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: Prof. Georg Jander, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, NY, USA

Title: Biochemical trade-offs in maize-insect interactions

Speaker: Dr. Nadav Kashtan, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment , HUJI

Title: Bacterial survival in microscopic wetness

Speaker: Prof. Paul Lawson, Center for Microbial Identification and Taxonomy, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, The University of Oklahoma

Title: Microbiomes: clinical, animal and environmental communities

Speaker: Dr. Tal Luzzatto-Knaan, Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa

Title: Natural products in 3D: Diversity, distribution and discovery