Research

My current research projects include:

• Cultivation of Porphyra in semi-closed bioreactors (collaboration with Dr's. Michael Friedlander and Alvaro Israel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute, Haifa, Israel).
• Thermal stability studies on the algal photosynthetic pigments phycoerythrin and phycocyanin (funding from USDA).
• Development of new online resources for the teaching of introductory biology (funding from Howard Hughes Medical Institute.