Speaker: Dr. Raphael Aguillon, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Title: Evolution of the circadian clock and sleep in cnidarians
Speaker: Oren Lev, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: The different modes of segmentation in the development of arthropod tagmata
Speaker: Prof. Clara Saleh, Virus & RNA interference UnitPasteur Institute, Paris, France
Title: Virus infection in the fruit fly disrupts gut homeostasis by modulation of intestinal stem cell proliferation
Speaker: Emmanuel Lourie, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: Moving from individuals to colonies: Personality, information transfer, and colony space-use patterns of wild Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus)
Speaker: Dr. Eitan Yaffe, Stanford
Title: Short course of antibiotics selects for lasting antibiotic resistance in human gut microbiota
Speaker: Dr. Stefano Mammola, The National Research Council of Italy
Title: The dark side of functional diversity—looking at subterranean spiders through the lens of traits-based ecology
Speaker: Dr. Joachim Surm, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, HUJI
Title: Estimating the venom contribution to fitness utilizing sea anemones as a model
Speaker: Yael Hazan, Department of EEB, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: The role of the RDRPs in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis
Speaker: Dr. Martina Pavlek, Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute
Title: Biodiversity of cave spiders in the Dinarides, a global hotspot for cave fauna
Speaker: Nikki Thie, EEB Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Linking health and microbiome in migratory birds