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2026

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100
Citations
67812
World Ranking
739
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Eran Segal is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and has an extensive research portfolio in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research contributions cover several molecular biology and genetics subfields, along with physiology, infectious diseases, and public health.

The scientist has focused on diverse topics including gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, nutritional studies and diet, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, nutrition, genetics, and disease, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Among their recent publications are:

  • The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type-specific intracellular bacteria, 2020, Science
  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Reveals Subset-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2020, Cell
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma, 2021, Nature

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eran Segal include:

  • Adina Weinberger
  • Smadar Shilo
  • Hagai Rossman
  • Anastasia Godneva
  • Sigal Leviatan

The preferred publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Medicine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Best Publications

  • Functional Demarcation of Active and Silent Chromatin Domains in Human HOX Loci by Noncoding RNAs

    John L. Rinn;Michael Kertesz;Jordon K. Wang;Sharon L. Squazzo

  • Long Noncoding RNA as Modular Scaffold of Histone Modification Complexes

    Miao-Chih Tsai;Ohad Manor;Yue Wan;Nima Mosammaparast

  • Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses

    David Zeevi;Tal Korem;Niv Zmora;Niv Zmora;David Israeli

  • Environment dominates over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota

    Daphna Rothschild;Omer Weissbrod;Elad Barkan;Alexander Kurilshikov

  • The role of site accessibility in microRNA target recognition

    Michael Kertesz;Nicola Iovino;Ulrich Unnerstall;Ulrike Gaul

  • A Gene-Coexpression Network for Global Discovery of Conserved Genetic Modules

    Joshua M. Stuart;Eran Segal;Daphne Koller;Stuart K. Kim

  • Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data

    Eran Segal;Michael Shapira;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Dana Pe'er

  • A genomic code for nucleosome positioning

    Eran Segal;Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf;Lingyi Chen;Annchristine Thåström

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

  • The human tumor microbiome is composed of tumor type–specific intracellular bacteria

    Deborah Nejman;Ilana Livyatan;Garold Fuks;Nancy Gavert

  • Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features

    Niv Zmora;Niv Zmora;Gili Zilberman-Schapira;Jotham Suez;Uria Mor

  • Transkingdom Control of Microbiota Diurnal Oscillations Promotes Metabolic Homeostasis

    Christoph A. Thaiss;David Zeevi;Maayan Levy;Gili Zilberman-Schapira

  • The DNA-encoded nucleosome organization of a eukaryotic genome

    Noam Kaplan;Irene K. Moore;Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf;Andrea J. Gossett

  • Integrative analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome by the modENCODE project

    Mark B. Gerstein;Zhi John Lu;Eric L. Van Nostrand;Chao Cheng

  • Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT.

    Jotham Suez;Niv Zmora;Niv Zmora;Gili Zilberman-Schapira;Uria Mor

  • Microbiota-Modulated Metabolites Shape the Intestinal Microenvironment by Regulating NLRP6 Inflammasome Signaling.

    Maayan Levy;Christoph A. Thaiss;David Zeevi;Lenka Dohnalová

  • Genome-wide measurement of RNA secondary structure in yeast

    Michael Kertesz;Yue Wan;Elad Mazor;John L. Rinn

  • A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer.

    Eran Segal;Eran Segal;Nir Friedman;Daphne Koller;Aviv Regev

  • Module map of stem cell genes guides creation of epithelial cancer stem cells.

    David J. Wong;Helen Liu;Todd W. Ridky;David Cassarino

  • Determinants of nucleosome positioning.

    Kevin Struhl;Eran Segal

Frequent Co-Authors

Eran Elinav
Eran Elinav Weizmann Institute of Science
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller insitro Inc.
Howard Y. Chang
Howard Y. Chang Amgen (United States)
Andrea Sboner
Andrea Sboner Cornell University
Gunnar Rätsch
Gunnar Rätsch ETH Zurich
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Jonathan Widom
Jonathan Widom Northwestern University
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Steven Henikoff
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Chao Cheng
Chao Cheng Baylor College of Medicine

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