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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 2017-2018

MDDE SEMINARS 2017-2018

Date & Abstract	Speaker	Title
Oct. 24, 2017	Biljana Macura Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden	An Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Systematic Maps
Oct. 24, 2017	Special Seminar, at 09:00. Seminar room, Old Admin. Building
Oct. 24, 2017	Greg Asner, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, USA	Earth observations for sustainability in the sixth extinction
Oct. 31, 2017	Jamie Kneitel, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, USA	It’s time for time: The role of temporal linkages in seasonal ecosystems
Nov. 7, 2017 * As part of the DDD conference	* Chris Dickman, University of Sydney	Predicting animal responses to desertification
	* Klaus Birkhofer, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus	Direct and indirect climate effects on trophic and behavioural interactions in desert-living spiders
	** Will take place at 11:15, room to be announced
Nov. 14, 2017	Stav Livne-Luzon, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University	Changes in belowground fungal communities cascading up to affect aboveground plant communities
Nov. 21, 2017	Eran Tauber, Department of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology, University of Haifa	Latitudinal Clines and Molecular Evolution of Circadian Clock Genes
Nov. 28, 2017	Ikram Salah, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University	Disease ecology and epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) caused by Leishmania tropica in Palestine
Dec. 5, 2017	Yitzchak Ben Mocha, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany	Why do humans and nonhuman animals have sex in privacy? The 'Cooperation-Maintenance hypothesis‘
Dec. 12, 2017	Osnat Gillor, the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University	Rain mediated dynamics of soil microbial communities in arid environments
Dec. 19, 2017	Yossi Yovel, Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University	From sensory perception to foraging decision making, the bat's point of view
Dec. 24, 2017	Oren Kolodny, Department of Biology, Stanford University	Modeling Eco-Evo Dynamics: Genetics, Microbiomes, Stone Tools
Dec. 26, 2017	To be announced
Jan. 2, 2018	Shai Pilosof, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago	The structure and dynamics of highly-dimensional ecological systems
Jan. 9, 2018	Fred Libersat, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University	Lessons in mind control: Trends in research on the mechanisms behind parasite-host behavioral manipulation
Jan. 16, 2018	Anat Barnea, Department of Natural Sciences , the Open University of Israel	Bird’s Brain? Relationships between behavior and brain plasticity

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, 2018	Rational 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"