Doctoral student Ariel Hazan from the Faculty of Biology exchanged the warm laboratory at the Technion for the snowy landscapes of Antarctica for a month and a half. In the freezing cold of -38 degrees and in difficult conditions, he collected and modeled data for the research he is conducting under the guidance of Prof. Oded Beja on microbial rhodopsins – unique proteins that allow microorganisms to produce energy from sunlight.