Scientific Seminars at the Institute of Evolution
All Semester Academic Seminars are held in the Seminar Room, Institute of Evolution. The presented lectures deal mainly with the hot topics in evolutionary biology, molecular genetics, genomics, and ecology. The seminars are delivered by expert lecturers and distinguished visitors in a relaxed environment. The seminars run for 60 minutes in duration unless otherwise indicated, and no bookings are required. Please arrive on time.
The attendance and active participation at the seminars is an opportunity to become academically more successful. Therefore the seminars are obligatory to students of the Institute of Evolution.
For more information contact Dr. Tomas Pavlicek
2nd Semester of the 2011/2012 Academic Year Place: Seminar Room No. 223, 2nd Floor, Institute of Evolution, Multipurpose Building, University of Haifa;
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Date - Day: Time |
Lecturer - Affiliation |
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February 08 Wed: 12:00- 13:00 |
Meirav Lavy San Diego: University of California |
Auxin signaling in moss: conserved molecular components, unique developmental outputs |
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February 14 Tue: 12:00- 13:00 |
Gur Yaari Yale University: Medical School |
Quantifying selection in high-throughput antibody sequencing datasets |
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February 15 Wed: 12:00- 13:00 |
Thomas Bettecken Munich: Max Planck Inst. |
On the sequence specificity of apoptotic nucleases |
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February 22 Wed: 12:00- 13:00 |
Josephine Todrank Univ. of Haifa: Institute of Evolution |
The effects of in utero odorant exposure on the neuroanatomical development of the olfactory bulb and postnatal odor preferences |
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February 28 Tue: 12:00- 13:00 |
Nir Sapir Radolfzell: Max Planck Inst. |
Environment, form and function: deciphering the role of key ecological factors on the flight of Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) |
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March 07 Wed: 12:00- 13:00 |
Alan Templeton Univ. of Haifa: Institute of Evolution & Washington University: Dep. Biol. |
Networks of gene expression and SNPs using a novel measure of association |
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March 14 Wed: 12:00- 13:00 |
Nevo Eviatar Univ. of Haifa: Institute of Evolution |
Evolution under stress environment at micro and macroscales |
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March 21 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Yoram Ayal BGU: Mitrani Dep. of Desert Ecology |
From "green" to "brown" and back to "green": carnivore-hebivore size-race and the evolution of terrestrial biomes |
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March 28 Wed: 12:00-13:00 |
Guy Bloch Hebrew University: Dep. of Ecology |
The social clock of the bee |
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March 29 Thu: 10:00 - 11:00 |
Michel Evgen'ev Moscow: Institute of Mol. Biology |
Evolution of major animal chaperone (Hsp70) system. Possible medical applications |
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March 29 Thu: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Yehoram Leshem UC Davis, USA |
How good is BAHD in central-cell fertilization ? |
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May 2 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Sagi Snir Univ. of Haifa: Institute of Evolution |
Assembling the tree of life by the supertree approach |
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May 9 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Yakov Ben-Haim Haifa: Technion |
Info-gap robust-satisficing and the probability of survival |
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May 16 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Andrew Travers |
To be announced |
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May 23 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Burt Kotler BGU: Mitrani Dep. of Desert Ecology |
To be announced |
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May 30 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Ron Aharoni Technion: Dep. of Mathematics |
Facial expressions and the evolutionary origin of the phenomenon of antithesis |
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June 6 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Ally Harari Volcani Center: Dep. Plant Protection |
The role of male choice in sexual behavior - the case of moths |
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June 13 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Omer Falik BGU: Mitrani Dep. of Desert Ecology |
To be announced |
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June 20, 2012 Wed: 12:00 - 13:00 |
Yaron Ziv BGU: Fac. Nat. Sciences |
Challenges in spatial ecology: SAR, scale-dependency and fragmentation |
1st Semester of the 2011/2012 Academic Year
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Date (Day) |
Lecturer / Affiliation |
Title of the lecture |
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September 18, 2011 (Sun) |
Einat Hazkani-Covo Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center |
Computational insights into genome dynamics: from evolutionary analysis of Numts to next generation sequencing |
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September 21, 2011 (Wed) |
Osnat Ashur-Fabian Translational Hemato-Oncology, Meir Hospital and the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Thyroid-integrin-cancer: a match made in hell |
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October 26, 2011 (Wed) |
Edward Trifonov Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel |
Everlasting triplet expansions: from the origin of life to modern genomes
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| October 26, 2011 (Wed) 13:30 |
Ivan Gorlov & Olga Gorlova M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Univ. Texas, Houston, USA |
Does the selection shape the genetic architecture of common human diseases? & derived SNP alleles are used more frequently than ancestral alleles as risk-associated variants in common human diseases: neutrality versus selection | |
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November 02, 2011 (Wed) |
Iain D. Couzin Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA |
From democratic consensus to cannibalistic hordes: the evolution of collective behavior |
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November 23, 2011 (Wed) |
Alexander Beharav Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel |
Collecting and study genetic diversity in natural populations of wild Lactuca spp. |
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| November 28, 2011 (Mon) |
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Radio-tracking as an effective tool to study the behaviour of free-living subterranean rodents |
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| December 7, 2011 (Mon) |
Rongliang Jia Cold & Arid Regions Env. and Eng. Res. Inst., Lanzhou, China
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Ecological studies of biological soil crusts in the Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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December 14, 2011 (Wed) |
Lee Koren Fac. Veterinary Med., University of Calgary, CA, USA |
What I've learned from hairy mammals and birds of feather about hormones, behaviour, and ecology |
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January 4, 2012 (Wed) |
Ilan Gronau |
Using individual human genomes to iluminate the mysteries of early human history |
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January 18, 2012 (Wed) |
Valentin A. Krassilov Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel |
Chinese modern culture, paleontology and macroevolution
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January 25, 2012 (Wed) |
Yarin Hadid Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel |
Rare and flitting: Is phylogenetic history conserved in mtDNA? |
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