Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt am Main

Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität

Group for

Ecology, Morphology, and Systematics of Fungi

Teaching activities

1. Lectures

2. Seminars

3. Practicals

4. Field trips

5. Short term teaching abroad

 

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1. Lectures

Introduction to fungi, lichens, algae, and mosses

Introduction to mycology

Plant parasitic fungi

Fungi in the tropics

Monocotyledons (ecology, morphology, anatomy, systematics, useful plants)

 

2. Seminars

on selected topics of lower plants

on selected topics of mycology

tropical botany (tropical species diversity, vegetation forms, useful plants)

to prepare field trips (Cuba, Panama)

 

 3. Practicals

Introduction to higher plants (systematics, morphology)

Identification of plants

Lower plants (fungi, lichens, algae, mosses)

Anatomy, morphology, and systematics of higher plants

Grasses: Poaceae, Cyperaceae, and others (ecology, morphology, anatomy, systematics, useful plants)

Plant parasitic fungi

Our teaching on plant parasitic fungi forms part of the curriculum for "Fachberater für Mykologie, univ. gepr.", a program prepared by the DGfM link Fachberater

 

4. Field trips

plants and fungi in Germany

plants and fungi in botanical gardens

fungi and plants in the Alps

 

 

 

 

Mycological field trip in the Kleines Walsertal in the Northern Alps.

 

fungi and higher plants in Panama

algae at coasts

botany on the Christmas market in Frankfurt

 

5. Short term teaching courses abroad

on morphology and anatomy of higher plants at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (1997)

on plant parasitic fungi at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI) in David, Panama (1998)

on mycology at the UNACHI (2003)

on morphology and anatomy of tropical plants at the UNACHI (2003)

on writing of scientific projects at the UNACHI (2004)

 

The group of the short term teaching course on mycology (2004) at the UNACHI in David, Panama.

 

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Piepenbring, June 2004