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Overview

Itai Yanai is affiliated with New York University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Immunology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics such as Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Immune cells in cancer, RNA Research and Splicing, and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Exploring tissue architecture using spatial transcriptomics, 2021, Nature
  • Integrating microarray-based spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-seq reveals tissue architecture in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Cancer cell states recur across tumor types and form specific interactions with the tumor microenvironment, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals the architecture of the tumor-microenvironment interface, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Widespread Transcriptional Scanning in the Testis Modulates Gene Evolution Rates, 2020, Cell

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Martin J. Lercher, Maayan Baron, Dalia Barkley, Richard M. White, and Reuben Moncada.

Yanai's research outputs have appeared regularly in high-impact journals and prominent publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Genome Biology, Science, and Cancer Research.

Best Publications

  • CEL-Seq: Single-Cell RNA-Seq by Multiplexed Linear Amplification

    Tamar Hashimshony;Florian Wagner;Noa Sher;Itai Yanai

  • A Single-Cell Transcriptomic Map of the Human and Mouse Pancreas Reveals Inter- and Intra-cell Population Structure.

    Maayan Baron;Adrian Veres;Samuel L. Wolock;Aubrey L. Faust

  • Genome-wide midrange transcription profiles reveal expression level relationships in human tissue specification

    Itai Yanai;Hila Benjamin;Michael Shmoish;Vered Chalifa-Caspi

  • CEL-Seq2: sensitive highly-multiplexed single-cell RNA-Seq

    Tamar Hashimshony;Naftalie Senderovich;Gal Avital;Agnes Klochendler

  • Exploring tissue architecture using spatial transcriptomics.

    Anjali Rao;Dalia Barkley;Gustavo S França;Itai Yanai

  • The Complete Human Olfactory Subgenome

    Gustavo Glusman;Itai Yanai;Irit Rubin;Doron Lancet

  • Integrating microarray-based spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-seq reveals tissue architecture in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas

    Reuben Moncada;Dalia Barkley;Florian Wagner;Marta Chiodin

  • A Distinct Gene Module for Dysfunction Uncoupled from Activation in Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells

    Meromit Singer;Chao Wang;Le Cong;Nemanja D. Marjanovic;Nemanja D. Marjanovic

  • Rewiring of the yeast transcriptional network through the evolution of motif usage.

    Jan Ihmels;Sven Bergmann;Sven Bergmann;Maryam Gerami-Nejad;Maryam Gerami-Nejad;Itai Yanai;Itai Yanai

  • The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

    Michal Levin;Leon Anavy;Alison G. Cole;Eitan Winter

  • Widespread ectopic expression of olfactory receptor genes

    Ester Feldmesser;Tsviya Olender;Miriam Khen;Itai Yanai;Itai Yanai

  • Developmental milestones punctuate gene expression in the Caenorhabditis embryo

    Michal Levin;Tamar Hashimshony;Florian Wagner;Itai Yanai

  • Genes linked by fusion events are generally of the same functional category: A systematic analysis of 30 microbial genomes

    Itai Yanai;Adnan Derti;Charles DeLisi

  • Lymphatic vessels arise from specialized angioblasts within a venous niche

    J. Nicenboim;G. Malkinson;T. Lupo;L. Asaf

  • Mapping Gene Expression in Two Xenopus Species: Evolutionary Constraints and Developmental Flexibility

    Itai Yanai;Leonid Peshkin;Paul Jorgensen;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Predictome: a database of putative functional links between proteins

    Joseph C. Mellor;Itai Yanai;Karl H. Clodfelter;Julian Mintseris

  • Getting started in gene expression microarray analysis

    Donna K. Slonim;Itai Yanai

  • Spatiotemporal transcriptomics reveals the evolutionary history of the endoderm germ layer

    Tamar Hashimshony;Martin Feder;Michal Levin;Brian K. Hall

  • Alternative splicing and gene duplication are inversely correlated evolutionary mechanisms.

    Naama M Kopelman;Doron Lancet;Itai Yanai;Itai Yanai

  • Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals the architecture of the tumor-microenvironment interface.

    Miranda V. Hunter;Reuben Moncada;Joshua M. Weiss;Itai Yanai

Frequent Co-Authors

Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
Martin J. Lercher
Martin J. Lercher Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland
Martin E. Feder
Martin E. Feder University of Chicago
Craig P. Hunter
Craig P. Hunter Harvard University
Charles DeLisi
Charles DeLisi Boston University
David Fenyö
David Fenyö New York University
Gwênlyn Glusman
Gwênlyn Glusman Institute for Systems Biology

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