Grad Student
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Nitzan Soffer Graduate Student About Nitzan Soffer Nitzan Soffer is currently a PhD student at the Biology department in FIU. Nitzan is interested in the roles that viruses have in reef building corals. She is interested in exploring viral diversity and abundance in diseased and healthy corals, and understanding how viruses may affect coral health. Nitzan finished her undergraduate degree Summa Cum Laude from the College of Creative Studies, at UC Santa Barbara in 2005. After graduation she took a year off to do an internship in Eilat, Israel on larval fish dispersal. In the summer of 2009 Nitzan obtained her MS degree in Marine Biology and Fisheries from University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Nitzan Soffer's research is currently funded by the NSF Graduate Fellowship (GRF). Nitzan was born in Israel and grew up in central NJ, but she pretends to be Californian. Nitzan had a pet dog, chicken, skink, fish, shrimp, salamander, mouse, and rabbit at some point in her life. Right now she has no pets so she spends her free time dancing, going to the beach or cooking.
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