Systems Biology Major | Current Students

To complete the Systems Biology program, you have to successfully take the following mandatory courses listed in the table. Added to it are a couple of optional courses you can take as well.

Wintersemester 2024/2025
Semester 1

Courses	Date	Time	Where
General Introduction Meeting Masters	tentative: 14/10/24	10:00	tba
Introduction Major Systems Biology	16/10/24	10:00	tba
Lecture and Tutorial: Frontiers in Biosciences 1	tentative start: 16/10/24	8:15-9:45	tba
Lecture and Tutorial: Frontiers in Biosciences 2	Jan-Mar 2025	8:15-9:45	Check HeiCO
Practical course and Seminar: Quantitative Biology	18. Nov.- 6. Dec 2024	10:00-18:00	BioQuant
Practical course and Seminar: Computational Biology	January 2025	10:00-18:00	BioQuant

Optional but recommended
Practical introduction in computational modelling: In Silico Methods in Biochemistry	3 weeks starting 21.10	10:00-18:00	BioQuant
Lecture and Exercises: Mathematics for Systems Biology	tba	WiSe 24/25 Fridays 10:00-12:00 Tuesdays 16:00-18:00	BioQuant

Summersemester 2025
Semester 2

Courses	Date	Time	Where
Lecture and Tutorial: Systems Cell Biology	April-July 2025	8:00-10:00	BioQuant
Lecture and Tutorial: Physical Methods in Systems Biology	April-July 2025	8:00-10:00	BioQuant
Course and Seminar: Advanced Computational Systems Biology	23 June - 11 July 2025	10:00-18:00	BioQuant
Course and Seminar: High throughput and Omics	6 June + 20. June 2025	10:00-18:00	tba

Semester 3

In this semester you should undertake two lab rotations, working for at least 6 weeks on a small project in a laboratory of choice, attending seminars in that laboratory and writing a lab report.

Semester 4

The Master's thesis work lasts 6 months. You undertake a laboratory research project relevant to the Major Systems Biology, write a thesis, and defend it in an oral presentation. The seminar is usually held in the research group where you do your Master's thesis.