Dr. Stefano Goffredo is consolidating his
career. His scientific initiative promises to lead marine biology towards
integrative interdisciplinary syntheses. By extensive collaborations with
leaders in different fields, such as physics, chemistry, computational science
and photobiology SG developed multidisciplinary methodologies attacking the
questions identified by his field studies with novel laboratory tools. In his
research, SG has developed original aspects in the interpretation of growth and population data,
population dynamics,
reproductive biology and conservation
monitoring. Recently, he has expanded his interests to the biomineralization in
relation to environmental parameters.
Prof. Emeritus Zvy Dubinsky of the Mina and Everard
Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences studies the response of the
photosynthetic apparatus of microalgae to the intensity and spectral
composition of underwaterirradiance and nutrient concentration. Dubinsky and
his team focus on three systems – Phytoplankton in the Red Sea, the
Mediterranean and Lake Kinneret; Zooxanthellae living as endosymbionts in reef
building corals; and algal mass cultures for the production of biodiesel and fine
chemicals.