The Faculty hosted a Symposium on May 30th in honor of Prof. Gene E. Robinson, the director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and leader of the effort to sequence the honey bee genome. He pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior.
Prof. Gene Robinson with Dean Prof. Benny Chefetz
Prof. Sharoni Shafir; Prof. Masha Niv
Foundations of Sociogenomics - Insights into human nature from animal models
From Gene To Society
A Symposium In Honor Of Prof. Gene E. Robinson
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
09:00-09:30
Reception
09:30-10:00
Opening remarks:
Prof. Masha Niv, Vice Dean for Research, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Ronnie Friedman, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wolf Foundation Council Member
Prof. Sharoni Shafir, Head of Department of Entomology, B. Triwaks Bee Research Center, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:00-11:00
Plenary talk: Prof. Gene E. Robinson
Swanlund Chair of Entomology and Neuroscience, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Honey Bees, Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nurture
11:00-11:30
Prof. Ofer Feinerman
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Regulation of collective food intake in ant colonies
11:30-12:00
Prof. Eyal Privman
Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa
Adaptation in olfactory functions on the fire ant social chromosome
12:00-12:30
Prof. Guy Bloch
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A clock for social life
12:30-13:00
Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam
Psychology Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Genetic relatedness and children's social behavior