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