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"Microbial diversity and microbial abundance in salt-saturated brines: why are the waters of hypersaline lakes red? "
Professional affiliation:
The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
The Institute of Life Sciences
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Short biography:
Aharon Oren was born in Zwolle, The Netherlands (1952). He earned his M.Sc. degree in microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Groningen (1974) and his Ph.D. degree in microbiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978). He is currently professor of microbial ecology at the Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has authored or edited nine books and over three hundred other scientific publications. His research centers on the ecology, physiology, biochemistry and taxonomy of halophilic microorganisms and the microbiology of hypersaline environments.
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