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Advanced Course Entomology 2025

Objectives

Provide a general understanding of insect diversity and decline. To capacitate students to recognize insect taxonomic groups, understand major evolutionary transitions in insect evolution, and to. identify major threats to entomofauna. The course includes several case studies of insect adaptation, and the most recent overview on insect evodevo, plasticity, ecophysiological responses and conservation under global change.

Participants need to attend 85% of the course hours (this means that they can miss one half-day), and actively participate in all activities.

This course can give credits to PhD programmes at CIÊNCIAS or of programmes with partnership from CIÊNCIAS and other institutions with 6h-7h of contact hours per ECT, as a function of specific requirements. For these students additionally to the exercises done during the week the delivery of a written report done after the course is mandatory. For programmes with less hours of contact per ECT (6h/ECT, getting 6 ECTs from the course) students need to do an additional assignment (summary report). If needed 1 or 2 additional hours of contact may be added. Such report(s) are also advised for other students requesting accreditation of the course in their institutions.

Minimal formation of students: Bachelor in Biological and Natural Sciences or related areas.

Directed to: MSc or PhD students in Biology, Environmental Sciences, Ecology or related areas, postdocs and professionals working in related topics.

General Plan

Monday

09:00-09:30 Welcome session and program presentation

09:30-12:30 Introduction to Entomology

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Insect evolution, diversity, and ecology.

Tuesday

09:00-12:30 Insect colleting methods, preparation, and identification: terrestrial compartment

                     Fieldwork

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Insect colleting methods, preparation, and identification: subterranean compartment

                     Fieldwork

Wednesday

09:00-12:30 Insect colleting methods, preparation, and identification: aquatic compartment

                     Fieldwork

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Insect Diversity: major taxonomic groups, distinctive characters, and identification

Thursday

09:00-12.30 Lectures on insect diversity and decline

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:30 Preparation of presentation of personal project

Friday

09:00-12.30 Lectures on insect diversity and decline

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:00 Personal project: results and discussion

17:00-17:30 Closure

Funding

Students fees

Fee

Free for 1st year PhD students in Doctoral programmes at CIÊNCIAS (e.g. Biologia), Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (BIODIV ULisboa; UPorto), Biology and Ecology of Global Changes (BEAG ULisboa, UAveiro) and Sustainability Science (ULisboa, several institutions), when the course counts credits for their formation, in which case the delivery of a final report done after the course is mandatory; the course is also free for more advanced PhD students of the BIODIV programme (ULisboa or UPorto); 50 € for more advanced PhD students of CE3C of other programmes; 80 € for PhD students of the PEERS network (CFE); 125 € for CIÊNCIAS Master students and unemployed; 180 € for BTI, BI and other PhD students; 250 € for Professionals and postdocs.

When the maximum number of students is reached, 10 vacancies will be available for non-paying 1st year PhD students mentioned above, being, by order of preference students from: 1) CE3C; 2) BIODIV (not from CE3C); 3) CIÊNCIAS (not from CE3C); 4) Sustainability Science (not from CE3C or CIÊNCIAS); 5) BEAG (not from CE3C or CIÊNCIAS).

How to Apply

Candidates should complete the application form available when the call is open.

This form is strictly confidential, as explained in the introduction, and the data are required because the CE3C Advanced Courses are also offered as part of the PRR programme of CIÊNCIAS.

When filling out the form, mind to:

  • FILL ALL THE MANDATORY FIELDS;
  • UPLOAD CV AND MOTIVATION LETTER, both mandatory; use the names as instructed there;
  • If you want to resume later, SAVE the form, otherwise you will need to fill everything out again;
  • At the end, SUBMIT the form before exiting.

If you have any questions, please contact the coordinator of the CE3C Advanced Courses, Margarida Matos (mmmatos@fc.ul.pt), and Ana Sofia Reboleira (asreboleira@ciencias.ulisboa.pt).