Bachelor level

The postdocs in the group coordinate a late-level Bachelors module Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology. It’s designed to be a students first experience with mathematical modelling, which we approach in a very hands-on manner. Broadly, teaching tasks include:

• A small number of ~90 min lectures designed to provide the background needed to model a particular evolutionary phenomena. Previous topics include antagonistic pleiotropy, sex ratios, demographic buffering and Lotka-Volterra style dynamics.

• Building and running coding workshops. This is most likely to be in R, but is dependent on current lab expertise. Tom’s previous attempt to introduce the tidyverse can be found in this repository.

• Guiding students through a basic model of your choice. Very simple, intellectually stimulating models are the aim of the game here.

• General course admin stuff - when shared: very manageable.

Past material can be found in the 14b_content folder on github. In the Admin_docs sub directory, there are two helpful files. These are what you need to submit to JGU’s teaching office to register the subject for the following semester. Registering. is done by emailing Gunther Ochs ochs[at]uni-mainz.de and/or Peter Schubert schubepe[at]uni-mainz.de.

Code written by the 2024 cohort can be found here.