14TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON THE BIOLOGY OF DESERT-DWELLING BATS
29/7- 3/8 2018
Activities highlighted in green are open to non-participants. As space in the classroom is limited, please let Carmi or Berry know if you wish to hear any or all of the lectures so that we can assign you a seat. All the lectures will be given in Class 1 or 2. 
Sunday, July 29, 2018
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
14:00-14:30 | Opening Lecture | Introduction to the Biology of Bats, including laws that govern research on protected animals and rules and precautions for working in the desert. Short introduction
to BGU and the BIDR) (Carmi Korine and Berry Pinshow) |
14:30-13:30 | Lecture | Introduction to bat biology (Danilo Russo) |
15:40-16:30 | Lecture | The bat fauna of Israel (Carmi Korine) |
17:00-18:00 | Dinner | |
18:00-18:30 | Field talk | Introduction to mist netting and acoustic monitoring and an introduction to bat detectors (Danilo Russo and Carmi Korine) |
18:30-24:00 | Field Work | Mist netting and acoustic monitoring |
Monday, July 30, 2018
8:30-10:15 | Lecture | Introduction to echolocation (Danilo Russo) |
10:15-11:15 | Lecture | Use of echolocation calls for bat species identification (Danilo Russo) |
11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
13:15-15:00 | Echolocation Lab | Echolocation lab: Introduction to sound analysis (Danilo Russo) |
15:30-24:00 | Field Wark* | Mist netting and acoustic monitoring |
Tues. July 31, 2018
8:30-10:30 | Echolocation Lab | Continuing with sound analysis (DaniloRusso, Carmi Korine) |
10:30-13:00 | Discussion | Discussion and presentation of potential projects, Formation of project groups, begin outlining projects |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30-15:20 | Lecture | Animal-environment interactions – heat and water exchange (Berry Pinshow) |
15:30-16:30 | Lecture | Methods for exploring energetics and water balance in flying vertebrates (Berry Pinshow) |
18:15-24:00 | Field Work* | Mist netting and acoustic monitoring |
Wednsday Aug. 1, 2018
8:30-10:00 | Lab | Review of data from previous night |
10:00-11:00 | Discussion | Final preparation for the projects |
11:00-12:00 | Lecture | Thermal physiology of two desert bats(Berry Pinshow) |
12:00-13:00 | Lecture | Physiological and ecological aspects of flight (Kent Hatch) |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30-15:30 | Licture | Physiological and ecological aspects torpor and hibernation (Kent Hatch) |
15:40-16:30 | Lecture | Stable isotope analysis provides importantinsights into bat ecology (Kent Hatch) |
16:50-17:50 | Dinner | |
18:00-24:00 | Field Work | Work on projects (in research groups) |
Thurs. Aug. 2, 2018
8:30-10:45 | Lab | Review of data from previous night |
11:00-11:30 | Lecture | Sugar as a source for antioxidant potential innectar feeding animals (Eran Levin) |
11:30-12:15 | Lucture | From sensory perception to foragingdecision making (Yossi Yovel) |
12:30-14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30-15:30 | Lecture | TBA (Eran Amichai) |
15:45-16:45 | Lecture | Neural codes for natural navigation in thebat brain (Nachum Ulanovsky) |
17:00-17:45 | Dinner | |
18:00-24:00 | Field Work | Work on projects (in research groups) |
Fri. Aug. 3, 2018
8:30-10:30 | Predentations | 6 Presentations by students and discussion** |
