Master Biologie Modul 2 A - BAnimal Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
Lecture Behavioral Ecology (2 SWS) Seminar Behavioral Ecology (2 SWS)
Prof. Dr. Susanne [email protected]
Dr. Florian [email protected]
Dr. Romain [email protected]
Dr. Christoph Grü[email protected]
Course structure
Lecture: Mo – Thu 8:30-10:00 from 22.10.2018 - 8.11.2018
Performance record: exam (13.12.2018 8:30-10:00)
Practical: 4 weeks Mo-Thu 10:00-15:30, 22.10-15.11.2018
Performance record : participation, proposal, protocol, talk
Seminar: January 2019
Performance record : talk, participation in discussions
Master students:
Modul 2a: Lecture + seminar + practical
Modul 2b: 5+1 weeks research practical: Jan -May 2019
(Protocol / talk) + journal club (talk, participation in dicussions)
Presentation of research projects (10 min !!!! + 5 min discussion in English)
19.11.2018 8:30-11:00
Protocol (talk 19.11.18, protocol = 40% of the grade)25.11.2018 Protocol submission to teaching assistants per email14.12.2018 Submission of revised protocols to lecturers21.12.2018 Final submission of revised protocols to lecturers
Exam (40% of the grade)13.12.2018 8.30-10.00, BZ1-SR 2 (00-307)
Seminar (20% of the grade)
15.1.2019-29.1.2019, Tuesdays from 2:00pm-3:30pm
presentation of research
Course times and performance records
Time Mo 22.10 Tue 23.10. Wed 24.10 Thu 25.10
8:30 – 10:00 Introduction +
Introduction to
Behavioural
Ecology (Susanne)
Lecture
Social Learning
(Christoph)
Lecture
Eusocial Insects
(Susanne)
Lecture
Sexual Selection
(Christoph)
10:00-14:30 Simulating
predator-prey
dynamics using
individual-based
modeling
(Christoph)
Decoding of bee
waggle dancing
(Christoph)
Exkursion to the
Lenneberg forest
Collection of ant
colonies for
experiments
Transfer of
colonies into nests
(Susanne)
Human
Behavioral
Ecology
(Susanne)
Sexual selection
in humans
Questionaire
design and data
collection
(Susanne)14:30-15:30 Lecture
experimental
design (Romain)
1 Hiwi 1 Hiwi
Time Mo 29.10. Tue 30.10 Mi 31.10 Fri 2.11.
8:30 – 10:00 Lecture
Introduction into
statistics (Susanne)
Social Behaviours
(Romain)
Economy of
decision
making
(Christoph)
Lecture
Sociogenomics
(Romain)
10:00-13:00 Data Management
with Excel and
statistical analysis
with R (Romain)
Analysis of the human
sexual selection data
(Romain)
Nurses vs.
Foragers:
Behavioral
analyses, Nest
relocation,
Ovary
dissections
(Susanne,
Matteo,
Christoph)
Nurses vs.
Foragers:
Gene expression
analysis with
DeSeq 2
(Romain)13:00 – 14:30 Discussion of
individual student
projects: Experimental
design and scientific
questions (nearly all)
14:30-15:30 Ant Marking (Susanne,
Matteo)
1 Hiwi 1 Hiwi 1 Hiwi or
Marah?
Course structure
Time Mo 5.11. Tue 6.11. Wed 7.11. Thu 8.11.
8:30 – 10:00 Lecture
Predator-prey
interactions
(Florian)
Lecture
Hormones in social
insects (Romain)
Learning in social
insects (Christoph)
Lecture
Chemical
Ecology
(Florian)
Lecture
Scientific writing
and Literature
search (Florian)
How to publish a
paper? (Matteo)
10:00-15:30 Nurses vs. Foragers:
RNA extraction and
cDNA preparation
(Marion, Matteo)
Nurses vs. Foragers:
Candidate gene
expression using
qPCR
(Marion, Romain)
Preparation CHC
(Florian)
Nurses vs.
Foragers:
Cuticular
Hydrocarbon
analyses
(Florian)
Nurses vs.
Foragers:
Fatty Acid
analyses
(Florian, Heike)
Nurses vs.
Foragers:
Synthesis (all)14:30 - 15:30
1 Hiwi
Course structure
Time Mo 12.11 Tue 13.11 Wed 14.11 Thu 15.11
8:30-15:30 Project
presentations: 1
slide per person
& 5 min
discussion
(Susanne,
Florian,
Christoph,
Romain)
Experiments /
open office
Independant
projects
/ open office
Independant
projects
/ open office
Independant
projects
/ open office
Course structure