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Biology and Biochemistry
Israel
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
109
Citations
73705
World Ranking
985
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 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

Uri Alon is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, engaging in research situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

The scope of their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Physiology, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Their research topics emphasize Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Birth, Development, and Health, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity.

Notable recent publications by Uri Alon include:

  • "Tumour heterogeneity and the evolutionary trade-offs of cancer," 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • "On the Bottleneck of Graph Neural Networks and its Practical Implications," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Neural reverse engineering of stripped binaries using augmented control flow graphs," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "p16-dependent increase of PD-L1 stability regulates immunosurveillance of senescent cells," 2024, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Senescent cell accumulation mechanisms inferred from parabiosis," 2020, GeroScience

Uri Alon frequently publishes alongside collaborators who contribute significantly to their body of work. Frequent co-authors include Avi Mayo, Omer Karin, Tomer Milo, A. Bar, and Yael Korem Kohanim.

Their research findings often appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), iScience, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Nature Communications. The majority of publications are concentrated in bioRxiv with a notable presence in arXiv as well.

Uri Alon has been recognized by the scientific community with awards, including membership in 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

  • Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays.

    U. Alon;N. Barkai;D. A. Notterman;K. Gish

  • An introduction to systems biology : design principles of biological circuits

    Uri Alon

  • Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches

    Uri Alon

  • Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli

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

  • Structure and function of the feed-forward loop network motif

    S. Mangan;U. Alon

  • Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks.

    Ron Milo;Shalev Itzkovitz;Nadav Kashtan;Reuven Levitt

  • Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis

    U. Alon;M. G. Surette;N. Barkai;S. Leibler

  • Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Jonathan W. Young;Uri Alon;Peter S. Swain

  • Dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop in individual cells

    Galit Lahav;Nitzan Rosenfeld;Alex Sigal;Naama Geva-Zatorsky

  • An introduction to systems biology

    Uri Alon

  • Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs

    Nadav Kashtan;Uri Alon

  • A comprehensive library of fluorescent transcriptional reporters for Escherichia coli

    Alon Zaslaver;Anat Bren;Michal Ronen;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein

    Erez Dekel;Uri Alon

  • Negative autoregulation speeds the response times of transcription networks.

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Michael B Elowitz;Uri Alon

  • Generation of oscillations by the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop: A theoretical and experimental study

    Ruth Lev Bar-Or;Ruth Maya;Lee A. Segel;Uri Alon

  • Transcriptional Gene Expression Profiles of Colorectal Adenoma, Adenocarcinoma, and Normal Tissue Examined by Oligonucleotide Arrays

    Daniel A. Notterman;Uri Alon;Alexander J. Sierk;Arnold J. Levine

  • Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer.

    U. Alon

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Milo
Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science
Shalev Itzkovitz
Shalev Itzkovitz Weizmann Institute of Science
Bradley A. Warady
Bradley A. Warady Children's Mercy Hospital
Eran Yahav
Eran Yahav Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Omer Levy
Omer Levy Deep Mind
Eduardo D. Sontag
Eduardo D. Sontag Northeastern University
Gabi Ben-Dor
Gabi Ben-Dor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael B. Elowitz
Michael B. Elowitz California Institute of Technology
Michael G. Surette
Michael G. Surette McMaster University
Paolo Milani
Paolo Milani University of Milan

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