300120 VO Systems conditions for Evolution (2024S)
Labels
ON-SITE
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
Details
Language: English
Examination dates
N
Friday
28.06.2024
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
12.07.2024
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
13.09.2024
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
27.09.2024
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Friday
08.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
15.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
22.03.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
12.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
19.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
26.04.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
03.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
10.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
17.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
N
Friday
31.05.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
07.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Friday
21.06.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
A written exam at the end will consist of 12-15 questions , addressing taught material.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The grading criterion is :
>50% of the maximum points reached for the passing grade (4), higher grades are achieved at equal intervals (>62.5% for 3, >75% for 2, >87.5% for 1)
>50% of the maximum points reached for the passing grade (4), higher grades are achieved at equal intervals (>62.5% for 3, >75% for 2, >87.5% for 1)
Examination topics
The topics of the lecture, and the required and discussed literature.
Reading list
Waddington, C. H. (1942). Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters. Nature, 150(3811), 563-565.Houle, D. (1992). Comparing evolvability and variability of quantitative traits. Genetics, 130(1), 195-204.Schuster, P., Fontana, W., Stadler, P. F., & Hofacker, I. L. (1994). From sequences to shapes and back: a case study in RNA secondary structures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 255(1344), 279-284.Wagner, G. P., & Altenberg, L. (1996). Perspective: complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution, 50(3), 967-976.Dawkins, R. (1997). Ch. 7 Kaleidoscopic Embryos. In R. Dawkins. Climbing mount improbable (pp. 224-255 ). WW Norton & Company.Kirschner, M., & Gerhart, J. (1998). Evolvability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(15), 8420-8427.Rutherford, S. L., & Lindquist, S. (1998). Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution. Nature, 396(6709), 336-342.Gibson, G., & Wagner, G. (2000). Canalization in evolutionary genetics: a stabilizing theory? BioEssays, 22(4), 372-380.Hendrikse, J. L., Parsons, T. E., & Hallgrímsson, B. (2007). Evolvability as the proper focus of evolutionary developmental biology. Evolution & development, 9(4), 393-401.Hansen, T. F., & Houle, D. (2008). Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters. Journal of evolutionary biology, 21(5), 1201-1219.Wagner, A. (2008). Robustness and evolvability: a paradox resolved. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1630), 91-100.Jablonski, D. (2020). Developmental bias, macroevolution, and the fossil record. Evolution & development, 22(1-2), 103-125.
Association in the course directory
MES5, MZO4, MZO W3
Last modified: Su 10.03.2024 19:46
We will introduce evolutionary process and discuss the structure of the genotype-phenotype mapping (essentially developmental and physiological structure) which makes organisms evolvable - such as robustness, modularity, mutation rate, phenotypic plasticity, context dependency of genetic effects etc. Furthermore, the approaches to study these phenomena will be explained based on the seminal literature in the field. (which is required reading in the course).