{"id":37499,"date":"2025-07-09T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/outstanding-achievement-marine-biology-graduate-receives-prestigious-university-award\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:42:09","slug":"outstanding-achievement-marine-biology-graduate-receives-prestigious-university-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/outstanding-achievement-marine-biology-graduate-receives-prestigious-university-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Achievement: Marine Biology Graduate Receives Prestigious University Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"37499\" class=\"elementor elementor-37499 elementor-37448\" 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-8cd7cd4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8cd7cd4\" 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-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-faec414\" data-id=\"faec414\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29e60d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29e60d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Outstanding Achievement: Marine Biology Graduate Receives Prestigious University Award<\/h1>\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-bb24674 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bb24674\" 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-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc947e0\" data-id=\"dc947e0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-004b1aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"004b1aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The School of Marine Sciences congratulates <strong>Tovah Nehrer<\/strong>, graduate of our MSc program in Marine Biology, on receiving the <strong>University of Haifa&#8217;s Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Outstanding Thesis<\/strong> for the 2024\u20132025 academic year.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Her research, titled &#8220;A Conserved Signaling Pathway, a Different Outcome: The Role of the ERK Signaling Pathway in Sea Urchin Skeletal Elongation,&#8221; was supervised by Prof. <strong>Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The award recognizes academic excellence, research quality, and meaningful contribution to the field. A paper led by Tovah was recently published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/dev\/article\/doi\/10.1242\/dev.204684\/368223\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Development<\/em><\/a>, and she also contributed to a publication in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2408628121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PNAS<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">We are proud of Tovah for her outstanding achievement and thank Prof. Ben-Tabou de-Leon for her excellent mentorship. 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