Speaker: Prof. Gideon Wasserberg, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Title: Ovipositon ecology of Phlebotomus papatasi sand flies, vectors of Old-World cutaneous Leishmaniasis: basic biology and implications for control
Speaker: Dr. Meital Oren-Suissa, Weizmann Institute, Department of Neurobiology
Title: Sex and the circuitry: the development of sexually-dimorphic neuronal circuits
Speaker: Prof. Erez Levanon ,Bar Ilan University
Title: Evolution of A-to-I RNA editing and dsRNA sensing by innate immunity
Speaker: Dr. Viraj Torsekar,Dror Hawlena's lab,HUJI
Title: Ecology of predator-prey interactions in the context of prey reproductive decisions
Speaker: Prof. Eran Tauber,Haifa University
Title: The circadian clock in Drosophila: Latitudinal clines and molecular evolution of clock genes
Speaker: Prof. Anat Ben-Zvi,Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Trade-Off between somatic proteostasis and reproduction in C. elegans
Speaker: Dr. Tamar Guy-haim, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)
Title: Ocean-Hitchhikers: The biogeography and physiology of marine zoochorous dispersal and bioinvasions
Speaker: Dr. Oren Kolodny, EEB Department, HUJI
Title: Why did Moderns replace Neanderthals and not vice versa? And what took them so long?!?
Speaker: Judith Wexler, Department of EEB, HUJI
Title: Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing
Speaker: Prof. Ally R. Harari, Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center
Title: Sex pheromone and information transfer