7 ECTS credits
175 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023727CNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students must have followed ‘Biology’ and 'General Zoology', before they can enroll for ‘Molecular Ecology’.
The enrolment requirement is only valid for students bachelor biology.
'Molecular Ecology’ means that you simultaneously follow 'Plants and Fungi' and 'Biodiversity and Ecology of Invertebrates' and 'Genetics' and/or have successfully passed 'Plants and Fungi' and 'Biodiversity and Ecology of invertebrates' and 'Genetics'.
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Biology
- Educational team
- Marc Kochzius
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
39 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
Contents:
- Molecular genetics in ecology
- Molecular markers in ecology
- “Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity”
- DNA barcoding: genetic delineation and identification of species
Phylogenetics
Phylogeography
Population genetics
Genetic variability is part of the basis of biodiversity. Molecular ecology uses the knowledge about the genetics of organisms in order to gain a better knowledge about species and population ecology of species. The aim of this course is to train the student in the genetic aspects of biodiversity and the Nagoya protocol.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Recommended) : Scientific articles, E-library VUB
Handbook (Recommended) : Molecular Ecology, Freeland JR, 3rd, Wiley Blackwell, 978-0-865-42889-8, 2020
Handbook (Recommended) : Molecular evolution, a phylogenetic approach, Page RDM, Holmes EC, 1st, Blackwell Science, 978-0-865-42889-8, 1998
Digital course material (Required) : Lecture slides, Kochzius M, Available at Canvas
- Additional info
None
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
Genetic variability is part of the basis of biodiversity. Molecular ecology uses the knowledge about the genetics of organisms in order to gain a better knowledge about the population ecology of species. The aim of this course is to train the student in the genetic aspects of biodiversity.
In this course you will learn:
- develop your own learning process
- work in groups
- find data sources to supplement the subject matter make an analysis and synthesis of the subject matter
- formulate a biological question
- presenting and transferring the acquired knowledge
In this course you learn to work in a group, to trace data sources to supplement the subject matter, to make an analysis and synthesis of the subject matter, to analyze a biological question, to understand the research results provided within this OO and to assess the acquired knowledge, in particular of the WPO, convey.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 70% of the final mark.
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Reports WPO
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The evaluation will be based on two parts:
HOC 70%:
- oral presentation (20%)
- oral exam (50%)
WPO 30%: reports
The student must pass both parts (HOC and WPO).
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Biology: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Biology: Molecular&Cellular LifeScience (only offered in Dutch)