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Key-note speakers:

 

We are happy to announce that we were able to 

  • 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

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