Speaker: Prof. Uri Gophna, School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University
Title: CRISPR-Cas, molecular parasites, and gene exchange barriers in archaea
Speaker: Dr. Monica Mowery, University of Toronto and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Invasion in the light of evolution: an integrative approach using two widespread widow spider species
Speaker: Prof. Gideon Wasserberg, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Title: Ovipositon ecology of Phlebotomus papatasi sand flies, vectors of Old-World cutaneous Leishmaniasis: basic biology and implications for control
Speaker: Dr. Meital Oren-Suissa, Weizmann Institute, Department of Neurobiology
Title: Sex and the circuitry: the development of sexually-dimorphic neuronal circuits
Speaker: Dr. Viraj Torsekar,Dror Hawlena's lab,HUJI
Title: Ecology of predator-prey interactions in the context of prey reproductive decisions
Speaker: Prof. Eran Tauber,Haifa University
Title: The circadian clock in Drosophila: Latitudinal clines and molecular evolution of clock genes
Speaker: Prof. Anat Ben-Zvi,Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Trade-Off between somatic proteostasis and reproduction in C. elegans
Speaker: Dr. Tamar Guy-haim, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)
Title: Ocean-Hitchhikers: The biogeography and physiology of marine zoochorous dispersal and bioinvasions
Speaker: Dr. Oren Kolodny, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: Why did Moderns replace Neanderthals and not vice versa? And what took them so long?!?