About Dor’s work: In the face of Global change, coral reef world-wide undergo sever degradation. It is projected that by next few decades more than 50% of the reef will disappear. While conservation acts solely are not enough, and the rate of change is too fast for the coral to adapt, it is necessary to think of a novel way. In the active reef restoration tenet (growing coral in nurseries and then transplant them to a degraded reef), transplanted population may face the same problems as a new population: relatively low population and genotypic size, low genetic variation and maladaptation to the change in environmental conditions. In my research I focus on coral reproduction, coral chimerism (the presence of 2 or more genotypes in a colony) and other coral interaction as restoration tool.