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Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Albert Katz
International School for Desert Studies |
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology |
The
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Ben-Gurion
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Camp
Evolution VI Sede-Boqer
Campus, February 25 – March 1, 2018 Featuring Alexey S. Kondrashov Andrei R. Skovoroda Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences
Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of
Michigan Author of Crumbling Genome: The Impact of Deleterious
Mutations on Humans Wiley-Blackwell, 2017 on EVOLUTION
ON FITNESS LANDSCAPES |
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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 Camp Evolution V: Plant
Evolutionary Biology after Darwin |
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The
workshop is meant for scholars and graduate students interested in anything
evolutionary…
Students can earn 2 academic credits
(BGU course # 001-2-3335) pending the submission of a written assignment.
Getting there and local amenities
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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 (AKIS), 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 28, 2018.
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Please bring with you layered clothing
(days can be nice and cozy but nights can be chilly) and hiking shoes.
· Participants who stay at the hostel are kindly requested to check in at
the Sede-Boqer Field School Office (#13 on map)
· Get together: 13:00
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Orientation: 13:30
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First
lecture: 14:00
@ class
#1, AKIS, Bldg 47, Sede-Boqer Campus
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Sun, Feb 25 |
Mon, Feb 26 |
Tue, Feb 27 |
Wed, Feb 28 |
Thu, Mar 1 |
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08:30 – 10:15 |
Arrival and check-in |
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Evolution of functional units within a cell |
Fitness landscapes of organisms: Mutation load and the evolution of sex |
Fitness landscapes of populations: Frequency-dependent selection, multilevel selection, evolution of cooperation |
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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 |
Fitness landscapes of molecules: Empirical
fitness landscapes, experimental evolution, and protein design |
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Fitness landscapes of populations: Red Queen dynamics, Darwinian extinction, community assembly |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 18:00 |
*Short walk Sights of the Zin |
Excursion: *Hike: down the Zin Canyon |
Excursion: *Hike: Nachal Ardon
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Excursion: *Hike: Snapir Katan,
Khatira Crater |
Goodbyes |
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19:00 – 20:00 |
Supper break |
Supper break |
Supper break |
Dinner party |
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20:30 – 21:30 |
Population genomics of the critically
endangered spoon-billed sandpiper |
Potential applications of genetic data
for the conservation and management of species |
Evolution
of alternative signals: tragedy of the commons vs. common wisdom |
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21:30 - ? |
Social |
Social |
Social |
Social |
*Excursion destinations may change according to weather
conditions and bloom phase