At the Marine Ecosystem Dynamics (MEDs) Lab, we are a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to understanding coral reef ecosystems' past, present, and future. Our expertise spans paleoecology, marine ecology, environmental monitoring, and advanced modelling, allowing us to investigate reef dynamics across spatial, temporal, and depth gradients.
Principal Investigator
Gal Eyal, PhD
Head of the MEDs Lab
Lab Manager
Dr. Noa Simon-Blecher
Researcher and lab manager
Noa is our lab manager (shared with Prof. Levy's lab) specialised in molecular biology and phylogeny of marine organisms
Ph.D Students
M.Sc Students
Ankita Das
Ankita has been doing her thesis in the lab since mid-2023. She is focusing on the effect of climate changes on the coral holobiont from shallow and mesophotic environments using molecular and biochemical tools.
Amir Agami
Shallow vs. Mesophotic Corals' Biochemistry Compounds and Regulations
Research Assistants
Lihi Alon
BSc student @ BIU
Lihi is doing her last-year BSc final project in the lab. She is focusing on 3D photogrammetry data reconstructions from Heron Island, GBR, Australia
Neta Gidron
BSc student @ BIU
Neta is doing her last-year BSc final project in the lab. She is focusing on coral fluorescence diversity and function in native and captive conditions
Sky Yedidia
BSc student @ BIU
Sky is doing his last-year BSc final project in the lab. Sky is using advanced 3D modelling techniques to study coral reefs in Moreton Bay, Australia. His role is centred on generating high-resolution orthomosaics from vast image datasets, which are then analyzed to assess the effects of bleaching on coral ecosystems.
Yuval Karako
BSc student @ BIU
Yuval is doing his last-year BSc final project in the lab. Working on semantic segmentation of large areas of coral reefs.
Alumni
