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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 |
EEE101 | Introduction to Biodiversity | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
EEE201 | Biogeochemical Cycles and Global Change | VVZ | Course | It will be published in August. |
EEE220 | Practical Population Ecology: Studying Snow Voles in the Alps | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE222.1 | Multidisciplinary Autumn Field Trips | VVZ | Field Trip | |
EEE240 | The Physics of Life | VVZ | Course | |
EEE242 | Animal Eco-Physiology |
VVZ | Course | |
EEE262 | Environmental Policy of Switzerland | VVZ | Course | |
EEE266 | Ethics and the Environment | VVZ | Course | |
EEE268 | Biodiversity in the Context of Planning and Building Law | VVZ | Course | |
EEE300 | BSc Thesis in Biodiversity | VVZ | Bachelor Paper / BA-Arbeit MNF | |
EEE301 | Professional Internship | VVZ | Praktikum extern | |
EEE310 | Current Conflicts in Biodiversity | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE312 | The Species Problem: Species Concepts, Species Delimitation, and Taxonomy | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE316 | Tropical Plant Families: identification, ethnobotany, and chemistry | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE318 | Aquatic Ecology | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE320 | Sociobiology in Animals | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE324 | Project Development in Biodiversity | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE325 | Contemporary Analysis for Ecology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE326 | Principles of Evolution |
VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE328 | Experimental Invertebrate Biology | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE330 | Population Ecology | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE334 | Biodiversity from Species to Landscape Scale - Concepts and Methods in Spatial Ecology and Remote Sensing | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE336 | Measuring and Monitoring Genetic Diversity for Conservation |
VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE338 | Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE340 | From Values to Arguments: Ethics in Environmental and Animal Rights Discourse | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE352 | Contemporary Analysis for Ecology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
EEE356 | Microbial Ecology of Alpine Freshwater Ecosystems | VVZ | Block Course | |
EEE358 | Introduction to Limnology (Inland Water Ecosystems) | VVZ | Course | |
EEE360 | Ornithoglogy | VVZ | Course | |
EEE368 | Methods Seminar: Social Science Research Design and Methods for Environmental Topics | VVZ | Seminar | |
EEE500 | Master Thesis in Biodiversity | VVZ | Master Paper / MA-Arbeit MNF | |
EEE520 | Integrated Knowledge of Biodiversity | VVZ | Mündliche Prüfung | |
EEE600 | Evolutionary Genomics Journal Club | VVZ | Seminar |
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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Molecular and Classical Genetics | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO112 | Cell Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO113 | Evolution | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO115 | Human Evolution | VVZ | Course | It will be published in August. |
BIO116.1 | Biology 1 and 2 (NT.S470,NT.S480 and NT.S490) | VVZ | PHZH SEK I Module | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BIO116.2 | Biology 1 and 2 | VVZ | ||
BIO117 | Molecular and Classical Genetics for Non-Biologists | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO131 | Form and Function of Plants | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO132 | Microbiology, Immunology, Virology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO133 | Anthropology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO134 | Programming in Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | It will be published in August. |
BIO138 | Practical in microbiology, immunology, virology | VVZ | Praxiskurs | |
BIO201 | Primate Evolutionary Biology | VVZ | Course | |
BIO203 | Great Ape Behaviour | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO204 | Human Evolutionary EcoPhysiology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO208 | Current Debates in Evolutionary Biology and Human Evolution | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO210 | Human Behavioural Ecology and Cultural Evolution | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO214 | Of ape men and man apes | VVZ | Course | |
BIO219 | Evolution of the Human Brain, Cognition, and Language | VVZ | Course | |
BIO228 | Evolutionary Medicine | VVZ | Course | |
BIO230 | Cancer Stem/Propagating Cells and their Microenvironment | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO237 | Botanische Halbtagsexkursionen | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO242 | Translational cancer research: new technologies, mouse models and clinical approaches | VVZ | Course | |
BIO243 | Epigenetics | VVZ | Course | |
BIO246 | Genome Instability and Molecular Cancer Research | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO249 | Research Internship in Quantitative and Systems Biology | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO250 | Drug efficacy and pathway assessment in pediatric brain cancer models | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO251 | Cancer and the immune system | VVZ | Course | |
BIO253 | Research cycle in genomics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO257 | DNA metabolism and cancer | VVZ | Course | |
BIO258 | Cancer, Immunotherapy, and Inflammation Research | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO259 | Research Internship in Molecular and Cellular Biology | VVZ | Beteiligung an Forschungsarbeiten | |
BIO260 | Molecular Biology Course for Biology and Medicine | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO261 | Molecular Biology Methods and Good Laboratory Practice | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO265 | Evolution and Paleobiology of Plants | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO267 | Paleobiology and Evolution of Vertebrates | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO268 | Paleontological Fieldwork | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO269 | Research Internship in Paleontology (in the research groups 4- 12 weeks) | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO271 | Illustrations in Natural History | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO279 | Paleontological Excursions (on weekends) | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO280 | Animal Domestication and Human/non-human animal interactions | VVZ | Course | |
BIO282 | Methods in Molecular Plant Biology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO284 | Systemic Microbiology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO285 | Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Plant Development | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO286 | Plant Sensing | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO297 | Social Behaviour of Bacteria (Course) | VVZ | Course | |
BIO299 | Parasites - from genes to systems | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO313 | Excursion Lake Zurich: Drinking Water, Fish Farming and Waste Water Treatment | VVZ | Field Trip | |
BIO314 | Plant Epigenetics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO315 | Research Internship in Plant Biology | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO316 | Reserach Internship in Microbiology | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO317 | Advanced methods in genomic and cellular manipulation | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO319 | Cell motility control in invasive brain tumors | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO320 | Sleep and wake regulation | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO321 | Modern Microscopy in Life Science Research | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO322 | Cell Biology of Viral Infections | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO323 | Modern Genetics and Genomics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO325 | Systems dynamics in cell and developmental biology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO331 | Frontiers in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Course | |
BIO333 | Comparative Physiology and Pharmacology of Sleep | VVZ | Course | |
BIO336 | From DNA to Diversity: the Evolution of Multicellular Organisms | VVZ | Course | |
BIO338 | Introduction to Scientific Writing |
VVZ | Other | |
BIO340 | Biology, Evolution, and Ecology of Marine Mammals | VVZ | Course | |
BIO344 | Development of the Nervous System | VVZ | Course | |
BIO348 | Concepts in Modern Genetics | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO356 | Research Internship in Developmental Biology and Genetics | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO357 | Research Internship in Ecology | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO358 | Research Internship in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Praktikum | |
BIO366 | Topics in Evolutionary Genetics and Computational Biology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO372 | Virology: Methods in Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis, and Control of Human Viruses | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO378 | Research Internship in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO381 | Research Internship Immunology | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO382 | Research internship in Virology | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO383 | Research Internship in Neurobiology (6-12 weeks) | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO386 | Sociobiology of Communication | VVZ | Course | |
BIO390 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | VVZ | Course | |
BIO398 | The Ethics of Human Enhancement | VVZ | Course | |
BIO400 | Research Project in Synthetic Biology - iGEM competition | VVZ | Other | |
BIO409 | Veterinary Medicine: comparative physiology, pathophysiology and research | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO412 | Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (LTK Modul 1) | VVZ | Exercise Group | |
BIO416 | Microscopy | VVZ | Course | |
BIO430 | Immunology | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO434 | Electrophysiological Recording Techniques | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO437 | Human Adaptation | VVZ | Course | |
BIO438 | Methods in Human Bioarchaeology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO440 | Evolutionary Medicine: Morphological changes and pathologies | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO444 | Quantitative Biosciences | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO445 | Quantitative Life Sciences: from Infectious Diseases to Ecosystems | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO500 | Research Projects in Biology | VVZ | ||
BIO501 | Master Thesis in Molecular and Cellular Biology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO503 | Master Thesis in Genetics and Development | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO504 | Master Thesis in Microbiology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO505 | Master Thesis in Plant Sciences | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO506 | Master Thesis in Neurosciences | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO508 | Master Thesis in Anthropology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO509 | Master Thesis in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO510 | Master Thesis in Ecology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO511 | Master Thesis in Systematics and Evolution | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO512 | Master Thesis in Paleontology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO513 | Master Thesis Quantitative Biology and Systems Biology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO514 | Master Thesis in Virology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO515 | Master Thesis Immunology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO516 | Master Thesis Cancer Biology | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO517 | Master Thesis in Cancer Biology “BCi”, at the crossroad of basic and clinical research | VVZ | Student Work | |
BIO520 | Integrated Knowledge in Biology | VVZ | Examination | |
BIO527 | Internship in Industry on Experimental Cancer Research (6-months) | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO549 | Anthropological Project Reports | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO551 | Anthropological Seminar Series | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO552 | Symposium Evolutionary Anthropology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO553 | Journal Club in Anthropology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO556 | Scientific Writing for Organismal Biologists | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO557 | Scientific Writing and Experimental Design for Life Sciences | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO563 | Current topics in C. elegans research | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO571 | Paleontological Colloquium | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO602 | Seminar in Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO606 | BEEES Seminar (Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar) | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO607 | Current Research in Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics of Natural Populations | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO610 | Next-Generation Sequencing and its Application using Machine Learning | VVZ | Other | |
BIO611 | Colloquium for ongoing advances in infectious cell biology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO612 | Seminars in Bioinformatics: Methods and Emerging Solutions | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO613 | Joint Lab Meeting / Progress Seminar | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO615 | Virology: Principles of Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis, and Control of Human Viruses | VVZ | Course | |
BIO616 | DMLS Seminar | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO617 | Principles of biosafety in medical and biological research | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO619 | Seminar in Neurosciences | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO621 | Training in Neuroscience Laboratory Research | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO625 | Bioacoustics | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO629 | Advanced Flow Cytometry Course | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO631 | Current Immunological Research in Zurich | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO632 | Introductory course in flow cytometry | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO636 | Cutting Edge Topics: Immunology and Infection Biology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO637 | Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics – from theory to practice | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO644 | Neuroimaging Block Course | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO645 | Crash Course in Statistics for Neuroscientists | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO652 | Viruses and hosts | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO653 | Current topics in C. elegans research | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO661 | Science Writing | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO663 | The Impact of Ethics on Doing Science | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO675 | Life Sciences: Transcriptomics RNA-seq course | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO680 | DNA Next Generation Sequencing – from theory to practice | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO684 | Translational Medicine: Infection & Immunity | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO691 | Teaching advanced microscopy for Life Science | VVZ | Block Course | |
BIO696 | Introduction to Spatial Transcriptomics Data Analysis | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO697 | Spatial proteomics using mass spectrometry | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO698 | Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Training Course at FGCZ | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BIO701 | Forum for Plant Biology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO702 | Plant Biology Workshop | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO704 | Group Seminar: Current Research | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO706 | Group Seminar Current Research | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO707 | Group Seminar: Current Research in Microbiology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO711 | Advanced Seminar in Microbiology | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO712 | Limnology Colloquium for Advanced | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO713 | Group Seminar: Research Updates | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO715 | Interdisciplinary research in microbiology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BIO752 | Advanced Seminar | VVZ | Colloquium | |
BIO761 | Research Internship in Systematic Botany |
VVZ | ||
BIO780 | Museum Internship | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BIO783 | Curatorial Internship in the Zurich Zoo | VVZ | Practical Training |
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 |
BME111 | Introduction to Biomedicine | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BME235 | Physiology and anatomy I | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BME236 | Biomedicine I | VVZ | Course | on-site lecture with lecture recordings |
BME300 | Research Internship in Biomedicine (6-12 weeks) | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BME304 | Vital Functions: Measurements on the Human Body | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME307 | Microbiomes in health and disease | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME308 | Human Molecular Genetics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME310 | Research methods for studies on human health and disease | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME311 | Animal experimentation and alternative methods in biomedical research | VVZ | Course | |
BME312 | Epigenetics and Disease | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME313 | Cardiac and Vascular Pathophysiology |
VVZ | Block Course | |
BME314 | Inflammation and Immune Response | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME315 | Diseases of Autonomous Systems -Metabolism and Cellular Adaptation | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME316 | Glycosylation | VVZ | Course | |
BME317 | Metabolism and Nutrition | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BME319 | Prospects of molecular diagnostics in pediatrics | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME322 | Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology | VVZ | Course | |
BME323 | Brain Disorders | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME324 | Basics in human toxicology | VVZ | Course | |
BME330 | Quantitative Biomedicine | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME334 | Applied statistics for biomedicine and biology: advanced linear models | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME336 | Muscle and Bone Bioengineering | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME337 | Introduction to Digital Health | VVZ | Course | |
BME338 | Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) in Biomedicine | VVZ | Course | |
BME342 | Deep Learning in Biomedicine | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME345 | Biomaterials and Applied Technologies in Dentistry | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME346 | Tissue Engineering of the Skin | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME349 | Immune disorders and assessment | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME350 | From stem cell to full tissue analysis | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME355 | Pain - Mechanisms and clinical presentations | VZZ | Block Course | |
BME358 | Animal disease models in modern biomedical research | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME362 | Rare Genetic Pediatric Disorders | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME364 | Mechanisms of allergic disease | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME365 | Cellular Modelling of Neuropsychiatry | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME368 | Translational Medicine in Neuroscience and Infection | VVZ | Block Course | |
BME337 | Introduction to Digital Health | VVZ | Course | |
BME410 | Scientific writing and publishing | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
BME500 | Master Thesis in Biomedicine | VVZ | Student Work | |
BME520 | Integrated knowledge in Biomedicine | VVZ | Examination | |
BME550 | Research Project Biomedicine | VVZ | Practical Training | |
BME640 | DQBM Research Progress Reports | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME643 | Advanced Topics in Biomedical Image Analysis | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME644 | Student Research Retreat in Microbiology and Immunology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME645 | Introductory Course in Microbiolgy and Immunology | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME646 | Research in Orthopedic Computer Science | VVZ | Seminar | |
BME682 | Principles of teaching in human physiology | VVZ | Tutorial | |
BME683 | Wagi Lunch Seminar | VVZ | Seminar |
Common Subjects (BCH, CHE, MAT, PHY)
Ecology courses (ECO)
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 |
UWW161 | Professional Internship | VVZ | Practical Training | |
UWW163 | Practical Term Paper | VVZ | Student Work | |
UWW164 | Event Organisation in the Environmental Field | VVZ | Practical Training | |
UWW200 | Master Thesis | VVZ | Student Work |
Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences courses (IDB)
The online courses will be available as soon as the lecturers release them.
Online course |
Title |
VVZ |
Category |
Realisation |
IDB143 | Neurobiology | VVZ | Course | |
IDB201 | Laboratory Preparatory Course | VVZ | Practical Training | |
IDB401 | Brain Biology | VVZ | Block Course | |
IDB402 | Systems, Computation and Neural Technology | VVZ | Block Course | |
IDB412 | Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (LTK Module 1 - Theory part) | VVZ | Course | |
IDB413 | Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science (LTK Module 1 - Practical part) | VVZ | Practical Training | |
IDB500 | Master Thesis in Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences | VVZ | Student Work | |
IDB501 | Master Thesis Exam Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences | VVZ | Examination | |
IDB520 | Internship in Company or Clinic | VVZ | Practical Training |
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