סמינר חוגי Plant behavioral response to environmental stimuli

Title: Plant behavioral response to environmental stimuli

Abstract: Plant behavior and response to environmental stimuli has tremendous importance in science and agriculture. In particular, a plant’s root continuously senses changes in the environment, and responds in ways that optimize dynamically different essential parameters like its stability, and adequate food and water supplies. Some of the plant behavioral changes in response to environmental changes, like water shortage, can be reversible, and after certain “stress” time, the plant can get back to its normal behavioral patterns. In other cases, the plant behavior after the stress stimulus ends, is changed, due to effects on internal mechanisms, facilitating long-term behavioral changes. The main aim of this talk is to derive a preliminary physical model and analysis tools to quantify the behavioral changes of a plant in response to a stimuli.  

Speaker: Gaddi Blumrosen is a multi-disciplinary scientist, deploying advanced computational tools (signal processing, modeling, and machine learning) to develop new technologies, and explore different aspects of engineering, biology, medicine, and neuroscience.

His main area of research is sensing, enhanced modeling, processing, and medical condition assessment.
He is currently a research fellow in the faculty of engineering at Bar-Ilan university, Israel (https://engineering.biu.ac.il/en/) since the start of 2019. Previously, he was a researcher at the Computational Biology Center (CBC) at IBM research in Yorktown, NY, USA, explored facial expression gestures in NYU, Computational Neuroscience department, developed some new ways to develop new technology in cancer research using electroporation at Harvard MGH, and developed new ways to assess patient condition at home using Microsoft Kinect at Tel aviv University and Shiva hospital.