Welcome to The Lab of Amir Sagi

Professor Amir Sagi began studying crustaceans during grad school. Since then he has become a world renown specialist in crustaceans physiology.

Our Research

We study functional genomics of crustacean physiology and developed numerous biotechnological applications.

What do we study?

  • The IAG-switch sex differentiating mechanism in crustacean reproduction
  • Functional genomics in crustacean physiology
  • Crustaceans’ growth, physiology and biomineralization
  • Crustaceans as biocontrol agents over disease-carrying snails
We are the first in the world to establish novel sex reversal biotechnologies for monosex prawn populations
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The first monosex biotechnology in aquaculture based on temporal gene silencing using RNAi
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Our research is spread over all the continents but not (yet) in Antarctica
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Crustacea comprises more than 65,000 species and we study seven representative decapod species

Ben Gurion University

Email: sagia@bgu.ac.il
Department of Life Sciences
P.O.B 653, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel