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Austria
Title: Systematics, biology and ecology of middle european limnetic copepods
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Language: german
Content: morphology, anatomy, physiology, ecology, biogreography, taxonomy, bibliography used in taxonomy, technics used for identification
Target level: undergraduates, master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 3 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Santiago Gaviria-Melo
E-mail of contact person: santiago.gaviria@gmx.at
URL:
Title: Wassermilben. Systematik und biologie - Water mites. Systematics and biology
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s):
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Language: German (English/Italian possible)
Content: Genus and species discrimination, life cycle stages, parasitism, groundwater biology
Target level: amateur taxonomists, undergraduates, master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on demand
Duration: 1 week
Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Reinhard Gerecke
Free-lance researcher with teaching contract at the Zoological Institute,
E-mail of contact person: reinhard.gerecke@uni-tuebingen.de
URL:
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Belgium
Title: (1) General systematics and molecular phylogeny (2) Identification of plant-parasitic nematodes
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Language: English
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: resp. 3 ECTS and 6 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: W. Decraemer
E-mail of contact person: Nic.Smol@Ugent.be
URL:
Title: Morphology and systematics of the Chordata
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Language: Dutch (& partly in English)
Content: Introduction to systematics: examples, definitions, categories and methods of classification - Morphology and systematics of Fishes: classification of groups and general characters for each group - Systematics of the Tetrapoda
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 39 hrs in one semester
Main person responsible for the training: Jos Snoeks
E-mail of contact person: jos.snoeks@africamuseum.be; jos.snoeks@bio.kuleuven.be
URL: http://www.kuleuven.be/onderwijs/aanbod/syllabi/G0269AN.htm
Title: Introductory workshop in Geometric Morphometrics
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Language: English
Content: landmarkbased GMM
Target level: master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on demand
Duration: 3 days
Main person responsible for the training: Andrea Cardini
E-mail of contact person: dominique.adriaens@ugent.be
URL:
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Bulgaria
Title: Taxonomy, morphology, ecology and biogeography of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda)with emphasis on the orders Callipodida and Lithobiomorpha
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): National Museum of Natural History
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Language: Bulgarian/English
Content:
Target level: master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on demand
Duration: 1 month
Main person responsible for the training: Pavel Stoev
National
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Denmark
Title: Systematic entomology
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Natural History Museum of Denmark
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Language: Danish
Content:
Target level: undergraduates
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Duration:
Main person responsible for the training: Niels P. Kristensen
E-mail of contact person: npkristensen@snm.ku.dk
URL: http://www.zmuc.dk/EntoWeb/entomologi.htm
Title: Comparative evolutionary zoology (Zoomorphology)
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): University of Copenhagen, Biological Institute, Dept. of Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology
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Language: English
Content: metazoan morphology, metazoan phylogeny, comparative physiology, functional morphology, phylogenetic techniques, relation between taxonomy and phylogeny
Target level: master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 2 months - 7,5 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Jens T. Høeg
University of Copenhagen, Biological Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology, Universitetsparken 15, Building 3 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
E-mail of contact person: jthoeg@bi.ku.dk
URL: http://www.sis.ku.dk/lp/VisKursus.asp?Knr=82588&Sprog=DK&InFrame=0
Title: Biogeography and macroecology
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Language: English
Content: distribution patterns of plants and animals, global change ecology, plate tectonics, island biogeography, biodiversity patterns, biomes of the world
Target level: undergraduates, master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 5 hrs/week during 14 weeks, 10 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Jens-Christian Svenning
E-mail of contact person: svenning@biology.au.dk
URL:
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Finland
Title: Essential cladistics
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Language: English
Content: phylogeny parsimony
Target level: undergraduates, master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on average every other year
Duration: 3-5 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Jaakko Hyvönen
University of Helsinki, Plant Biology, PO Box 65, FIN-00014 UNIV. HELSINKI, FINLAND, Finland
E-mail of contact person: jaakko.hyvonen@helsinki.fi
URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~jhyvonen/ec05
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France
Title: Expertise faune flore, inventaires et indicateurs de la biodiversité (E2F), Spécialité "Systématique, Evolution et Paléontologie (SEP)", Master " Evolution, Patrimoine Naturel et Sociétés"
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
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Language: French
Content: project management, legal aspects, stakeholders, GIS, private consultancy, sampling methods, ecology and conservation, communication, inventories & monitoring, taxonomy
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 1 year, 60 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Jacques Bardat
E-mail of contact person: bardat@mnhn.fr
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/enSup/8070_plaquette_parcours_e2f.pdf
Title: Systématique et évolution (SE), Spécialité "Systématique, évolution et paléontologie (SEP)", MSc Evolution, Patrimoine Naturel et Sociétés
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
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Language: French
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 1 year, 60 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Pascal Tassy (MNHN), Jean Broutin (UPMC Paris 6)
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57, rue Cuvier 75 231
E-mail of contact person: ptassy@mnhn.fr, Jean.Broutin@snv.jussieu.fr
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Title: Paléontologie et évolution (PE), Spécialité "Systématique, évolution et paléontologie (SEP)", MSc Evolution, patrimoine naturel et sociétés
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
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Language: French
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 1 year, 60 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Pascal Tassy (MNHN), Jean Broutin (UPMC Paris 6)
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57, rue Cuvier 75 231
E-mail of contact person: ptassy@mnhn.fr, Jean.Broutin@snv.jussieu.fr
URL:
Title: Structure et histoire paléontologique des grands clades de Métazoaires (PALEOMET). MSc Systématique, paléontologie et évolution
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
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Language: French
Content: phylogeny, systematics, evolution, history of life, palaeobiogeography, anatomy
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 3 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Pascal Tassy
E-mail of contact person: ptassy@mnhn.fr
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/Enseignement/rubmastere/sspresentmaster.xsp
Title: Analyse à trois éléments : systématique et biogéographie
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
Host organisation(s)/institution(s), if different from organiser:
Language: French/English
Content: cladistics, three-item analysis, area cladistics, formalization of knowledge
Target level: master level, PhD level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 1 week, 35 hrs
Main person responsible for the training: René Zaragüeta
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire Informatique et Systématique (LIS),, UMR 5143, Paléobiodiversité et Paléoenvironnements Équipe Systématique, Recherche Informatique et Structuration des Cladogrammes, 12 rue Cuvier 75005 Paris (France), France
E-mail of contact person: rzb@ccr.jussieu.fr
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Title: Informatique appliquée à la Biodiversité (IAB), Spécialité "Systématique, évolution et paléontologie (SEP)", MSc Evolution, Patrimoine Naturel et Sociétés
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (
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Language: French
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 1 year, 60 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Régine Vignes Lebbe
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 57, rue Cuvier 75 231
E-mail of contact person: nadia.foka@upmc.fr
URL: click here
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Germany
Title: Die Methoden-Vielfalt der molekularen Systematik vorgestellt
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Botanischer Garten und
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Language: German
Content: workshop der AG Junge Systematiker – "Methoden-Vielfalt in der molekularen Systematik: Einführung und Überblick
Target level:
Periodicity: yearly
Duration: 1 month
Main person responsible for the training:
E-mail of contact person:
URL: http://biosys-serv.biologie.uni-ulm.de/gfbs/Fachgruppen/Jungesystem/3werkstattVeran.html
Title: Biological resource management and training
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): German Resource Centre for Biological Material (DSMZ)
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Language: English
Content: Most applicants are seeking information on modern prokaryote systematics, coming with their own unidentified material, leaving with the assessment of phylogenetic relatedness and (in many cases) a description suitable for publication
Target level: master level, PhD level, postgraduates, specialists / professionals, technicians
Periodicity: on demand
Duration: between 2 days and several months
Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Erko Stackebrandt
German Resource Centre for Biological Material (DSMZ), German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultured, Inhoffenstr. 7B 38124
E-mail of contact person: erko@dsmz.de
URL:
Title: Inverterbate systematics
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Museum Koenig,
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Language: German/ English
Content: beta and gamma taxonomy, determination of species collected in the field, basic nomenclature rules
Target level: high school students, master level
Periodicity: once a year
Duration: 1 month
Main person responsible for the training: J. W. Waegele
Museum Alexander Koenig and University
E-mail of contact person:
URL:
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Hungary
Title: Systematic zoology
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Eötvös University, Biological Institute, Dept. of Systematic Zoology
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Language: Hungarian
Content: Classification and phylogeny of animals. Theories of taxonomy; phenetic, numerical, cladistical and evolutionary taxonomy. Relationship between Taxonomy and Systematics. Molecular biology methods in taxonomy. Mass extinctions. Characteristics of the kingdom Protista; classification of protozoan phyla; evolutionary relationships among the various protists, life cycles of some parasitic protists. Theories of origin of metazoans. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of Porifera, Placozoa, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Nemertini, Kamptozoa, Nematoda, Gastrotricha, Rotatoria, Nematomorpha, Kinorhyncha, Acanthocephala, Priapulida, Mollusca, Gephirea, Annelida, Onychophora, Tardigrada, Arthropoda, Tentaculata, Brachiata, Homalopterygia, Hemichordata, Echinodermata phyla. General characteristics of Chordates. Main division of the Phylum Chordata. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Subphylum Urochordata. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Subphylum Cephalochordata. Origin of the Early Vertebrates. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Classes Myxini, Cephalaspidimorphi, Chondrichtyes, Actinopterygii, Sarcopterygii. Early evolution of terrestrial vertebrates. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Class Amphibia. Evolution of amniotes. Extinct reptilian groups. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Class Anapsida. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Class Diapsida. Origin of modern birds, adaptation to the flight, extinct species. Characteristics, phylogeny, adaptive radiation and classification of the Class Aves. Origin and evolution of mammals. Characteristics and classification of the Class Mammals. Adaptations and specialisations among mammals
Target level: undergraduates
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 60 ECTS lecture, and 90 ECTS practical course
Main person responsible for the training: Klára Dózsa-Farkas
E-mail of contact person: dfk66@freemail.hu
URL:
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Ireland
Title: (1) MSc in Biodiversity and conservation (2) PhD in Plant systematics
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Language: English
Content:
Target level: master level, PhD level, postgraduates
Periodicity: on a regular basis and on demand
Duration: 60 ECTS for MSc, not specified for PhD
Main person responsible for the training: Prof. J. Parnell
Trinity College Dublin, School of Botany, Dublin 2, Ireland
E-mail of contact person: jparnell@tcd.ie
URL:
Italy
Title: Principles and Methods of Phylogenetic Systematics
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Faculty of Science Degree ("Laurea") in Evolutionary Biology
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Language: Italian
Content: the course is focused on systematics and phylogenetics
Target level: undergraduates, master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 50 hours, 25 lessons
Main person responsible for the training: Marco Oliverio
La Sapienza Rome University, Dept. of Animal and Human Biology, Viale dell'Università 32, 00185 Roma, Italy
E-mail of contact person: marco.oliverio@uniroma1.it
URL:
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Netherlands
Title: MSc in Biodiversity and systematics
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Netherland Consortium of Taxonomic Institutions, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
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Language: English
Content: The programme is linked to the specialisation courses on "Systematics and Evolution" and/or "Biology and the Environment". It provides basic knowledge on the theory, methodology and practice of systematics and taxic biodiversity studies.
Target level: undergraduates
Periodicity: yearly
Duration: 18 months (6 for courses, 12 for practical work)
Main person responsible for the training: P. de Graaf (Secretary)
E-mail of contact person: p.degraaf@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
URL: http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/rhb/msc_program.htm#information
Title: Biogeography of soil Cryptobiota (3-8 September 2000)
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Host organisation(s)/institution(s), if different from organiser:
Language: English
Content: Crustacea, Oniscidea, taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography, ecology, Europe and Mediterranean
Target level: undergraduates, master level, PhD level, postgraduates, specialists / professionals, technicians
Periodicity: one time in the framework of a special occasion
Duration: 6 days
Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Matty Berg
E-mail of contact person: matty.berg@ecology.falw.vu.nl
URL:
Title: Erasmus course in systematic biology
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Several: European network of Institutes and Universities
Host organisation(s)/institution(s), if different from organiser: Zoological Museum of the
Language: English
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity:
Duration: 1 week
Main person responsible for the training: Prof. Dr. F.R. Schram (has retired and is now in the
E-mail of contact person:
URL:
Title: Systematic and evolutionary biology (SEB)
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Inst. of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Host organisation(s)/institution(s), if different from organiser:
Language: English
Content: phylogeography, biogeography, genetics, phylogenetics
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 120 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training: Prof. Dr. Steph Menken
E-mail of contact person: vonk@science.uva.nl
URL: http://www.studeren.uva.nl/msc_ecology_and_evolution/
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Norway
Title: (1) Biosystematic and nomenclature (2) MSc and PhD in biosystematics
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Norwegian
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Language: Norwegian/English
Content:
Target level: undergraduates, master level, PhD level, postgraduates, specialists / professionals
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 30 hrs
Main person responsible for the training:
Norwegian university of Science and Technology, The Museum of natural history and archaeology, Erlings Skakkest 47 7491
E-mail of contact person: kaare.aagaard@vm.ntnu.no
URL:
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Slovakia
Title: (1) Zoology (2) Systematics
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Fakulta prírodných vied, Katedra zoólogie a antropológie
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Main person responsible for the training: Dr. Mária Vondráková
E-mail of contact person:
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Sweden
Title: MSc programme in Biology – Systematics and biodiversity
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Language: English
Content:
Target level: master level
Periodicity: yearly
Duration: 120 ECTS
Main person responsible for the training:
E-mail of contact person: mikael.thollesson@ebc.uu.se
URL:
Title: Research Master in Evolutionary biology
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Language: English
Content: evolutionary processes, evolutionary patterns, independent research projects
Target level: master level
Periodicity: on a regular basis
Duration: 2 years
Main person responsible for the training: Prof. Jacob Höglund, Dr. Mikael Thollesson
E-mail of contact person:
URL: http://www.ibg.uu.se/en/master/index.html
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United Kingdom
Title: MRes Biosystematics
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Language: English
Content: Students on the MRes course are trained in research techniques in systematics, taxonomy, evolutionary biology and bioinformatics, as a stepping-stone to a PhD or other research-related career.
Target level: undergraduates
Periodicity: yearly
Duration: 1 year
Main person responsible for the training:
E-mail of contact person:
URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/postgraduate/mres/index.html
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