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אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב > Ben-Gurion University of the Negev > The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research > The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research > Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology > MDDE Seminars 2018-2019

MDDE Seminars 2018-2019

Date & Abstract	Speaker	Title
Oct. 16, 2018	Marco Ferrante, Aarhus University, Denmark	“Using artificial sentinel prey to quantify predation intensity under field conditions"
Nov. 6, 2018,	Tsevi Beatus, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	“The flight-control reflexes in the fruit fly"
Nov. 13, 2018	Efrat Sheffer, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rechovot	“Fixing the nitrogen gap: the ecology of nitrogen fixation in Mediterranean ecosystems"
Nov. 20, 2018	Mark Shein-Idelson , The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University	“A dragons view on the evolution of cortical computation"
Nov. 27, 2018	Elizabeth Warburton, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University	“A two-way street: Bidirectional fitness effects in host-parasite interactions using a rodent-flea system"
Dec. 4, 2018	Fengqun Meng, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University	“The unique interaction between the summer annual desert plant Salsola inermis and weevil beetles residing on its roots: Mutualism or parasitism?"
Dec. 11, 2018	Yuval Gottlieb, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University, Rechovot	“Evolution and function of symbionts in ticks"
Dec. 18, 2018	Tomer Gueta, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion, Israel	“Biodiversity research in the era of big-data"
Dec. 25, 2018	Alon Silberbush, Department of Biology, Haifa University-Oranim	“The effects of kairomones on mosquito life history traits"
Jan. 1, 2019	Neta Manela, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University	Concluding seminar: “Spatio-temporal germination dynamics in Mediterranean woodlands”
Jan. 8, 2019	Maria Arroyave, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University	Concluding seminar: Consequences of neighboring plants on species responses to abiotic stress
Jan. 9, 2019	Hazel Nichols and Kevin Arbuckle, Swansea University	Cobras, Cuckoos and Cooperative Breeders: a trilogy of talks on behaviour and evolution
Jan. 30, 2019 Special Seminar	Gili Greenbaum Department of Biology, Stanford University	Diseases, Ecology, and Evolution in the Interaction Between Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Jan. 31, 2019 Special Seminar	Klaus Birkhofer Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany	Climate Change and Biological Control
Feb. 5, 2019 Special Seminar	Robert D. Holt University of Florida	Niche Conservatism, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Theoretical Perspectives

Date & Abstract	Speaker	Title
Feb. 26, 2019	Chris Klausmeier, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University	Trait-based approaches to plankton ecology and evolution
March 5, 2019	Eric Wajnberg, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)	Why sexuality? The point of view of the biology of evolution
March 12, 2019	Ron Milo, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weitzman Institute of Science	The biomass distribution on Earth
March 19, 2019	Gabriele Uhl, Department of General and Systematic Zoology, University of Greifswald	Securing paternity in spiders: plugging and mutilating
March 26, 2019	Miguel Frada, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat	Life cycle differentiation and interplay with viruses in marine calcifying phytoplankton
April 2, 2019	Dan Malkinson, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa	The town boar and the country boar – Not so simple to ignore
April 30, 2019	Guy Rotem, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University	Agroecology: from Island biogeography to network ecology - Southern Judea Lowlands as a case study
May 7, 2019	Ilya Gelfand, Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University	Effect of land-use change on ecosystemal carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles in a humid continental climate
May 14, 2019	Michal Gruntman, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University	Should I stay or should I grow: developmental responses and decision making in plants
May 21, 2019	10th Student Symposium of the SIDEER
May 28, 2019	Merav Seifan, MDDE, Ben‐Gurion University	Climate change, grazing and plant interactions ‐ Lessons from a Mediterranean shrub
June 4, 2019	Efrat Gavish, The Israeli National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Arachnid evolution in subterranean habitats
June 11, 2019	Miriam Kishinevsky, Haifa University, Oranim	Parasitoids in agri‐ecosystems: an area‐wide perspective
June 18, 2019	Noam Levin, The Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Adding the Third Dimension to Marine Conservation
August 6, 2019	Sean O'Donnell, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Department of Biology, Drexel University	Brain evolution in social insects: How sociality and body size shape brain architecture
August 20, 2019	by Danilo Russo, Wildlife Research Unit, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy	Managing forests for bat conservation: Barbastelle bats as a case study

Seminar Coordinatonr: Dr. Michal Segoli Time: 12:00 Place: Institute seminar room, Sede Boqer Campus

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