Events
The Monosex Advantage: Prawn Biotechnology for Sustainable Control of Aquatic Disease Vectors and Invasive Snails
Amir will give a plenary lecture at the 16th KASH conference in Kenya
Sagi Lab delegation to Sea The Future 2026
January 2026
We were chosen to open this conference.
At the beginning of the opening plenary, Prof. Sagi will present the entirety of the research, followed by short presentations by PhD students Noa Asculai and Hanin Wattad, and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Melody Wahl
נבחרנו לפתוח את הכנס הזה. בתחילת מליאת הפתיחה פרופ שגיא יציג את מכלול המחקר עם פרזנטציות קצרות של הסטודנטיות נועה אסכולאי, חנין ותד והפוסט-דוקטורנטית ד״ר מלודי ואהל
Fighting disease-carrying snails in Kenya
September 2025
Amir, Amit, and Noa traveled to Kenya to advance a groundbreaking biological control project. The mission, sponsored by the Israeli Ambassador to Kenya, formed a joint working group upon arrival, which included two researchers from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KMRI). This group successfully identified sites for a future POC using the monosex prawn populations technology.
This dual project targets the control of schistosomiasis-transmitting snails in community water sources and the mitigation of Apple Snails in rice ponds, offering a sustainable biotechnological solution to critical public health and economic challenges in the region.
Amir, Noa, Hanin, Melody and Shai gave talks at the TCS & IAA Asian Regional Meeting held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
October 2025
Congratulations to Shai Shaked for winning the he Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the 15th International Conference of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 2025, Washington DC, USA
June 2025
Amir Sagi: From Basic to Applied Science and Back
Impact of the Primacy of Applied Science and Technology over Basic Science Since the Late 20th Century and in the Era of Big Data and AI
The Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Farwell to Adva
Congratulations to Shai Shaked for winning the Best presentation award at the TCS summer meeting 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
May 2024
Amir, Sharon and Shai gave talks as part of the "Conservation study on crayfish and invasive alien decapod species case study on species from the Mediterranean region" Symposium in the 61st Carcinological society of Japan Annual Meeting
October 2023
We hosted Dr. Fiona Allan for a fascinating eDNA extraction methods workshop (as part of the SSCC program for invitation of international scientists)
03 September – 10 September 2023
Our team for international crustaceans congress in Wellington, New Zealand
May 2023
Congratulations to Gurucharan Sudarshan for winning the Best poster award at the ICC10, Wellington, New Zealand
26 May 2023
Congratulations to Sharon Moscovitz for winning the Best presentation award at the ICC10, Wellington, New Zealand
26 May 2023
Amir gave a talk as part of the "Updating scientific knowledge For the biology teachers" organized by the Israeli Administration of the National Center for Biology Teachers
13 December 2022
First large scale all female in Thailand
15 September 2022
Congratulations to Jonathan on his publication, reporting genome editing in embryos and cells of the fresh water prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii
30 May 2022
Congratulations to Melody on her first publication, reporting genes encoding the Glycoprotein Hormone GPA2/GPB5 and the receptor in a female prawn
24 March 2022
Congratulations to Shai on winning the Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Best Student Presentation award at SICB 2022
1 March 2022
Congratulations to Moïse on completing his Thesis Examination on Molecular Screening for Sexually Biased Genes/LncRNAs in the Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium Rosenbergii
23 August 2021
Congratulations to Tom on his publication reporting induction of sexual shift from maleness to femaleness, via IAG silencing, in a sequential hermaphrodite shrimp from Alaska
28 October 2020
Congratulations to Tom on his publication reporting an evidence for homogametic WW females within the ZW/ZZ system in native populations of the Australian redclaw crayfish and possible contribution of intersexuality to the fitness of this species
2 October 2020
Our review article regarding the crustacean "IAG-switch" sex-differentiation mechanism is published
10 September 2020
Congratulations to Shai Shaked on his first publication, reporting insights
into the formation of the biomineralized exoskeleton in decapod crustaceans
5 September 2020
Stocking crayfish at Dor Aquaculture Research Station
11 May 2020
Raising virtual glasses for Passover due to COVID-19 pandemic
6 April 2020
Hosting Prof. Valerio Zupo's group from Stazione Zoologica in Napoli, Italy in our laboratory
18 February 2020
Congratulations to Tom on the first publication of our project in Alaska on the protandric shrimp, Pandalus platyceros
28 January 2020
Congratulations to Amit on his publication of using prawn monosex populations as bio-control agents over snail vectors of fish parasites
24 January 2020
Amir and Tom attended the International Giant Prawn meeting in Shanghai, China
15-18 November 2019
Collecting prawns at Emek Hamaayanot
13 November 2019
Congratulations to Jonathan on his first publication, reporting the viability of consecutive generations of prawns lacking the masculine Z chromosome
15 October 2019
Celebrating the annual summary event of our group
26 September 2019
The first achievement of Z-lacking male and the first high-quality genome of the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii are reported by our group in collaboration with Enzootic and NRGene companies
27 August 2019
Amir and Eli with our collaborators from Stazione Zoologica in Napoli at the Sea Festival in Genoa, Italy
16-18 May 2019
Amir, Eli and Amit attended the World Aquaculture Society conference in Montpellier, France
25-29 August 2018
Tom attended the International Symposium of Genetics in Aquaculture in Cairns, Australia
15-20 July 2018
Fighting bilharzia using prawns as bio-control agents of schistosomiasis carrying snails in Senegal, Africa
1 October 2017
Shrimp collection in Southeast Alaska for our project in collaboration with Prof. Sherry Tamone from the University of Alaska Southeast, on the protandric Northern Spot shrimp, Pandalus platyceros
13 September 2017
