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Ilana Berman-Frank

Ilana Berman-Frank

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
11374
World Ranking
4906
National Ranking
14

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
11461
World Ranking
17040
National Ranking
170

Overview

Ilana Berman-Frank is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their subfields of study include Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Cell Biology. This work broadly covers the dynamics of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as microbial community ecology and physiology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Recent publications by Ilana Berman-Frank address a variety of issues in marine science and microbiology. Selected papers include:

  • Classification and Nomenclature of Metacaspases and Paracaspases: No More Confusion with Caspases (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation (2023, Earth System Science Data)
  • Single-Turnover Variable Chlorophyll Fluorescence as a Tool for Assessing Phytoplankton Photosynthesis and Primary Productivity: Opportunities, Caveats and Recommendations (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • A year in the life of the Eastern Mediterranean: Monthly dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in an ultra-oligotrophic sea (2022, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers)
  • Diazotrophs are overlooked contributors to carbon and nitrogen export to the deep ocean (2022, The ISME Journal)

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Sophie Bonnet
  • Anat Tsemel
  • Michael D. Krom
  • Mar Benavides
  • Eyal Rahav

Ilana Berman-Frank's research has been published repeatedly in specific venues that include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • Nitrogen fixation and photosynthetic oxygen evolution in cyanobacteria.

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Pernilla Lundgren;Paul Falkowski

  • Segregation of nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium.

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Pernilla Lundgren;Yi-Bu Chen;Hendrik Küpper;Hendrik Küpper

  • Iron availability, cellular iron quotas, and nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Jay T. Cullen;Yeala Shaked;Robert M. Sherrell

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Programmed cell death of the dinoflagellate Peridinium gatunense is mediated by CO2 limitation and oxidative stress

    Assaf Vardi;Ilana Berman-Frank;Taly Rozenberg;Ora Hadas

  • Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities

    Stephanie Dutkiewicz;J. Jeffrey Morris;J. Jeffrey Morris;Michael J. Follows;Jeffery Scott

  • The demise of the marine cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium spp., via an autocatalyzed cell death pathway

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Ilana Berman-Frank;Kay D. Bidle;Liti Haramaty;Paul G. Falkowski

  • Elevated CO2enhances nitrogen fixation and growth in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

    O. Levitan;G. Rosenberg;I. Setlik;E. Setlikova

  • Seasonality of stable carbon isotopes within the pelagic food web of Lake Kinneret

    Tamar Zohary;Jonathan Erez;Moshe Gophen;Ilana Berman-Frank

  • Nitrogen‐fixation strategies and Fe requirements in cyanobacteria

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Antonietta Quigg;Zoe V. Finkel;Andrew J. Irwin

  • Dust- and mineral-iron utilization by the marine dinitrogen-fixer Trichodesmium

    Maxim Rubin;Ilana Berman-Frank;Yeala Shaked

  • Revised paradigm of aquatic biofilm formation facilitated by microgel transparent exopolymer particles

    Edo Bar-Zeev;Ilana Berman-Frank;Olga Girshevitz;Tom Berman

  • Balanced Growth in Aquatic Plants: Myth or Reality?

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Zvy Dubinsky

  • Combined Effects of CO2 and Light on the N2-Fixing Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium IMS101: Physiological Responses

    Sven Alexander Kranz;Orly Levitan;Klaus-Uwe Richter;Ondrej Prasil

  • Coupling between autocatalytic cell death and transparent exopolymeric particle production in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium.

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Gad Rosenberg;Orly Levitan;Liti Haramaty

  • BALANCED GROWTH IN AQUATIC PLANTS : MYTH OR REALITY ? PHYTOPLANKTON USE THE IMBALANCE BETWEEN CARBON ASSIMILATION AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION TO THEIR STRA TEGIC ADVANTAGE

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Zvy Dubinsky

  • Uncoupling primary production from population growth in photosynthesizing organisms in aquatic ecosystems

    Zvy Dubinsky;Ilana Berman-Frank

  • Light‐dependent oxygen consumption in nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria plays a key role in nitrogenase protection1

    Allen J. Milligan;Ilana Berman-Frank;Yoram Gerchman;G. Charles Dismukes

  • Molecular ecology of nifH genes and transcripts in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

    Dikla Man-Aharonovich;Nurit Kress;Edo Bar Zeev;Ilana Berman-Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie Bonnet
Sophie Bonnet Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Wolfgang R. Hess
Wolfgang R. Hess University of Freiburg
Margaret R. Mulholland
Margaret R. Mulholland Old Dominion University
Tom Berman
Tom Berman National Institute of Oceanography
Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Julie LaRoche
Julie LaRoche Dalhousie University
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tamar Zohary
Tamar Zohary Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Oded Béjà
Oded Béjà Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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