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Departmental Seminar

Spring Semester 2026

Seminars are held Wednesdays @11:30

#	Date	Speaker	Title
1	18/03/26	Mr. Neil Manspeizer The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, FAAB (Arnon Karnieli’s PhD student)	From landuse to climate: an axis of study for dryland management.
2	25/03/26	Dr. Amit N. Shocron, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research	Advancing Electro-Driven Processes at the Water-Energy-Climate Nexus.
3	15/04/26	Dr. Omri Finkel, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Denitrification in nodules. Why?
4	29/04/26	Dr. Adi Kliot, Department of Entomology ARO, the Volcani Center	Investigation of circadian features in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae.
5	06/05/26	Dr. Yoav Voichek, Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science	Beyond promoters: gene-body transcriptional regulation in plants.
6	27/05/26	Dr. Chana Kranzler, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan	Diatom–Virus Interactions in the Ocean: Patterns of Infection and Biogeochemical Consequences.
7	03/06/26	Dr. Ido Nir, ARO Volcani Center	Old dog new tricks: Diverse mechanisms of adaptive flexibility in stomatal development
8	10/06/26	Mr. Uttam Kumar, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, FAAB (Max Kolton’s PhD student)	Soil microbial diversity decline lowers plant productivity but does not affect seed nutrient content and associated microbes under heatwaves
9	17/06/26	Dr. Hila Toporik, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Redox-Driven Structural Adaptation of Photosynthetic Complexes
10	24/06/26	Ms. Myint Myint Khin The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, FAAB (Nina Kamennaya’s PhD student)	Efficient Utilization of High CO2 Levels by Cyanobacteria.

Fall Semester 2025

Seminars are held Wednesdays @11:30

#	Date	Speaker	Title
1	29/10/25	Dr. Roi Ben-David The Institute of Plant Sciences, Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) Volcani Institute	Uncover the contribution of stem traits to bread wheat drought adaptability
2	05/11/25	Mr. Kidanemaryam W. Reta PhD Student. Supervisors: Prof. Aaron Fait and Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.	Responses of Vitis vinifera grafts to combined abiotic stress: Physiology and metabolism
3	12/11/2025	Mr. Elnatan Golan, PhD Student. Supervisors: Dr. Ran Erel,Dr. Avner Gross, and Prof. Nurit Agam. French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.	Foliar Fertilization with Insoluble Phosphate: Exploration of Chemical, Structural, and Microbial Processes that Facilitate P Acquisition
4	19/11/2025	Dr. Samuel Bocobza, ARO Volcani Center	TBA
5	26/11/2025	Dr. Hillel Brukental, UC Davis	TBA
6	10/12/2025	Dr. Ofir Katz, Dead Sea & Arava Science Center, Dead Sea Branch	TBA
7	17/12/2025	TBA	TBA
8	24/12/2025	Dr. Tamar Avin-Wittenberg, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond Safra Campus The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	TBA
9	31/12/2025	Prof. Nir Keren, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond Safra Campus The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	TBA
10	07/01/2026	Dr. Boaz Negin, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond Safra Campus. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	TBA
11	14/01/2026	Dr. Rafi Grosglik, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	TBA
12	21/01/2026	Dr. Adi Barocas, Migal	TBA