Master Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition (878)

Compulsory Modules (25 ECTS)

MVN 1 Basic Module Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition (15 ECTS)

• 300310 VO Neurobiology II - Neurobiologie II
• 300336 VO [ en ] Biology of Cognition
• 300464 VO Behavioral Ecology
• 300683 VO Physiology of the Senses

MVN 2 Fundamentals of Scientific Research in Behaviour, Neurobiology and Cognition (10 ECTS)

• 300031 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Biology of Cognition
• 300041 SE Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students in Neurobiology
• 300203 SE [ en ] Seminar for Masters, Diploma and doctoral-students in Behavioural Biology

Block of Elective Modules Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition (35 ECTS)

MVN W-1 Behavioural Physiology (10 ECTS)

• 300195 UE Practical course in Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
• 300337 UE Further practice in behavioral physiology

MVN W-2 Behavioural Endocrinology (5 ECTS)

MVN W-3 Reproduction and Biological Rhythms (5 ECTS)

• 300017 VO Topics in Sexual Biology

MVN W-4 Sound Communication in Animals (10 ECTS)

MVN W-5 Animal Communication (5 ECTS)

• 300231 VO Behavioural biology of aquatic vertebrates - fishes and whales
• 300335 UE [ en ] Bio-Acoustics II - Advanced Bioacoustics

MVN W-6 Social Mechanisms (5 ECTS)

MVN W-7 Human Animal Relationship (5 ECTS)

• 300053 SE Current topics in human-animal relationships - Discussion of new scientific results. Seminar with lecture human-animal relations
• 300557 VO Human-Animal Interactions (Anthrozoology) - evolutionary functions and mechanisms, animals as social partners, species management

MVN W-8 Neurobiology for Advanced Students (10 ECTS)

• 301904 UE [ en ] Neurophysiology and behavior of C. elegans

MVN W-9 Neuroanatomy (10 ECTS)

• 300216 UE Molecular and cellular neurobiology

MVN W-10 Actual Research Topics in Neurobiology (5 ECTS)

• 300675 SE [ de en ] Neurobiology Seminar: Ongoing resarch
• 301906 SE [ en ] Modern approaches in the analysis of neuronal circuits and behavior

MVN W-11 Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (5 ECTS)

• 300280 SE [ de en ] Principles of Brain Evolution
• 300311 SE [ de en ] Molecular mechanisms of brain disorders
• 301905 VO [ en ] Information-processing in neuronal networks

MVN W-12 Cognition for Advanced Students (10 ECTS)

• 300110 SE [ en ] Current topics in cognitive biology 2

MVN W-13 Cognition Methods (10 ECTS)

• 300656 UE Practical course in animal cognition - Introduction into the methods of learning experiments with animals

Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists (30 ECTS)

• 300078 UE [ en ] Biogeographical Excursions
• 300094 UE [ en ] Proteomics in systembiology
• 300116 UE Evolutionary Ecology of Fish
• 300129 VO Bio- and chemodiversity of economic plants - secondary metabolites
• 300140 UE [ en ] Community phylogeny of animals
• 300169 UE [ en ] Trophic ecology of aquatic ecosystems
• 300171 UE Writing scientific theses
• 300182 VO [ en ] Beyond networks: the evolution of dynamic regulatory systems
• 300184 SE [ en ] Current topics in Evolutionary Systems Biology
• 300219 SE [ en ] Physiology and niches of nitrifiers - Additional Skills for Biologists in the Master program
• 300269 VO Palaeobiogeography
• 300323 SE [ de en ] Current Trends in Parasitology = Journal Club - Current parasitological topics, lecture works english slides
• 300362 UE [ en ] Applied Data Analysis

Courses of the Additional Scientific Qualifications for Biologists

• 300035 EX Speleological excursions Caves of Austria and neighboring countries
• 300062 UE Computer-assisted presentation techniques
• 300085 SE [ en ] COSB Colloquium - Vorträge im Center for Organismal Systems Biology
• 300112 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology
• 300149 SE+UE [ de en ] Light and video microscopy in theory and practice (parallel courses)
• 300218 UE [ de en ] Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300221 UE [ de en ] Transmission Electron Microscopy of Cells and Tissues -Techniques and Preparation
• 300433 VO Medical parasitology - Transfer of basic knowledge
• 300438 SE [ de en ] Seminar in biometry - Basics of biometrical analysis
• 300447 VO [ en ] Introduction to Tropical Ecology
• 300517 SE+UE Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy
• 300530 UE [ en ] Imaging and visualization in developmental biology - Principles and applications, including 3 D Methods
• 300659 SE [ en ] Limnology Seminar - Current research and ecological concepts