Compulsory Modules (60 ECTS)

MZO1 Foundations of Zoology (15 ECTS)

• 300143 VO ( ON-SITE ) Principles in metazoan systematics, evodevo and evolutionary research
• 300472 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Reproductive biology
• 300702 VO ( ON-SITE ) Animal Cells and Tissues

MZO2 Scientific Methods (10 ECTS)

• 300115 UE ( ON-SITE ) DNA Barcoding - A new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
• 300218 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300232 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300416 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT

MZO3 Data Analysis, Scientific Writing and Presentation Techniques (5 ECTS)

• 300065 VU [ en ] Quantitative analysis of time series and population data - (Data Analysis and modeling)
• 300101 SE [ en ] ( MIXED ) Scientific Writing Workshop
• 300104 UE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Science Communication
• 300531 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Writing Theses and Articles in English - (parallel courses)

MZO4 Individual Spezialization (30 ECTS)

• 290109 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis - Staying within Planetary Boundaries
• 300071 VO ( ON-SITE ) Climate Change - Biodiversity, Global Change and Climate Policy - (climate change)
• 300092 UE [ de en ] Introduction to Coral Reef Biology
• 300097 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Natural History Collections - an introduction to management and utilization
• 300106 UE [ en ] Analyses of single cell transcriptome data - Genome/transcriptome assembly and annotation
• 300108 UE [ en ] Genome analysis for Ecologists
• 300121 UE [ en ] Image analysis and reconstruction of morphological datasets
• 300131 UE [ de en es ] ( ON-SITE ) Tropical Botany: Ants-Plants-Microorganisms - Modellsysteme für multitrophische Interaktionen
• 300142 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Evolutionary Biology - Departmentalseminar for Masterstudents
• 300164 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Current topics in Speciation Genomics
• 300175 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introductory lecture into techniques of EVO-DEVO
• 300206 UE ( MIXED ) Genetic tools in ecology and conservation
• 300218 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300306 UE [ en ] Hands-on Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300394 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introduction to molecular techniques
• 300527 UE ( ON-SITE ) Practical course: molecular phylogeny based on museum specimens
• 300669 VO ( ON-SITE ) Management of endangered species - practical species protection in marine and terrestrial ecosystems