Prof. Edo Bar-Zeev joined during 2015 the Zukerberg Institute for Water Research, at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sde Boker Campus as an applied and environmental microbiologist after completing a Post- Doc at Yale University, USA. His research interests focus on “Microbes in aquatic systems”, specifically focussing on microbial consortius, also termed biofilms. In that context the Bar-Zeev research group delve into the impact of bacteriophages on the mechano-physiology of the bacterial consortiums. To date, Prof. Bar-Zeev published more than 60 peer-reviewd papers on various aspects related to aquatic microbes.