- Day 1 (Feb 26) - at Weizmann Institute of Science
- 8:30 Opening
- 8:45 Menachem Moshelion – Whole plant stress performance analysis: a new tool for functional phenotyping - lecture and demonstration
- 10:45 Coffee break
- 11:15 Steven Jansen - Structure-function relationships of xylem tissue
- 12:45 Lunch
- 13:45 Dan Yakir – The semi-arid forest as a model for forest climate change adaptation
- 14:45 Tamir Klein - Physiological Mechanisms of drought resistance in forest trees: Theory and practice
- 16:15 Coffee break
- 16:45 Tamir Klein –Physiological Mechanisms of drought resistance in forest trees: Theory and practice - demonstration
- 18:00 end
- Day 2 (Feb 27) – at Volcani Center
- 8:20 Coffee and coockies
- 8:45 Rakefet David-Schwartz - Molecular response to drought stress in forest trees
- 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:45 Adi Doron-Faigenboim - Next generation sequencing platforms, library preparation and quality control
- 12:15 Lunch
- 13:00 Adi Doron-Faigenboim - Bioinformatic analysis of drought related transcriptome - pipeline
- 14:30 Paolo Cherubini - Mediterranean Tree-Ring Ecophysiology
- 15:00 Coffee break
- 15:30 Student's presentations – 15 min each - Lazar Kesić, Kiran Singewar, Raquel Lobo-do-Vale, Paulína Nalevanková, Jaroslav Vido, Marko Kebert, Marie Matoušková, Daniel Kurjak, Alena Konôpková, Anja Petek.
- 18:00 end
- Day 3 (Feb 28) – at Volcani Center
- 8:20 Coffee and coockies
- 8:40 Shabtai Cohen – Hydraulic measurements in trees
- 9:20 Uri Hochberg - Xylem embolism under drought: Tackling the controversies using visualization techniques
- 10:00 Coffee break
- 10:30 Adi Faigenboim - Bioinformatic analysis – exercise
- 13:30 Lunch
- 14:30 Nathan G. Swenson - Tree transcriptomic response to drought, co-occurrence and phylogenetic signal
- 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:30 Student's presentations – 15 min each - Henri-Noël Bouda, Filipe Costa e Silva, Filippo Santini, Romy Rehschuh, Silvia Lechthaler, Gaia Pasqualotto.
- 18:00 end
- Day 4 (March 1) – Filed Trip
- 7:00 Travel to Yatir Forest
- 9:00 Light breakfast and short introduction to the Yatir forest
- 10:00 Yatir thinning experiment. Host: Tamir Klein
- 11:00 Visit to the Yatir central research station; flux tower. Host: Eyal Rotenberg
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Travel to the Dead Sea
- 17:00 Travel back to Volcani Center
- 19:00 end