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• Dina Mant*, Tomer Orevi*,  Nadav Kashtan. The impact of micro-habitat fragmentation on microbial populations growth dynamics. BioRxiv (2024). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.05.588087v1

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• Yana beizman-Magen, Tomer Orevi,  Nadav Kashtan. Hydration conditions as a critical factor in antibiotic-mediated bacterial competition outcomes. BioRxiv (2024). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.13.598809v1

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• Tomer Orevi, Søren J. Sørensen, Nadav Kashtan . Droplet size and surface hydrophobicity enhance bacterial plasmid transfer rates in microscopic surface wetness. ISME Communications (2) 72 (2022). [pdf]

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• Nadav Kashtan, Ben Bushong, Johan Leveau. It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science. mSystems doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01033-21 [Special Series: Deciphering the Microbiome] (2022). [pdf]

  • link to Wehrli's photograph that we mention in this Perspective but were not given the permission to reproduce.

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• Tomer Orevi and Nadav Kashtan. Life in a droplet: Microbial ecology in microscopic surface wetness. Frontiers in Microbiology doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.655459 (2021). [pdf]

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• Yana Beizman-Magen*, Maor Grinberg*, Tomer Orevi, and Nadav Kashtan. Wet-dry cycles protect surface-colonizing bacteria from major antibiotic classes. The ISME Journal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-021-01051-4 (2021). [pdf]

*equal contribution

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• Nesli Tovi,  Tomer Orevi, Maor Grinberg, Nadav Kashtan, Yitzhak Hadar and Dror Minz. Pairwise interactions of three related Pseudomonas species in plant roots and inert surfaces. Frontiers in Microbiology doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.666522 (2021). [pdf]

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• Shifra Steinberg*, Maor Grinberg*, Michael Beitelman, Julianna Peixoto, Tomer Orevi, and Nadav Kashtan. Two-way microscale interactions between immigrant bacteria and plant leaf microbiota as revealed by live imaging. The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00767-z (2020). [pdf]

        *equal contribution

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• Aliza Fedorenko, Maor Grinberg, Tomer Orevi, and Nadav Kashtan. Survival of the enveloped bacteriophage Phi6 (a surrogate for SARS-CoV-2) in evaporated saliva microdroplets deposited on glass surfaces. Scientific Reports, 10, 22419 (2020). [pdf]

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• Maor Grinberg*, Tomer Orevi*, Shifra Steinberg and Nadav Kashtan. Bacterial survival in microscopic surface wetness. eLife https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48508 (2019).

*equal contribution

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• Maor Grinberg, Tomer Orevi and Nadav Kashtan. Bacterial surface colonization, preferential attachment and fitness under periodic stress. PLOS Computational Biology.15(3): e1006815  (2019). [pdf]

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• Nadav Kashtan, Sara E Roggensack, Jessie W Berta-Thompson, Maor Grinberg, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Sallie W Chisholm. Fundamental differences in diversity and genomic population structure between Atlantic and Pacific Prochlorococcus. The ISME Journal. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.64 (2017). [pdf]

 

Before Hebrew University:

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• Nadav Kashtan, Sara E Roggensack, Sebastien Rodrigue, Jessie W Thompson, Steven J Biller, Allison Coe, Huiming Ding, Pekka Marttinen, Rex R Malmstrom, Roman Stocker, Michael J Follows, Ramunas Stepanauskas & Sallie W Chisholm. Single cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting subpopulations in wild Prochlorococcus. Science 344(6182), 416-420 (2014). [pdf]

   

• Daniel Sher, Jessie W. Thompson, Nadav Kashtan, Laura Croal and Sallie W Chisholm. Response of Prochlorococcus ecotypes to co-culture with diverse marine bacteria. The ISME Journal 5, 1125-1132 (2011). [pdf]

 

• Nadav Kashtan, Merav Parter, Erez Dekel, Avi E. Mayo and Uri Alon. Extinctions in heterogeneous environments and the evolution of modularity. Evolution, 1558-5646.2009.00684 (2009). [pdf]

 

• Nadav Kashtan*, Avi E. Mayo*, Tomer Kalisky and Uri Alon. An analytically solvable model for rapid evolution of modular structure. PLOS Computational Biology, 5(4): e1000355(2009).  [pdf]

       *equal contribution

 

• Merav Parter *,Nadav Kashtan* and Uri Alon. Facilitated variation: How evolution learns from past environments to generalize to new environments. PLOS Computational Biology 4(11): e1000206 (2008). [pdf]

        *equal contribution

• See News in Science Daily

• See Research Highlights in Nature Reviews Genetics: Something New Abstract

 

• Nadav Kashtan, Elad Noor and Uri Alon.Varying environments can speed up evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(34),13711-13716 (2007). [pdf]

 

• Merav Parter, Nadav Kashtan and Uri Alon. Environmental variability and modularity of bacterial metabolic networks. BMC Evol. Biol. 7,169 (2007). [pdf]

 

• Shalev Itzkovitz, Ron Milo, Nadav Kashtan, Reuven Levitt, Amir Lahav and Uri Alon. Recurring Harmonic Walks and Network Motifs in Western Music. Advances in Complex Systems, 9,121–132 (2006). [pdf]

 

• Nadav Kashtan and Uri Alon.From the Cover: Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(39),13773-13779 (2005). [pdf]

  • See review in:

    • Nature Reviews Genetics: The road to modularity Abstract

 

• Shalev Itzkovitz, Reuven Levitt, Nadav Kashtan, Ron Milo and Uri Alon. Coarse-graining and self-dissimilarity of complex networks. Phys Rev E 71, 016127(2005). [pdf]

 

• Nadav Kashtan, Shalev Itzkovitz, Ron Milo and Uri Alon. Efficient sampling algorithm for estimating subgraph concentrations and detecting network motifs. Bioinformatics, 20(11):1746-58 (2004). [pdf]

 

• Esti Yeger-Lotem, Shmuel Sattath, Nadav Kashtan, Shalev Itzkovitz, Ron Milo, Ron Y. Pinter, Uri Alon and Hanah Margalit. Network motifs in integrated cellular networks of transcriptional regulation and protein-protein interaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101, 5934 (2004). [pdf]

 

• Nadav Kashtan, Shalev Itzkovitz, Ron Milo and Uri Alon. Topological Generalizations of network motifs. Phys. Rev. E 70, 031909 (2004). [pdf]

 

• Ron Milo, Shalev Itzkovitz, Nadav Kashtan, Reuven Levitt, Inbal Ayzenshtat, Michal Sheffer and Uri Alon. Super-families of evolved and designed networks. Science 303(5663), 1538-42 (2004). [pdf]

 

• Shalev Itzkovitz, Ron Milo, Nadav Kashtan, Guy Ziv and Uri Alon. Subgraphs in random networks. Phys. Rev. E 68, 026127 (2003). [pdf]

 

• Ron Milo, Nadav Kashtan, Shalev Itzkovitz, Mark E.J. Newman and Uri Alon. On the uniform generation of random graphs with arbitrary degree sequences. arXiv:cond-mat/0312028 (2003). [pdf]

 

• Ron Milo, Shen-Orr Shai, Shalev Itzkovitz, Nadav Kashtan, David Chklovskii and Uri Alon. Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks. Science 298(5594), 824-827 (2002). [pdf]