Speaker: Dr. Ivan Magalhaes, The Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title: Systematics of Sicariidae spiders: evolutionary origin, biogeography, and taxonomy of Loxosceles violin spiders in Israel
Speaker: Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Title: Communication in the cacophony
Speaker: Prof. Barbara Helm, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Title: The right timing? Clocks meet environment in wild birds
Speaker: Prof. Uri Gophna, School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University
Title: CRISPR-Cas, molecular parasites, and gene exchange barriers in archaea
Speaker: Dr. Monica Mowery, University of Toronto and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Title: Invasion in the light of evolution: an integrative approach using two widespread widow spider species
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