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Teaching of the Küpper group (as Department of Plant Biophysics & Biochemistry and formerly workgroup at Konstanz University)
(discontinued courses are indicated with the respective date)

Target group, language of the documents / lectures	Description of the teaching activity
2nd semester in German	Lectures of the practical course on microscopic plant anatomy (2010-2013, in Konstanz). Lectures held by myself (lectures of the other parts on homepages of my colleagues): - Leaves (slides in colour or b/w) - Leaf specialisations (slides in colour or b/w), - Meristems & Growth (slides in colour or b/w)
2nd semester in German	Lectures on photosynthesis as part of the lecture series introducting to anatomy and physiology of plants ("Einführung in Bau und Funktion der Pflanzen") (2012-2013, in Konstanz): - Photosynthesis Introduction: colour or b/w - Light and Pigments: colour or b/w - Antennae: colour or b/w - Reaction centres: colour or b/w - Electron transport: colour or b/w - Dark reactions: colour or b/w - Summary and Retrospect: colour or b/w
advanced students (5th semsester BSc, biology & life science) in German	Lectures as part of the "Kompaktkurs Pflanzenphysiologie" (2004-2013, in Konstanz) "Versuchstheorie": - Experiment 3 (slides in colour or bw) (2012-2013) - Plant nutrition I: principles and macronutrients P, S, Ca, K, Mg (slides in colour or bw) - Plant nutrition II: Heavy metals Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni and Zn as micronutrients and as toxic elements (slides in colour or bw) (2004-2010): - Biophysics of Photosynthesis (slides in colour or bw) - Heavy metals as Micronutrients (slides in colour or bw) - Heavy metal Toxicity (slides in colour or bw) - Nitrogen Fixation and Regulation of photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation (slides in colour or bw)
advanced students (MSc, PhD: biology, life science, biophysics and biochemistry) in English	Lectures of the advanced course "Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biophysics of Plants" (2012-continued, in Konstanz and České Budějovice): - Introduction: - Basics of coordination chemistry in biological Systems: colour "Bioinorganic chemistry & Biophysics of Plants": colour - Biophysics of Photosynthesis as the fundamental process in plants: colour - Methods for analysing photosynthesis: colour - Further methods of UV-VIS absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy in vivo and in situ: colour - Work with metalloproteins: expression, isolation, purification and characterisation by biochemical assays and metalloproteomics: colour - Chromatographic methods: basics, advanced HPLC methods: colour - X-ray emission spectroscopy (EDX, PIXE, µXRF)for analysing element distribution in biological samples and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XANES, EXAFS) for analysing biological metal complexes: colour - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (EPR, NMR) as structural tools: colour - Trace element nutrition in plants: uptake and transport of transition metals: colour - Introduction to the essential role of metals in photosynthesis: colour - From physiology to biochemistry to spectroscopy and protein structure: copper and iron proteins: colour - Biogeochemical cycles of elements, in particular metals: colour - Nitrogen fixation and regulation of photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation: colour - Micronutrients in algae: iodine and iron: colour - Metal Toxicity: basic principles: colour - Copper as an essential, but also highly toxic, biologically redox-active metal: colour - Cadmium as a highly toxic but possibly also beneficial, biologically redox-inert metal: colour (excluding parts of the lecture about recent unpublished research!) - Arsenic toxicity and speciation in plants, incl. implications for human nutrition: colour (excluding parts of the lecture about recent unpublished research!) - Principles of metal detoxification in plants: colour - Biotechnological use of metal accumulation in plants: colour - Literature searches and scientific writing: colour

pdfs of the lectures of the last year are available on request, pdfs of the lectures of the current semester can be downloaded directly by clicking on the links.

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