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  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Amos Tanay is a researcher affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their work primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, biophysics, immunology, oncology, and hematology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Cell image analysis techniques
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Acute myeloid leukemia research
  • Gene regulatory network analysis
  • Immunotherapy and immune responses

Amos Tanay has contributed to a range of publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Single-cell transcriptomic analyses provide insights into the developmental origins of neuroblastoma," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Dissecting cellular crosstalk by sequencing physically interacting cells," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "A stony coral cell atlas illuminates the molecular and cellular basis of coral symbiosis, calcification, and immunity," 2021, Cell
  • "A single-embryo, single-cell time-resolved model for mouse gastrulation," 2021, Cell
  • "The interaction of CD4+ helper T cells with dendritic cells shapes the tumor microenvironment and immune checkpoint blockade response," 2022, Nature Cancer

The venues where Amos Tanay frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cancer

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Aviezer Lifshitz
  • Ido Amit
  • Akhiad Bercovich
  • Oren Ben-Kiki
  • Elad Chomsky

Amos Tanay is recognized as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome

    Tom Sexton;Eitan Yaffe;Ephraim Kenigsberg;Frédéric Bantignies

  • Massively Parallel Single-Cell RNA-Seq for Marker-Free Decomposition of Tissues into Cell Types

    Diego Adhemar Jaitin;Ephraim Kenigsberg;Hadas Keren-Shaul;Naama Elefant

  • Single-cell Hi-C reveals cell-to-cell variability in chromosome structure

    Takashi Nagano;Yaniv Lubling;Tim J. Stevens;Stefan Schoenfelder

  • Discovering statistically significant biclusters in gene expression data.

    Amos Tanay;Roded Sharan;Ron Shamir

  • Multiscale 3D Genome Rewiring during Mouse Neural Development

    Boyan Bonev;Netta Mendelson Cohen;Quentin Szabo;Lauriane Fritsch

  • Transcriptional Heterogeneity and Lineage Commitment in Myeloid Progenitors

    Franziska Paul;Yaâara Arkin;Amir Giladi;Diego Adhemar Jaitin

  • Derivation of novel human ground state naive pluripotent stem cells

    Ohad Gafni;Leehee Weinberger;Abed AlFatah Mansour;Yair S. Manor

  • Dysfunctional CD8 T Cells Form a Proliferative, Dynamically Regulated Compartment within Human Melanoma

    Hanjie Li;Anne M. van der Leun;Ido Yofe;Yaniv Lubling

  • Quantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteome

    Archana Belle;Amos Tanay;Ledion Bitincka;Ron Shamir

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • Cell-cycle dynamics of chromosomal organization at single-cell resolution

    Takashi Nagano;Yaniv Lubling;Csilla Várnai;Carmel Dudley

  • Comparative Hi-C Reveals that CTCF Underlies Evolution of Chromosomal Domain Architecture

    Matteo Vietri Rudan;Christopher Barrington;Stephen Henderson;Christina Ernst

  • Scaling single-cell genomics from phenomenology to mechanism

    Amos Tanay;Aviv Regev

  • Probabilistic modeling of Hi-C contact maps eliminates systematic biases to characterize global chromosomal architecture

    Eitan Yaffe;Amos Tanay

  • Dissecting Immune Circuits by Linking CRISPR-Pooled Screens with Single-Cell RNA-Seq

    Diego Adhemar Jaitin;Assaf Weiner;Assaf Weiner;Ido Yofe;David Lara-Astiaso

  • Deterministic direct reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency

    Yoach Rais;Asaf Zviran;Shay Geula;Ohad Gafni

  • The Spectrum and Regulatory Landscape of Intestinal Innate Lymphoid Cells Are Shaped by the Microbiome

    Meital Gury-BenAri;Christoph A. Thaiss;Nicolas Serafini;Nicolas Serafini;Deborah R. Winter

  • The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery

    Hendrik G. Stunnenberg;Martin Hirst

  • Revealing modularity and organization in the yeast molecular network by integrated analysis of highly heterogeneous genomewide data

    Amos Tanay;Roded Sharan;Martin Kupiec;Ron Shamir

  • Cohesin‐mediated interactions organize chromosomal domain architecture

    Sevil Sofueva;Eitan Yaffe;Wen-Ching Chan;Dimitra Georgopoulou

Frequent Co-Authors

Ido Amit
Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University
Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Eyal David
Eyal David Weizmann Institute of Science
Giacomo Cavalli
Giacomo Cavalli University of Montpellier
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
Jacob H. Hanna
Jacob H. Hanna Weizmann Institute of Science
Vikas Gupta
Vikas Gupta Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Christoph Bock
Christoph Bock Austrian Academy of Sciences

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