Maxim Rubin

Data Logger

Haifa University

Maxim Rubin is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Marine Biology at the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel, focusing his research on the deep sea benthic environments exploration. Previously, Maxim pursued his academic degrees from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and his M.Sc from Bar Ilan University in related scientific fields. Beside the academic activity, Maxim has over a decade experience as diving professional, and he is using technical and rebreather diving for his research. Last year Maxim has participated in the Nautilus expedition during the Cyprus and Israel legs as a data logger and biologist.

Expeditions

Maxim participated in the following Ocean Exploration Trust expeditions:

2010

2011

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Selected Publications

2025

Rubin-Blum M, Rahav E, Sisma-Ventura G, Yudkovski Y, Harbozov Z, Bialik O, Ezra O, Foubert A, Herut B, Makovsky Y (2025). Animal burrowing at cold seep ecotones boosts productivity by linking macromolecule turnover with chemosynthesis and nutrient cycling. Biogeosciences 22 (5): 1321–1340. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1321-2025

2024

Rubin-Blum, M., Rahav, E., Sisma-Ventura, G., Yudkovski, Y., Harbozov, Z., Bialik, O., Ezra, O., Foubert, A., Herut, B., and Makovsky, Y. (2024). Animal burrowing at cold seep ecotones boosts productivity by linking macromolecule turnover with chemosynthesis and nutrient cycling. EGUsphere https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1285

2023

Vintila, S., Kleiner, M., Tchernov, D., Rubin-Blum, M. (2023). Metabolic handoffs between multiple symbionts may benefit the deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. ISME Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00254-4#Bib1

Zvi-Kedem, T., Vintila, S., Kleiner, M., Tchernov, D., Rubin-Blum, M. (2023). Metabolic handoffs between multiple symbionts may benefit the deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. ISME Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00254-4

2021

Zvi-Kedem, T., Shemesh, E., Tchernov, D., & Rubin-Blum, M. (2021). The worm affair: Genetic diversity in two species of symbionts that co-occur in tubeworms from the Mediterranean Sea. bioRxiv

2014

Rubin-Blum, M., Antler, G., Turchyn, A., Tsadok, R., Goodman-Tchemov, B., Shemesh, E., Austin Jr., J., Coleman, D., Makovsky, Y., Sivan, O., Tchernov, D. (2014). Hydrocarbon-related microbial processes in the deep sediments of the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin. FEMS Microbial Ecology 87(3): 780–796. https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/87/3/780/578119

Rubin-Blum, M., Antler, G., Turchyn, A., Tsadok, R., Shemesh, E., Austin Jr., J., Coleman, D., Goodman-Tchemov, B., Ben-Avraham, Z., Tchernov, D. (2014). First evidence for the presence of iron oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria at the Levantine continental margins. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91456. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journa…

Rubin-Blum, M., Shemesh, E., Goodman-Tchernov, B., Coleman, D., Ben-Avraham, Z., Tchernov, D. (2014). Cold seep biogenic carbonate crust in the Levantine basin is inhabited by burrowing Phascolosoma aff.turnerae, a sipunculan worm hosting a distinctive microbiota. Deep-sea Research I 90(1): 17-26. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S09670637…

Rubin-Blum, M., Tsadok, R., Shemesh, E., Goodman-Tchernov, B., Austin, J., Coleman, D., Ben-Avraham, Z., Gruber, D., Tchernov, D. (2014). Distribution of the Lamellibrachia spp. (Sibogilnidae, Annelida) and their trophosome endosymbiont phylotypes in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology 161(6): 1229-1239. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-014-2413-y

2013

Rubin-Blum, M (2013). Multidisciplinary Study of Microbial Niches at the Deep Benthos of Lavantine Basin. Dissertation: University of Haifa https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/multidiscipli…