MicroEco2 Microbial Ecology Symposium for Young Researchers
9
December
2021
Thursday
At
8:00
Lecture / Seminar
Biogeochemical consequences of host-virus interactions in marine diatoms
Lecturer: Dr. Chana Kranzler
23
November
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Systematic Discovery and Characterization of Microbial Toxins
Lecturer: Dr. Asaf Levy
16
November
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The Global Biomass of Wild Mammals
Lecturer: Lior Greenspoon
9
November
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The Contribution of Epicuticular Wax to Functional Fitness in Tree Tobacco
Lecturer: Boaz Negin
2
November
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Unraveling the microscale mechanisms driving particle degradation in the ocean
Lecturer: Dr. Uria Alcolombri
26
October
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Unraveling the microscale mechanisms driving particle degradation in the ocean
Lecturer: Dr. Uria Alcolombri
26
October
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Determinant of microbiome plasticity - lessons from cows and fish
Lecturer: Prof. Itzik Mizrahi
19
October
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Plant immune system activation is necessary for efficient interaction with auxin secreting beneficial bacteria
Lecturer: Dr. Elhanan Tzipilevich
12
October
2021
Tuesday
At
15:00
- 16:00
Lecture / Seminar
Defense metabolites: from eco systems to growth
Lecturer: Dr. Ella Katz
20
July
2021
Tuesday
At
10:00
- 11:00
Lecture / Seminar
Conservation of TIR immune signaling in bacteria and plants
Lecturer: Gal Ofir
6
July
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Long term temporal and spatial genetic analysis of a wild wheat population
Lecturer: Tal Dahan
29
June
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Divergent fate of coccolithophores in a warming tropical ecosystem
Lecturer: Dr. Miguel Frada
22
June
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Predicting the structure of microbial communities
Lecturer: Dr. Jonathan Friedman
15
June
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
An overlooked aspect of warming events: extreme rates of onset trigger mass mortality in coral reef fish
Lecturer: Prof. Amatzia Genin
8
June
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The human body from a quantitative perspective: cells, bacteria and SARS-CoV-2
Lecturer: Ron Sender
1
June
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The assembly of microbial communities in the ocean, one drop at a time
Lecturer: Prof. Otto X. Cordero
25
May
2021
Tuesday
At
15:00
- 16:00
Lecture / Seminar
Exocytosis of diatom silica involves extensive membrane disintegration
Lecturer: Diede de Haan
11
May
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Dissection of floral transition by single meristem transcriptomes at high temporal resolution
Lecturer: Zohar Meir
4
May
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
New Insights on Bioaggregates and the Aquatic N Cycle
Lecturer: Dr. Edo Bar-Zeev
27
April
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
From light-harvesting to assembly: Modularity and heterogeneity in photosynthetic antenna systems
Lecturer: Dr. Hila Toporik
20
April
2021
Tuesday
At
15:00
- 16:00
Lecture / Seminar
A conserved superlocus regulates above- and belowground root initiation in angiosperms
Lecturer: Dr. Idan Efroni
13
April
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Aerobic Bacteria Produce Nitric Oxide Through Denitrification During Microbial Interactions
Lecturer: Dr. Adi Abada
6
April
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Root plasma membrane aquaporins regulate root hydraulics, shoot gas exchange and plant growth
Lecturer: Dr. Nir Sade
16
March
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Diatom modulation of associated bacteria
Lecturer: Dr. Ahmed Shibl
9
March
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
A quantitative perspective on the geo / bio / socio spheres interface
Lecturer: Lior Greenspoon
3
March
2021
Wednesday
At
9:00
- 10:00
Lecture / Seminar
Building synthetic microstructural systems to better understand plant-environment interactions
Lecturer: Dr. Maya Kleiman
2
March
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The Fate of CRISPR/Cas9-Induced DNA Double-Strand Breaks
Lecturer: Daniela Ben-Tov
23
February
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Avoiding H+ overload - the unusual mechanisms of pH homeostasis in calcifying coccolithophores
Lecturer: Dr. Glen Wheeler
16
February
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
How autophagy comes to the rescue upon ribosome stalling
Lecturer: Dr. Yasin Dagdas
9
February
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Dust as a nutrient source to the globally important cyanobacterium Trichodesmium
Lecturer: Prof. Yeala Shaked
2
February
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Viral impacts in the marine world: from single-cells to planktonic ecosystems
Lecturer: Dr. Flora Vincent
26
January
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Getting to the root of plant drought response: the role of lipoxygenases and singlet oxygen
Lecturer: Dr. Tomer Chen
19
January
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Guest Seminar via Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Harel Bacher
5
January
2021
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Guest Seminar via Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Dr. Claire Willing
29
December
2020
Tuesday
At
9:30
- 10:30
Lecture / Seminar
Guest Seminar via Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Dr. Hila Segre
22
December
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
PHD Thesis Defense by Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Adva Shemi
15
December
2020
Tuesday
At
13:00
- 14:00
Lecture / Seminar
Guest Seminar via Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Dr. Daniel Dar
8
December
2020
Tuesday
At
9:30
- 10:30
Lecture / Seminar
Guest Seminar via Zoom
Lecturer: Dr. Yair Mau
1
December
2020
Tuesday
At
12:30
- 13:30
Lecture / Seminar
The diverse roles of bacterial chemical messengers: shaping marine communities and protecting phytoplankton against viral mortality
Lecturer: Dr. Kristen Whalen
24
November
2020
Tuesday
At
16:00
Lecture / Seminar
PHD Thesis Defense by Zoom
Lecturer: Iris Aviezer
22
November
2020
Sunday
At
13:00
Lecture / Seminar
Dept. Seminar by Zoom - Plant and Environmental Sciences Dept.
Lecturer: Dr. Adam Jozwiak
17
November
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Why are there colors in the ocean?
Lecturer: Dr. Derya Akkaynak
10
November
2020
Tuesday
At
14:30
Lecture / Seminar
CANCELLED!! Guest Seminar via Zoom
Lecturer: Harel Bacher
3
November
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
The Tremendous Potential of Algal Metabolic Diversity
Lecturer: Dr. Haim Treves
26
August
2020
Wednesday
At
11:00
- 12:00
Lecture / Seminar
The Structural Basis of Strigolactone Perception in Plants
Lecturer: Dr. Marco Burger
20
August
2020
Thursday
At
16:00
- 17:00
Lecture / Seminar
Protein Condensation as Cell Survival Strategy in Plant Immunity
Lecturer: Dr. Raul Zavaliev
10
August
2020
Monday
At
15:00
- 16:00
Lecture / Seminar
GUEST SEMINAR CANCELLED
Lecturer: Dr. Marco Burger
12
March
2020
Thursday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The use of resistant pear accessions as inter-stock in order to reduce susceptibility to pear psylla in commercial pear trees - practice and the science behind
Lecturer: Dr. Liora Shaltiel-Harpaz
25
February
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Interrelations between plant root exudation, tolerance to stresses and response to rhizobacteria
Lecturer: Prof. Andrey A. Belimov
13
February
2020
Thursday
At
9:45
Lecture / Seminar
Evolutionary genetics of microbe-plant symbioses: lessons from “Rhizobium leguminosarum – Vavilovia formosa
Lecturer: Prof. Nikolai A. Provorov
13
February
2020
Thursday
At
9:15
Lecture / Seminar
Special Guest Seminar
Lecturer: Dr. David Zeevi
5
February
2020
Wednesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Insights into human evolution from a new high-coverage Neandertal genome and thousands of present-day human ones
Lecturer: Dr. Fabrizio Mafessoni
4
February
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
New type-1 and type-3 microbial rhodopsins
Lecturer: Prof. Oded Beja
28
January
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Singlet oxygen as an essential component in plant stress response
Lecturer: Tomer Chen
27
January
2020
Monday
At
14:00
Lecture / Seminar
Underground Heterosis for Melons Yield
Lecturer: Dr. Amit Gur
14
January
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
“Exploring climate sensitivity using living and fossil plants”
Lecturer: Dr. Margret Steinthorsdottir
7
January
2020
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
From species diversity to trait diversity
Lecturer: Dr. Niv De Malach
31
December
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Balancing flexibility and stability in tomato leaf patterning
Lecturer: Prof. Naomi Ori
24
December
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Plant bioacoustics
Lecturer: Prof. Lilach Hadany
17
December
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Transposable elements as drivers of structural and functional variations in wheat genome
Lecturer: Prof. Khalil Kashkush
10
December
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Tailoring root exudation by plant-microbe interactions and long-distance signaling
Lecturer: Dr. Elisa Korenblum
3
December
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
CANCELLED TODAY: Collapse and recovery of the Tethyan upwelling ecosystem following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Lecturer: Dr. Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda
26
November
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Specificity in signal transduction through scaffolding
Lecturer: Dr. Jenny Russinova
21
November
2019
Thursday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
From photosynthesis to clinical cancer therapy - the story
Lecturer: Prof. Avigdor Scherz
19
November
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Plant water storage: insights into a drought coping mechanism
Lecturer: Dr. Yair Mau
12
November
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Uncovering the metabolic landscape of host-virus interactions of the bloom-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi
Lecturer: Guy Schleyer
7
November
2019
Thursday
At
14:00
- 15:00
Lecture / Seminar
Microbial community maintenance of plant growth: bridging the gap between ecology and mechanism
Lecturer: Dr. Omri Finkel
5
November
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Mapping and designing metabolic interactions in microbial communities
Lecturer: Prof. Daniel Segrè
25
September
2019
Wednesday
At
11:00
- 12:00
Lecture / Seminar
Harnessing autophagic flux for improving plant fitness
Lecturer: Prof. Peter Bozhkov
24
September
2019
Tuesday
At
10:00
- 11:00
Lecture / Seminar
Decoding the Flexible Nature of Photosynthesis
Lecturer: Dr. Shai Saroussi
5
September
2019
Thursday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
PhD Thesis Defense:
Lecturer: Noa Barak-Gavish
10
July
2019
Wednesday
At
11:00
- 12:00
Lecture / Seminar
Modeling global fish and fisheries
Lecturer: Prof. Eric Galbraith
8
July
2019
Monday
At
15:00
- 16:00
Lecture / Seminar
Suberin - the hidden lipophilic barrier of plants
Lecturer: Dr. Hagai Cohen
25
June
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Highly resolved expression programs revealed by single-cell RNA-seq of a large virus infecting a bloom-forming alga
Lecturer: Dr. Chuan Ku
18
June
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
The architecture of the plant thylakoid membrane: What have we learned in the past 80 years?
Lecturer: Prof. Ziv Reich
11
June
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Geoethics: what is geoethics and what it has to do with us?
Lecturer: Prof. Nir Orion
4
June
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
How electron cryotomography is opening a new window into cell biology
Lecturer: Prof. Grant Jensen
28
May
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Creating plant molecular factories for nutritional and industrial carotenoid production
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Fraser
27
May
2019
Monday
At
9:30
- 10:30
Lecture / Seminar
Functions and multitrophic effects of plant secondary metabolites in cereals
Lecturer: Prof. Matthias Erb
21
May
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Understanding plant dynamics and community structure: a multi factorial challenge in a variable world
Lecturer: Dr. Edwin Lebrija-Trejos
14
May
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
- 12:30
Lecture / Seminar
Biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in the oceans: lessons from coeval time series of dust, marine particulates and seawater in the Red Sea
Lecturer: Dr. Adi Torfstein
7
May
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
The roles of actomyosin in secretion: How flies spit
Lecturer: Prof. Benny Shilo
30
April
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
The genetics of epigenetics
Lecturer: Prof. Magnus Nordborg
16
April
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Genetics, HSP expressomics and proteomics to understand how plants feel the heat and meet the challenges of global warming
Lecturer: Prof. Pierre Goloubinoff
15
April
2019
Monday
At
14:00
Lecture / Seminar
Domestication by annualization - a retrospect
Lecturer: Prof. Yuval Eshed
2
April
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
How to build a glass house - insights into the biomolecular machinery for silica morphogenesis in diatoms
Lecturer: Prof. Nils Kroeger
26
March
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Pattern restoration for wound healing in plants
Lecturer: Prof. Jiri Friml
17
March
2019
Sunday
At
10:00
Lecture / Seminar
Genetic programs that differentiate tomato axillary shoots from their primary shoot progenitor
Lecturer: Anna Goren
14
March
2019
Thursday
At
11:00
Lecture / Seminar
Biosynthesis and Secretion of Plant Cytokinins by Aphids
Lecturer: Prof. Georg Jander
5
March
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Biosynthesis and Secretion of Plant Cytokinins by Aphids
Lecturer: Prof. Georg Jander
5
March
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
A Clockwork Wikipedia: a case study into knowledge and facts in the digital age
Lecturer: Omer Benjakob and Rona Aviram
26
February
2019
Tuesday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Synthetic Biology
Lecturer: Prof. Christopher Voigt
21
February
2019
Thursday
At
15:00
Lecture / Seminar
Autophagy, the master of selective protein recycling
Lecturer: Prof. Richard D. Vierstra
11
February
2019
Monday
At
11:30
Lecture / Seminar
Sequencing giants - the wild emmer wheat genome assembly
