Key-note speakers:
We are happy to announce that we were able to
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Ariel Novoplansky
We are happy to announce that the following key-note speakers will be presenting their work in Plant-Ecology 2017:
Ariel Novoplansky
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Ariel received his Ph.D. in ecology from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Following a post-doc period at the University of
Michigan he joined the Institutes for Desert Research of the
Ben-Gurion University. His scientific work focuses on the
ecological implications and mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity
in plants with an emphasis on the ability of plants to utilize
internal and environmental information to perform complex
behaviors. His recent studies focus on the evolutionary rationale and the physiological mechanisms enabling plants to utilize information they perceive from their neighbors.
Tom Bruns
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Tom received his PhD from the University of Michigan in Botany
in 1987, and went on to a postdoctoral position at the University
of California Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1989. His
research is focused on fungal ecology and systematics and he
has published over 150 scientific papers in this area. He is the
current president of International Mycorrhiza Society, a recent
past president of the Mycological Society of America, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the California Academy of Science, and the Mycological Society of America. He teaches introductory and advanced courses on fungi at the University of California Berkeley, and has won distinquished teaching awards from the College of Natural Resources and the Mycological Society of America for his efforts.
Zuzana Münzbergová
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Science
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, CZ
Zuzana is a Czech plant ecologist interested in mechanisms
driving dynamics of natural populations. Her specific
interests range from mechanisms driving dynamics of
populations of rare, invasive but also native common
herbaceous species at local as well as regional scales, via
mechanisms affecting the ability of these species to adapt
to various local conditions, to how are these process affected by interactions of plants with other organisms. She is also fascinated by the process of polyploidization and attempts to understand how polyploidization affects all the above processes. She is eager to link her research to practical conservation of species.
Photo: Tzafrir Abyov