Speaker: Dr. Chana Kranzler, Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Title: Phytoplankton ecophysiology, host-virus interactions and the fate of organic matter in the sea

Speaker: Dr. Hagai Yasour, Unit of Vegtables and Field Crops, Gilat Research Center, ARO

Title: Hormone homeostasis and hormones interaction during flower and fruit development in tomato

Speaker: Mr. Uri Karniel, Hischberg lab, Department of Genetics, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, HUJI

Title: Carotenoid biosynthesis pathway: From regulation to metabolic engineering in tomato fruit.

Speaker: Prof.  Kai-Hong Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Title: Chromophorylation of phycobiliproteins and evolution to fluorescent probes

Speaker: Ms. Orly Dery, Hirschberg Lab, Department of Genetics, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, HUJI

Title: Early steps of carotenoid biosynthesis: why plants employ four enzymes to convert phytoene to lycopene whereas bacteria use only one