This chapter explores the challenges of deep-sea survival, focusing on the lack of understanding of cellular adaptation at a molecular level. It introduces Itai Budin's research on cell membranes and the collaboration with Steve Haddock to investigate lipid molecules' role in high-pressure environments, using comb jellies as a model organism.
Deep-sea environment is characterized by extreme pressure, cold temperatures, and darkness.
Little is known about how cells and molecules adapt to deep-sea pressure.
Itai Budin and Steve Haddock collaborated to study the role of lipid molecules in deep-sea adaptation using comb jellies.