Target group,
language of the
documents / lectures
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Description of the
teaching activity
|
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2nd semester
(biology)
in German
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Lectures and practical
teaching of the practical course on microscopic plant anatomy.
Lectures held by myself (lectures of the other parts on homepages of my
colleagues):
- Leaves (slides in colour or b/w)
- Vascular tissues (colour
or b/w)
- Roots, Meristems & Growth (slides in colour
or b/w)
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non-biological
undergraduate
students
(mainly physicists)
in German
|
Part of the lecture
series "Einführung in die Zellbiologie" and "Ökologie
für Fachfremde" for non-biologists
("Nebenfach"): - Some
basics
of
plant
cell
biology
and
Photosynthesis |
advanced students
(5th semsester BSc,
biology & life science)
in German
|
Lectures as part of the
"Kompaktkurs Pflanzenphysiologie" (2004-2010):
-
Biophysics of Photosynthesis (slides in colour or bw)
-
Heavy metals as
Micronutrients
(slides in colour
or bw)
-
Heavy metal Toxicity
(slides in colour
or bw)
-
Nitrogen Fixation and Regulation
of photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation
(slides in colour or bw)
"Versuchstheorie":
- Experiment 3
(slides in colour or bw)
- Experiment 6
(slides in colour or bw)
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advanced
students
(BSc thesis, 1st-4th semester MSc,
biology, life science and chemistry)
in English
|
Lectures of
the advanced
course (Vertiefungskurs) "Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biophysics of
Plants" (2012-):
- Introduction:
"Bioinorganic chemistry & Biophysics of Plants"
- Biophysics of Photosynthesis as the fundamental process in plants
- Methods for analysing photosynthesis
- Further methods of UV-VIS absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy in
vivo and in situ
- Work with metalloproteins: expression, isolation, purification and
characterisation by biochemical assays and metalloproteomics
- Basics of coordination chemistry in biological Systems
- X-ray emission spectroscopy (EDX, PIXE, µXRF)for analysing
element distribution in biological samples and X-ray absorption
spectroscopy (XANES, EXAFS) for analysing biological metal complexes
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (EPR, NMR) as structural tools
- Chromatographic methods: basics, advanced HPLC methods
- Trace element nutrition in plants: uptake and transport of transition
metals
- Biogeochemical cycles of elements, in particular metals
- Introduction to the essential role of metals in photosynthesis
- From physiology to biochemistry to spectroscopy and protein
structure: copper and iron proteins
- Nitrogen fixation and regulation of photosynthesis for nitrogen
fixation
- Micronutrients in algae: iodine and iron
- Metal Toxicity: basic principles
- Copper as an essential, but also highly toxic, biologically
redox-active metal
- Cadmium as a highly toxic but possibly also beneficial, biologically
redox-inert metal
- Arsenic toxicity and speciation in plants, incl. implications for
human nutrition
- Principles of metal detoxification in plants
- Metallothioneins: storage and detoxification of metals
- Biotechnological use of metal accumulation in plants
- How to give a good talk, how to prepare a good poster
- Literature searches and scientific writing
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advanced
students
(BSc thesis or
1st-4th semester MSc,
biology & life science)
in English
|
Lectures
as part of
the "Vertiefungskurs Biophysik und Biochemie der Pflanzen" (2005-2011):
Biophysical methods in vivo
and in situ:
-
Chlorophyll
fluorescence kinetics and biophysics of photosynthesis
-
UV/VIS spectroscopy
-
X-ray spectroscopy
Biochemistry & Biophysics of Plants and plant proteins:
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Isolation,
purification
and
characterisation
of
proteins
-
Important
plant metal proteins
-
Mechanisms
of
Heavy
metal stress and heavy metal resistance
|
advanced
students
(biology, life science and chemistry)
in English
|
Lectures
as part of
the "Vertiefungskurs Bioanorganische Chemie":
- Heavy metal transport, accumulation and coordination in plants
– principles and methods of investigation
- Cadmium transport
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PhD
students and postdocs
(biological, chemical and physical sciences)
in English
|
Lectures
as part of the DAAD summer school "METAL
IONS
IN
BIOLOGY-KEY
ELEMENTS
OF
LIFE" (Cuernavaca, Mexico, May 2008):
- X-ray
spectroscopy
- Heavy
Metal
homeostasis
- Metal
detoxification
- Metals in
photosynthesis
- Nickel
enzymes
- Copper
chaperones
- Tracing
metals in
cells
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Colleagues
and
advanced
students
in English
|
Lectures
held
during
visit
to
Porto
Alegre
(Brasil)
in
March
2009:
- Heavy
Metal homeostasis
- Metal
detoxification
- Tracing metals in
cells
- Metals in
photosynthesis
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