The course is research-oriented and serves to deepen scientific and application-related qualifications. Students will be taught the use of chemical-analytical, physiological-biochemical, molecular-biological, biophysical and biostatistical methods for the investigation and discussion of molecular-ecological questions. Objects of investigation are prokaryotes, fungi, higher plants, arthropods and vertebrates in terrestrial and aquatic (freshwater) ecosystems, but also genetically modified organisms (e.g. transgenic plants.