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Biodiversity courses (EEE)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
BACHELOR 2. + 4. Semester | ||||
Online course | Title | VVZ | Category | Realisation |
EEE 102 | Introduction to Ecology | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with livestream (Mon 10:15 - 12:00 and Thu 08:00 - 09:45) and lecture recordings |
EEE 103 | Evolution II | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings. Lecture recordings will be available starting 5th March 2025. |
EEE 104 | Biodiversity and Habitats of Switzerland | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE 202 | Ecology of Communities | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE 203 | Ecosystems and Climate | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
EEE 204 | Biodiversity and Society | VVZ | Course | |
EEE 220 | Practical Population Ecology: Studying Snow Voles in the Alps | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 221 | Multidisciplinary Spring Field Trips | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 223 | Know your Species: Orthoptera of Switzerland | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 225 | Biodiversity-Excursions into Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 241 | Identification and Diversity of Invertebrates | VVZ | Praxiskurs | |
EEE 261 | Sustainability and Society | VVZ | Course | |
EEE 262 | Environmental Policy of Switzerland | VVZ | Course | |
EEE 263 | Ecological Economics and Analysis of Economic Growth | VVZ | Course | |
EEE 299 | Application BSc Thesis in Biodiversity | VVZ | Bachelor Paper | |
EEE 300 | BSc Thesis in Biodiversity | VVZ | Bachelor Paper | |
EEE 301 | Work Placement | VVZ | Praktikum extern | |
EEE 311 | Remotely Sensing the Basis of Biodiversity |
VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 313 | What is working in Conservation? | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 315 | Flowers and Pollinators | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 317 | Ecological Research Project on Species Interactions | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 319 | Aquatic microbial ecology |
VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 321 | Ecological Networks | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 323 | Field Methods and Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Management and Research | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 325 | Genome Evolution and Diversity | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 327 | Animal Behaviour Field Studies | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 329 | Flora of Switzerland | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 331 | Kalahari Field course: Becoming a (Field) Biologist! | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 333 | Conservation Science and Practice of Swiss Amphibians | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 351 | Conservation Biology | VVZ | Course | |
EEE 353 | Field Course in Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE 354 | Biodiversitätsmonitoring Programm Schweiz: Grundlagen und praktische Einführung in die Feldmethoden (inkl. praktischer Übungen) | VZZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE 357 | Agroecology, Food Security & Sustainable Production | VZZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE 359 | Systematics of flowering plants | VZZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 361 | Vascular plants of the Plateau and Jura | VZZ | Field Trip | |
EEE 363 | Field Class: Biodiversity of Insects | VZZ | Course | |
EEE 500 | Master Thesis in Biodiversity | VZZ | Master Paper | |
EEE 520 | Integrated Knowledge of Biodiversity | VZZ | Master Paper |
Biology courses (BIO)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
BACHELOR 1. + 2. Semester |
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Online course | Title | VVZ | Category | Realisation |
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Evolution and Biodiversity II | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Fri 08:00 - 09:45) and lecture recordings |
BIO 122 | Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Thu 10:15 - 12:00) and lecture recordings |
BIO 123 | Quantitative and Molecular Systems Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Thu 08:00 - 09:45) and lecture recordings |
BIO 124 | Introduction to the ethics and theory of biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Tue 10:15 - 12:00) and lecture recordings |
BIO 125 | Development of Multicellular Systems | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Thu 10:15 - 12:00) and lecture recordings |
BIO 142 | Developmental Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Wed 10:15 - 12:00) and lecture recordings |
BIO 143 | Neurobiology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with livestream (Fri 08:00 - 09:45) and lecture recordings |
BIO 144 | Data Analysis in Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BIO 148 | Einführung in die Paläontologie | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 149 | Introduction to Scientific Writing | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 207 | Comparative Systematics and Evolution of Primates | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 211 | Primate Behavior and Cognition: Concepts, Methods and Tools | VVZ | Block Course |
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BIO 212 | Language evolution: insights from animal communication | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 216 | Primate origins of human sociality, cognition, and mind | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 218 | Ethical Aspects of Biological Research on Humans | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 223 | Field Course Evolutionary Biology Orchid and flower biology excursion (Orchideen- und blütenbiologische Exkursion) | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO 236 | Botanical Half-day Excursions (FS) | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO 239 | Organisms of the tidal coast: Algae and invertebrates | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 245 | Cell Signaling | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 247 | Cellular Response to Genotoxic Stress | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 248 | Functional Assessment of Human Spinal Cord Injury | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 249 | Research Internship in Quantitative and Systems Biology | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO 254 | Functional Genomics | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 255 | Finding and Solving Interesting Problems in Molecular Life Sciences | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 256 | Precision Oncology and Functional Tumor Pathology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 259 | Research Internship in Molecular and Cellular Biology | VVZ | Participation in research projects |
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BIO 262 | Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates - Issues and Methods | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 266 | Fieldwork in Swiss Palaeontology and Natural History Museums: Ice Age | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 269 | Research Internship in Paleontology (in the research groups 4- 12 weeks) | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 272 | Paleobiology and Phylogeny of Amphibiens and Reptiles | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 273 | Evolution and Paleobiology of Cephalopods | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 279 | Paleontological Excursions (on weekends) | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO 287 | Plant cell wall development | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 292 | Human and veterinary medical Bacteriology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 296 | Microbial bioinformatics: sequencing technologies to pathogen analysis | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 315 | Research Internship in Plant Biology | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 316 | Reserach Internship in Microbiology | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 328 | Neurobiology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 330 | Modelling in Biology | VVZ | Block Course |
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BIO 334 | Practical Bioinformatics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 338 | Introduction to Scientific Writing | VVZ | Miscellaneous | |
BIO 341 | Field Course in Evolutionary Biology of Marine Mammals Shark Bay, Western Australia | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 342 | Comparative Behavioural Neuroscience | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 347 | Concepts in Developmental Biology: From Cells to Animals | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 354 | Zoo Biology | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 355 | Practical in Zoo Biology |
VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 356 | Research Internship in Developmental Biology and Genetics | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 357 | Research Internship in Ecology | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 358 | Research Internship in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 366 | Topics in Evolutionary Genetics and Computational Biology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 368 | Scientific Information Literacy | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 369 | An Introduction to Computer Programming and Agent-based Modelling using R | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BIO 374 | Virology: Biology of Virus Infection and Evolution | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 378 | Research Internship in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 381 | Research Internship Immunology | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 382 | Research internship in Virology | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 383 | Research Internship in Neurobiology (6-12 weeks) | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 388 | Human Genetics | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 392 | Bioinformatics of Molecular Sequence Variations | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 393 | Integrative –Omics practical course: From the transcriptome to the proteome | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 394 | Interdisciplinary Research Methods In Computational Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 395 | Concepts in Evolutionary Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 402 | Philosophy of Science with a Focus on Biology | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 403 | Superbugs - The Global Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans, Animals, and the Environment | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 407 | Advanced Microscopy | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 412 | Introductory Course in laboratory Animal Science (LTK Modul 1) | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 413 | Genome modification in mammals | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 431 | Cell Death, Inflammation and Immunity | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 433 | Biology of Cancer Treatment: Old and Novel Therapeutic Strategies | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 435 | Omics in Oncology – A virtual exchange between Utrecht and Zurich (COIL) | VVZ | Others | |
BIO 442 | Evolutionary Medicine: Health and disease in modern humans | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 500 | Research Projects in Biology | VVZ | Participation in research projects | |
BIO 501 | Master Thesis in Molecular and Cellular Biology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 503 | Master Thesis in Genetics and Development | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 504 | Master Thesis in Microbiology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 505 | Master Thesis in Plant Sciences | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 506 | Master Thesis in Neurosciences | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 508 | Master Thesis in Anthropology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 509 | Master Thesis in Animal Behaviour |
VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 510 | Master Thesis in Ecology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 511 | Master Thesis in Systematics and Evolution | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 512 | Master Thesis in Paleontology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 513 | Master Thesis Quantitative Biology and Systems Biology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 514 | Master Thesis in Virology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 515 | Master Thesis Immunology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 516 | Master Thesis Cancer Biology | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 517 | Master Thesis in Cancer Biology “BCi”, at the crossroad of basic and clinical research | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BIO 520 | Integrated knowledge in Biology | VVZ | Examination without course | |
BIO 527 | Internship in Industry on Experimental Cancer Research (6-months) | VVZ | Internship | |
BIO 549 | Anthropological Project Reports | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 550 | Research Internship Anthropology (in the research groups 4-12 weeks) | VVZ | Others | |
BIO 551 | Anthropological Seminar Series | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 552 | Symposium Evolutionary Anthropology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 553 | Journal Club in Anthropology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 554 | Topics in Evolutionary Biology | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 555 | Scientific Writing for Evolutionary Biologists | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 563 | Current topics in C. elegans research | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 571 | Paleontological Colloquium | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 602 | Seminar in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 606 | BEEES Seminar (Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar) | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 607 | Current Research in Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics of Natural Populations | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 611 | Colloquium for ongoing advances in infectious cell biology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 612 | Seminars in Bioinformatics: Methods and Emerging Solutions | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 613 | Joint Lab Meeting / Progress Seminar | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 616 | DMLS Seminar | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 617 | Principles of biosafety in medical and biological research | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 619 | Seminar in Neurosciences | VVZ | Research seminar | |
BIO 620 | Literature Seminar Animal Behvaiour | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 621 | Training in Neuroscience Laboratory Research | VVZ | Practical course | |
BIO 625 | Bioacoustics | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 628 | Neuroscience course | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 629 | Advanced Flow Cytometry Course | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 630 | Ethics in Scientific Practice | VZZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 631 | Current Immunological Research in Zurich | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 632 | Introductory course in flow cytometry 04.03.2025 - 06.03.2025 |
VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 632 | Introductory course in flow cytometry 03.06.2025 - 05.06.2025 |
VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 636 | Cutting Edge Topics: Immunology and Infection Biology |
VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 638 | Next Generation Sequencing applied to Metagenomics | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 641 | Introduction to Proteomics Data Analysis and Beyond | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 644 | Neuroimaging Block Course | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 645 | Crash Course in Statistics for Neuroscientists | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 646 | Ethics for Neuroscientists and Cancer Biologists | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 647 | Writing for Neuroscientists | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 652 | Viruses and hosts | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 653 | Current topics in C. elegans research |
VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 661 | Science Writing | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 662 | Ethical issues in Human Genetics and Genomics | VVZ | Doctoral seminar | |
BIO 675 | Life Sciences: Transcriptomics RNA-seq course | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 680 | DNA Next Generation Sequencing – from theory to practice | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO 691 | Teaching advanced microscopy for Life Science | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO 692 | Introduction to Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) | VVZ | Others | |
BIO 701 | Forum for Plant Biology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 702 | Plant Biology Workshop | VVZ | Research seminar | |
BIO 704 | Group Seminar: Current Research | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 706 | Group Seminar Current Research | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 707 | Group Seminar: Current Research in Microbiology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 708 | Gene therapy from bench to bedside - Theory | VVZ | Course | |
BIO 709 | Group seminar: Current research |
VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 710 | Group seminar | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 711 | Advanced Seminar in Microbiology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 712 | Limnology Colloquium for Advanced | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 713 | Group Seminar: Research Updates | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 715 | Interdisciplinary research in microbiology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 752 | Advanced Seminar | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO 780 | Museum Internship | VVZ | Practical course | |
BIO 783 | Curatorial Internship in the Zurich Zoo | VVZ | Practical course | |
BIO 784 | Evolutionary Genomics Journal Club | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO 780 | Museum Internship | VVZ | Practical course |
Biomedicine courses (BME)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
BACHELOR 2. + 4. Semester |
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Online course | Title | VVZ | Category | Realisation |
BME 245 | Physiology and anatomy II | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BME 246 | Biomedicine II | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BME 248 | Basics in Immunology | VVZ | Course | |
BME 300 | Research Internship in Biomedicine (6-12 weeks) | VVZ | Practical course | |
BME 302 | Systems Neurobiology | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 305 | Methods in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 306 | Experimental human studies | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 318 | Clinical epidemiology and quantitative research in health care | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 320 | Forensic Genetics | VVZ | Lecture with integrated exercise | |
BME 325 | Xenobiotic metabolism - with special emphasis on toxicological aspects | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 326 | Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 327 | Current Approaches in Single Cell Analysis | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 329 | Developing New Medicines - An Introduction | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 331 | Tissue Imaging | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 332 | Metabolic Medicine | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 333 | From Bench to Bedside – Examples from Immunology and Beyond | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 335 | Regenerative Medicine and Applied Tissue Engineering | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 339 | Biomedical Informatics | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 247 | Introduction to histology | VVZ | Practical course | |
BME 348 | Journey into Medical Research | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 351 | Biomedical data mining | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 352 | Auditory Biomechanics | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 353 | Human brain activity and the mind | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 354 | Forensic Toxicology | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 356 | Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 357 | Diseases at the human animal interface | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 361 | Randomised trials – From lab experiments to large preventive trials | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 363 | Gene therapy from bench to bedside | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 366 | Medical Immunology | VVZ | Block course | |
BME 389 | Clinical Neuroscience | VVZ | Lecture | |
BME 410 | Scientific writing and publishing | VVZ | Lecture with integrated exercise | |
BME 500 | Master Thesis in Biomedicine | VVZ | Master Paper | |
BME 520 | Integrated knowledge in Biomedicine | VVZ | Exam without accompanying course | |
BME 550 | Research Project Biomedicine | VVZ | Practical course | |
BME 640 | DQBM Research Progress Reports | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME 643 | Advanced Topics in Biomedical Image Analysis | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME 646 | Research in Orthopedic Computer Science | VVZ | Research seminar | |
BME 682 | Principles of teaching in human physiology | VVZ | Tutorial | |
BME 683 | Wagi Lunch Seminar | VVZ | Seminar |
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Ecology courses (ECO)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
Online course |
Title |
VVZ |
Category |
Realisation |
ECO 303 | Teaching Science at University | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
ECO 311 | Writing a Scientific Manuscript | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
ECO 331 | General Linear and Linear Mixed Models in R | VVZ | Block Course | |
ECO 397 | Cutting Edge Research Club | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
ECO 398 | Foundations in Ecology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
ECO 401 | Zurich Interaction Seminar: Ecology & Evolution | VVZ | Seminar |
Environmental Science courses (UWW)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
BACHELOR 2. + 4. Semester | ||||
Online course | Title | VVZ | Category | Realisation |
UWW 161 | Work Placement | VVZ | Praktikum extern | |
UWW 163 | Practical Term Paper | VVZ | Semester work | |
UWW 164 | Event Organisation in the Environmental Field | VVZ | Practical course | |
UWW 200 | Master Thesis | VVZ | Master Paper | |
UWW 280 | Special Topics | VVZ | Other | |
UWW 292 | Research Seminars | VVZ | Seminar |
Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences courses (IDB)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
Online course |
Title |
VVZ |
Category |
Realisation |
IDB 403 | Translational, Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience | VVZ | Block Course | |
IDB 412 | Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (LTK Module 1 - Theory part) | VVZ | Course | |
IDB 413 | Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (LTK Module 1 - Practical part) | VVZ | Practical course | |
IDB 500 | Master Thesis in Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences | VVZ | Master Paper | |
IDB 501 | Master Thesis Exam Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences | VVZ | Oral examination | |
IDB 520 | Internship in Company or Clinic | VVZ | Practical course |
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