Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

Dr. Stefano Goffredo is consolidating hiscareer. His scientific initiative promises to lead marine biology towardsintegrative interdisciplinary syntheses. By extensive collaborations withleaders in different fields, such as physics, chemistry, computational scienceand photobiology SG developed multidisciplinary methodologies attacking thequestions identified by his field studies with novel laboratory tools. In hisresearch, SG has developed original aspects in the interpretation of growth and population data,population dynamics,reproductive biology and conservationmonitoring. Recently, he has expanded his interests to the biomineralization inrelation to environmental parameters. Prof. Emeritus Zvy Dubinsky of the Mina and EverardGoodman Faculty of Life Sciences studies the response of thephotosynthetic apparatus of microalgae to the intensity and spectralcomposition of underwaterirradiance and nutrient concentration. Dubinsky andhis team focus on three systems – Phytoplankton in the Red Sea, theMediterranean and Lake Kinneret; Zooxanthellae living as endosymbionts in reefbuilding corals; and algal mass cultures for the production of biodiesel and finechemicals.

• Part 1 Genesis, Evolution, and Systematics.- Part 2Zoogeography.- Part 3 Calcification.- Part 4 Reproduction and PopulationEcology.- Part 5 Symbiosis. -Part 6 Immune system. -Part 7 Photobiology andCircadian Clock.- Part 8 Global Climate Change. -Part 9 Medical Aspects andApplications.- Part 10 Management and Conservation.- Part 11 In Myth and Art.