About speciality
Graduate of 2nd stage study in Biology at specialty Integrative Biodiversity acquires the following qualifications:
Competences:
- Collaborative team-player
- Creative and inclusive team leader
- Ethical and respectable team worker
- Responsible environmentalist
- Analytical thinker
- Successful outreach communicator
Skills:
- Designs competitive research projects
- Locates external funding resources
- Performs molecular and cytogenetic analyses
- Performs statistical analyses with the use of R-software
- Performs phylogenetic analyses based on molecular, morphological, and mixed data matrix
- Applies new and innovative methodologies in biodiversity research
- Effectively communicates and promotes results of scientific projects
Knowledge:
- In-depth understanding of biological concepts and processes helping biodiversity
- Modern methods used in molecular biology
- Classical and molecular methods used in phylogenetic analyses
- Methods of biodiversity assessments and the main threats to biodiversity on a global and local scale
- Statistical methods applied in phylogenetic, molecular, and ecological studies
- Terminology and research methods used in biogeography and evolutionary biology
Biology
- global changes of biodiversity and human impact on the environment
- evolutionary biology and its connection with molecular, taxonomic and ecological research
- not just reading about research, but performing it with modern tools and methods…
- how to design research projects
- how to obtain external funding for your projects
- how to perform molecular, phylogenetic, bioinformatic and cytogenetic analyses
- new and innovative methods used in biodiversity research
- how to communicate and present results of your work
- be a collaborative team-player
- be a successful outreach communicator
- be a skilled environmentalist creating competitive projects
- apply various methods to address the most urgent challenges caused by the climate change
- have an in-depth understanding of biological concepts and processes
