Speaker: Dr. Itay Gonda, Unit of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, ARO
Title: When Flavor Meets Genomics. Biochemistry and Genetics of Aroma Traits
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: Mr. Isaac Kedem, Kaplan lab, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, HUJI
Title: Electron Overload: How the Green Alga C. ohadii Dynamically Handles Massive Energy Influx
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
Speaker: Dr. Omri Finkel,Grant-Dangl Lab, Biology Department, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Title: Interactions within the microbiome determine plant development
Speaker: Prof. Enamul Huq, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Title: Light Signalling in Plants
Speaker: Ms. Ola T. Karmi
Title: NEET proteins’ Structure & Function - Focus on NAF-1 & WFS-T2
Speaker: Prof. Joe Gale, Life Sciences Institute, HUJI, Amri Wandel, Racach Inst., HUJI, Hugh Hill, Int. Space U., Strasbourg
Title: A midsummer-night’s dream (nightmare?).Do rapid advances in computation and AI portend an imminent Singularity and the end of Biology?
Speaker: Dr. Silit Lazare, Deptament of Life Sciences, BGU & Fruit Trees Science, Gilat center, ARO
Title: The groundwork of lily flowering
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