Spring Semester

Date & Abstract​Speaker​Title

​Mar. 6, 2018 

Nir Sapir,  the Dept. of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, The University of Haifa

​“Causes, patterns and consequences of wing morphological deficits in birds: Bio-mechanical, ecological and evolutionary aspects" 

Mar. 13, 2018

Yael Lubin, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Chasing social spiders across three continents"

Mar. 20, 2018

David Eilam, Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University  

“Group formation and spatial behavior in rats"

Apr. 10, 2018

Irit Aloni, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A concluding seminar: “The effect of climate conditions at wintering grounds of various passerine species on timing and body condition upon spring stopover in Eilat"

Apr. 17, 2018

Amit Huppert, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University

“Challenges in Infectious Disease Modeling"

​Apr. 17, 2018  

Special Seminar:

14:00, Room 136

Orly Razgour, Biological Sciences, University of Southampton

​Integrating Genomic and Ecological Approaches to Identify Populations under Threat from Global Environmental Changes

May. 1, 2018

Moshe Inbar, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, the University of Haifa   

The importance of directinteractions between mammalian herbivores and plant-dwelling insects

May. 8, 2018

Vered Tzin, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, BGU

The situation sucks: Get chewed by caterpillars or sucked by aphids insects

May. 15, 2018

12:20-13:20

Yasmine Meroz, Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University 

Temporal integration in plant tropisms

May. 22, 2018

Uriel Kitron, Department of environmental sciences, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, USA

“Transmission of Mosquito-Borne Virusesin Salvador, Brazil: Old Timers, Newcomers and Repeat Offenders"

​May. 29, 2018Rational decision making – from individual to global policy​ ​

 Jun. 5, 2018

Gilad Ben-Zvi, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A concluding seminar: “why do seed-dispersing ant species vary across plant populations and species?"

Jun. 12, 2018

Yoni Alcalay, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A concluding seminar: “The combined effects of local and regional scale processes on the complex dynamics of spatial and stage-structured mosquito populations"

Jun. 19, 2018

Joege Fernando Saraiva de Menezes, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

A concluding seminar: “ The generalized ideal distribution"