Compulsory Modules (60 ECTS)

MZO1 Foundations of Zoology (15 ECTS)

• 300143 VO [ de en ] ( 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
• 300149 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Practical introduction to programming for biologists
• 300218 UE [ de en ] Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300232 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Fluorescence staining, confocal microscopy and computer generated 3D-reconstruction
• 300306 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Hands-on Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - Ultrastructure preservation for biologists
• 300416 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT - Microscopy and software methods for 3D morphological analysis

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

• 300065 VU [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Quantitative analysis of time series and population data - (Data Analysis and modeling)
• 300101 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Scientific Writing Workshop
• 300531 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Writing Theses and Articles in English - Effective communication and presentation of scientific research

MZO4 Individual Spezialization (30 ECTS)

• 290209 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis: Science, Activism and Policy in the Climate Emergency
• 300003 VU [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Measuring time: Scientific Dating methods
• 300020 SE ( ON-SITE ) Seminar on current topics in behavioural biology
• 300070 UE ( ON-SITE ) Microscopic anatomy of vertebrates
• 300071 VO ( ON-SITE ) Climate Change - Biodiversity, Global Change and Climate Policy - (climate change)
• 300092 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introduction to Coral Reef Biology
• 300094 VU [ en ] Lessons in Scientific Thinking: Understanding Evolution - How does science establish our knowledge of the natural world ?
• 300097 UE [ en ] 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 ] ( ON-SITE ) Genome analysis for Ecologists
• 300113 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Molecular Evolution and Genomics
• 300117 VO [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Mammalogy
• 300131 VU [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Statistics course based on R
• 300142 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Evolutionary Biology - Departmentalseminar for Masterstudents
• 300149 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Practical introduction to programming for biologists
• 300164 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Current topics in Speciation Genomics
• 300172 UE ( ON-SITE ) Evolution in the museum - Development, endangerment and protection of biodiversity
• 300173 VU Biological Invasions
• 300175 VO [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Introductory lecture into techniques of EVO-DEVO
• 300180 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Biology of tropical amphibians
• 300187 EX Birds on the water
• 300199 UE [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Exercise on behaviour observation and behavioural genetics using the example of Japanese macaques
• 300206 UE ( ON-SITE ) Genetic tools in ecology and conservation
• 300218 UE [ de en ] Scanning electron microscopy - techniques and preparations for biologists
• 300306 UE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Hands-on Immunolabelling for Light and Electron Microscopy - Ultrastructure preservation for biologists
• 300390 EX Highlights of palaeontology 1 - excursion
• 300464 VU ( ON-SITE ) Limnetic and marine copepods of Europe and Russia - Diversity, systematics and ecology of the copepods of Europe and Russia (Microcrustaceans)
• 300511 VO [ de en ] ( ON-SITE ) Concepts in Evolutionary Biology
• 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