Dr. Danny Morick
Head of the Blue biotechnologies and Sustainable mariculture Department
Research Areas: Marine pathology, microbiology, immune system, epidemiology, and pollution effects on marine organisms
Laboratory: The Marine Pathology Lab
Phone: 972-50-2909621
Office: 03, The Morris Kahn Marine Research Station
Email: dmorick@univ.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Morick , who heads the department, is a veterinarian and researcher with 18 years of experience in marine animal medicine. In recent years, he has been leading research focused on understanding the causes of illness and mortality, as well as disease transmission among marine animals in the Mediterranean Sea. This research also includes understanding the impact of disease factors in marine agriculture systems. The Marine Pathology Laboratory, led by Dr. . Morick, also studies the effects of pollutants such as heavy metals on the health of marine animals. Using advanced technologies and molecular biology, this research generates extensive knowledge in a field that has been barely studied in our region and has implications for many areas, including marine ecology, nature conservation, and public health.
1999-2002: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
2002-2006: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM). University of Veterinary Medicine, Kosice, Slovakia (passed with great distinction).
2007-2012: PhD, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Rehovot. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012-2015: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2017 : Certified Aquatic Veterinarian, World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association (WAVMA).
- Morick, D., Davidovich, N., Zemah-Shamir, Z., Bigal, E., Rokney, A., Ron, M., Scheinin, A. P. 2022. First Isolation and Characterization of Streptococcus agalactiae From a Stranded Wild Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis). Front. Mar. Sci, 9, 824071.
- Wosnick, N., Leite, R. D., Giareta, E. P., Morick, D., & Musyl, M. Global assessment of shark strandings. 2022, Fish and Fisheries, 23(4), 786-799.
- Itay P, Shemesh E, Ofek-Lalzar M, Davidovich N, Kroin Y, Zrihan S, Stern N, Diamant A, Wosnick N, Meron D, Tchernov D, Morick D. An Insight into Gill Microbiome of Eastern Mediterranean Wild Fish by Applying Next Generation Sequencing. Front. Mar. Sci. – Marine Conservation and Sustainability, 2023, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1008103.
- Morick D, Blum S, Davidovich N, Zemah-Shamir Z, Bigal E, Itay P, Rokney A, Nasie I, Feldman N, Flecker M, Elasar M, Aharoni K, Zuriel Y, Wosnick N, Tchernov D, Scheinin A, Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae Pneumonia in a dead stranded Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), in the eastern Mediterranean Sea., EID, emerging infectious diseases. 2023.
- Morick D, Bachmann VM, Shemesh E, Botero-Anug AM, Zemach-Shamir Z, Aizenberg Z, Davidovich N, Goldberg DW, Kan G, Ofri R, Tchernov D, Levy Y. Case report: Blindness associated with Learedius learedi trematode infection in a green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, of the northern Red Sea. Front Vet Sci. 2023 doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1258522.
- Davidovich N, Tedesco P, Caffara M, Luci V, Cantori A, Morick D, Fioravanti ML, Gustinelli A. Low prevalence of Contracaecum third-stage larvae parasitizing Sea of Galilee fisheries: 1-year survey after 57 years of no information. Food Waterborne Parasitol. 2023
- Davidovich N, Makhon A, Zizelski Valenci G, Dveyrin Z, Yahav T, Pretto T, Tchernov D, Morick D. Identification of Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii in the Eastern Mediterranean. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 . doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00856-23. Epub 2023 Jun 5.
- Starostinetsky-Malonek T, Scheinin A, Aroch I, Davidovich N, Bigal E, Livne L, Hauser-Davis RA, Wosnick N, Tchernov D, Morick D. First report on the serum chemistry and haematology of free-ranging dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and sandbar (Carcharhinus plumbeus) sharks in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Conserv Physiol. 2023. eCollection 2023.
- Morick D, Davidovich N, Zemah-Shamir Z, Kroin Y, Bigal E, Sierra E, Segura-Göthlin S, Wosnick N, Hauser-Davis RA, Tchernov D, Scheinin AP. First description of a Gammaherpesvirus in a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Vet Res Commun. 2023 Dec;47(4):2253-2258. doi: 10.1007/s11259-023-10125-x. Epub 2023 Apr 24.
- Bregman G, Lalzar M, Livne L, Bigal E, Zemah-Shamir Z, Morick D, Tchernov D, Scheinin A, Meron D. Preliminary study of shark microbiota at a unique mix-species shark aggregation site, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Front Microbiol. 2023 Feb 23;14:1027804. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1027804. eCollection 2023.
- Galili O, Goffman O, Roditi-Elasar M, Mevorach Y, Bigal E, Zuriel Y, Haitovich Y, Hadar N, Markovich M, Vardimon D, Reininger D, Marco S, Morick D, Ratner E, Tchernov D, Scheinin A. Two Decades of Coastal Dolphin Population Surveys in Israel, Eastern Mediterranean. Biology (Basel). 2023 Feb 17;12(2):328. doi: 10.3390/biology12020328.
