The dissertation on "Didactic structuring of genetics lessons at lower secondary level - empirical investigations in the classroom as a contribution to didactic reconstruction" (working title) offers me the opportunity to combine my interest in biochemical topics with biology didactic issues and experience from my own teaching activities. Based on Vera Frerichs' work on the didactic reconstruction ofstructures and processes of heredity, the subject of the dissertation includes the development of a didactic concept and a corresponding teaching sequence on genetics at lower secondary school level, the practical testing of the teaching unit with subsequent evaluation and revision.

The connection between molecular genetics and classical genetics (Mendelian genetics) is one of the key aspects of modern genetics teaching. Of central importance is the physiological-biochemical relationship between genes and traits, which is inadequately captured by the metaphor of genetic information. For the development of the teaching unit, genetics should be linked with aspects of physiology - namely the development of characteristics. The teaching of the development of characteristics is exemplified by the development of blood group antigens on erythrocytes.

I completed my doctorate in 2010.

First State Examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools with the subjects biology and chemistry in June 1998, traineeship from 09/1998 to 07/2000 at the Erasmus-Grasser-Gymnasium Munich and at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Gymnasium Waldkirchen, since 08/2000 working at the Ursulinenschule Fritzlar in the Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium, since 04/2003 external doctoral candidate in the working group Biology Didactics

Kattmann, U., Frerichs, V. & Gluhodedow, M. (2005). Genes are characterless - Didactic reconstruction using the example of genetics. Mathematics and Science Education, 58(6), 324-330.

Gluhodedow, M. (2012). Understanding biology: Teaching genetics at lower secondary level. Contributions to Didactic Reconstruction 36. Oldenburg: Didaktisches Zentrum.