Dr. Shani Levy
Blue biotechnologies and Sustainable mariculture Department
Research Areas: marine biotechnology; coral–algal symbiosis with unicellular algae; facultative symbiosis; coral responses to environmental stress; coral bleaching; cellular and molecular biology of corals; the coral innate immune system; stress responses of unicellular algal symbionts.
Laboratory: Coral Symbiosis and Immunology
Phone: 972-52-663-6368, WhatsApp preferred
Office: Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, Building 2, Sdot Yam
Email: slevy@sci.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Shani Levy heads the Coral Symbiosis and Immunology Lab. She earned her PhD in marine biology from the University of Haifa, where she studied molecular and developmental mechanisms in cnidarians. She continued with postdoctoral research at the University of Haifa and as a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. Her work has led to pioneering studies in coral biology, including the identification of immune cell types and the creation of single cell atlases across several coral species, enabling comprehensive characterization of all cell types and their gene expression programs.
Research in the lab focuses on symbiosis between corals and unicellular algae, on the responses of both partners to environmental stress together and separately, and on the coral innate immune system and its roles in maintaining symbiosis and in bleaching.
