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Blaustein
Institutes for Desert Research Albert Katz
International School for Desert Studies |
Mitrani
Department of Desert Ecology |
The
Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research |
Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev |
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Camp
Evolution V Sede-Boqer
Campus, February 21-25, 2016 Featuring Spencer C.H.
Barrett FRS, FRSC,
University Professor Editor-In-Chief,
Proceedings B University of Toronto on Plant
Evolutionary Biology after Darwin |
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Organizer: Ariel Novoplansky
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Previous workshops: Camp Evolution I: Sympatric
Speciation and Evolution of Sex Camp Evolution II: Evolutionary and
Ecological Genomics Camp Evolution III:
Human Evolutionary Genetics Camp Evolution IV:
Unresolved Problems in Evolutionary Biology |
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The
workshop's language will be English.
Students can enroll for credit (2
academic points; BGU course # 001-2-3335) given the submission of a written
assignment.
Getting there and local ammenities
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Reaching Beer-Sheva
from Tel-Aviv is best done by train
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From Jerusalem you should better take
an Egged bus
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To Midreshet Ben-Gurion
(mind you- not Kibbutz Sede-Boker), take Metropolin buses 60, 64, 69
from Beer-Sheva's Central bus station
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All activities will take place at the
Albert Katz School, class #1, Bldg 47, Sede-Boqer Campus.
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Meals and food can be purchased in a
few local (humble) eateries and a grocery store.
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All participants are welcome to a
dinner party on the last night of the workshop, Feb 24, 2016.
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Please bring with you layered clothing
(days can be nice and cozy but nights can be chilly) and hiking shoes.
First
day (Feb 21, 2016):
· Participants who stay at the Beit Hamburg guesthouse are kindly
requested to check in at the Sede-Boqer Field School Office (#13 on map)
· Get together: 13:00
· Start: 13:30
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Sun, Feb 21 |
Mon, Feb 22 |
Tue, Feb 23 |
Wed, Feb 24 |
Thu, Feb 25 |
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08:30 – 10:15 |
Arrival and check-in |
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Heterostyly as a model
system in ecological and evolutionary genetics |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
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10:45 – 12:30 |
Get together: 13:00 Orientation: 13:30 |
Mating system evolution and
the outcrossing-selfing paradigm |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 18:00 |
Darwin's legacy and the
origins of plant reproductive biology *Short walk: Sunset over the Zin |
Excursion: *Hike: down the Zin Canyon |
Excursion: *Lotz Cisterns |
Excursion: *Yerucham Irises and the Hatira
Crater |
Checkout |
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19:00 – 20:00 |
Supper |
Supper |
Supper |
Dinner party |
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20:30 – 21:30 |
Tomer Hertz, BGU Host pathogen co-evolution:
viruses and the adaptive immune system |
Merav Seifan BGU |
Amit Benbassat BGU |
Michal Segoli BGU The role of conflict and
cooperation in the evolution of behavioral and life history traits |
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21:30 - ? |
Social |
Social |
Social |
Social |
*Excursion destinations may change according to weather and
bloom phase