Master Biologie Modul 2 A - BAnimal Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour

Lecture Behavioral Ecology (2 SWS) Seminar Behavioral Ecology (2 SWS)

Prof. Dr. Susanne Foitzikfoitzik@uni-mainz.de

Dr. Florian Menzelmenzelf@uni-mainz.de

Dr. Romain Libbrechtromain.libbrecht@uni-mainz.de

Dr. Christoph Grütercgrueter@uni-mainz.de

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