Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships
- Michael Jordan
Ph.D. Students
Gal Eviatar
Project: Unravelling patterns of sexual reproduction - echinoderm reproductive behaviour
Hanna Rapuano
Co-supervised with: Prof. Yossi Loya, School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University
Project: Aspects of aging in colonial and solitary scleractinian corals
Lisa Maria Schmidt
Project: Deciphering sexual reproduction in the genomic era – reproductive dynamics of broadcast spawners revealed through environmental DNA
Lachan Roth
Project: Maintaining genetic diversity in broadcast spawning invertebrates
Rotem Zirler
Project: Under the sea - Monitoring cryptic benthic biodiversity of the Israeli Mediterranean using ARMS and metabarcoding
M.Sc. Students
Aran Sofer
Project: Biodiversity assessment of the gulf of Eilat using environmental DNA metabarcoding
Yamit Shkalim
Project: Ecology, taxonomy and evolution of echinoids in the Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean
Mai Bonomo
Project: The taxonomy, ecology, and systematics of sea cucumbers (Holothuridea) in the Gulf of Aqaba
Shoval Segal
Project: Using environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) as a complementary tool for long-term marine species monitoring using the fish community as a test group
Alumni
Guillermo Benaim Anderson
Ph.D. student
Project: Beyond the particles: chemical effects of micronized bioplastics on sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus' gametes and fertility
Oz Posner
M.Sc. student
Project: The irregular echinoid fauna in Gulf of Aqaba – ecological and taxonomic aspects
Victoria Fidel
Intern
Project: Message in a bottle - utilising DNA from preservation solutions of museum collection specimens
Dr. Karin Tamar
Postdoctoral fellow
Project: The classification of three geckos and two snakes in Israel
Caterina Martino
Intern - Erasmus+ programme/KA133 – Student Mobility for Traineeship
Project: Crustacea identification within the ARMS project