09:00

Registration

 

09:40   Greetings and Evenari memorial talk- 

Shimon Rachmilevitch, Head, The French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands (FAAB), the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)

Yitzchak Gutterman, FAAB, BIDR, BGU

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Session I - Aquaponics Chair: Noam Mozes

 

10:00   Ranka Junge, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Development of Aquaponics in Switzerland:

from science to market and back to science.

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10:45    Amit Gross, BIDR, BGU, Isreal

Off grid aquaponics

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11:15     Coffee break

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11:35     Ran Epstein, Colors Fish Farm, Hazeva, Israel

Implementing aquaponics in an ornamental fish farm

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11:55    Moti Cohen, LivinGreen, Israel

Urban aquaponics and aquaponics in developing countries

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12:15    Ido Harpaz, Mosenson High School, Hod Hasharon, Israel

Utilizing aquaponics in the educational system

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12:30    Lunch break

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Session II - Integrated aquaculture Chair: Naftali Lazarovitch

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13:30    Muki Shpigel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research,

National Center for Mariculture, Eilat Israel

Integrated multi-trophic mariculture (imta) systems: an ecological approach for sustainable aquaculture

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14:00    Lior Guttman, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research,

National Center for Mariculture, Eilat Israel

Performances of a periphyton- based biofilter towards sustainable mariculture

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14:20     Tom Greenfield, FAAB, BIDR, BGU & Central Arava R&D,

Hazeva, Israel

Optimizing Nitrogen use efficiency in an integrated aquaculture

agriculture system

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14:40    Noam Mozes 1 & Ran Segev 2, 1-Fisheries and Aquaculture

Department, Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development & 2-Sea gal fish farm, Idan, Israel

Fish farming combined with Irrigation, Aquaponic and Integrated approach in the Negev – overview of past research and implementation with future implications

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15:00   Coffee break

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Session III - Algae and aquaponics Chair: Dina Zilberg

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15:20   Yair Kohn, Central Arava R&D, Yair Experimental Station, Hazeva,

Israel Use of spirulina for the removal of excess nutrients in an integrated brackish water aquaculture system

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15:40    Stephan Leu, FAAB, BIDR, BGU, Israel

Integrating microalgae cultivation with aquaponics for waste conversion and high efficiency protein production

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Session IV -  Fish and Plant health maintenance Chair: Amit Gross

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16:00    Phyllis Weintraub, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO),

Volkani Center, Israel

Biological control of plant pests

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16:20    Dina Zilberg, FAAB, BIDR, BGU, Israel

Controlling diseases of fish using plant-based treatments

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16:40

Concluding remarks 

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17:00

End of symposium