Speaker: Prof. Avi Bar-Massada, Department of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology, Haifa University
Title: The Interactive Roles of Environmental Gradients and Local Processes in Driving Ecological Patterns
Speaker: Prof. Inon Scharf, School of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University
Title: Foraging and Risk Management in the Ant Cataglyphis niger in Complex Environments
Speaker: Dr. Yinon Bar-On, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Quantifying the Ecosystem processes driving the land carbon sink
Speaker: Dr. Igal Berenshtein, Dept. of Marine Biology, University of Haifa.
Title: “Location Location Location!” The potential impact of hydrocarbon exploration in the Israeli Mediterranean on natural and socioeconomic assets
Speaker: Dr. Omri Finkel, Plant & environmental Sciences, HUJI
Title: Understanding the nitrogen cycle within nodules
Speaker: Prof. Oren Levy, Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University
Title: When the Reef Cannot Sleep: Masked Rhythms and the Cost of Sensory Pollution
Speaker: Dr. Delia Narvaez Department of Plant Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Algal Betaine Triggers Bacterial Hydrogen Peroxide Production that Promotes Algal Demise
Speaker: Prof. Roi Holzman, School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University
Title: The roles of innovation and biomechanical trade offs in determining the diversity of form and function: Lessons from fish feeding
Speaker: Prof. Orr Spiegel, School of zoology, Tel Aviv University
Title: The ecological consequences of individuality in movement
Speaker: Mrs. Evgeniia Propistsova, HUJI
Title: Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Agelenidae) as a model organism to understand the evolution of eye-loss in cave arachnids