Alumni & Collaborators
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Influence of environmental factors on the physiology, morphology and gene expression of corals across life stages
Dr. Tal Zaquin
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Comparative Analysis of the “Biomineralization Toolkit” in Scleractinian Corals
Dr. Miri Morgulis
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Marine invertebrates’ skeleton architecture and design: Sea urchin embryo skeletogenesis and black coral adaptation to the deep sea.
Dr. Maayan Neder
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Providing new insights on the biomineralization process.
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Climate Change Impacts on Mediterranean Coral Oculina Patagonica: Reproductive Resilience and Thermal Performance
Title of MS.c. Thesis: The effect of abiotic parameters and nitrogen enrichment on growth rates and biochemical composition of the Eastern Mediterranean alga Codium sp.
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Developing a rapid fluorescence imaging tool for in situ estimation of coral reef health in diverse environments
Tal Zaquin
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Exploring coral’s stress plasticity and a comparative study of highly acidic protein
Adi Zweifler
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Developing a Novel Imaging Method for Analyzing Distribution and Survival of Coral Recruits
Sivan Haviv
Title of MS.c. Thesis: The Effect of Depth on the Biomineralization Process in Stony Corals
Oshra Yosef
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Understanding the genetic mechanism of sweeper tentacle formation in the red sea coral Galaxea fascicularis
Raanan Laipnik
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Understanding the functionality and structure of Coral Acid Rich Proteins in Stylophora pistillata
Yanai Peled
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Comparison Analysis of Membrane and Skeletal Proteins in Corals from multiple Climates and Geographies
Avihai Biton
Title of MS.c. Thesis: Assessment of non-fertile neo-males in the production of
all-female monosex population of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii