EXOFISHMED is led by a multidisciplinary and international team of researchers, research assistants and students from MARBEC lab (Montpellier, France), Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University (Israel) and HCMR (Greece).
Main investigators are:
- Sébastien Villéger (Principal Investigator, MARBEC, CNRS researcher) is a fish ecologist interested in the functional diversity of fishes and in the interactions between fish and microbes.
- Jean Christophe Auguet (MARBEC, CNRS researcher) is a microbiologist interested in the diversity of marine microbes, including those living on and in marine animals
- Arthur Escalas (MARBEC, CNRS post-doc)
- Yoni Belmaker (Tel Aviv Univ., Associated professor) is a community ecologist interested in the invasion of the Mediterranean Sea by fishes from the Red Sea
- Moshe Kiflawi (Ben Gurion University, Senior lecturer) is a fish biologist working on reef assemblages from the Red Sea
- Thanos Dailianis( HCMR, researcher) is a marine biologist interested in the biodiversity of the Mediterranean coastal habitats.
More than 20 colleagues from these labs have been helping collecting samples from the field and/or processing them in the lab.
