Major Plant Sciences
Spokesperson: PD Dr. Thomas Kretsch
The Plant Sciences core program offers students a multifaceted curriculum with full coverage of the discipline: molecularly oriented laboratories lecture in the areas of plant physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, gene technology, developmental biology and molecular evolution. Ecological approaches and techniques are imparted in the area of geobotany, whilst applied aspects are taught in the areas of functional plant morphology and bionics as well as in plant biotechnology. Courses are also offered in model-building for systems biology and synthetic biology. The core program therefore offers a whole range of combinations and options for further specialization, based on the orientation modules of the first semester. Core programs and master´s thesis are chosen from listed fields and combined as desired, giving the flexibility to choose between the numerous topics of PhD theses which become available upon successful completion of the MSc degree.
Content and structure of the M.Sc. Biology - Major Plant Sciences
| Experimental Design and Statistics | 3 ECTS | ||
Orientation module “Introduction to Plant Sciences” (OM-06)
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9 ECTS | ||
Orientation module offered by other Majors
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9 ECTS | ||
Orientation module offered by other Majors
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9 ECTS |
| Introduction into Advanced Techniques and Concepts of Plant Biology (SP1-06) | 12 ECTS | ||
| Mammalian and plant cell technology | 9 ECTS | ||
| Prokaryotic Molecular Genetics | 9 ECTS | ||
| Molecula signaling mechanisms in plants | 9 ECTS | ||
| Molecular developmental biology of plants | 9 ECTS | ||
| The cell at high resolution | 9 ECTS | ||
| Bioinformatics | 9 ECTS | ||
| Plant biotechnology and functional genomics | 9 ECTS | ||
| Cell biology | 9 ECTS | ||
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9 ECTS |
Plant biotechnology
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21 ECTS | ||
Advanced topics in plant sciences
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21 ECTS | ||
Project module
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9 ECTS |
Master thesis
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24 ECTS | ||
Master thesis seminar
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6 ECTS |
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