Talks

  • Self-Replicating Artificial Neural Networks Give Rise to Universal Evolutionary Dynamics - invited speaker, Israeli Society for Evolutionary Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel, March 2022

  • Inferring the effective start dates of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 outbreaks - invited speaker, 1st Meeting of the Center of Combating Pandemics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 2022

  • The apple sometimes falls far from the tree: Evolution of non-vertical cultural transmission - invited speaker, The Language of Evolution & Evolution of Language conference, Weizmann Institute, Israel, February 2020.

  • Necessity is the mother of invention - invited speaker at the TAU Theory-Fest Evolution workshop, Tel Aviv University, Israel, January 2020.

  • Evolution of non-vertical transmission - invited speaker at the Socio-Technological Evolution of the Human Species workshop, Safed, Israel, September 2019.

  • The role of aneuploidy in adaptive evolution - oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA, June 2019.

  • Aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast and fungi - oral presentation at Israel Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, March 2019.

  • Better to Learn from Whom? Evolution of non-vertical transmission - presentation at the IDC School of Computer Science annual retreat, June 2018.

  • Evolution of non-vertical transmission in changing environments - special guest seminar at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, January, 2018.

  • Evolution on empirical adaptive landscapes - oral presentation at Israel Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting, April 2017.

  • Predicting competition dynamics from growth curve data - oral presentation at FISEB/ILANIT, Eilat, February 2017.

  • Evolution and Mutation During Stress - Hebrew presentation.

  • How to Study Evolution using Scientific Python - oral presentation at the first PyCon Israel 2016, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 2 - 3, 2016.

  • Predicting competitions & estimating selection in microorganisms - oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Biological Mechanisms in Evolution, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA, June 28 - July 3, 2015.

  • Stress-induced mutagenesis & complex adaptation - poster at the Forecasting Evolution? conference in Lisbon, Portugal, July 8 - 11, 2015.

  • Stress-induced mutagenesis & complex adaptation - short oral presentation at the Two2Many Systems Biology Conference, Weizmann Institute, March, 2015.

  • Adaptedness, Adaptability and Stress-Induced Mutagenesis - poster at ESEB 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, August 19-24, 2013.

  • Stress-induced Mutagenesis and the Evolution of Complex Traits - poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Biological Mechanisms in Evolution, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA, June 2-6, 2013.

  • Evolution and mutation in stressful times - an oral presentation, part of the Evolution Series in Tel-Aviv University's Botanical Gardens, May 16, 2013.

  • Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Stress-Induced Hypermutation - oral presentation at The 1st Graduate Students' Conference in Genetics, Genomics and Evolution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, September 23, 2012. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.96049

  • The Evolution of Stress-Induced Mutagenesis in Finite and Infinite Populations - oral presentation at PopGroup 45 in Nottingham, UK, January, 2012. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.95939.

  • Rise and Fall of Mutator Bacteria - seminar presentation at the BioMath Student Journal Club, Tel-Aviv University, May, 2011. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.95940.

  • The Evolution of Stress-Induced Hypermutation - poster at ESEB 2011 in Tubingen, Germany, August, 2011.

  • The Evolution of Stress-Induced Hypermutation - poster at SMBE 2010 in Lyon, France, July, 2010.

  • The Evolution of Stress-Induced Hypermutation - poster at MMSB 2010 in Tel-Aviv, Israel – won the Best poster award.