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קורסים
Biotechnology of Algae (001-1-9303), 2 credits, B.Sc.-M.Sc., BGU
Physiology of Aquatic Microbes (001-2-2080), 3 credits, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
Practical Environmental Cytometry (0-1-2-2076), 2.5 credits, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
The History of Landuse, Agriculture and Domestication (001-2-2060), 2 credit, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
Physiology of Aquatic Microbes (001-2-2080), 3 credits, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
Practical Environmental Cytometry (0-1-2-2076), 2.5 credits, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
The History of Landuse, Agriculture and Domestication (001-2-2060), 2 credit, M.Sc.-Ph.D., BGU
פרסומים
Kyi, K. M., Levintal, E., & Kamennaya, N. A. 2025. Similar growth potentials of cyanobacteria and algae explain their coexistence in desert soils. Sci. Rep. 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-30489-1.
Kyi, K. M., Zubkov, M. V., & Kamennaya, N. A. 2025. A minority of desert cyanobacteria and algae is responsible for the bulk of CO2 fixation. Physiol. Plant., 177 : e70634. doi:10.1111/ppl.70634.
Tosens, T., Alboresi, A., van Amerongen, H., Bassi, R., Busch, F. A., Consoli, G., Ebenh?h, O., Flexas, J., Harbinson, J., Jahns, P., Kamennaya, N., ... Weber, A. P. 2025. New avenues in photosynthesis: from light harvesting to global modeling. Physiol. Plant., 177 : e70198. doi:10.1111/ppl.70198.
Nguyen, T. T., Altman, A., Huang, L., Mazza Rodrigues, J. L. Dahlke, H. E., Kamennaya, N. A., Levintal, E.. 2025. A portable, open-source, low-cost incubation chamber for real-time characterization of soil respiration and microbial activity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 89 : e20800.
Edris, R., Sultan, L.D., Best, C., Mizrahi, R., Weinstein, O., Chen, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Keren, N., Zer, H., Zhu, H. & O. Ostersetzer-Biran. 2023. Root Primordium Defective 1 encodes an essential PORR protein required for the splicing of mitochondria encoded group II introns and for respiratory complex I biogenesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 65 : 602. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcad101.
Zaady, E., Stavi, I., Dubinin, V., Kamennaya, N.A., Abu-Glion, H., Shuker, S. & H. Yizhaq. 2022. Hillslope geodiversity impact on biocrusts' biogeochemical functions. Land 11 : 1983, doi: 10.3390/land11111983.
Baig , M.S., Rajpoot, S., Ohishi, T., Savai, R., Seidel, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Bezsonov, E.E., Orekhov, A.N., Mahajan, P., Solanki, K. & U. Saqib. 2022. Anti-lung cancer properties of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds. Arch. Microbiol. 204 : 1, doi: 10.1007/s00203-022-03194-0.
Wang, L., Kamennaya, N., Cohen, M. F., & X. Li. 2022. Highlighting the role of microbes in greener wastewater treatment. Front. Environ. Sci. 352, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.891761. 21.
Kamennaya, N.A., Kennaway, G., Leadbeater, BSC., Sleigh, M. & M.V. Zubkov. 2022. Flow cytometric sorting of loricate choanoflagellates from the oligotrophic ocean. Eur. J. Protistol. 86 : 125914, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125914.
Kamennaya, N.A., Sleigh, M. & M.V. Zubkov. 2022. Notable predominant morphology of the smallest most abundant protozoa of the open ocean revealed by electron microscopy. J. Plankton Res. 44 : 542, doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbac031.
Thomsen, H.A., Kamennaya, N.A., Zubkov, M.V. and J.B. ?stergaard. 2020. Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VII. Calotheca Thomsen and Moestrup, Stephanacantha Thomsen and Syndetophyllum Thomsen and Moestrup. Eur. J. Protistol. 76 : 125728, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125728.
Thomsen, H.A., Kamennaya, N.A., Zubkov, M.V. and J.B. ?stergaard. 2020. Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VI. Pleurasiga Schiller and Parvicorbicula Deflandre. Eur. J. Protistol. 75 : 125717, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125717.
Kamennaya, N.A., Geraki, K., Scanlan, D.J. and M.V. Zubkov. 2020. Accumulation of ambient phosphate into the periplasm of marine bacteria is proton motive force dependent. Nat. Commun. 11: 2642, doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16428-w.
Giljan, G., Kamennaya, N.A., Otto, A., Becher, D., Ellrott, A., Meyer, V., Murton, B.J., Fuchs, B.M., Amann, R.I. & M.V. Zubkov. 2020. Bacterioplankton reveal years-long retention of Atlantic deep-ocean water by the Tropic Seamount. Sci. Rep. 10: 4715, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61417-0.
Kamennaya, N.A., Gray, J., Ito, S., Kainuma, M., Nguyen, M.V., Khilyas, I.V., Birarda, G., Bernie, F., Hunt, M., Vasadia, D., Lin, J., Holman, H.-Y., Torok, T. and M.F. Cohen. 2020. Deconstruction of plant biomass by a Cellulomonas strain isolated from an ultra-basic (lignin-stripping) spring. Arch. Microbiol. 202: 1077-1084.
Kamennaya, N.A., Hu, P. and C. Jansson. 2020. Sedimentation of ballasted cells-free EPS in meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake. Geobiol. 18: 80-92.
Dabrowska A., Kamennaya, N.A., Murton, B. and M.V. Zubkov. 2019. Impact of deep-ocean crust mining on biological CO2 fixation in the surface ocean. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 146: 1002-1006.
Kamennaya, N.A., Zemla, M., Mahoney, L., Chen, L., Holman E., Holman, H.-Y., Auer, M., Ajo-Franklin, C. and C. Jansson. 2018. High pCO2-induced exopolysaccharide-rich ballasted aggregates of planktonic cyanobacteria could explain Paleoproterozoic carbon burial. Nat. Commun. 91: 2116.
Kamennaya, N.A., Kennaway, G., Fuchst, B.M. and M.V. Zubkov. 2018. ?Pomacytosis? - Semi-extracellular phagocytosis of cyanobacteria by the smallest marine algae. PLoS Biol. 16: e2003502.
Cohen, M.F., Hu, P., Nguyen, M.V., Kamennaya, N.A., Brown, N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N., Holman, H.-Y. and T. Torok. 2015. Genome sequence of the alkaline-tolerant Cellulomonas sp. strain FA1. Genome Announc. 3: e00646-15.
Kamennaya, N.A., Ahn, S.E., Park, H., Bartal R., Sasaki, K.A., Holman, H.-Y. and C. Jansson. 2015. Installing extra bicarbonate transporters in the cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 enhances biomass production. Metab. Eng. 29: 76-85.
Hu, P., BorglinC, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Holman, H.-Y., Chen, L., Park H., Mahoney, L., Kijac, A., Kamennaya, N.A. and A. Post. 2014. Distribution and expression of the cyanate acquisition potential among cyanobacterial populations in oligotrophic marine waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 58: 1959-1971.
Shan, G., Chavarr?a, K., Zhang, C., Quinn, N., Wemmer, D. and C. Jansson. 2013. Metabolic phenotyping of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 engineered for production of alkanes and free fatty acids. Appl. Energ. 120: 850-859.
Kamennaya, N.A., Ajo-Franklin, C., Northern, T. and C. Jansson. 2012. Cyanobacteria as biocatalysts for carbonate mineralization. Minerals 2: 338-364.
Wickham, S.A., Steinmair U. and N.A. Kamennaya. 2011. Ciliate distributions and forcing factors in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas (Antarctica). Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 62: 215-230.
Kamennaya, N.A. and A. Post. 2010. Characterization of cyanate metabolism in marine Synechococcus & Prochlorococcus spp.. Appl Environ. Microbiol. 77: 291-301.
Kamennaya, N.A., Chernihovsky M. and A. Post. 2008. The cyanate utilization capacity of marine unicellular cyanobacteria. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53: 2485-2494.
Kyi, K. M., Zubkov, M. V., & Kamennaya, N. A. 2025. A minority of desert cyanobacteria and algae is responsible for the bulk of CO2 fixation. Physiol. Plant., 177 : e70634. doi:10.1111/ppl.70634.
Tosens, T., Alboresi, A., van Amerongen, H., Bassi, R., Busch, F. A., Consoli, G., Ebenh?h, O., Flexas, J., Harbinson, J., Jahns, P., Kamennaya, N., ... Weber, A. P. 2025. New avenues in photosynthesis: from light harvesting to global modeling. Physiol. Plant., 177 : e70198. doi:10.1111/ppl.70198.
Nguyen, T. T., Altman, A., Huang, L., Mazza Rodrigues, J. L. Dahlke, H. E., Kamennaya, N. A., Levintal, E.. 2025. A portable, open-source, low-cost incubation chamber for real-time characterization of soil respiration and microbial activity. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 89 : e20800.
Edris, R., Sultan, L.D., Best, C., Mizrahi, R., Weinstein, O., Chen, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Keren, N., Zer, H., Zhu, H. & O. Ostersetzer-Biran. 2023. Root Primordium Defective 1 encodes an essential PORR protein required for the splicing of mitochondria encoded group II introns and for respiratory complex I biogenesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 65 : 602. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcad101.
Zaady, E., Stavi, I., Dubinin, V., Kamennaya, N.A., Abu-Glion, H., Shuker, S. & H. Yizhaq. 2022. Hillslope geodiversity impact on biocrusts' biogeochemical functions. Land 11 : 1983, doi: 10.3390/land11111983.
Baig , M.S., Rajpoot, S., Ohishi, T., Savai, R., Seidel, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Bezsonov, E.E., Orekhov, A.N., Mahajan, P., Solanki, K. & U. Saqib. 2022. Anti-lung cancer properties of cyanobacterial bioactive compounds. Arch. Microbiol. 204 : 1, doi: 10.1007/s00203-022-03194-0.
Wang, L., Kamennaya, N., Cohen, M. F., & X. Li. 2022. Highlighting the role of microbes in greener wastewater treatment. Front. Environ. Sci. 352, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.891761. 21.
Kamennaya, N.A., Kennaway, G., Leadbeater, BSC., Sleigh, M. & M.V. Zubkov. 2022. Flow cytometric sorting of loricate choanoflagellates from the oligotrophic ocean. Eur. J. Protistol. 86 : 125914, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125914.
Kamennaya, N.A., Sleigh, M. & M.V. Zubkov. 2022. Notable predominant morphology of the smallest most abundant protozoa of the open ocean revealed by electron microscopy. J. Plankton Res. 44 : 542, doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbac031.
Thomsen, H.A., Kamennaya, N.A., Zubkov, M.V. and J.B. ?stergaard. 2020. Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VII. Calotheca Thomsen and Moestrup, Stephanacantha Thomsen and Syndetophyllum Thomsen and Moestrup. Eur. J. Protistol. 76 : 125728, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125728.
Thomsen, H.A., Kamennaya, N.A., Zubkov, M.V. and J.B. ?stergaard. 2020. Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VI. Pleurasiga Schiller and Parvicorbicula Deflandre. Eur. J. Protistol. 75 : 125717, doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125717.
Kamennaya, N.A., Geraki, K., Scanlan, D.J. and M.V. Zubkov. 2020. Accumulation of ambient phosphate into the periplasm of marine bacteria is proton motive force dependent. Nat. Commun. 11: 2642, doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16428-w.
Giljan, G., Kamennaya, N.A., Otto, A., Becher, D., Ellrott, A., Meyer, V., Murton, B.J., Fuchs, B.M., Amann, R.I. & M.V. Zubkov. 2020. Bacterioplankton reveal years-long retention of Atlantic deep-ocean water by the Tropic Seamount. Sci. Rep. 10: 4715, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61417-0.
Kamennaya, N.A., Gray, J., Ito, S., Kainuma, M., Nguyen, M.V., Khilyas, I.V., Birarda, G., Bernie, F., Hunt, M., Vasadia, D., Lin, J., Holman, H.-Y., Torok, T. and M.F. Cohen. 2020. Deconstruction of plant biomass by a Cellulomonas strain isolated from an ultra-basic (lignin-stripping) spring. Arch. Microbiol. 202: 1077-1084.
Kamennaya, N.A., Hu, P. and C. Jansson. 2020. Sedimentation of ballasted cells-free EPS in meromictic Fayetteville Green Lake. Geobiol. 18: 80-92.
Dabrowska A., Kamennaya, N.A., Murton, B. and M.V. Zubkov. 2019. Impact of deep-ocean crust mining on biological CO2 fixation in the surface ocean. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 146: 1002-1006.
Kamennaya, N.A., Zemla, M., Mahoney, L., Chen, L., Holman E., Holman, H.-Y., Auer, M., Ajo-Franklin, C. and C. Jansson. 2018. High pCO2-induced exopolysaccharide-rich ballasted aggregates of planktonic cyanobacteria could explain Paleoproterozoic carbon burial. Nat. Commun. 91: 2116.
Kamennaya, N.A., Kennaway, G., Fuchst, B.M. and M.V. Zubkov. 2018. ?Pomacytosis? - Semi-extracellular phagocytosis of cyanobacteria by the smallest marine algae. PLoS Biol. 16: e2003502.
Cohen, M.F., Hu, P., Nguyen, M.V., Kamennaya, N.A., Brown, N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N., Holman, H.-Y. and T. Torok. 2015. Genome sequence of the alkaline-tolerant Cellulomonas sp. strain FA1. Genome Announc. 3: e00646-15.
Kamennaya, N.A., Ahn, S.E., Park, H., Bartal R., Sasaki, K.A., Holman, H.-Y. and C. Jansson. 2015. Installing extra bicarbonate transporters in the cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 enhances biomass production. Metab. Eng. 29: 76-85.
Hu, P., BorglinC, S., Kamennaya, N.A., Holman, H.-Y., Chen, L., Park H., Mahoney, L., Kijac, A., Kamennaya, N.A. and A. Post. 2014. Distribution and expression of the cyanate acquisition potential among cyanobacterial populations in oligotrophic marine waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 58: 1959-1971.
Shan, G., Chavarr?a, K., Zhang, C., Quinn, N., Wemmer, D. and C. Jansson. 2013. Metabolic phenotyping of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 engineered for production of alkanes and free fatty acids. Appl. Energ. 120: 850-859.
Kamennaya, N.A., Ajo-Franklin, C., Northern, T. and C. Jansson. 2012. Cyanobacteria as biocatalysts for carbonate mineralization. Minerals 2: 338-364.
Wickham, S.A., Steinmair U. and N.A. Kamennaya. 2011. Ciliate distributions and forcing factors in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas (Antarctica). Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 62: 215-230.
Kamennaya, N.A. and A. Post. 2010. Characterization of cyanate metabolism in marine Synechococcus & Prochlorococcus spp.. Appl Environ. Microbiol. 77: 291-301.
Kamennaya, N.A., Chernihovsky M. and A. Post. 2008. The cyanate utilization capacity of marine unicellular cyanobacteria. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53: 2485-2494.
