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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nir Yosef is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Immunology and Microbiology. Within these fields, the scientist has focused on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cancer Research, Biophysics, and Oncology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Immune cells in cancer

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Nir Yosef are:

  • Cross-tissue immune cell analysis reveals tissue-specific features in humans, 2022, Science
  • The Tabula Sapiens: A multiple-organ, single-cell transcriptomic atlas of humans, 2022, Science
  • A Python library for probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data, 2022, Nature Biotechnology
  • Probabilistic harmonization and annotation of single-cell transcriptomics data with deep generative models, 2021, Molecular Systems Biology
  • Mapping single-cell data to reference atlases by transfer learning, 2021, Nature Biotechnology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nir Yosef include:

  • Tal Ashuach
  • Allon Wagner
  • Can Ergen
  • Adam Gayoso
  • Michael I. Jordan

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Nature Methods

Nir Yosef's work has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Slingshot: cell lineage and pseudotime inference for single-cell transcriptomics

    Kelly Street;Davide Risso;Russell B. Fletcher;Diya Das

  • Deep generative modeling for single-cell transcriptomics.

    Romain Lopez;Jeffrey Regier;Michael B Cole;Michael I Jordan

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells

    Alex K. Shalek;Rahul Satija;Xian Adiconis;Rona S. Gertner

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals dynamic paracrine control of cellular variation

    Alex K. Shalek;Rahul Satija;Joe Shuga;John J. Trombetta

  • Sodium chloride drives autoimmune disease by the induction of pathogenic TH17 cells

    Markus Kleinewietfeld;Arndt Manzel;Arndt Manzel;Jens Titze;Jens Titze;Heda Kvakan

  • Induction and molecular signature of pathogenic TH17 cells

    Youjin Lee;Amit Awasthi;Amit Awasthi;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef;Francisco Javier Quintana

  • Densely Interconnected Transcriptional Circuits Control Cell States in Human Hematopoiesis

    Noa Novershtern;Noa Novershtern;Noa Novershtern;Aravind Subramanian;Lee N. Lawton;Raymond H. Mak

  • The epigenetic landscape of T cell exhaustion

    Debattama R. Sen;James Kaminski;R. Anthony Barnitz;Makoto Kurachi

  • Induction of pathogenic Th17 cells by inducible salt sensing kinase SGK1

    Chuan Wu;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef;Theresa Thalhamer;Theresa Thalhamer;Chen Zhu

  • Dynamic regulatory network controlling Th17 cell differentiation

    Nir Yosef;Alex K. Shalek;Jellert T. Gaublomme;Hulin Jin

  • Revealing the vectors of cellular identity with single-cell genomics

    Allon Wagner;Aviv Regev;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef

  • Single-Cell Genomics Unveils Critical Regulators of Th17 Cell Pathogenicity

    Jellert T. Gaublomme;Nir Yosef;Youjin Lee;Rona S. Gertner

  • A high throughput Chromatin ImmunoPrecipitation approach reveals principles of dynamic gene regulation in mammals

    Manuel Garber;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef;Alon Goren;Raktima Raychowdhury

  • Combinatorial Patterning of Chromatin Regulators Uncovered by Genome-wide Location Analysis in Human Cells

    Oren Ram;Alon Goren;Ido Amit;Ido Amit;Noam Shoresh

  • CD5L/AIM Regulates Lipid Biosynthesis and Restrains Th17 Cell Pathogenicity

    Chao Wang;Nir Yosef;Nir Yosef;Jellert Gaublomme;Jellert Gaublomme;Chuan Wu

  • Probabilistic harmonization and annotation of single-cell transcriptomics data with deep generative models.

    Chenling Xu;Romain Lopez;Edouard Mehlman;Edouard Mehlman;Jeffrey Regier

  • The transcription factor BATF operates as an essential differentiation checkpoint in early effector CD8+ T cells

    Makoto Kurachi;R Anthony Barnitz;Nir Yosef;Pamela M Odorizzi

  • Mapping single-cell data to reference atlases by transfer learning.

    Mohammad Lotfollahi;Mohsen Naghipourfar;Malte D. Luecken;Matin Khajavi

  • Joint probabilistic modeling of single-cell multi-omic data with totalVI

    Adam Gayoso;Zoë Steier;Romain Lopez;Jeffrey Regier

Frequent Co-Authors

Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Vijay K. Kuchroo
Vijay K. Kuchroo Harvard University
Nir Hacohen
Nir Hacohen Harvard University
Hongkun Park
Hongkun Park Harvard University
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
Michael I. Jordan
Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley
Ido Amit
Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science
Nadav Ahituv
Nadav Ahituv University of California, San Francisco

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