Ecology and Plant Sciences

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ResearcherResearch Focus
Dr. Gal Eyal
  1. Temporal, spatial and vertical dynamics in marine environments
  2. Ecology, biology, and physiology of corals
  3. Palaeoecology and historical ecology for reconstructing ancient marine environments
  4. Shallow, mesophotic, rariphotic and deep-sea marine environments
  5. Fluorescent proteins in marine organisms
  6. Technologies for advanced marine monitoring and research
Prof. Koren Lee
  1. Temporal, spatial and vertical dynamics in marine environments
  2. Ecology, biology, and physiology of corals
  3. Palaeoecology and historical ecology for reconstructing ancient marine environments
  4. Shallow, mesophotic, rariphotic and deep-sea marine environments
  5. Fluorescent proteins in marine organisms
  6. Technologies for advanced marine monitoring and research
Prof. Levy Oren
  1. Biological Clocks in Marine Organisms
  2. Biology and Molecular Ecology of Cnidarians
  3. Biology, symbiosis, Physiology and Molecular Ecology in Coral Reefs.
  4. Nanotoxicology in Marine Environments
Prof. Miller Gad
  1. Role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in abiotic stress sensing and signaling
  2. Rapid systemic response of plants to high temperature and high light intensity
  3. Identification of heat stress tolerance mechanisms in pollen
  4. Develop flow cytometry-based methods for pollen biology study
Prof. Perl-Treves Rafael
  1. Molecular regulation of early fruit development (fruit set)
  2. Molecular recognition of viral and fungal pathogens by plants
  3. Identifying genes involved in fruit set and resistance to pathogens by CRISPR-CAS9
Prof. Schwarz Rakefet
  1. Biofilms of cyanobacteria
  2. Regulated proteolysis of light pigment complexes
  3. Tailoring cyanobacteria for biofuel
Dr. Shaul Orit
  1. Regulation of plant gene expression at the level of mRNA stability in the nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway.
  2. Enhancement of plant gene expression by introns at the levels of mRNA content and translational efficiency.
  3. Regulation of plant gene expression by upstream open reading frames (uORFs).
  4. Transport of magnesium and heavy metals into the plant vacuole.
Prof. Steinberger Yosef
  1. Terrestrial ecosystem, dynamics and diversity of soil biota of arid, semiarid and agroecosystems.
  2. Belowground processes in with emphasis on relationship of soil invertebrates and detrital food web structure to primary production monitoring rangeland conditions (health)
  3. Assessing success of rehabilitation efforts on disturbed rangelands, such as improvement of primary production, reverse desertification processes and rehabilitation of coal strip mines
  4. Biological management of soil ecosystems for sustainable agriculture, decomposition processes, climate change effect on biotic component of soil biota. In the belowground processes the emphasis on soil microbial community (bacteria, fungi), free-living nematodes, protozoa, microarthropods and plant organism relationships.