B. Master's Degree Programmes Biology

300162 VO+UE [ en ] Advanced Marine Ecology I
300180 VO+UE [ en ] Biogeochemistry of the ocean
300314 UE [ en ] Fauna and flora of marine habitats - Voraussetzung ist eine positive Prüfung über die Vorlesung "Einführung in die Meereskunde" oder "Einführung in die Meeresbiologie"

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

300114 SE [ en ] Current Topics in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution
300347 VO+UE Phylogeny of prokaryotes - (1h lecture and 2 parallel 2h laboratory course)

7.4. ABCM (4) Ecophysiology and Ecosystem Ecology

300207 VO+UE Plant Ecophysiology Field Course
300236 VO Ecophysiology of plants
300483 SE+UE [ en ] Structure and Function of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

7.5. ABCM (5) Community and Landscape Ecology

300081 EX+VO Vegetation Ecology: Concepts and Methods
300094 PP Plant population biology
300635 VO+UE Ecosystems and Vegetation of natural Landscapes - Fieldcourse Ötschgräben

7.6. ABCM (6) Human Ecology

300160 SE SE: Specific Human Ecology
300184 VO Applied Human Ecology: transitions and possible interventions in developing societies - Investigative methods in transition societies on food security, climate change and regional development
300189 SE Participatory Research in Human Ecology
300281 SE Inter- and transdiciplinary work-methods in human ecology research
300316 EX+VO Ecological research fororganic farming - Examples from the practice
300357 VO Specific Human Ecology
300406 VO Natural environment and the energy sector - a human ecological perspective
300612 UE Environmental Health Interactions - Molecular Epidemiology and Epigenetics

7.7. Block of Elective Modules: Ecology

300007 UE Microscopical course on freshwater algae - Microscopical course on freshwater algae in lakes aimed at EC Water Framework Directive
300033 VO+UE+EX Limnetic ostracods from Austria - Biodiversity, systematics, zoogeography and bioindication
300041 VO+UE Macrophyte survey and Water Framework Directive and European Standards - Assessing the ecological status of waterbodies in Europe
300088 VO+SE Marine Viral Ecology
300106 UE Ecological Field Methods: Animals - The course presents collecting and sampling strategies (e.g. nets, pitfall traps, mark-release-recapture methods, light traps, transects) of terrestrial animal ecology in practical exercises. Design and execution of a field study from the coice of the study area to the interpretation of the collected data for scientific work will be demonstrated.
300175 VO+SE [ en ] Microbial Oceanography
300177 VO+SE [ en ] Molecular mechanisms of Symbiosis
300181 SE New methods in fish ecology
300218 SE [ en ] Advances in Marine Biology, part 2 - Seminars for MS and PhD students in Dept. Marine Biology
300230 VO Microbiology at the University of Vienna
300234 VO Introduction to Planktonecology
300266 UE Aquatic microbial Ecology - Introduction to methods
300268 UE Excursions on vegetation ecology - Excursions on Conservation, Vegetation and Landscape Ecolgy in Austria
300272 UE Ecology Course - Island of Krk (Croatia) - Ecology Course - Island of Krk (Croatia)
300276 VO+UE Rhizosphere
300325 EX [ de en ] Hydrobotanical excursions - aquatic vegetation in characteristic habitats in Eastern Austria
300366 SE [ en de ] Advances in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Evolution
300401 VO Basics of microbial degradation processes in aquatic systems
300428 VO+UE+EX Ephemeroptera identification course - advanced level
300607 UE [ de en ] Molecular and chemical methods in ecology
300651 VO Quantitative freshwater ecology/ statistics - Statistical methods
300658 EX+VO Diversity of Bryophyes, Vulneribility and Conservation

8. Palaeobiology

8.1. Compulsory Modules

280034 VO Sedimentology, Facies Analysis (BA17) (NPI)
280035 UE+PR Sedimentology, Facies Analysis (BA17) (PI)
280057 VO Taphonomy and Palaeoecology (BA29) (NPI)
280058 PR+EX Taphonomy and Palaeoecology (BA29) (PI)
300057 VO Palaeoclimatology
300391 SE [ en ] Morphometric Data Acquisition and Analysis
300392 VO [ en ] Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology
300552 UE Comparative morphology of fossil hominids

8.2. Block of Elective Modules: Palaeobiology

280532 SE Evolution der Vertebrata: paläobiologische Methoden
300060 VO Introduction to Archaeobiology - Wooden remains from archaeological sites
300151 SE Vertebrate Palaeobiology - Darwin Award for animals
300210 UE Field work in aquatic sediments
300221 UE Anthropological-Palaeontological field school - bear cave in Slovakia part 2

9. Plant Sciences

9.1. ABCM (1) Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography

300137 VO Flora and Vegetation of Central Europe
300138 EX Botanical excursions
300294 VO Plant Systematics and Evolution
300540 SE+UE Seminar Co-Evolution - Co-evolutionary processes as driving forces in plant evolution

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

300251 VO+UE Morphology and function of pollen and spores
300450 VO [ en ] Molecular Biology of Plant Reproduction

9.3. ABCM (3) Molecular Plant Biology and Physiology

300108 VO Plant Metabolism - Plant systems biology: modern methods in systems biology, metabolomics, proteomics
300580 SE [ en ] Scientific Literature in Plant Biology
300861 UE [ en ] Advanced Topics in Plant Biology and Physiology

9.4. Block of Elective Modules: Plant Sciences

300077 VO+UE Systematics and ecology of macromycetes
300078 SE Systematics and floristics of Central Europe
300121 VO+UE [ en ] Molecular marker in population biology
300129 VO+SE Bio- and chemodiversity of economic plants
300186 EX Floristic mapping campaigns in Austria and neighbouring regions
300235 SE Seminar in Plant Systematics and Evolution
300263 SE Seminar in the fields of Ultrastructure Research and Palynology
300264 SE Seminar in tropical botany
300278 UE Special reproductive systems and their role for evolution and ecology
300304 UE Course in identifying bryophytes
300305 VO Introduction to bryology
300382 VO Molecular biology of Plants VI - Plant-Pathogen Interaction
300408 SE+UE Ecological Floristics (field studies) - ( previously: eco floristic excursions)
300409 UE Advanced Course in Developmental Biology
300421 VO Molecular biology of Plant IV - biochemistry of plant
300425 VO+UE Structure of Plants
300471 UE+EX Botanical Alpine course
300475 SE Legal and Ethic Aspects of Genetic Engineering
300581 SE Project Planning in Plant Biol.
300600 UE [ en ] Methods of chemodiversity research - Phytochemistry
300658 EX+VO Diversity of Bryophyes, Vulneribility and Conservation
300736 SE [ en ] Seminar in Developmental Biology

10. Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition

10.1. Compulsory Modules

300044 VO+UE Measuring Techniques in Neurobiology - Special training in the basics of electronic measuring
300464 VO Behavioral Ecology
300546 SE Seminar for Masters, Diploma and PhD-students - in Behavior, Neurobiology and Cognition
300663 VO Basic Neurobiology
300683 VO Physiology of the Senses

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

300103 SE [ en ] Cognitive Biology Journal Club
300116 PP Behavioural Biology, Gruenau - (social mechanisms) at the Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle in Gruenau
300117 SE Ethologisches u. Ökoethologisches Seminar (Grünau)
300149 VO Hormones, the brain and the endocrine and immune systems
300337 PP Practical course in Behavioral Physiology
300347 VO+UE Phylogeny of prokaryotes - (1h lecture and 2 parallel 2h laboratory course)
300393 SE [ en ] Hot topics in animal cognition
300470 SE Current topics in human-animal relation ships - Discussion of new scientific results. Seminar with lecture human-animal relations
300557 VO Human-Animal Interactions (Anthropozoology) - evolutionary functions and mechanisms, animals as social partners, species management
300656 PP Practical course in animal cognition - Introduction into the methods of learning experiments with animals
300675 SE Neurobiology Seminar: Ongoing resarch

11. Zoology

11.1. Compulsory Modules

300042 PP Comparative Anatomy and Morphology of Fishes
300093 PP DNA Barcoding - a new approach to species identification in ecology and biodiversity research
300136 PP Population biology of native amphibians
300142 PP Field course in recent and fossil coral reefs
300156 PP Advanced techniques of electronmicroscopy and ultrastructural research
300250 PP Ecological behaviour of pollinator insects - Ecological behaviour of pollinator insects
300388 VO Form, Funktion and Evolution in Animals
300416 PP [ en ] 3-D Imaging and Modeling Using MicroCT
300418 UE [ en ] Research Training in Zoology
300435 VO Animal biogeography - Principles of animal biogeography
300674 PP Submicroscopical anatomy and preparatory techniques

11.2. Block of Elective Modules: Zoology

300002 UE Embryology - morphological course in comparative embryology
300020 VO Basic entomology - Introduction to the systematics, morphology and anatomy of insects.
300033 VO+UE+EX Limnetic ostracods from Austria - Biodiversity, systematics, zoogeography and bioindication
300048 VO Basics of biosystems theory
300049 VO Biology, ecology and conservation biology of bats - The course will focus on the biology (morphology, reproduction, echolocation) and ecology (ecomorphology, feeding ecology, roostin ecology) of bats. Furthermore threats to bats and conservation measures to protect bats will be discussed.
300067 VO Introductory morphometrics (Biometry II) - Principles of multivariate statistics
300106 UE Ecological Field Methods: Animals - The course presents collecting and sampling strategies (e.g. nets, pitfall traps, mark-release-recapture methods, light traps, transects) of terrestrial animal ecology in practical exercises. Design and execution of a field study from the coice of the study area to the interpretation of the collected data for scientific work will be demonstrated.
300112 VO [ en ] Modeling in Evolutionary Biology
300179 VO Comparative Embryology - Entwicklungssysteme der Tiere (Entwicklungsbiologie B 608)
300197 UE Animal ecological special course - methods and questions in outdoor laboratories
300216 VO An Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
300227 EX Special excursion in animal ecology
300247 UE+EX Ecological-terrestrial Fieldcourse - Fieldcourse in the mediterranean region
300257 VO [ de en ] Primates and their societies
300290 VO Introduction to pollination biology
300296 PR Entomological Laboratory - Entomological and taxonomic studies on selected insects
300314 UE [ en ] Fauna and flora of marine habitats - Voraussetzung ist eine positive Prüfung über die Vorlesung "Einführung in die Meereskunde" oder "Einführung in die Meeresbiologie"
300336 VO Methods of the population analysis ( Biometry IV )
300405 UE Practical Ornithology
300428 VO+UE+EX Ephemeroptera identification course - advanced level
300430 EX Vertebrate ecological excursion: Soca/ Isonzo - valley - Habitats in a Kars-river valley from the spring to the estuary
300464 VO Behavioral Ecology
300482 VO The world of mites - morphology, biology, ecology, phylogeny, medical and commercial relevance
300539 VO Austrian butterflies and their habitats - Identification, ecology and conservation; with field demonstrations
300541 VO Lecture Series Bird Ecology
300562 VO Ornithology IV - Ornithology IV
300663 VO Basic Neurobiology
300672 PR Animal observations in the zoo - Basic practical course in observation of zoo kept animals
300683 VO Physiology of the Senses
300685 VO [ en ] EvoDevo: Evolution of developmental processes

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