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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 | Will be communicated in February |
| EEE 103 | Evolution II | VVZ | Course | Will be communicated in February |
| 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 | Will be communicated in February |
| 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 263 | Ecological Economics and Analysis of Economic Growth | VVZ | Course | |
| EEE 267 | Science Communication in Zoos | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| 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 321 | Ecological Networks | VVZ | Block Course | |
| EEE 323 | Field Methods and Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Management and Research | 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 | |
| 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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Evolution and Biodiversity II | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 122 | Animal Behaviour | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 123 | Quantitative and Molecular Systems Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 124 | Introduction to the ethics and theory of biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 125 | Development of Multicellular Systems | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 142 | Developmental Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 143 | Neurobiology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 144 | Data Analysis in Biology | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | Will be communicated in February |
| BIO 148 | Einführung in die Paläontologie | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| BIO 149 | Introduction to Scientific Writing | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| BIO 202 | Comparative Communication and Cognition | VVZ | Block Course | |
| BIO 207 | Comparative Systematics and Evolution of Primates | VVZ | Course | |
| BIO 212 | Language evolution: insights from animal communication | VVZ | Course | |
| BIO215 | Evolution of Human Life History | 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 258 | Cancer, Immunotherapy, and Inflammation Research | 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 269 | Research Internship in Paleontology (in the research groups 4- 12 weeks) | VVZ | Internship | |
| BIO270 | Dinosaur palaeobiology | VVZ | Course | |
| BIO274 | Mass extinctions, macroevolution and macroecology through the Phanerozoic | VVZ | Course | |
| BIO279 | 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 334 | Practical Bioinformatics | VVZ | Block Course | |
| BIO 338 | Introduction to Scientific Writing | VVZ | Miscellaneous | |
| 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 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 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 400 | Research Project in Synthetic Biology - iGEM competition | VVZ | Other | |
| 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 404 | Science Fiction for Biologists | VVZ | Course | |
| BIO 407 | Advanced Microscopy | VVZ | Block Course | |
| BIO 410 | BioEntrepreneurship and Innovation Program | 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 442 | Evolutionary Medicine: Health and disease in modern humans | VVZ | Block Course | |
| BIO 446 | Applied RNA Methodology | 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 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 527 | Internship in Industry on Experimental Cancer Research (6-months) | VVZ | Internship | |
| BIO 547 | Bayesian regression models in R | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| 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 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 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 from 16.06.2026 to 18.06.2026 |
VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| BIO 632 | Introductory course in flow cytometry from 03.03.2026 to 05.03.2026 |
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 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 694 | Genetic variation analysis course | VVZ | Lecture with Practical Exercises | |
| BIO 701 | Plant Biology Forum | 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 | Mikrobiologie-Kolloquium für Fortgeschrittene | 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 | |
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 | Will be communicated in February |
| BME 246 | Biomedicine II | VVZ | Course | Will be communicated in February |
| 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 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 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 645 | Introductory Course in Microbiolgy and Immunology | VVZ | Doktorandenseminar | |
| 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 | |
Common Subjects (BCH, CHE, MAT, PHY)
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 304 | Decoding Animal Behavior Using Step-SelectionFunctions | VVZ | Block Course | |
| ECO 331 | General Linear and Linear Mixed Models in R | VVZ | Block Course | |
| ECO 342 | Ecological Concepts and Research 2 | VVZ | Block Course | |
| ECO 345 | Online Landscape Genetics Graduate Student Course | VVZ | Course | |
| 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 | |
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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