National Institute of Oceanography Moshe Tom tom@ocean.org.il Tel: 04 – 8565257 Senior Scientist Ph.D. 1987, Tel Aviv University, Israel At IOLR since 1986

Research interests:
Environment-affected gene expression in fish; environmental bio monitoring and utilization of competitive ELISA, real time PCR and cDNA microarray methodologies to evaluate gene product biomarkers; Crustacean biology, physiology and gene expression in relation to molt and reproduction; Benthic ecology.

Selected publications:
Yudkovski, Y., Rogowska-Wrzesinska, A., Yankelevich, I., Shefer, E., Herut, B. and Tom, M. (2008). Quantitative immunochemical evaluation of fish metallothionein upon exposure to cadmium. Mar. Environ. Res. 65:427-436.

Auslander, M., Yudkovski, Y., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Herut, B., Ophir, R., Reinhardt, R., Neumann, P.M. and Tom, M. (2008). Pollution-affected fish hepatic transcriptome and its expression patterns upon exposure to cadmium. Mar. Biotechnol. 10(3): 250-261.

Cohen, R., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Williams, T.D., Auslander, M., George, S.G., Chipman, J.K., and Tom, M. (2007). Estimating the efficiency of fish cross-species cDNA microarray hybridization. Mar. Biotechnol. 9:491-499.

Yudkovski, Y., Shechter, A., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Auslander, M., Ophir, R., Dauphin-Villemant, C., Waterman, M., Sagi, A. and Tom M. (2007). Hepatopancreatic multi-transcript expression patterns in the crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus during the molt cycle. Insect Mol. Biol. 16:661-674

Tom, M. and Auslander, M. (2005). Transcript and protein environmental biomarkers in fish – a review. Chemosphere 59:155–162.

Tom, M., Chen, N., Segev, M., Herut, B. and Rinkevich, B. (2004). Quantifying fish metallothionein transcript by real time PCR for its utilisation as an environmental biomarker. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 48:705-710.

Tom, M., Shmul, M., Shefer, E., Chen, N., Slor, H., Rinkevich, B. and Herut, B. (2003). Quantitative evaluation of hepatic cytochrome P4501A transcript, protein and catalytic activity in the striped sea bream, Lithognathus mormyrus. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22:2088–2092.

Tom, M., Myers, C.R. and Waterman, M.R. (2002). Evaluating molar CYPIA level in fish hepatic microsomes by competitive ELISA using recombinant membrane-free CYPIA standard protein. Aquat. Toxicol. 59:101-114.

Shenker, O., Tietz, A., Ovadia, M. and Tom, M. (1993). Lipid synthesis from acetate by the in vitro incubated ovaries of the penaeid shrimp Penaeus semisulcatus. Mar. Biol. 117:583-589

Tom, M. and Galil, B. (1991). The macrobenthic associations of Haifa Bay, Mediterranean coast of Israel. P.S.Z.N.I. Mar. Ecol. 12:75-86