Schedule

Evolutionary Ecology

Week

Day

Date

What

Where

When

First Week

Monday

02.03.25

Welcome, introduction, sort animals I, determine I

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

First Week

Tuesday

03.03.25

Sort animals II, determine II, complete common taxa list

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

First Week

Wednesday

04.03.25

Safety induction / introduction DNA extraction and PCR

room MN37 / molli lab, Untere Karspüle 2, Animal Ecology (Prof. Dr. Stefan Scheu)

9:00-10:00 / 10:00-16:00

First Week

Thursday

05.03.25

Introduction gel electrophoresis, PCR-purification; team a and b

room MN37 / molli lab, Untere Karspüle 2, Animal Ecology (Prof. Dr. Stefan Scheu)

Team A: 9:00-13:00, Team B: 12:00-16:00

First Week

Friday

06.03.25

Sequencing of PCR products, redo failures – day off but HOMEWORK

Second Week

Monday

09.03.25

Recap of first week, start practical work with Geneious Prime and upload consensus sequences, Lecture & Tutorial 1: how to handle and edit sequence data

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Second Week

Tuesday

10.03.25

Lecture & Tutorial 2: sequence alignment

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Second Week

Wednesday

11.03.25

Lecture & Tutorial 3: models of sequence evolution and cluster methods

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Second Week

Thursday

12.03.25

Lecture & Tutorial 4: search algorithms & MrBayes

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Second Week

Friday

13.03.25

Lecture & Tutorial 5: phylogeny in R

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Third Week

Monday

16.03.25

Recap of second week, develop and conduct your 🧬mini research project🧬, use own data, build hypothesis, start creating datasets fitting to analyze your research question

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Third Week

Tuesday

17.03.25

Conduct 🧬mini research project🧬

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Third Week

Wednesday

18.03.25

Results of 🧬mini research project🧬, discuss, prepare presentation

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Third Week

Thursday

19.03.25

Results of 🧬mini research project🧬, discuss, prepare presentation

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-16:00

Third Week

Friday

20.03.25

Presentation of 🧬mini research project🧬

Kursraum C, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 8

9:00-…