Ron Milo
University of Cambridge
Ron Milo is a Professor of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is Weizmann Dean of Education, the chairperson of the Israel society of ecology and environmental sciences and the director of the Institute for environmental sustainability at Weizmann. Formerly he was the chairperson of the Israel young academy.
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Ron Milo is a Professor of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is Weizmann Dean of Education, the chairperson of the Israel society of ecology and environmental sciences and the director of the Institute for environmental sustainability at Weizmann. Formerly he was the chairperson of the Israel young academy.
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Top Publications
- Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks (2002) - 7,590 citations
- Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body (2016) - 5,314 citations
- The biomass distribution on Earth (2018) - 3,853 citations
- Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli (2002) - 3,063 citations
- Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans (2016) - 2,112 citations
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- Full name
- Ron Milo
- ORCID
- 0000-0003-1641-2299
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5024451873
Research interests
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
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- 7,590OpenAlex citations
- Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body ↗2016 · PLoS Biology5,314OpenAlex citations
- The biomass distribution on Earth ↗2018 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences3,853OpenAlex citations
- Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli ↗2002 · Nature Genetics3,063OpenAlex citations
- 2,112OpenAlex citations
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- Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body ↗2016 · PLoS Biology
- The biomass distribution on Earth ↗2018 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli ↗2002 · Nature Genetics
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