FAQs Biosciences

When you register for an assessment, you will have to indicate for which topic (e.g. bioinformatics, neurosciences, biophysics etc.) you want to use the course in question. 

If you want a particular course to be re-assigned from one topic to another at a later date, please send the Examination Office an email stating which course you want to be assigned to which topic (if you are still undecided about which   other courses you want to take, you will not have to list them). Please use bold type for assessments that you have taken already. Please use the following format:

Molecular cell and developmental biology
Molecular biology
Cell and developmental biology Master 1
Cell and developmental biology F1
Cell and developmental biology F2

Cellular tumour biology
Microbiology 1
Microbiology 2
Cellular tumour biology F1

The Examination Office will then re-assign the courses as requested.

Click here and go to the ‘FAQs’ section. The ‘Information regarding the Master thesis and the colloquium’ document found there will tell you everything you need to know about the thesis and thesis defence.

You and your reviewer will have to propose a start date on the request form. If the chairperson of the examination committee gives their approval for this date, the due date for the submission of your thesis will be exactly six months after it. The Examination Office will enter your due date into the WueStudy system, and you will find it in your study planner and in the list of the assessments for which you have registered. It may take up to one week after you submit your request for the date to appear in the system.
If your proposed start date is not approved, the Examination Office will let you know.

According to the ASPO general academic and examination regulations, you will have to submit two electronic copies (usually PDF files) of your Master’s thesis that are saved on standard storage devices (e.g. USB sticks or CDs). The two storage devices should be labelled with your name and student ID number.

Your storage devices must be accompanied by a declaration of authorship.
You will have to 1. submit one printout of the declaration that bears your original handwritten signature and 2. in addition to that, will have to add the declaration, without a signature, to the electronic copies as the last page of the files. If no declaration of authorship has been included or you have made a false declaration of authorship, you will be awarded a fail grade for your thesis.

If required by the reviewers of your thesis, you will have to submit three (!) bound paper copies in addition to the electronic copies. Declarations of authorship bearing your original handwritten signature must be bound into these paper copies. Please contact your reviewers directly to find out if they require paper copies. You will not have to notify the Examination Office of your reviewers’ requirements.

You have the following options for submitting your thesis:

• Come to the Examination Office (Josef-Martin-Weg 55, 97074 Würzburg) during our office hours and hand it in in person.
• Place it in an envelope addressed to the Examination Office for Biology (Prüfungsamt Biologie) and drop it in the letter box located at the north-east entrance to the Neue Universität building at Sanderring 2 no later than at 23:59 on the due date (be aware that there is a system to identify whether a document has been put in the letter box before or after midnight).
• Send it by postal mail to Universität Würzburg, Prüfungsamt Biologie, Sanderring 2, 97070 Würzburg (important information: the ‘normal’ mail (not internal mail) postmark date will be deemed the date of submission).

Yes, students writing their Master’s thesis can be granted an extension of their thesis submission deadline of up to two months. To request an extension, please submit the completed request form to the Office of the Dean of Studies (Studiendekanat) of your Faculty. You can complete the form on your computer if you open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader. 
The request must include sufficient justification and must provide information to prove that the requested amount of time is justified.

Important information: Deadline extensions must be requested at least four weeks before the original due date for thesis submission!

Deadline extensions for reasons of illness may also be granted on presentation of a doctor’s note. In such cases, you will not be required to submit the deadline extension request form mentioned above. There is no specific deadline for submitting your doctor’s note, but please submit it to the Examination Office as soon as possible (preferably by postal mail).

You cannot be granted an extension of your thesis submission deadline of more than two months!

Yes, you will. To do so, please submit your completed and signed thesis defence registration form to the Examination Office. You can either hand it in in person, send it by postal mail or email us a scanned copy.

The thesis defence should be held as soon as possible but no later than four weeks after notification of the successful completion of your thesis (date on which your grade was entered into the WueStudy system).
If both of your reviewers confirm on your registration form that you will receive a grade of ‘sufficient’ (4.0) or better for your thesis, your defence can also take place in the period between the date of submission of your thesis and the date of receipt of your reviewers’ finished reports.
Your defence is not permitted to take place before you have submitted your thesis!
There is no minimum period between the submission of your thesis and your defence.
Please also read the information provided on page 2 of the registration form.

Once you have successfully registered, the Examination Office will email your report directly to your examiner.