Speaker: Prof. Rachel Amir, MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute
Title: Why are there no plants that are rich in the essential amino acid methionine in nature? Initial evidence and association with oxidative stress
Speaker: Prof. Yair Zarmi,Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, BGU
Title: Pulsed light: The way to significantly enhance photosynthetic photon efficiency of unicellular algae
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Weide, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Title: Reconstructing wild cereal exploitation and early cultivation in western Asia
Speaker: Hanan Schoffman,Plant and Environmental Science Department, HUJI
Title: Same pigments, different context. What happens to Synechocystis 6803 under iron limitation and why is IsiA important.
Speaker: Dr. Etti Or, Plant Sciences, Fruit Tree Sciences, ARO
Title: From the vineyard to the tube and back- regulation of grape bud dormancy release
Speaker: Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum, The Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, HUJI
Title: "Fragility" Climatic Changes and Societal Transformations
Speaker: Dr. Merav Seifan, The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, BGU
Title: A rose is a rose? potential variability in response to aridity in the True Rose of Jericho and its Brassicaceae relatives
Speaker: Dr. Yehu Moran, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, HUJI
Title: Cnidarian microRNAs shed new light on the evolution of post-transcriptional regulation
Speaker: Prof. Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, NY, USA
Title: Biochemical trade-offs in maize-insect interactions
Speaker: Dr.Carmit Ziv, Postharvest and Food Sciences, Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, ARO
Title: An ODD story of lipids during pathogenic interactions.