New lab members: Welcome Mert and Esther
Mert KavaklioÄŸlu joined the lab as an intern for the coming academic year. Mert received MSc in environmental sciences from...


Dr. Kate Gallagher joined the lab
Dr. Kate Gallagher joined the lab as a post-doc scholar. Kate received the Zuckerman STEM leadership scholarship for post-doctoral...


New pre-print: Florivory and pollination in irises
New manuscript in pre-print: Does floral herbivory reduce pollination-mediated fitness in shelter rewarding Royal Irises?Authors: M....


Paper accepted: Radish pollination
Paper accepted for publication: "Effect of expanded variation in anther position on pollinator visitation to wild radish, Raphanus...


On the extinction of Iris atropurpurea
Gil Yardeni writing on the emotions regarding the extinction of Iris atropurpurea. Guest-post in Yael's blog (in Hebrew)


PhD: Flower color evolution in irises
The Sapir Lab at Tel Aviv University, Israel, is looking to hire a PhD student to join an ISF-funded project on the evolution of flower...


New publications - Christmas-tree worms and pollinator-mediated selection
Two new manuscripts accepted for publication: 1. Sapir, Y. Pollinator-mediated selection is better detected when controlling for resource...


Brachypodium experiment planted
Brachypodium seeds planted in two reciprocal transplantation experimental sites: Tel Hai (Mediterranean climate) and Beer Sheva (Arid...


Gil's paper on population divergence in Iris atropurpurea published
Yardeni, G., N. Tessler, E. Imbert, and Y. Sapir. Reproductive isolation between populations of Iris atropurpurea is associated with...


Paper published: fitness and selection in Linum pubescens
Bigio, L., M. Lebel and Y. Sapir (2016) Do different measures of maternal fitness affect estimation of natural selection on floral...