

• 300110 VO [ en ] Macromolecules and molecular phylogeny in plant systematics and evolution
• 300467 VO [ en ] Plant and Fungal Evolution and Diversity

MEV W-6 Advanced Topics of Plant Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography

• 300235 SE [ en ] Seminar in Plant Systematics and Evolution
• 300273 SE Biosystematics and floristics of European Vascular Plants
• 300319 UE [ en ] Plant Chromosome Structure and Evolution: theory and practice - Chromosome analysis in flowering plants
• 300393 EX Field mycology
• 300429 SE [ en ] Seminar in Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
• 300471 SE [ en ] Seminar Chemodiversity Research - Phytochemistry, function, interpretation
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants - Communication & nutritional ecology
• 300620 SE Mycological research in Austria, reports from systematics and ecology

MEV W-7 Basic Modul Zoology

• 300143 VO Animal development and systematics
• 300472 VO [ en ] Behavioural ecology

MEV W-8 Palaeontology and Evolution

3. Genetics and Developmental Biology

3.1. ABCM (1) Genetics and Molecular Pathology

MGE I-1 Advanced Genetics and Molecular Pathology

• 300557 VO [ en ] Principles in Genetics and Developmental Biology

MGE I-2 Advanced Genetic and Molecular Pathology Techniques

• 300120 UE Practical Course in Molecular Genetics and Pathology (Cell Biology)
• 300272 UE Practical Course in Molecular Genetics and Pathology - Epigenetics
• 300478 UE [ de en ] Advanced Techniques in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300482 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300641 UE [ de en ] Advanced Genetic Engineering and Proteomics in Yeast - Genetics and biochemistry

MGE I-3 Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Genetic and Molecular Pathology

• 300104 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Cyto- and Developmental Genetics
• 300422 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Molecular Genetics and Pathology - Funktionelle Genanalyse

3.2. ABCM (2) Cell- and Developmental Biology

MGE II-1 Advanced Cell- and Developmental Biology

• 300557 VO [ en ] Principles in Genetics and Developmental Biology

MGE II-2 Advanced Cell- and Developmental Biological Techniques

• 300302 UE [ de en ] Practical Course in Cell and Developmental Biology
• 300478 UE [ de en ] Advanced Techniques in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300482 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300656 UE Practical Course in Cyto- and Developmental Genetics - Meiotische Modellsysteme

MGE II-3 Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Cell- and Developmental Biology

• 300104 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Cyto- and Developmental Genetics

3.3. Block of Elective Modules: Genetics and Developmental Biology

• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300584 UE Project management in science communication

MGE III-1 Advanced Genetics

• 300092 SE [ en ] Modern Concepts in Structural Biology I
• 300101 VO Epigenetics II - Stem cells, Cloning and Disease
• 300113 VO [ en ] Advanced Lecture Course in Developmental Biology
• 300123 SE New developments in chromosome biology III
• 300147 SE Light, hormones and rhythms in plants and animals
• 300206 SE [ en ] Hot topics in mitochondrial medicine
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300250 SE Seminar - Genetics
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300349 VO+SE Darwin would be surprised: Some results of molecular evolution appear absurd - seine Evolutionshypothese endgültig beweisen
• 300493 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Metagenomics and Physiology of Bacteria and Archaea
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA

MGE III-2 Elected Subjects in Biology or Chemistry

• 300091 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 1 - Molecular Microbiology
• 300113 VO [ en ] Advanced Lecture Course in Developmental Biology
• 300123 SE New developments in chromosome biology III
• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300206 SE [ en ] Hot topics in mitochondrial medicine
• 300207 SE Seminar in Cell Biology
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300250 SE Seminar - Genetics
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300319 UE [ en ] Plant Chromosome Structure and Evolution: theory and practice - Chromosome analysis in flowering plants
• 300349 VO+SE Darwin would be surprised: Some results of molecular evolution appear absurd - seine Evolutionshypothese endgültig beweisen
• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300432 UE RNA Profiling in Microbiology/Immunology
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300641 UE [ de en ] Advanced Genetic Engineering and Proteomics in Yeast - Genetics and biochemistry

4. Molecular Biology

4.1. ABCM (1) Biochemistry

MMB I-3 Advanced Biochemical Techniques

• 300851 UE [ de en ] Advanced Biochemical Techniques
• 300852 UE [ de en ] Electiv Laboratory Course Advanced Biochemistry

MMB I-4 Elective Laboratory Course Biochemistry

• 300851 UE [ de en ] Advanced Biochemical Techniques
• 300852 UE [ de en ] Electiv Laboratory Course Advanced Biochemistry
• 300861 UE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Plant Biology and Physiology

MMB I-1 Dynamic Biochemistry

MMB I-2 Current Topics in Biochemistry

• 300165 SE Reading and Discussing Publications in Biochemistry
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300465 SE [ en ] Current Trends in Bioanalytical Technologies
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300598 VO GTPases: Structure and Function
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300705 VO Plant Molecular Biology II - Molecular Plant Physiology

4.2. ABCM (2) Molecular Structural Biology

MMB II-3 Advanced Structural Biology Techniques

• 300288 UE Spectroscopic methods in Biology - Practical Aplication
• 300853 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology A - Basics
• 300854 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology B - Advanced Practical Course

MMB II-4 Elective Laboratory Course Structural Biology

• 300288 UE Spectroscopic methods in Biology - Practical Aplication
• 300852 UE [ de en ] Electiv Laboratory Course Advanced Biochemistry
• 300853 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology A - Basics
• 300854 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology B - Advanced Practical Course

MMB II-1 Dynamic Biochemistry

• 300465 SE [ en ] Current Trends in Bioanalytical Technologies

MMB II-2 Current Topics in Structural Biology

• 300092 SE [ en ] Modern Concepts in Structural Biology I
• 300165 SE Reading and Discussing Publications in Biochemistry
• 300287 VO Structure and Function of Biomolecules
• 300577 VO Biophysical methods in structural biology
• 300693 VO [ en ] Macromolecular Crystallography

4.3. ABCM (3) Molecular Cell Biology

MMB III-1 Advanced Cell Biology

MMB III-2 Current Topics in Cell Biology

• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300581 SE [ de en ] Cell Biology Today: Current Topics, Methodology, and Project Design
• 300598 VO GTPases: Structure and Function

MMB III-3 Dynamic Biochemistry

MMB III-4 Elective Laboratory Course Cell Biology

• 300856 UE [ de en ] Advanced Cell Biology Techniques
• 300857 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course Cell Biology

MMB III-5 Advanced Cell Biology Techniques

• 300856 UE [ de en ] Advanced Cell Biology Techniques
• 300857 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course Cell Biology

4.4. ABCM (4) Molecular Medicine

MMB IV-1 Advanced Molecular Medicine

• 300586 VO Molecular Medicine 2 - Molecular Aspects of Medical Research

MMB IV-2 Current Topics in Molecular Medicine

• 300101 VO Epigenetics II - Stem cells, Cloning and Disease
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300407 VO [ en ] DNA-Tumor Viruses, from Cancer Agent to therapy - Elective Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300589 SE Literature seminar in Molecular Medicine
• 300706 SE Research-proposal Submission and Assessment in Molecular Medicine
• 300707 VO Embryos and Stemcells - Electiv Course in Molecular Medicine

MMB IV-3 Advanced Molecular Biology Techniques in Molecular Medicine

• 300101 VO Epigenetics II - Stem cells, Cloning and Disease
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300407 VO [ en ] DNA-Tumor Viruses, from Cancer Agent to therapy - Elective Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300589 SE Literature seminar in Molecular Medicine
• 300706 SE Research-proposal Submission and Assessment in Molecular Medicine
• 300707 VO Embryos and Stemcells - Electiv Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300858 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 1
• 300859 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 2

MMB IV-4 Elective Laboratory Course Molecular Medicine

• 300858 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 1
• 300859 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course (Molecular Medicine) - Part 2

4.5. ABCM (5) Neurosciences

MMB V-1 Basics of Neuroscience

• 300137 VO [ en ] Basics of Neuroscience

MMB V-2 Basics of Neuroscience (Lab Course)

MMB V-3 Current Topics in Neuroscience

• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system

MMB V-4 Elective Laboratory Course Neuroscience

• 300860 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course Advanced Neurosciences

4.6. Block of Elective Modules: Molecular Biology

• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300584 UE Project management in science communication

MMB W-1 Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Molecular Biology

• 300850 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Molecular Biology

MMB W-2 Selected Subjects in Molecular Biosciences or Chemistry

• 260075 VO Biological Frontiers of Physics: From New Tools for Bio-imaging to Quantum Biology
• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300092 SE [ en ] Modern Concepts in Structural Biology I
• 300101 VO Epigenetics II - Stem cells, Cloning and Disease
• 300131 SE [ en ] Journal Club: Recent literature on autophagy and membrane biology II
• 300137 VO [ en ] Basics of Neuroscience
• 300151 UE Practical Course in fluorescence-/confocal microscopy including image processing - for diploma, PhD and advanced students
• 300165 SE Reading and Discussing Publications in Biochemistry
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300223 VO [ en ] Signal Transduction pathways in the nervous system
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300287 VO Structure and Function of Biomolecules
• 300288 UE Spectroscopic methods in Biology - Practical Aplication
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300407 VO [ en ] DNA-Tumor Viruses, from Cancer Agent to therapy - Elective Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300465 SE [ en ] Current Trends in Bioanalytical Technologies
• 300478 UE [ de en ] Advanced Techniques in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300482 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300509 VO [ en ] Special Chapters in RNA Research
• 300577 VO Biophysical methods in structural biology
• 300581 SE [ de en ] Cell Biology Today: Current Topics, Methodology, and Project Design
• 300585 VO Translation in Eukaryotes I
• 300586 VO Molecular Medicine 2 - Molecular Aspects of Medical Research
• 300598 VO GTPases: Structure and Function
• 300599 UE Laboratory Course: Bioinformatics
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300641 UE [ de en ] Advanced Genetic Engineering and Proteomics in Yeast - Genetics and biochemistry
• 300693 VO [ en ] Macromolecular Crystallography
• 300696 VO Fundamentals in Systems Biology
• 300705 VO Plant Molecular Biology II - Molecular Plant Physiology
• 300707 VO Embryos and Stemcells - Electiv Course in Molecular Medicine
• 300853 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology A - Basics
• 300854 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology B - Advanced Practical Course

MMB W-3 Selected Subjects in Bioinformatics

• 260075 VO Biological Frontiers of Physics: From New Tools for Bio-imaging to Quantum Biology
• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300599 UE Laboratory Course: Bioinformatics
• 300696 VO Fundamentals in Systems Biology
• 300853 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology A - Basics
• 300854 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Structural Biology B - Advanced Practical Course

5. Molecular Microbiology and Immunobiology

5.1. ABCM (1) Molecular Microbiology

MMI I-1 Advanced Microbiology

• 300556 PS Proseminar in Molecular Microbiology

MMI I-2 Advanced Microbiological Techniques

MMI I-3 Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Microbiology

• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1
• 300201 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Molecular Microbiology - Microbiology
• 300366 SE [ en ] Advances in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution

5.2. ABCM (2) Immunobiology

MMI II-1 Advanced Immunobiology

MMI II-2 Advanced Immunological Techniques

• 300091 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 1 - Molecular Microbiology
• 300107 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 3 - Immunobiology

MMI II-3 Advanced Course in Compulsory Subject Immunobiology

• 300095 UE [ de en ] Advanced Course Immunobiology

5.3. Block of Elective Modules: Molecular Microbiology/ Immunobiology

• 300151 UE Practical Course in fluorescence-/confocal microscopy including image processing - for diploma, PhD and advanced students
• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300584 UE Project management in science communication

MMI III-1 Advanced Microbiology/Immunbiology

• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300107 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 3 - Immunobiology
• 300177 SE [ en ] Chromatin and Transcription III
• 300240 SE [ en ] Advanced Seminar Molecular Microbiology
• 300271 VO [ en ] Principles and practice of advanced microscopic technques - life sciences applications using theory and case studies
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300282 VO Bacterial Pathogenes, Molecular Diagnostics and Systematics
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300373 SE [ en ] Mouse genetics and development I
• 300432 UE RNA Profiling in Microbiology/Immunology
• 300478 UE [ de en ] Advanced Techniques in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300482 UE [ de en ] Elective Laboratory Course in Genetics and Developmental Biology
• 300493 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Metagenomics and Physiology of Bacteria and Archaea
• 300588 VO Special Chapters of Immunology
• 300605 SE Seminar in Genetics - Molecular Biology of RNA
• 300610 SE [ en ] Seminar in Microbiology-Immunology

MMI III-2 Elected Subjects in Biology or Chemistry

• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300177 SE [ en ] Chromatin and Transcription III
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300240 SE [ en ] Advanced Seminar Molecular Microbiology
• 300272 UE Practical Course in Molecular Genetics and Pathology - Epigenetics
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300282 VO Bacterial Pathogenes, Molecular Diagnostics and Systematics
• 300287 VO Structure and Function of Biomolecules
• 300288 UE Spectroscopic methods in Biology - Practical Aplication
• 300310 VO Therapy of HIV Infection / AIDS
• 300347 VO [ en ] Principles of Molecular Virology
• 300373 SE [ en ] Mouse genetics and development I
• 300588 VO Special Chapters of Immunology

6. Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Management

6.1. Compulsory Modules

MNB 1 Conservation Biology

• 300342 VO Nature Conservation - Strategies, Programmes, and Demonstration-cases
• 300367 VO Conservation Biology

MNB 2 Conservation: Cultural, Social, Economic Perspectives

• 300286 VO Application of social science methodologies in nature conservation

MNB 3 Conservation Laws and Conventions

• 300670 VO Legal basics and implementation in nature conservation - with an emphasis on EU Nature Directives

MNB 4 Conservation Training

• 300174 UE Conservation training

MNB 5 Ecological Restoration

• 300363 VO Restoration Ecology and its Application in Nature Conservation

MNB 6 Special Knowledge of Protected Species, Habitats and Landscapes: Species (Diversity, Ecology, Conservation Needs)

MNB 7 Special Knowledge of Protected Species, Habitats and Landscapes: Communities, Habitats and Landscapes

• 300297 VO Habitats and Biotic Communities of Central Europe

6.2. Block of Elective Modules: Conservation Biology and Biodiversity

MNB W-1 Management of Protected sites

• 300474 VO Management of protected sites - National Parks in Austria- Conservation goals, Management and Perspectives

MNB W-2 Conservation Policy

MNB W-3 Ex-situ Conservation

• 300051 SE Botanical ex-situ collections and species protection

MNB W-4 Spatial Analysis and Presentation Techniques

MNB W-5 Conservation Related Methodologies of Social, Cultural and Economic Sciences

MNB W-6 Bioindication

7. Ecology

7.1. ABCM (1) Limnology

• 300052 VO Aquatic Microbial Ecology

MOE I-1 Fundamentals of Limnology

• 300015 VO Introduction Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300414 VO Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of stream and river ecosystems

MOE I-2 Limnochemistry, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Hydrobotany

• 300305 VO [ de en ] Elementary hydrobotany

MOE I-3 Aquatic Bicoenoses and Quantitative Freshwater Ecology

• 300325 UE [ de en ] MEC-5 Multivariate statistical methods in ecology (MOE I-3)
• 300434 VO [ de en ] Fish ecology - Lecture Ecology of Fishes (species diversity; fish assemblages; food and feeding; bionergetics; growth; reproduction, biotic interactions; populationsdynamics; habitat selection).
• 300452 VO [ en ] Multivariate statistical methods in ecology

7.2. ABCM (2) Marine Biology

MOE II-1 Fundamentals of Marine Biology

• 300170 VO [ en ] Biological Oceanography

MOE II-2 Experimental Marine Biology

MOE II-3 New Findings in Marine Biology

• 300167 UE [ en ] Special Advances in Marine Ecology Part Two
• 300329 VO [ en ] Biogeochemistry of the Ocean
• 300442 SE [ en ] Keystone Papers in Biogeochemistry of the Ocean

7.3. ABCM (3) Microbial, Molecular and Chemical Ecology

MOE III-1 Microbial Genomics and Phylogeny

• 300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution 1

MOE III-2 Chemical Ecology

MOE III-3 Genetics in Ecology

• 300307 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Molecular genetic and postgenomic analyses of microbial communities and model organisms
• 300484 UE [ en ] Practical Course in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology - Diversity and function of uncultured microbes in medical and environmental samples

7.4. ABCM (4) Ecophysiology and Ecosystem Ecology

MOE IV-1 Ecosystem Ecology

• 300008 VO [ en ] Aquatic biodiversity - control and consequences
• 300126 VO Water Management in Austria - Erfolge, Probleme, Tendenzen
• 300132 UE Plant Ecology and global context - Modellierung, Ökophysiologie, Photosynthese, Globales Klima und Kohlenstoffhaushalt, Biodiversität, Natürliche genetische Variabilität, Ökologie und Evolution, Genotyp-Phenotyp Zusammenhang, Next Generation Genome Sequencing

MOE IV-2 Ecophysiology

7.5. ABCM (5) Community and Landscape Ecology

MOE V-1 Population and Community Ecology

• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)

MOE V-2 Vegetation and Landscape Ecology

• 300005 VO Application of Geographical Information Systems, Geo-statistics and Spatial Analysis in Bio-Sciences
• 300160 VO Landscape Ecology - Introduction to Landscape Ecology - principles, methodes & case studies
• 300480 VO Syntaxonomy - Description, comparison and classification of plant communities

7.6. ABCM (6) Human Ecology

MOE VI-1 Basic Concepts and Methods of Human Ecology

• 300508 VO Methods of Human Ecology
• 300639 SE Sustainable Solutions of Real World Problems

MOE VI-2 Economical, Sociological and Anthropological Background

• 300032 VO Human and Social Ecology - Scientific foundations for sustainable development
• 300298 VO Cultural Ecology and Hunter-Gatherer Societies

MOE VI-3 Selected Topics in Human Ecology

7.7. Block of Elective Modules: Ecology

MOE W-1 Interpretation of Ecological Data

• 300193 SE+UE Preparation and evaluation of multifactorial experiments in Ecology
• 300269 VO [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (VO) - univariate methods
• 300445 UE [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (UE) - univariate methods

MOE W-10 Special Topics in Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology

• 300028 UE Ex: Application of Geographical Informat. Systems, Geo-statistics & Spatial Analysis in Bio-Sciences
• 300035 VO Mountain ecology
• 300290 UE Course in vegetation Ecology: Data interpretation and analysis
• 300393 EX Field mycology

MOE W-11 Sustainable Development and Political Ecology

• 300262 VO Sustainable Development and political ecology

MOE W-2 Quantitative Methods in Limnology

MOE W-3 Selected Topics in Limnology

• 300162 UE Field course Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300519 SE [ en ] Dietary pathways in aquatic foodwebs
• 300659 SE [ en ] Limnology Seminar - Current research and ecological concepts

MOE W-4 Selected Topics in Marine Biology

• 300280 SE [ en ] Recent literature in Marine Ecology and Oceanography
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300326 VO [ en ] Marine Viral Ecology
• 300446 SE [ en ] Advances in Marine Biology, Part 1 - Seminars for MS and PhD students in Dept. Marine Biology

MOE W-5 Molecular and Chemical Methods in Ecology

• 300058 SE [ en ] Bioinformatics for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• 300313 SE [ en ] Bioinformatic for Functional Genomics and Next-Generation Sequencing
• 300364 VO [ de en ] Research topics in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology
• 300366 SE [ en ] Advances in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution
• 300391 SE Advanced Topics in Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology
• 300401 UE Scientific Practice in Microbial Ecology
• 300471 SE [ en ] Seminar Chemodiversity Research - Phytochemistry, function, interpretation
• 300493 SE [ en ] Advanced Techniques in Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology 2 - Metagenomics and Physiology of Bacteria and Archaea

MOE W-6 Stable Isotopes in Ecology

• 300359 SE+UE [ en ] Stable Isotopes in Ecology - Stable Isotope Tracing

MOE W-7 Soil Ecology

• 300264 VO Soil Ecology (interdisciplinary lecture)

MOE W-8 Plant Fitness and Stress

MOE W-9 Ecological Field Methods: Animals

8. Palaeobiology

8.1. Compulsory Modules

MPB 1 Taphonomy and Palaeoecology

MPB 2 Terrestrial Actuopalaeontology

MPB 3 Palaeontology and Evolution

MPB 4 Palaeoclimatology and Palaeogeography

• 300122 VO Paleobiogeography

MPB 5 Special Issues of Hominide Evolution

• 300033 VO Virtual Anthropology - Introduction into digital 3D-methods
• 300078 VO Hominid Evolution
• 300490 VO Introduction of excevation technique of burials in the Prehistory and Early History

MPB 6 Sedimentology and Facies Analysis

8.2. Block of Elective Modules: Palaeobiology

MPB W-1 Aquatic Palaeo-Ecosystems

MPB W-2 Field Course in Aquatic Sediments

MPB W-3 Introduction to Archaeobiology

• 300512 VO Anatomy of Fossil Woods - Archäobiologie
• 300524 VO Archaeozoology 1 - Archaeobiology

MPB W-4 Palaeobiology of Vertebrates

• 300306 UE Comparative morphology and evolution of basal vertebrates
• 300322 SE Current controversies in Vertebrate Palaeobiology

MPB W-5 Plant Evolution and the Development of Vegetation through Time

9. Plant Sciences

9.1. ABCM (1) Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography

MPF I-1 Processes and Methods in Plant Evolution and Speciation

• 300467 VO [ en ] Plant and Fungal Evolution and Diversity

MPF I-2 Principles and Methods of Plant Systematics

• 300110 VO [ en ] Macromolecules and molecular phylogeny in plant systematics and evolution
• 300200 UE [ en ] DNA sequencing and molecular phylogenetics
• 300536 SE [ en ] Botanical Nomenclature

MPF I-3 Principles and Methods of Plant Biogeography and Biodiversity

• 300412 VO [ en ] Plant Biogeography

9.2. ABCM (2) Reproductive, Developmental and Structural Plant Sciences

MPF II-1 Plant Reproductive Biology

• 300155 SE Reproduction ecology and life strategies of tropical plants - Preparation for Tropical Field courses
• 300212 VO Introduction to Plant Genetics

MPF II-2 Plant Developmental Biology

• 300319 UE [ en ] Plant Chromosome Structure and Evolution: theory and practice - Chromosome analysis in flowering plants
• 300557 VO [ en ] Principles in Genetics and Developmental Biology

MPF II-3 Plant Structural Biology

• 300406 UE [ en ] Ultrastructure of Plant Cells

9.3. ABCM (3) Molecular Plant Biology and Physiology

MPF III-1 Plant Molecular Biology

• 300147 SE Light, hormones and rhythms in plants and animals
• 300705 VO Plant Molecular Biology II - Molecular Plant Physiology
• 300861 UE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Plant Biology and Physiology

MPF III-2 Plant Functional Genomics

MPF III-3 Plant Metabolism

9.4. Block of Elective Modules: Plant Sciences

• 300345 SE [ en ] Recent Topics in Molecular Plant Biology
• 300360 SE [ en ] Work in Progress Seminar in Molecular Plant Biology

MPF W-1 Advanced Topics of Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography

• 300235 SE [ en ] Seminar in Plant Systematics and Evolution
• 300273 SE Biosystematics and floristics of European Vascular Plants
• 300393 EX Field mycology
• 300429 SE [ en ] Seminar in Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
• 300471 SE [ en ] Seminar Chemodiversity Research - Phytochemistry, function, interpretation
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants - Communication & nutritional ecology
• 300620 SE Mycological research in Austria, reports from systematics and ecology

MPF W-2 Advanced Topics of Reproductive, Developmental and Structural Plant Sciences

• 300133 VO [ de en ] Comparative anatomy of aquat. and terrestr. plants
• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300237 UE Structure of Plants - from cells to ecology
• 300239 UE Preparation techniques for light microscopy
• 300283 SE [ en ] MPF W-2 Journal Club: Floral Morphology, Development and Evolution (30.03)
• 300418 UE [ en ] The Plant Cell: Physiological and Ecological Aspects

MPF W-3 Advanced Topics of Plant Molecular Biology

• 300345 SE [ en ] Recent Topics in Molecular Plant Biology
• 300360 SE [ en ] Work in Progress Seminar in Molecular Plant Biology
• 300418 UE [ en ] The Plant Cell: Physiological and Ecological Aspects
• 300471 SE [ en ] Seminar Chemodiversity Research - Phytochemistry, function, interpretation
• 300861 UE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Plant Biology and Physiology

10. Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition

10.1. Compulsory Modules

MVN 1 Basic Module Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition

• 300558 VO Animal Communication

MVN 2 Fundamentals of Scientific Research in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition

• 300049 VO Methods in Neurobiology
• 300066 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Biology of Cognition
• 300106 VO Methods in Behavioral Sciences
• 300108 UE [ en ] Methods in Cognitive Biology
• 300292 SE Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Neurobiology
• 300300 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Animal Behaviour

10.2. Block of Elective Modules: Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition

MVN W-1 Behavioural Physiology

• 300021 PP Practical Course in Animal Behavior
• 300116 PP Practical course in Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau

MVN W-10 Actual Research Topics in Neurobiology

• 300251 SE Ecophysiology of visual systems
• 300278 SE Current topics in Neurobiology
• 300675 SE Neurobiology Seminar: Ongoing resarch

MVN W-11 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

• 300274 VO Smell in the brain: Structure and function of the olfactory system

MVN W-12 Cognition for Advanced Students

• 300103 SE [ en ] Cognition & Communication Journal Club
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300352 VO [ en ] Animal Social Cognition

MVN W-13 Cognition Methods

MVN W-2 Behavioural Endocrinology

• 300081 VO Behavioral Endocrinology

MVN W-3 Reproduction and Biological Rhythms

• 300053 VO Introduction to Biological Rhythms
• 300233 VO [ de en ] Sleep and Dreams: Evolution, Physiology and Culture

MVN W-4 Sound Communication in Animals

• 300119 PP Bioacoustic Project Course

MVN W-5 Animal Communication

• 300018 VO Animal Vocalization - Sound Production, Reception and Communication

MVN W-6 Social Mechanisms

• 300006 VO Social Systems - Social Systems in vertebrates with special emphasis on mechanismus - behaviour - brain-personality-stress, etc.
• 300034 SE Topical Problems in Behavioral Research
• 300117 SE Ethological and ecoethological Seminar (Grünau)
• 300600 VO [ en ] Vertebrate Social Systems II

MVN W-7 Human Animal Relationship

• 300381 UE [ en ] Attachment Methodoloy
• 300383 SE [ en ] Comparative Attachment
• 300397 VO [ en ] Comparative Attachment

MVN W-8 Neurobiology for Advanced Students

• 300646 PP Neurobiology: Visual Systems

MVN W-9 Neuroanatomy

• 300234 PP [ en ] Neural Circuit Analyses in the Drosophila Brain

11. Zoology

11.1. Compulsory Modules

MZO 1 Basic Modul Zoology

• 300143 VO Animal development and systematics
• 300472 VO [ en ] Behavioural ecology

MZO 2 Methods and Research Training in Zoology

• 300007 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300025 PP Project course: Histological methods
• 300096 PP Arthropoda - morphology and evolution
• 300097 PP Practical Course: Vertebrates - Comparative Morphology of Vertebrates
• 300190 PP [ en ] Hands-on Cryopreparation techniques and Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - To enable advanced BIO-stud. to understand & apply advan.cryo-electron microscopy, immunolabelling within their own research. Supported by lectures & demonst., this intensive, hand-on training courese teaches special. techn.,such as Tokuyasu cryosectioning, high-pressure freezing-freeze substitution & acrylic resin embedding for high resol. localization of intracell. proteins & other intracell. struc. by immunogold labelling
• 300232 PP Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300302 UE [ de en ] Practical Course in Cell and Developmental Biology
• 300338 PP Comparative Anatomy and Morphology of native Fishes
• 300365 PP Survey of bird communities in city parks
• 300416 PP [ en ] 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT
• 300488 PP GIS field methods and behavioural ecology & diversity of neotropical amphibians - PP in French Guiana. In compulsory combination with the seminar "biology of tropical amphibians" 300180 (SE)
• 300674 PP Submicroscopical anatomy and preparatory techniques in electronmicroscopy
• 300703 PP Animal Acoustic Signals - Animal Acoustic Signals

11.2. Block of Elective Modules: Zoology

• 300464 UE Limnetic and marine copepods of Europe - Diversity, systematics and ecology of the copepods of Europe (Microcrustaceans)

MZO W-1 Morphology, Anatomy and Ultrastructure of Animals

• 300042 UE Microscopic anatomy of vertebrates
• 300158 SE New concepts in light- and electron microscopy - New concepts in light- and electron microscopy (scientific results, instruments, methods)
• 300306 UE Comparative morphology and evolution of basal vertebrates
• 300316 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters and PhD students - Current Trends in Metazoan Morphology, Systematics and Development
• 300322 SE Current controversies in Vertebrate Palaeobiology
• 300356 UE Entomological Laboratory - Entomological and taxonomic studies on selected insects
• 300396 VO Vertebrates - Morphology, Phylogeny, Biology
• 300448 UE Morphology and taxidermy of birds (Nonpasseres and Passeres)
• 300544 UE Museological technics - Introduction to the preparation of insects.

MZO W-2 Biodiversity and Systematics of Animals

• 300006 VO Social Systems - Social Systems in vertebrates with special emphasis on mechanismus - behaviour - brain-personality-stress, etc.
• 300015 VO Introduction Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300055 VO Introduction into evolutionary biology - current topics in vertebrate systematics
• 300076 VO Australian Fauna - examples of evolution, ecology and biogeography
• 300124 VO The birds of Austria - an ecological and conservationbiological overview
• 300156 VO Biology and Ecology of alpine animals
• 300159 VO Evolutionary biology of birds
• 300180 SE [ en ] Biology of tropical amphibians
• 300202 UE Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
• 300281 VO [ en ] Symbiosis - concepts and model systems
• 300294 VO Biology and ecology of the Lepidoptera
• 300361 UE Determination of Austrian Apidae - Determination Course
• 300439 VO [ en ] Bird Ecology
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants - Communication & nutritional ecology
• 300657 UE Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - in Central European freshwaters

MZO W-3 Developmental Biology

• 300222 VO Comparative embryology of animals
• 300489 VO [ de en ] Growth and Proportion - Basics of biosystemstheory II
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods

MZO W-4 Theoretical Biology

• 300183 VO Human "Evo-Devo": The evolution of human development
• 300188 VO [ de en ] Theoretical Morphology
• 300357 UE [ en ] Mathematical Basics for Theoretical Biology

MZO W-5 Basic Modul of Evolutionary Biology

• 300009 VO Evolutionary Biology
• 300511 VO [ en ] Concepts in Evolutionary Biology
• 300515 VO [ en ] Speciation and coevolution - Concepts und case studies

MZO W-6 Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition

• 300558 VO Animal Communication

MZO W-7 Ecological Field Methods: Animals

MZO W-8 Marine Biology

• 300170 VO [ en ] Biological Oceanography
• 300280 SE [ en ] Recent literature in Marine Ecology and Oceanography

MZO W-9 Interpretation of Ecological Data

• 300193 SE+UE Preparation and evaluation of multifactorial experiments in Ecology
• 300269 VO [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (VO) - univariate methods
• 300445 UE [ en ] Analysis of ecological data (UE) - univariate methods

D. Additional Scientific qualifications for Biologists

• 300168 VO Introduction to Biomimetics
• 300314 VO Renewable Energies
• 300384 VO [ en ] What is Life? - Conceptual foundations of biology
• 300390 EX Highlights of palaeontology 1 - excursion

B-WZB Elective Module Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists

• 300013 VO Biological Invasions - Neobiota and their relevance
• 300014 VO Bioacoustics - theory, equipment
• 300018 VO Animal Vocalization - Sound Production, Reception and Communication
• 300056 VO Methods of the population analysis I: parametry and univariat analytic methods
• 300057 VO Urban Ecology
• 300059 EX Vertebrate ecological special excursions: autumnal and hibernal aspects of bird communities
• 300062 UE Computer-assisted presentation techniques
• 300064 EX Speleological excursions Caves of Austria and neighboring countries
• 300065 VO Introduction into the fauna and ecology of the Amazon basin
• 300073 VO Research in National Parks - Seewinkel-Neusiedlersee
• 300076 VO Australian Fauna - examples of evolution, ecology and biogeography
• 300077 VO Introduction to Applied Limnology - Eutrophication, Pollution, Climate Change
• 300084 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 300085 SE COSB Colloquium - Vorträge im Center for Organismal Systems Biology
• 300087 SE Lab Safety - Fundamental Principles of Lab Safety: preventive measures and appropriate behaviour
• 300098 UE Introduction to Molecular Biological Techniques - Molecular Techniques
• 300105 SE Writer's workshop for biologists - Principles of scientific publication
• 300109 VO Biology of recent reefs
• 300111 UE Computer applications for biologists
• 300115 VO Soil science for Ecologists
• 300124 VO The birds of Austria - an ecological and conservationbiological overview
• 300133 VO [ de en ] Comparative anatomy of aquat. and terrestr. plants
• 300144 VO Tropical Ecosystems - Rain Forests
• 300148 VO Introduction to Desert Biology. Life communities of subtropical and tropical deserts
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300156 VO Biology and Ecology of alpine animals
• 300162 UE Field course Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300168 VO Introduction to Biomimetics
• 300169 SE Departmental Seminar Anthropology
• 300180 SE [ en ] Biology of tropical amphibians
• 300186 VO Biodiversity of tropical coral reefs - Introduction into species diversity of tropical reef invertebrates and vertebrates, with special reference to reef conservation and tourism
• 300202 UE Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
• 300203 VO Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Pathophysiology und Medizin
• 300209 EX Excursion in east pannonical habitats - Importance of east pannonical habitats for palaearctic migration birds
• 300222 VO Comparative embryology of animals
• 300226 VO On co-existence and cooperation within the Austrian university system nowadays
• 300230 VO General basics of medicine for biologists, Part 1
• 300236 SE Research Seminar "Viennese Anthropologies"
• 300241 VO Tropical ecosystems of South and Central America
• 300251 SE Ecophysiology of visual systems
• 300257 VO Managing Research and Higher Education
• 300259 UE Selected GIS-problems and solutions for biologists - Course
• 300265 VO [ en ] Safety in the laboratory
• 300267 VO Business in Biotech
• 300268 UE Managing research and higher education (UE)
• 300285 SE+UE Light and video microscopy in theory and practice (parallel courses)
• 300293 VO Special Forensic Anthropology
• 300294 VO Biology and ecology of the Lepidoptera
• 300301 SE [ en ] Scientific English - Research reports, talks, style and grammar
• 300306 UE Comparative morphology and evolution of basal vertebrates
• 300308 VO Introduction to the special field course "Desert ecosystems (Southern Jordan)", SS 14 - SS 2014, Geography, history, climate, ecosystems, fauna and flora of Jordan
• 300314 VO Renewable Energies
• 300322 SE Current controversies in Vertebrate Palaeobiology
• 300351 VO Primary producers of freshwaters - ecophysiology with implications for the bio-assessment of aquatic systems and the response to climate change.
• 300386 UE HTML-Programming for the Internet
• 300390 EX Highlights of palaeontology 1 - excursion
• 300394 VO [ en ] Introduction to molecular techniques
• 300396 VO Vertebrates - Morphology, Phylogeny, Biology
• 300400 SE Preparation for the Bachelor-Thesis: From structure to citations
• 300408 SE+UE Ecological Floristics (field studies) - ( previously: eco floristic excursions)
• 300413 SE Seminar Mentoring of the Orientation Period Biology
• 300433 VO Medical parasitology - Transfer of basic knowledge
• 300438 SE [ de en ] Seminar in biometry for beginners - Basics of biometrical analysis
• 300447 VO [ en ] Introduction to Tropical Ecology
• 300451 SE [ en ] From glaciers to oceans: Concepts in aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry - Students acquire conceptual knowledge in aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. A focus will be on concepts that are equally applicable to freshwater and marine ecosystems. The seminar will include paper reading, discussions and short presentations.
• 300461 VO Biology and ecology of European amphibians
• 300463 VO Immunbiology and immundiagnosis of parasitic infections of humans
• 300464 UE Limnetic and marine copepods of Europe - Diversity, systematics and ecology of the copepods of Europe (Microcrustaceans)
• 300466 VO [ de en ] Hygiene-related environmental microbiology: Medical Entomology - Epidemiology of water-borne medical parasites and aquatic vectors
• 300469 UE [ en ] Management and analysis of spatial Data
• 300470 UE [ de en ] Scientific Literature - Data retrieval and management
• 300477 SE Seminar reefs in Earth Sciences
• 300497 UE UE Scientific Writing - An Introduction to writing techniques and reading techniques - and their application in different stages of a scientific writing process
• 300504 SE How to write a scientific paper
• 300517 SE+UE Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy - (parallel courses)
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods
• 300531 SE [ en ] Writing Theses and Articles in English
• 300547 EX Excursions to Palaeolithic site
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants - Communication & nutritional ecology
• 300552 VO [ de en ] Physiology and Ecology of Cyanobacteria
• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300601 VO The Flora of Europe - particulary of Austria
• 300630 VO Free radical processes in biology - Role of free radicals in biol. systems under normal physiological conditions, stress conditions and illness
• 300635 VO Ornitology III - breeding biology
• 300657 UE Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - in Central European freshwaters
• 300669 VO Management of endangered species - practical species protection in marine and terrestrial ecosystems
• 300697 VO History of Anthropology
• 300716 UE Preparation and determination of Pleistocene animal remains - (parallel courses)

Block of Elective Modules: Additional Scient. Skills for Biologists (Master's Degree (before 2013), and Teacher Training Programme). Additionally, courses with biological and other issues can also be attended (compare Curriculum).

• 240236 VU Focusmodule - Lecture Series & Workshops
• 300013 VO Biological Invasions - Neobiota and their relevance
• 300014 VO Bioacoustics - theory, equipment
• 300018 VO Animal Vocalization - Sound Production, Reception and Communication
• 300056 VO Methods of the population analysis I: parametry and univariat analytic methods
• 300057 VO Urban Ecology
• 300059 EX Vertebrate ecological special excursions: autumnal and hibernal aspects of bird communities
• 300062 UE Computer-assisted presentation techniques
• 300064 EX Speleological excursions Caves of Austria and neighboring countries
• 300065 VO Introduction into the fauna and ecology of the Amazon basin
• 300073 VO Research in National Parks - Seewinkel-Neusiedlersee
• 300076 VO Australian Fauna - examples of evolution, ecology and biogeography
• 300077 VO Introduction to Applied Limnology - Eutrophication, Pollution, Climate Change
• 300084 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 300085 SE COSB Colloquium - Vorträge im Center for Organismal Systems Biology
• 300087 SE Lab Safety - Fundamental Principles of Lab Safety: preventive measures and appropriate behaviour
• 300102 VO Introduction to ecophysiology of animals - Ecophysiological adaptations of animals to environmental factors
• 300105 SE Writer's workshop for biologists - Principles of scientific publication
• 300109 VO Biology of recent reefs
• 300111 UE Computer applications for biologists
• 300115 VO Soil science for Ecologists
• 300124 VO The birds of Austria - an ecological and conservationbiological overview
• 300133 VO [ de en ] Comparative anatomy of aquat. and terrestr. plants
• 300144 VO Tropical Ecosystems - Rain Forests
• 300148 VO Introduction to Desert Biology. Life communities of subtropical and tropical deserts
• 300154 UE [ en ] Bioacoustics I - Introduction to vertebrate Bioacoustics
• 300156 VO Biology and Ecology of alpine animals
• 300162 UE Field course Hydrology and Running Water Ecology
• 300169 SE Departmental Seminar Anthropology
• 300180 SE [ en ] Biology of tropical amphibians
• 300186 VO Biodiversity of tropical coral reefs - Introduction into species diversity of tropical reef invertebrates and vertebrates, with special reference to reef conservation and tourism
• 300202 UE Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
• 300203 VO Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Pathophysiology und Medizin
• 300209 EX Excursion in east pannonical habitats - Importance of east pannonical habitats for palaearctic migration birds
• 300222 VO Comparative embryology of animals
• 300236 SE Research Seminar "Viennese Anthropologies"
• 300241 VO Tropical ecosystems of South and Central America
• 300251 SE Ecophysiology of visual systems
• 300257 VO Managing Research and Higher Education
• 300259 UE Selected GIS-problems and solutions for biologists - Course
• 300265 VO [ en ] Safety in the laboratory
• 300267 VO Business in Biotech
• 300268 UE Managing research and higher education (UE)
• 300285 SE+UE Light and video microscopy in theory and practice (parallel courses)
• 300294 VO Biology and ecology of the Lepidoptera
• 300301 SE [ en ] Scientific English - Research reports, talks, style and grammar
• 300306 UE Comparative morphology and evolution of basal vertebrates
• 300308 VO Introduction to the special field course "Desert ecosystems (Southern Jordan)", SS 14 - SS 2014, Geography, history, climate, ecosystems, fauna and flora of Jordan
• 300314 VO Renewable Energies
• 300322 SE Current controversies in Vertebrate Palaeobiology
• 300351 VO Primary producers of freshwaters - ecophysiology with implications for the bio-assessment of aquatic systems and the response to climate change.
• 300384 VO [ en ] What is Life? - Conceptual foundations of biology
• 300386 UE HTML-Programming for the Internet
• 300394 VO [ en ] Introduction to molecular techniques
• 300396 VO Vertebrates - Morphology, Phylogeny, Biology
• 300400 SE Preparation for the Bachelor-Thesis: From structure to citations
• 300408 SE+UE Ecological Floristics (field studies) - ( previously: eco floristic excursions)
• 300413 SE Seminar Mentoring of the Orientation Period Biology
• 300433 VO Medical parasitology - Transfer of basic knowledge
• 300438 SE [ de en ] Seminar in biometry for beginners - Basics of biometrical analysis
• 300461 VO Biology and ecology of European amphibians
• 300463 VO Immunbiology and immundiagnosis of parasitic infections of humans
• 300464 UE Limnetic and marine copepods of Europe - Diversity, systematics and ecology of the copepods of Europe (Microcrustaceans)
• 300466 VO [ de en ] Hygiene-related environmental microbiology: Medical Entomology - Epidemiology of water-borne medical parasites and aquatic vectors
• 300469 UE [ en ] Management and analysis of spatial Data
• 300470 UE [ de en ] Scientific Literature - Data retrieval and management
• 300477 SE Seminar reefs in Earth Sciences
• 300497 UE UE Scientific Writing - An Introduction to writing techniques and reading techniques - and their application in different stages of a scientific writing process
• 300504 SE How to write a scientific paper
• 300517 SE+UE Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy - (parallel courses)
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods
• 300531 SE [ en ] Writing Theses and Articles in English
• 300547 EX Excursions to Palaeolithic site
• 300548 SE Mutualistic Interactions of plants and ants - Communication & nutritional ecology
• 300552 VO [ de en ] Physiology and Ecology of Cyanobacteria
• 300565 VO Basics and handling with intellectual property for biologists - Basics for Scientists
• 300584 UE Project management in science communication
• 300601 VO The Flora of Europe - particulary of Austria
• 300630 VO Free radical processes in biology - Role of free radicals in biol. systems under normal physiological conditions, stress conditions and illness
• 300635 VO Ornitology III - breeding biology
• 300657 UE Identification course for aquatic invertebrates - in Central European freshwaters
• 300669 VO Management of endangered species - practical species protection in marine and terrestrial ecosystems
• 300697 VO History of Anthropology
• 300711 VO [ en ] Writing and Speaking Scientific English
• 300716 UE Preparation and determination of Pleistocene animal remains - (parallel courses)