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Overview

Oren Levy is a researcher affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel, with a primary focus on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work extensively covers ecology and oceanography, along with related subfields such as global and planetary change, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The researcher's publications mainly concentrate on coral and marine ecosystem studies, marine and coastal plant biology, as well as various aspects of marine animal studies. Additional topics in their research portfolio include the impact of light on the environment and health, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, and marine ecology and invasive species.

Oren Levy's recent academic papers include:

  • Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems-A review (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Coral Gametogenesis Collapse under Artificial Light Pollution (2020, Current Biology)
  • 12-h clock regulation of genetic information flow by XBP1s (2020, PLoS Biology)
  • Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Artificial light at night (ALAN) alters the physiology and biochemistry of symbiotic reef building corals (2020, Environmental Pollution)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Microorganisms
  • Coral Reefs

Collaborations have involved several coauthors, most notably:

  • Noa Simon-Blecher (11 joint publications)
  • Gal Eyal (8 joint publications)
  • Danwei Huang (7 joint publications)
  • Mieka Rinsky (7 joint publications)
  • Inbal Ayalon (6 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Light-Responsive Cryptochromes from a Simple Multicellular Animal, the Coral Acropora millepora

    O Levy;L Appelbaum;W Leggat;Y Gothlif

  • Chronobiology by moonlight.

    Noga Kronfeld-Schor;Davide M. Dominoni;Horacio de la Iglesia;Oren Levy

  • Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals.

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Shobhit Agrawal;Manuel Aranda;Sebastian Baumgarten

  • Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review

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  • Experimental assessment of the feeding effort of three scleractinian coral species during a thermal stress: Effect on the rates of photosynthesis

    Christine Ferrier-Pagès;Cécile Rottier;Eric Beraud;Oren Levy

  • Signaling cascades and the importance of moonlight in coral broadcast mass spawning

    Paulina Kaniewska;Paulina Kaniewska;Shahar Alon;Sarit Karako-Lampert;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

  • Photobehavior of stony corals: responses to light spectra and intensity

    O Levy;Z Dubinsky;Y Achituv

  • Complex diel cycles of gene expression in coral-algal symbiosis.

    O. Levy;O. Levy;P. Kaniewska;S. Alon;E. Eisenberg

  • Gains and losses of coral skeletal porosity changes with ocean acidification acclimation

    Paola Fantazzini;Stefano Mengoli;Luca Pasquini;Villiam Bortolotti

  • The spectral quality of light is a key driver of photosynthesis and photoadaptation in Stylophora pistillata colonies from different depths in the Red Sea

    T. Mass;D. I. Kline;M. Roopin;C. J. Veal

  • Impact of brine and antiscalants on reef-building corals in the Gulf of Aqaba – Potential effects from desalination plants

    Karen Lykkebo Petersen;Adina Paytan;Eyal Rahav;Oren Levy

  • Diurnal hysteresis in coral photosynthesis

    Oren Levy;Zvy Dubinsky;Kenneth Schneider;Yair Achituv

  • The impact of spectral composition and light periodicity on the activity of two antioxidant enzymes (SOD and CAT) in the coral Favia favus

    O. Levy;Y. Achituv;Y.Z. Yacobi;N. Stambler

  • The skeletal organic matrix from Mediterranean coral Balanophyllia europaea influences calcium carbonate precipitation.

    Stefano Goffredo;Patrizia Vergni;Michela Reggi;Erik Caroselli

  • Biomineralization control related to population density under ocean acidification

    Stefano Goffredo;Fiorella Prada;Erik Caroselli;Bruno Capaccioni

  • Diel `tuning' of coral metabolism: physiological responses to light cues

    O. Levy;Y. Achituv;Y. Z. Yacobi;Z. Dubinsky

  • Gene expression profiles during short-term heat stress in the red sea coral Stylophora pistillata.

    Keren Maor-Landaw;Sarit Karako-Lampert;Hiba Waldman Ben-Asher;Stefano Goffredo

  • Experimental fragmentation reduces sexual reproductive output by the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis

    D. Zakai;O. Levy;N. E. Chadwick-Furman

  • Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature.

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  • Red Sea corals under Artificial Light Pollution at Night (ALAN) undergo oxidative stress and photosynthetic impairment

    Inbal Ayalon;Inbal Ayalon;Inbal Ayalon;Laura F. de Barros Marangoni;Jennifer I. C. Benichou;Dror Avisar

  • Circadian clocks in symbiotic corals: the duet between Symbiodinium algae and their coral host.

    Michal Sorek;Erika M. Díaz-Almeyda;Mónica Medina;Oren Levy

  • Signaling cascades and the importance of moonlight in coral broadcast mass

    Paulina Kaniewska;Shahar Alon;Sarit Karako-Lampert;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Falini
Giuseppe Falini University of Bologna
Zvy Dubinsky
Zvy Dubinsky Bar-Ilan University
Bruno Capaccioni
Bruno Capaccioni University of Bologna
Yair Achituv
Yair Achituv Bar-Ilan University
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Aldo Shemesh
Aldo Shemesh Weizmann Institute of Science
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Yannicke Dauphin
Yannicke Dauphin Sorbonne University
Jean-Pierre Cuif
Jean-Pierre Cuif University of Paris-Saclay
Danwei Huang
Danwei Huang National University of Singapore

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