CURRICULUM VITAE and LIST OF
PUBLICATIONS (March 2003)
Tchernov D.
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Phone (office): (732) 932-3497
Fax: (732) 932-4083
E-mail: dan@imcs.rutgers.edu)
Date and Place of Birth: September 22, 1967; Israel
Citizenship / Residency: Israeli (Permanent Resident)
Military Service
Marital Status:
1985-1990
Married, 2 children (born 1996 and 2000).
EDUCATION
1981 - 1985 High School, Israel
1991 - 1995 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Biology
1997- 2002 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oceanography
1998-2002 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
2002-2003 IMCS, Rutgers University
Languages (spoken, read and written): Hebrew, English, and Arabic.
Diploma 1985
B.A. 1995
M.Sc. 1998
Ph.D. 2002
Postdoctoral Associate
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Response of photosynthetic marine organisms to
changing ambient CO2 concentration.
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1995 - 2002
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Graduate Research Assistant.
1997 – 2000 International Marine Microbiology Course; IUI, Eilat, Israel. Instructor
2000 - 2002 Head of Offek Educational Project (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and Philip Leon community center).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1997
1997
1998
2003
The Avner Ezion award (in Oceanography)..
The Polack award (The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences).
The Israeli Ecological Fund.
IMCS, Rutgers Fellowship
INVITED LECTURES
2000 Gordon Research Conference, One-Carbon Metabolism. New London, CT, USA.
2000 Rutgers University Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
2000 Washington University Department of Biology, St Louis, MO, USA.
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
1997 The 3 Int. Symp. on Inorganic Carbon., UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
1999 The 3rd Int. Conf. of the ISEEQS on Environmental Challenges., Jerusalem, Israel.
1999 EURESCO on the Mol. Bioenergetics of Cyanobacteria , Gmunden, Austria .
2000 Gordon Research Conf. on the Microbial One-Carbon Metabolism New London, CT,USA.
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PUBLICATIONS
A. ARTICLES (peer reviewed)
1.
Sukenik, A., Tchernov, D., Huerta, E., Lubian, L.M. Kaplan, A., Livne,
A. (1997) Uptake, efflux and photosynthetic utilization of inorganic carbon
by the marine eustigmatophyte Nannochloropsis sp. J. Phycol. 33: 969-974.
2.
Tchernov, D., Hassidim, M., Luz, B., Sukenik, A., Reinhold, L., Kaplan,
A. (1997) Sustained net CO2 evolution during photosynthesis by marine
microorganisms. Current Biology 7: 723-728.
3.
Kaplan, A., Ronen-Tarazi, M., Zer, H., Schwarz, R., Tchernov, D., Bonfil,
D.J., Schatz, D., Vardi, A., Hassidim, M., Reinhold, L. (1998) The inorganic
carbon-concentrating mechanism in cyanobacteria: induction and ecological
significance. Can. J. Bot. 76: 917-924.
4.
Tchernov, D., Hassidim, M., A. Vardi., Luz, B., Sukenik, A., Reinhold, L.,
Kaplan, A. (1998) Photosynthesizing marine microorganisms can constitute a
source of CO2 rather than a sink. Can. J. Bot.76: 949-953.
5.
Kaplan, A., Ronen-Tarazi, M., Tchernov, D., Bonfil, D.J., Zer, H., Schatz,
D., Vardi, A., Hassidim, M., Reinhold, L. (1998) The inorganic carbonconcentrating mechanism of cyanobacteria: Genes and ecological
significance. In Peschek, G. A., Loeffelhardt, W. Schmetterer G. eds. The
phototrophic prokaryotes. Kluwer Academic New York pp 561-571.
6.
Kaplan, A.,. Helman, Y., Tchernov, D. and Reinhold, L. (2001) Acclimation
of photosynthetic microorganisms to changing ambient CO2 concentration.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 4817-4818.
7.
Tchernov, D., Helman, Y., Keren, N., Luz, B., Ohad, I., Reinhold, L.,
Ogawa, T. and Kaplan, A. (2001) Passive entry of CO2 and its energydependent intracellular conversion to HCO3- in cyanobacteria are driven by a
photosystem I- generated ∆µH+. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 23450-23455.
8.
Helman Y, Tchernov D, Reinhold L, Shibata M, Ogawa T, Schwarz R,
Ohad I, Kaplan A. (2003) Genes encoding a-type flavoproteins are essential
for photoreduction of O-2 in cyanobacteria Current Biology 13 (3): 230-235 .
9.
Sukenik A, Eshkol R, Livne A, Hadas O, Rom M, Tchernov D, Vardi A,
Kaplan A: Inhibition of growth and photosynthesis of the dinoflagellate
Peridinium gatunense by Microcystis sp. cyanobacteria): A novel allelopathic
mechanism. Limnology and Oceanography 2002; 47: 1656-1663.
10.
Shaked Y, Lazar B, Marco S, Stein M, Tchernov D, Agnon A: Evolution of
fringing reefs illuminated by subsidence at the NW Gulf of Aqaba. Coral
Reefs 2003; in review
11.
Tchernov D, Silverman J, Luz B, Reinhold L, Kaplan A: Massive lightdependent cycling of inorganic carbon between photosynthetic
microorganisms and their surroundings Photosynthesis Research 2003; in
press.
12.
Tchernov D, Livne A, Luz B, Kaplan A, Sukenik A: A novel approach
towards
the
kinetic
study
of
rebulose-1,5-bisphosphate
carboxylase/oxygenase , using membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Plant
physiology 2003; submitted.
B. PAPERS IN PREPARATION
1. Lipschultz F. and Tchernov D: Carbon isotopic composition of
Trichodesmium spp. colonies off Bermuda: Effects of colony mass and season
2003; in prep.
2. Tchernov D, Gorbunov M, Haggblom M and Falkowski P.G: Photosynthesis,
membranes and coral bleaching. 2003; in prep.
3. Tchernov D, Falkowski P.G and Rosenthal Y, Effects of physical conditions
during growth, on the isotopic composition of Emiliania huxley. 2003 in prep.
4. Von de Schootbrugge B, Tchernov D and Falkowski P.G: The evolutionary
patterns that define symbiotic dinoflagellates and stony corals species
distribution over time. 2003; in prep.
C. PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
presenter (for lectures / oral presentations) underlined
1. Tchernov D, Hassidim M, Luz B, et al.
Strategies for dissipation of excess light energy in a marine Cyanobacterium.
Plant Physiology 114 (3): 421-421 Suppl. S JUL 1997.