Speaker: Prof. Arnon Lotem,School of Zoology, TAU
Title: Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms
Speaker: Itamar Kozlovski, Prof. Yehu Moran's lab
Title: Identification and characterization of key components of the antiviral immune system and immune related cells in Nematostella vectensis.
Speaker: Dr. Omri Bronstein, School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences & Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University
Title: From gene pools to oceans – ecology and evolution in the genomic
Speaker: Yotam Ben-Oren, Dr. Oren Kolodny's lab
Title: Modeling Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations
Speaker: Yoav Avrahani, Dr. Miguel Frada's lab
Title: Planktonic protist diversity and community succession in the Gulf of Eilat, with emphasis on the diatoms
Speaker: Prof. Oded Rechavi, Tel Aviv University
Title: Hot and Cold Thoughts
Speaker: Dr. Oded Keynan, Dead Sea & Arava Science Center
Title: The Arabian Babblers Research: A Broad Perspective of a Fifty-Year Long-Term Study, Spanning from Individual to Group Dynamics to Population-Level Insights
Speaker: Hila Segre, Volcani Institute
Title: The yield-biodiversity trade-off in farming – are we successfully closing the gaps?
Speaker: Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: An evolutionary interplay between genetic and phenotypic mutations
Speaker: Prof. Amatzia Genin, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: Islands in the stream – the ecology of patches with exceedingly high biomass of animals in a poor environment - why in the ocean and not on land?