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Dr. LATHIKA CICILY THOMAS

Assistant Professor

Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry

Cochin University of Science and Technology
Kochi - 682022, Kerala, India

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lathikacicily@cusat.ac.in



BRIEF BIO
Working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Marine Biology, Marine ecology, Marine Microbiology, Microalgal taxonomy

RESEARCH PROFILES
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=8UqacS8AAAAJ&hl=en

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (RECENT) [TOTAL PUBLICATIONS : 28]
  • Patterns and Variabilities in the Microphytoplankton Assemblage in a Tropical Estuarine Complex Along the Southwest Coast of India, Estuaries and Coasts, Springer 2023

  • Sporadic occurrence of harmful cyanobacteria Woronichinia naegeliana and its bloom dynamics from the aquatic ecosystem of south India, Biologia, Springer Nature 2022

  • Seasonal dynamics of dinoflagellates with special emphasis on potentially harmful species in a tropical estuarine system along the southwest coast of , Journal of Oceanography, Springer Nature 2022

  • Variabilities in the community structure of phytoplankton in the upwelled and non- upwelled waters of southeastern Arabian sea during the early summer monsoon (In press), Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, NISCAIR 2021

  • Community structure of Microphytobenthos associated with mangrove ecosystems along the southwest coast of India, Estuaries and Coasts, Springer Link Vol. 44, 2021

  • Influence of upwelling on the chaetognath community along the Southeastern Arabian Sea, Wetland Ecology and Management, Springer Link 2021

  • Understanding the dietary relationship between extensive Noctiluca bloom outbreaks and Jellyfish swarms along the eastern Arabian Sea (West coast of India) , Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, NISCAIR Vol. 49, 2020

  • Winter monsoon phytoplankton community in the coastal waters of North eastern Arabian Sea, with emphasis on harmful and non-indigenous species, Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, NISCAIR Vol. 48, 2020

  • Exploration and profiling of hidden endophytic mycota of marine macroalgae with potential drug leads, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol. 367, 2020

  • First report of marine epizoic diatom, Protoraphis atlantica (Protoraphidaceae) on calanoid copepods along the southeastern Arabian Sea., Symbiosis, Springer Nature 2020

  • CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS (RECENT) [TOTAL PUBLICATIONS : 3]
  • Occurrences of epibiotic and endobiotic associations in Marine Plankton along the West Coast of India. , Annual National Conference on Sustainable ecosystem, Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fisherfolk (ANCOSEAFF 2021), 2021

  • Pennate Diatoms of intertidal mangrove ecosystems of Southwest coast of India: A new record of Psammodictyon panduriforme (W.Gregory) D.G.Mann 1990, International Webinar on Conservation of Life below water: Perspectives on systematics, Sustainable livelihoods and citizen science (COLIBA 2021), 2021

  • Seasonality in the distribution of dinoflagellates with special reference to Harmful algal species along the tropical Cochin estuary (SW Coast of India). , International conference on Frontiers in Marine Science Challenges and Prospects (MARICON 2019), , 2019

  • BOOKS PUBLISHED
  • Dr. LATHIKA CICILY THOMAS, K.B. Padmakumar and S Bijoy Nandan, Microphytoplankton of North Eastern Arabian Sea- A winter monsoon analysis, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016 , ISBN : 978-3-659-82153-0.