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Michal Gruntman
A senior lecturer jointly-appointed at the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security and Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.
Ruth Gottlieb
Ruth is a PhD candidate, working on an ISF-funded project, studying plant responses to competition belowground and their ability to integrate information from above and belowground neighbors.
Eyal Grossman
Eyal is a PhD student, studying ways to optimize phytoremediation of heavy-metal polluted soils, for which he won the Smaller-Winnikow environmental research scholarship.
Agueda De la Vega Díaz
Agueda is a PhD student, exploring the idea of associative learning in plants and examining their abilities to learn to associate between neutral stimulus and honest cues.
Noy Kaminer Bitton
Noy is a MSc student, studying the effect of weathered microplastics on plant species native to the coastal sand dunes, in collaboration with Ines Zucker.
Nadav Osherovitz
Nadav is an MA student, working in collaboration with Dr. Oz Ben Yehuda (Achva Academic College). He is investigating gardening methods that support endangered butterflies .
Jonathan Lichtman
Jonathan is a MSc student, exploring the environmental conditions that affect the seed dispersal traits of the invasive plant Heterotheca subaxillaris.
Muriel Saidenberg
Muriel is a MSc student, studying photonastic leaf movement in the common bean Phaseolus vulgaris, and if this leaf movement can be conditioned to associate light with neutral stimuli
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Yuval Gedulter
Yuval is a PhD student studying salt accumulation by halophytes, its use as a defense mechanism against pathogens, and the way salt uptake might be used for sustainable remediation of saline soils.
Shira Zohar
Shira is an MSc. student, studying the optimal plantation method for Miyawaki forests in dry urban environments, focusing on density, species selection and carbon sequestration potential in collaboration with Yakir Preisler.