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Overview

Shalev Itzkovitz is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and focuses their research primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in medicine. Their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, genetics, surgery, immunology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, pancreatic function and diabetes, liver physiology and pathology, gut microbiota and health, digestive system and related health, infant nutrition and health, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Recent publications by Shalev Itzkovitz include:

  • Lactate released by inflammatory bone marrow neutrophils induces their mobilization via endothelial GPR81 signaling (2020, Nature Communications)
  • The spatiotemporal program of zonal liver regeneration following acute injury (2022, Cell Stem Cell)
  • A single cell atlas of the human liver tumor microenvironment (2020, Molecular Systems Biology)
  • Diet Diurnally Regulates Small Intestinal Microbiome-Epithelial-Immune Homeostasis and Enteritis (2020, Cell)
  • Lgr5+ telocytes are a signaling source at the intestinal villus tip (2020, Nature Communications)

Their frequent co-authors include Keren Bahar Halpern, Adi Egozi, Shani Ben-Moshe, Yotam Harnik, and Ido Amit. The frequency of collaboration ranges from 33 publications with Keren Bahar Halpern to 12 with Ido Amit.

Shalev Itzkovitz's publications are often found in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Molecular Systems Biology, and Nature Metabolism. Among these, they have the most publications in Zenodo and bioRxiv.

Best Publications

  • Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks

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

  • A Unique Microglia Type Associated with Restricting Development of Alzheimer’s Disease

    Hadas Keren-Shaul;Amit Spinrad;Assaf Weiner;Assaf Weiner;Orit Matcovitch-Natan

  • Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks.

    Ron Milo;Shalev Itzkovitz;Nadav Kashtan;Reuven Levitt

  • 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

  • Functional atlas of the integrin adhesome

    Ronen Zaidel-Bar;Shalev Itzkovitz;Avi Ma'ayan;Ravi Iyengar

  • 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

  • Slug and Sox9 Cooperatively Determine the Mammary Stem Cell State

    Wenjun Guo;Zuzana Keckesova;Joana Liu Donaher;Tsukasa Shibue

  • A comprehensive library of fluorescent transcriptional reporters for Escherichia coli

    Alon Zaslaver;Anat Bren;Michal Ronen;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • Single-cell spatial reconstruction reveals global division of labour in the mammalian liver

    Keren Bahar Halpern;Rom Shenhav;Orit Matcovitch-Natan;Beáta Tóth

  • The Lgr5 intestinal stem cell signature: robust expression of proposed quiescent ‘+4’ cell markers

    Javier Muñoz;Daniel E Stange;Arnout G Schepers;Marc van de Wetering

  • Oscillations and variability in the p53 system

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

  • 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

  • The Spectrum and Regulatory Landscape of Intestinal Innate Lymphoid Cells Are Shaped by the Microbiome

    Meital Gury-BenAri;Christoph A. Thaiss;Nicolas Serafini;Nicolas Serafini;Deborah R. Winter

  • Subepithelial telocytes are an important source of Wnts that supports intestinal crypts

    Michal Shoshkes-Carmel;Yue J Wang;Kirk J Wangensteen;Beáta Tóth

  • Lung Single-Cell Signaling Interaction Map Reveals Basophil Role in Macrophage Imprinting

    Merav Cohen;Amir Giladi;Anna-Dorothea Gorki;Dikla Gelbard Solodkin

  • On the uniform generation of random graphs with prescribed degree sequences

    R. Milo;N. Kashtan;S. Itzkovitz;M. E. J. Newman

  • Single-molecule transcript counting of stem-cell markers in the mouse intestine

    Shalev Itzkovitz;Anna Lyubimova;Anna Lyubimova;Irene C. Blat;Mindy Maynard

  • The incoherent feed-forward loop accelerates the response-time of the gal system of Escherichia coli.

    S. Mangan;S. Itzkovitz;A. Zaslaver;U. Alon

  • Spatial heterogeneity in the mammalian liver

    Shani Ben-Moshe;Shalev Itzkovitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Uri Alon
Uri Alon Weizmann Institute of Science
Ron Milo
Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science
Ido Amit
Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science
Alexander van Oudenaarden
Alexander van Oudenaarden University Medical Center Utrecht
Ehud Shapiro
Ehud Shapiro Weizmann Institute of Science
Eyal David
Eyal David Weizmann Institute of Science
Eran Segal
Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science
Axel Visel
Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eran Elinav
Eran Elinav Weizmann Institute of Science
Karl Skorecki
Karl Skorecki Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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