The Growth of the Evolutionary Thought" WiSe 2015/2016
MSc Advanced Module / Lecture series
- Organizers: Dr. Francesco Catania, Dr. Vanessa Kloke, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
- Course language: English
- Duration: October 2015 - February 2016
- First meeting: 27 October 2015, Social room (ground floor) in the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1) at 18:15
- Contents:
- Journal Club: Tuesdays, 03 November 2015 - 2 February 2016, 18:15 - 19:30, Social room (ground floor) in the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1)
- Lectures: Wednesdays, 28 October 2015 - 3 February 2016, 8:45 - 10:00, Seminar room (ground floor) in the Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6)
- Students' tasks:
- Attendance of the "The Growth of the Evolutionary Thought" lecture series / Journal Club and Seminar
- Preparation of a presentation and a short essay about an interdisciplinary topic
- Questions to Dr. Francesco Catania ( Email)
- VL-No.: 132358
- Download flyer for the course
Timetable lecture series WS 2015/16
Date Speaker Title Faculty 28.10.2015 Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz A brief history of evolutionary theories Biology 04.11.2015 Prof. Dr. Harald Strauß Evolution of the planet Geosciences 11.11.2015 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krohs Good and bad arguments against creationism Philosophy 18.11.2015 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brosius Three major categories of RNA: impact on the evolution of genes, genomes and cellular function Medicine 25.11.2015 Dr. Sebastian Leidel Lost in translation - On the origins of the genetic code MPI Molecular Biomedicine 02.12.2015 Dr. Katrin Hammerschmidt The evolutionary transition to multicellularity Biology, Kiel 09.12.2015 Prof. Dr. Jens Boenigk Nutritional differentiation as driver for the establishment and maintenance of biodiversity Biology, Essen 16.12.2015 Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Görtz Tree of life - the protists Biology 13.01.2016 PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz Ancestral incomplete lineage sorting and the reconstruction of the history of species Medicine 20.01.2016 Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser Sociobiology Biology 27.01.2016 Dr. Sophie Armitage The origin of the immune system and immune defenses in arthropods Biology 03.02.2016 Prof. Dr. Ralf Tollrian Ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity: inducible defenses in Daphnia as model system Biology, Bochum Pdf files of the lectures:
(only for participants of the course and not for sharing, secured with password)- Prof. Joachim Kurtz: A brief history of evolutionary theories
- Prof. Harald Strauß: Evolution of the planet
- Prof. Ulrich Krohs: Good and bad arguments against creationism
- Prof. Jürgen Brosius: Three major categories of RNA: impact on the evolution of genes, genomes and cellular function
- Dr. Sebastian Leidel: Lost in translation - On the origins of the genetic code
- Dr. Katrin Hammerschmidt: The evolutionary transition to multicellularity
- Prof. Hans-Dieter Görtz: Tree of life - the protists
- PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz: Ancestral incomplete lineage sorting and the reconstruction of the history of species
- Prof. Norbert Sachser: Sociobiology
- Dr. Sophie Armitage: The origin of the immune system and immune defenses in arthropods
- Prof. Ralph Tollrian: Ecology and evolution of phenotypic plasticity: inducible defenses in Daphnia as model system
