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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ron Milo is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of subfields, including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Modeling and Simulation, and Health.

Main topics in their research encompass SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 studies, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, epidemiological investigations related to COVID-19, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, clinical research on COVID-19, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and detection and testing methods for SARS-CoV-2.

Recent papers include:

  • Protection of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 in Israel, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers, 2020, eLife
  • Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass, 2020, Nature
  • Protection and Waning of Natural and Hybrid Immunity to SARS-CoV-2, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • The distribution of cellular turnover in the human body, 2021, Nature Medicine

Frequent co-authors of Ron Milo include:

  • Yinon M. Bar-On
  • Εlad Noor
  • Avi I. Flamholz
  • Yair Goldberg
  • Micha Mandel

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife
  • Nature
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Ron Milo has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks

    R. Milo;S. Shen-Orr;S. Itzkovitz;N. Kashtan

  • Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body.

    Ron Sender;Shai Fuchs;Ron Milo

  • Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli

    Shai S. Shen-Orr;Ron Milo;Shmoolik Mangan;Uri Alon

  • The biomass distribution on Earth

    Yinon M. Bar-On;Rob Phillips;Ron Milo

  • Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans

    Ron Sender;Shai Fuchs;Ron Milo

  • Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks.

    Ron Milo;Shalev Itzkovitz;Nadav Kashtan;Reuven Levitt

  • BioNumbers—the database of key numbers in molecular and cell biology

    Ron Milo;Paul Conrad Jorgensen;Uri Moran;Griffin M Weber

  • SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) by the numbers.

    Yinon M. Bar-On;Avi I. Flamholz;Rob Phillips;Ron Milo

  • The Moderately Efficient Enzyme: Evolutionary and Physicochemical Trends Shaping Enzyme Parameters

    Arren Bar-Even;Elad Noor;Yonatan Savir;Wolfram Liebermeister

  • Protection of BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster against Covid-19 in Israel.

    Yinon M Bar-On;Yair Goldberg;Micha Mandel;Omri Bodenheimer

  • Multiple sclerosis: geoepidemiology, genetics and the environment.

    Ron Milo;Esther Kahana

  • Oscillations and variability in the p53 system

    Naama Geva-Zatorsky;Nitzan Rosenfeld;Shalev Itzkovitz;Ron Milo

  • Cell Biology by the Numbers

    Ron Milo;Rob Phillips

  • Efficient sampling algorithm for estimating subgraph concentrations and detecting network motifs

    N. Kashtan;S. Itzkovitz;R. Milo;U. Alon

  • Network motifs in integrated cellular networks of transcription-regulation and protein-protein interaction.

    Esti Yeger-Lotem;Shmuel Sattath;Nadav Kashtan;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • Variability and memory of protein levels in human cells

    Alex Sigal;Ron Milo;Ron Milo;Ariel Cohen;Naama Geva-Zatorsky

  • Dynamic proteomics of individual cancer cells in response to a drug.

    A. A. Cohen;N. Geva-Zatorsky;E. Eden;M. Frenkel-Morgenstern

  • What is the total number of protein molecules per cell volume? A call to rethink some published values

    Ron Milo

  • eQuilibrator—the biochemical thermodynamics calculator

    Avi I. Flamholz;Elad Noor;Arren Bar-Even;Ron Milo

  • Waning Immunity after the BNT162b2 Vaccine in Israel.

    Yair Goldberg;Micha Mandel;Yinon M Bar-On;Omri Bodenheimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Uri Alon
Uri Alon Weizmann Institute of Science
Arren Bar-Even
Arren Bar-Even Max Planck Society
Shalev Itzkovitz
Shalev Itzkovitz Weizmann Institute of Science
Olaf Stüve
Olaf Stüve The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eran Segal
Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science
Ed Reznik
Ed Reznik Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut
Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nathan E. Lewis
Nathan E. Lewis University of California, San Diego
Joab Chapman
Joab Chapman Tel Aviv University
Mark Newman
Mark Newman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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