Convener

Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet, head of the Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research at the National Institute of Biology Ljubljana (Slovenia). She received her PhD from University of Ljubljana. Having initially trained as an insect neurobiologist at Max-Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology in Seewiesen, she is now focusing her research on all aspects of arthropod vibrational communication. She has been a Marie Curie fellow at the Cardiff University and is now the Head of the Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana where she uses leafhoppers as a model for studying interactions shaping the evolution of the vibrational communication channel.

Organizing team

Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet, convener

Other team members, in alphabetical order

• Dr. Klemen Čandek
• Rok Janža
• Dr. Anka Kuhelj
• Juan José López Díez
• Dr. Jernej Polajnar
• Dr. Nataša Stritih Peljhan
• Dr. Rok Šturm

 

 

 

National Institute of Biology

The conference will be organized by the National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia. With about 180 employees, National Institute of Biology (NIB) is the largest independent Public Research Institution for Life Sciences in Slovenia. The Institute was established by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in 1960. The basic activity of the Institute has been and continues to be basic, developmental and applicative research in the fields of biotechnology, biophysics, biomedicine, systems biology and ecology.