Evolutionary and Systematic Botany

• Foundations of molecular systematics

• Foundations and methods of molecular phylogenetics (phylogenomics)

• DNA taxonomy and barcoding, methods of species delimitation

• Spatio-temporal interpretation of molecular trees (biogeography)

• Population genetics and coalescent theory, phylogeography

• Multivariate statistical analysis of morphological variation, geometric morphometrics

• Methods of (molecular) evolutionary biology (differentiation, selection)

• Presentation and discussion of a research based topic in the field of evolutionary and systematic botany

Lectures:

Methods in Evolutionary Biology I (Makroevolutionary Approaches) (winter, 54325, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

or

Methods in Evolutionary Biology II (Microevolutionary Approaches)  (summer, 54323, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

or

Plant Speciation (winter, 54320, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

or

Plant Systematics and Evolution (summer, 54324, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

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Students starting before the winter semester 26/27: Registration is not required for the lectures. There is no exam to sit. However, the content of the lectures may form part of the oral exam.

Students starting in the winter semester 26/27 or later: Portfolio (collection of exercises and reflective tasks completed alongside the lectures). Please ask the module coordinator about the requirements. Once it has been finalised, the portfolio must be registered in FlexNow.

The portfolio is not graded.

CIP-Pool lab course “Bioinformatic Methods in Evolutionary and Systematic Botany” (54337, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

or

Seminar "Plant Evolution" (WS and/or SS, 54334, link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

seminar presentation, regular participation

You must register for the seminars. Information on how to register see in SPUR.

Once you have attended a seminar, it must be registered in FlexNow.

The seminar is not graded.

Examiner: 

Prof. Dr. Christoph Oberprieler

Please get in contact with the examiner of your choice to arrange a date of the oral examination, than register the examination in FlexNow.

The oral examination is graded (= module grade).

• Acquisition of molecular data (sequence data, DNA-fingerprint data) for phylogenetic and population genetic analyses in angiosperms

• Bioinformatic processing of sequence and fingerprint data

• Performance of phylogenetic analyses based on Maximum Parsimony (MP), Maximum Likelihood (ML), and Bayesian Inference (BI) methods

• Performance of population genetic analyses

• Ploidy analyses of plants using flow cytometry

• Analysis of morphological data using multivariate statistical methods

• Presentation and discussion of own experimental gained data

Laboratory course (6 weeks): Evolutionary and Systematic Botany (54354; link SPUR (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

Contact the module coordinator to find a supervisor for the laboratory course. 

The date of the laboratory course will then be arranged with the supervisor.