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Assaf Sukenik is affiliated with the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research in Israel. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a significant focus on aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine toxins and detection methods, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, and environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology.

Their publication record includes contributions to various high-profile venues. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Microorganisms, The Science of The Total Environment, Marine Drugs, and Freshwater Biology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sophi Marmen, Shmuel Carmeli, Orna Schweitzer-Natan, Dikla Aharonovich, and Yehudit Viner-Mozzini.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Assaf Sukenik are:

  • Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Outlook on Current and Emerging Mitigation and Control Approaches, 2021, Microorganisms
  • Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms: Biological Traits, Mechanisms, Risks, and Control Strategies, 2023, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Cyanobacterial pigment concentrations in inland waters: Novel semi-analytical algorithms for multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing data, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Seasonal Dynamics Are the Major Driver of Microbial Diversity and Composition in Intensive Freshwater Aquaculture, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Recovery of Microcystis surface scum following a mixing event: Insights from a tank experiment, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • REGULATION OF FATTY ACID COMPOSITION BY IRRADIANCE LEVEL IN THE EUSTIGMATOPHYTE NANNOCHLOROPSIS SP.1

    Assaf Sukenik;Yael Carmeli;Tamar Berner

  • IDENTIFICATION OF CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN IN APHANIZOMENON OVALISPORUM (CYANOPHYCEAE) ISOLATED FROM LAKE KINNERET, ISRAEL1

    R. Banker;S. Carmeli;O. Hadas;B. Teltsch

  • Microalgae harvesting and processing: a literature review

    G. Shelef;A. Sukenik;M. Green

  • Effects of nitrogen source and growth phase on proximate biochemical composition, lipid classes and fatty acid profile of the marine microalga Isochrysis galbana

    J.P Fidalgo;A Cid;E Torres;A Sukenik

  • Light-saturated photosynthesis — Limitation by electron transport or carbon fixation?

    Assaf Sukenik;John Bennett;Paul Falkowski

  • Algal autoflocculation—verification and proposed mechanism

    A. Sukenik;G. Shelef

  • Towards clarification of the biological role of microcystins, a family of cyanobacterial toxins

    Daniella Schatz;Yael Keren;Assaf Vardi;Assaf Sukenik

  • Biochemical quality of marine unicellular algae with special emphasis on lipid composition. II: Nannochloropsis sp.

    Assaf Sukenik;Odi Zmora;Yael Carmeli

  • Invasion of Nostocales (cyanobacteria) to Subtropical and Temperate Freshwater Lakes - Physiological, Regional, and Global Driving Forces.

    Assaf Sukenik;Ora Hadas;Aaron Kaplan;Antonio Quesada

  • Dinoflagellate-Cyanobacterium Communication May Determine the Composition of Phytoplankton Assemblage in a Mesotrophic Lake

    Assaf Vardi;Daniella Schatz;Karen Beeri;Uzi Motro

  • Flocculation of microalgae with cationic polymers — Effects of medium salinity

    D. Bilanovic;G. Shelef;A. Sukenik

  • Blooms of the cylindrospermopsin containing cyanobacterium, Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (Forti), in newly constructed lakes, Queensland, Australia

    Glen R. Shaw;Assaf Sukenik;Adi Livne;Robyn K. Chiswell

  • Inhibition of growth and photosynthesis of the dinoflagellate Peridinium gatunense by Microcystis sp. (cyanobacteria): A novel allelopathic mechanism

    Assaf Sukenik;Rachel Eshkol;Alexander Livne;Ora Hadas

  • Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs

    Thijs Frenken;Elisabet Alacid;Stella A. Berger;Elizabeth C. Bourne

  • Biochemical quality of marine unicellular algae with special emphasis on lipid composition. I. Isochrysis galbana

    Assaf Sukenik;Rachel Wahnon

  • Uracil moiety is required for toxicity of the cyanobacterial hepatotoxin cylindrospermopsin.

    R. Banker;S. Carmeli;M. Werman;B. Teltsch

  • Ecophysiological considerations in the optimization of eicosapentaenoic acid production by Nannochloropsis sp. (Eustigmatophyceae)

    A. Sukenik

  • Enslavement in the Water Body by Toxic Aphanizomenon ovalisporum, Inducing Alkaline Phosphatase in Phytoplanktons

    Yehonathan Bar-Yosef;Assaf Sukenik;Ora Hadas;Yehudit Viner-Mozzini

  • Global expansion of toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria: effect on ecosystem functioning

    Assaf Sukenik;A. Quesada;N. Salmaso

  • Flocculation of microalgae in brackish and sea waters

    A. Sukenik;D. Bilanovic;G. Shelef

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shmuel Carmeli
Shmuel Carmeli Tel Aviv University
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Antonio Quesada
Antonio Quesada Autonomous University of Madrid
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science
Dan Tchernov
Dan Tchernov University of Haifa
Tamar Zohary
Tamar Zohary Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Elke Dittmann
Elke Dittmann University of Potsdam
Zvy Dubinsky
Zvy Dubinsky Bar-Ilan University
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University

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