{"id":3063,"date":"2020-08-02T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:22:20","slug":"daniel-sher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/daniel-sher\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Sher"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3063\" class=\"elementor elementor-3063\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2d0e320 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2d0e320\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 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href=\"https:\/\/mce-lab.marsci.haifa.ac.il\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Marine Chemical Ecology Lab, <\/a>Room 291, Multipurpose Building<strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><span class=\"label\">Phone:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"label\">\u00a0+972-4-8249349 \u00a0<\/span><strong><br \/>Office:\u00a0<\/strong>270\/2, Multipurpose Building<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:dsher@univ.haifa.ac.il\">\u00a0dsher@univ.haifa.ac.il<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d36ec14 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d36ec14\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-9171\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>Daniel Sher is a Professor of Marine Biology at the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa (Israel). \u00a0Daniel completed his undergraduate and PhD studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by postdoctoral studies at MIT.\u00a0 His main research interest lies in Aquatic Chemical Ecology and Microbial Oceanography \u2013 understanding the way aquatic organisms communicate through chemistry, the chemicals that mediate these interactions, and the way these interactions and chemicals affect entire ecosystems. Most of the people in his lab currently study how Prochlorococcus, a tiny marine cyanobacterium and the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth, interacts with co-occurring marine bacteria. Other projects in the lab focus on understanding the causes for jellyfish blooms (including whether their associated bacteria are involved in bloom growth and decline), and on developing methods to use natural marine bacterial communities as biosensors for pollution. Daniel is also a member of the steering committee of the University of Haifa Data Science Research Center, and of the outreach committee of the School of Marine Sciences. He is married, has three kids and a dog, and in his spare time loves hiking, cooking and photography.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-9172\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research interest<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-9172\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-9172\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>Our lab studies marine chemical ecology \u2013 the way aquatic organisms communicate through chemistry, the chemicals that mediate these interactions, and the way these interactions and chemicals affect entire ecosystems. This is a fascinating field of research that combines ecology, limnology\/oceanography, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physics and computational biology. In addition, studying these interactions often brings with it the discovery of novel chemical compounds which have biotechnological, pharmacological or medical uses \u2013 antibiotics, for example, are often synthesized by microorganisms in order to fight other microbes. Some of the questions we are interested in are: Do marine bacteria communicate using chemical signals? What are the roles of toxins in jellyfish, sea anemones, coral and hydra? How do marine invertebrates protect themselves against pathogens? Can understanding such interactions help us model marine communities and predict how they will change in a changing world?<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-9173\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Education<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-9173\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-9173\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>2010-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lecturer, Department of Marine Biology, Charney School of Marine Sciences, Haifa University, Israel<\/p><p>2007-2010\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.<\/p><p>2000- 2008\u00a0 \u00a0PhD <em>Summa cum Laude<\/em>, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Mentor: Prof. Eliahu Zlotkin, <br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Thesis Title: <strong>Biological Role of a Non-Nematocystic Toxin in Cnidaria \u2013 An Exercise in Chemical Ecology.<\/strong><\/p><p>1997 &#8211; 2000\u00a0 \u00a0 B.Sc. <em>magna cum laude<\/em>\u00a0in Biology, the Hebrew University of<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Daniel Sher Department: Marine BiologyResearch Areas:\u00a0Chemical Ecology and Microbial OceanographyLaboratory:\u00a0The Marine Chemical Ecology Lab, Room 291, Multipurpose BuildingPhone:\u00a0+972-4-8249349 \u00a0Office:\u00a0270\/2, Multipurpose BuildingEmail:\u00a0dsher@univ.haifa.ac.il About Research interest Education About Daniel Sher is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[62,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-biology-staff-en","category-department-of-marine-biology","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}