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Overview

Ben-Zion Shilo is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology, cell biology, and physiology. The work also touches on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include cellular mechanics and interactions, cellular transport and secretion, erythrocyte function and pathophysiology, developmental biology and gene regulation, lipid membrane structure and behavior, RNA research and splicing, and cardiomyopathy and myosin studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Eyal D. Schejter (9 joint publications)
  • Ori Avinoam (5 joint publications)
  • Shari Carmon (5 joint publications)
  • Naama Barkai (4 joint publications)
  • Kumari Kamalesh (3 joint publications)

Publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 3 publications
  • Developmental Cell
  • Developmental Dynamics
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Development

Selected recent papers by Ben-Zion Shilo include:

  • Fusion pore dynamics of large secretory vesicles define a distinct mechanism of exocytosis, 2023, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Exocytosis by vesicle crumpling maintains apical membrane homeostasis during exocrine secretion, 2021, Developmental Cell
  • Generation and timing of graded responses to morphogen gradients, 2021, Development
  • Microtubules provide guidance cues for myofibril and sarcomere assembly and growth, 2020, Developmental Dynamics
  • Reconstituting tissue patterning, 2020, Science

Ben-Zion Shilo has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Yale University Press:

  • Life's Blueprint, 2021

Best Publications

  • INSULIN INDUCES TRANSCRIPTION OF TARGET GENES THROUGH THE HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR HIF-1ALPHA /ARNT

    Elazar Zelzer;Yinon Levy;Chaim Kahana;Ben‐Zion Shilo

  • Passage of phenotypes of chemically transformed cells via transfection of DNA and chromatin.

    Chiaho Shih;Ben-Zion Shilo;Mitchell P. Goldfarb;Ann Dannenberg

  • Robustness of the BMP morphogen gradient in Drosophila embryonic patterning

    Avigdor Eldar;Ruslan Dorfman;Daniel Weiss;Hilary Ashe

  • breathless, a Drosophila FGF receptor homolog, is essential for migration of tracheal and specific midline glial cells.

    C Klämbt;L Glazer;B Z Shilo

  • Signaling mechanisms controlling cell fate and embryonic patterning.

    Norbert Perrimon;Chrysoula Pitsouli;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • In Situ Activation Pattern of Drosophila EGF Receptor Pathway During Development

    Limor Gabay;Rony Seger;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • Secreted Spitz triggers the DER signaling pathway and is a limiting component in embryonic ventral ectoderm determination.

    R Schweitzer;M Shaharabany;R Seger;B Z Shilo

  • DNA sequences homologous to vertebrate oncogenes are conserved in Drosophila melanogaster.

    B Z Shilo;R A Weinberg

  • MAP kinase in situ activation atlas during Drosophila embryogenesis

    L. Gabay;R. Seger;B.Z. Shilo

  • Self-Enhanced Ligand Degradation Underlies Robustness of Morphogen Gradients

    Avigdor Eldar;Dalia Rosin;Ben-Zion Shilo;Naama Barkai

  • Heartless, a Drosophila FGF receptor homolog, is essential for cell migration and establishment of several mesodermal lineages.

    M Beiman;B Z Shilo;T Volk

  • Sprouty is a general inhibitor of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling

    Aderet Reich;Amir Sapir;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • A thousand and one roles for the Drosophila EGF receptor

    Ronen Schweitzer;Ronen Schweitzer;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • Inhibition of Drosophila EGF receptor activation by the secreted protein Argos

    Ronen Schweitzer;Robert Howes;Richard Smith;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • Signaling by the Drosophila epidermal growth factor receptor pathway during development.

    Ben Zion Shilo

  • The Drosophila EGF receptor homolog (DER) gene is allelic to faint little ball, a locus essential for embryonic development

    Eyal D. Schejter;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • trachealess encodes a bHLH-PAS protein that is an inducer of tracheal cell fates in Drosophila.

    Ronit Wilk;Isabella Weizman;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • Three different human tumor cell lines contain different oncogenes

    Mark J. Murray;Ben-Zion Shilo;Chiaho Shih;Deborah Cowing

  • The Drosophila FGF-R homolog is expressed in the embryonic tracheal system and appears to be required for directed tracheal cell extension.

    L Glazer;B Z Shilo

  • Pre-Steady-State Decoding of the Bicoid Morphogen Gradient

    Sven Bergmann;Oded Sandler;Hila Sberro;Sara Shnider

Frequent Co-Authors

Naama Barkai
Naama Barkai Weizmann Institute of Science
Erez Raz
Erez Raz University of Münster
Talila Volk
Talila Volk Weizmann Institute of Science
Rony Seger
Rony Seger Weizmann Institute of Science
Scott B. Snapper
Scott B. Snapper Boston Children's Hospital
Chiaho Shih
Chiaho Shih Academia Sinica
K. VijayRaghavan
K. VijayRaghavan National Centre for Biological Sciences
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Sven Bergmann
Sven Bergmann Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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