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ManagementMila Grinblat
PhD Candidate
James Cook University
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
Mila was born in Russia and moved to Israel with her family when she was six. Since the sea has always been her passion, she completed a BSc degree in Marine Biotechnology (Magna cum laude) at the Ruppin Academic Centre College, Israel. In 2016 she completed her Msc degree in Zoology focused on ecology and environmental quality under the supervision of prof. Yossi Loya in Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Her research focused on mesophotic reef stony coral reproduction and effects of ocean acidification on coral physiology and fluorescence. In 2017, she decided to move to Australia in order to fulfill her dream and study the corals of the biggest reef in the world, the Great Briar Reef. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at James Cook University under the joint supervision of Prof. David Miller, Dr. Peter Cowman and Dr. Ira Cooke, combined with external supervision by Prof. Yossi Loya (Tel-Aviv University). Her research aims to combine ecological and molecular approaches in order to obtain a bigger view on reproduction, sex change and determination in stony corals and implement molecular approaches in order to assess the speciation of mushroom corals worldwide.
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au