I-CORE Center on Plant Adaptation to Changing Environment
and
The Manna Center Program for Food Safety & Security
Plant Epigenetics and Gene Expression in
Changing Environments
(2 credit units, course number 0466.4009)
Course Organizers: Dr. Assaf Zemach and Prof. Nir Ohad,
Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University
An exam will be given at the end of the course.
The course is free of charge for students from Israeli universities,
however students must send a signed copy of their Inter-university
agreement form (Ishur Limudim) from their institution and fill out the
form at this link:
https://foodsecurity.tau.ac.il/food/academics/summer/IsraeliRegForm
For information about additional Food Security summer courses,
pleasevisit:
https://foodsecurity.tau.ac.il/2016_summer_offerings
Plant Epigenetics and Gene Expression in
Changing Environments
A joint ICORE - Manna Center course for MSc and PhD students.
July 17-21, 2016, 14:00-18:00.
An exam will be given at the end of the course.
A concentrated five-day course with 2 x 1.5 hour lectures every day.
Course organizers: Assaf Zemach and Nir Ohad
Course lectures will be in English.
Tentative planSunday 17/07/201514:15-15:45 Assaf Zemach – Introduction to chromatin structure and function
16:15-17:45 Nicolas Bouche – natural epialleles
Monday 18/07/201514:15-15:45 Dudy Bar-Zvi – Sensing, signaling, and responding to droughtand salinity.
16:15-17:45 Ofir Hakim – Genome Regulation in Three Dimensions
Tuesday 19/07/201514:15-15:45 Idan Efroni - Differentiation, dedifferentiation andtrans differentiation during root regeneration
16:15-17:45 Naomi Ori- A role for CREL, a VRN5-like gene, in auxin response and leaf development in tomato
Wednesday 20/07/201514:15-15:45 Shay Shilo– Genetic and epigenetic patterns of DNA recombination in plants
16:15-17:45 Nir Ohad – The role of H3K27 methylation in Development andadaptation to environmental cues
Thursday 21/07/201514:15-15:45 Assaf Zemach- Epigenetics battles during plant seed development
16:15-17:45 Assaf Zemach- discussion on selected topics and exam