Speaker: prof. Dan Mishmar, Department of life sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Mitochondrial-nuclear regulatory coordination: a 2 billion years’ commitment is compromised in disease
Speaker: Prof. Yehu Moran, EEB Department
Title: Genetic manipulation provides novel insights into the enigmatic roles of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
Speaker: Dr. Ehud Lamm, Tel Aviv University
Title: Cultural evolution beyond the individual: Challenges and Alternatives to the high-fidelity paradigm
Speaker: Dr. Liron Shani, Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University
Title: When does an alien become a native? and more anthropological insights on alien species and nature conservation
Speaker: Dr. Shay Rotics, School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University
Title: Workload division in cooperatively breeding mole-rats and meerkats
Speaker: Prof. Gila Kahila, HUJI
Title: Overview and tour across the National Natural History Collections
Speaker: Gideon Szemet, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Hadas Hawlena, Ben-Gurion University
Title: How do parasites persist in host populations and communities despite strong immune responses against them? The eco-epidemiology of Bartonella in Negev Desert rodents as a case study
Speaker: Prof. Shirli Bar-David,Ben-Gurion University
Title: Water sources impact on population genetics: from the fire salamander to the Asiatic wild ass
Speaker: Prof. Ariel Chipman, EEB Department
Prof. Rivka Rabinovich, National Collections
Title: Combining fossils and embryos to understand the evolution of the arthropod body plan
Challenges in studying Miocene- Pliocene fauna along the Levantine Corridor