Scientific Seminars of the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and of the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, during the Fall Semester of the 2018/2019 Academic Year
Place: Seminar Room No. 223, 2nd Floor, Institute of Evolution, Multipurpose Building, University of Haifa.
Time: Seminars begins on the stated date at 12:15, unless a different hour is announced
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Oct. 15th |
Jason Chapman University of Exeter, UK |
Chasing the High Fliers: Radar Studies of Insect Migration |
| Oct 22nd |
Liran Carmel Hebrew University |
Paleo-epigenetics: Studying human evolution using DNA methylation maps |
| Oct. 29th |
Dan Tawfik Weizmann Institute |
Chance and pleiotropy dominate genetic diversity in complex bacterial environments |
| Nov. 5th |
Amos Bouskila Ben-Gurion University |
Decision Making in the Dark: What Information Can Lead a Lizard to Abandon a Deep Nesting Site She Excavates? |
| Nov. 12th |
Dale Frank Technion |
Elucidating the evolutionarily changing functions of Meis TALE-Homeobox proteins during nervous system development in Metazoans (and Not!) |
| Nov. 19th |
Philippos Papathanos The Hebrew University |
Engineering invasive Y chromosomes for insect control |
| Nov. 26th |
Eyal Rahav National Institute of Oceanography |
The hitchhiker’s guide to bacterial transport: the role of viable dust-borne microbes deposition into marine environments |
| Dec. 3rd |
Gal Ribak Tel Aviv University |
What can insect flight biomechanics tell us about the evolution, ecology and physiology of insects? |
| Dec. 10th |
Yuval Nov The University of Haifa |
Music, evolution, and genetics |
| Dec. 17th |
Michal Segoli Ben-Gurion University |
What do we know about biological nitrogen fixation in insects? Evidence and implications for the insect and the ecosystem |
| Dec. 24th |
Sagi Snir University of Haifa |
Human Epigenetic Aging is Logarithmic with Time across the Entire Life Span |
| Dec. 31st |
Burt Kotler Ben-Gurion University |
Scales: Etudes on the foraging ecology of desert rodents at different spatial and temporal scales, from micropatch selection to intercontinental consequences of macroevolutionary advances |
| Jan. 7th |
Guido Sessa Tel Aviv University |
Manipulation of plant immunity by Xanthomonas type III secreted effectors |
| Jan. 14th |
Benjamin Podbilewicz Technion |
Origins and evolution of cell fusion |
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