Doctoral student Ariel Hazan from the Faculty of Biology exchanged the warm laboratory at the Technion for the snowy landscapes of Antarctica for a month and a half

03 January 2023

To the end of the world: the Israeli researcher who traveled to Antarctica for science.

Doctoral student Ariel Hazan from the Faculty of Biology exchanged the warm laboratory at the Technion for the snowy landscapes of Antarctica for a month and a half.

In the cold of -38 degrees and difficult conditions, he collected and modeled data for the research he is conducting under the guidance of Prof. Oded Beja on microbial rhodopsins – unique proteins that allow microorganisms to produce energy from sunlight.

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