Group Members

Dr. Miguel J. Frada (CV)

Principal Investigator

Senior lecturer at the Institute of Life Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a resident scientist at the Interuniversity Institute of Marine Sciences in Eilat (Israel).

miguel.frada@mail.huji.ac.il; Office phone: +972-8-636-0147

Dr. Gil Koplovitz

Research Assistant and lab manager (gil.koplovitz@mail.huji.ac.il)

Yoav Avrahami

PhD student (yoav.avrahami@mail.huji.ac.il)

2020-present

Topic: Diatom ecology and seasonal dynamics in subtropical ecosystems

[MSc 2017-2019: Coccolithophore mixotrophy]

Laurie Bousquet

PostDoc

2021-present

Topic: Coccolithophore life cycle

Herdís G. Steinsdóttir

PostDoc - Joint with Dr. Derya Akkaynak

2022-present

Topic: Microbial diversity and dynamics in Coral Reef Ecosystems

Tamar Dikstein

MSc student

2021-present

Topic: Coccolithophore life cycle and host-virus interaction

Past members

Sivan Klaiman, Undergraduate research project, 2017-2018

Dvora Amselem, Undergraduate research assistant, 2016

Shai Fainsod, MSc student 2017-2020 [Coccolithophore life cycle; Transcriptomic analyses]

Currently: PhD @ Oded Beja's Lab (Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)

Sabine Keuter, Postdoctoral fellow 2017-2019 [Coccolithophore ecology]