Department of Microbiology and Clinical Immunology
Gray Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Recent publications:
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Yoo JS, Shporn OZ, Sklan EH. Dysregulated immune cell responses in severe dengue pathogenesis. Front Immunol. 2025 May 21;16:1600999.
Katz R, Nam NM, de Lima Campos T, Indenbaum V, Terenteva S, Hang DTT, Hoi LT, Danielli A, Lustig Y, Schwartz E, Tong HV, Sklan EH. Circulating lncRNAs as biomarkers for severe dengue using a machine learning approach. J Infect. 2025
Apr;90(4):106471.
Moalem Y, Katz R, Subramaniam AG, Malis Y, Yaffe Y, Borenstein-Auerbach N, Tadmor K, Raved R, Maoz BM, Yoo JS, Lustig Y, Luxenburg C, Perlson E, Einav S, Sklan EH. Numb-associated kinases regulate sandfly-borne Toscana virus entry.
Emerg Microbes Infect. 2024 Dec;13(1):2382237
Malis Y, Armoza-Eilat S, Nevo-Yassaf I, Dukhovny A, Sklan EH, Hirschberg K. Rab1b facilitates lipid droplet growth by ER-to-lipid droplet targeting of DGAT2. Sci Adv. 2024 May 31;10(22):eade7753.
Diep NT, Giang NT, Diu NTT, Nam NM, Khanh LV, Quang HV, Hang NT, Mao CV, Son HV, Hieu NL, Linh PT, Sklan EH, Toan NL, Tong HV. Complement receptor type 1 and 2 (CR1 and CR2) gene polymorphisms and plasma protein levels are associated with the Dengue disease severity. Sci Rep. 2023 Oct 13;13(1):17377.
Fisher R, Lustig Y, Sklan EH, Schwartz E. The Role of NS1 Protein in the Diagnosis of Flavivirus Infections. Viruses. 2023 Feb 19;15(2):572. Siman-Tov R, Shalabi R, Shlomai A, Goldberg E, Essa W, Shusterman E, Ablin JN, Caspi M, Rosin-Arbesfeld R, Sklan EH. Elevated Serum Amyloid A Levels Contribute to Increased Platelet Adhesion in COVID-19 Patients. Int J Mol Sci.
2022 Nov 17;23(22):14243.
Moalem Y, Malis Y, Voloshin K, Dukhovny A, Hirschberg K, Sklan EH. Sandfly Fever Viruses Attenuate the Type I Interferon Response by Targeting the Phosphorylation of JAK-STAT Components. Front Immunol. 2022 Jun 1;13:865797.
Alcantara LCJ, Amenga-Etego L, Andersson R, Bhaumik M, Choi YK, Decaluwe H, Geoghegan J, Haagmans BL, López S, Mukhtar MM, Nelwan E, Rahal EA, Sato K, Sklan EH, Fang YSC. Methods for fighting emerging pathogens. Nat Methods. 2022 Apr;19(4):395-397.
Sofer S, Lamkiewicz K, Armoza Eilat S, Partouche S, Marz M, Moskovits N, Stemmer SM, Shlomai A, Sklan EH. A genome-wide CRISPR activation screen reveals Hexokinase 1 as a critical factor in promoting resistance to multi-kinase
inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. FASEB J. 2022 Mar;36(3):e22191.
Evron T, Caspi M, Kazelnik M, Shor-Nareznoy Y, Armoza-Eilat S, Kariv R, Manber Z, Elkon R, Sklan EH, Rosin-Arbesfeld R. A CRISPR knockout screen reveals new regulators of canonical Wnt signaling. Oncogenesis. 2021 Sep 22;10(9):63.
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Stern-Tal D, Ittah S, Sklan E. A new cell-sized support for 3D cell cultures based on recombinant spider silk fibers. J Biomater Appl. 2022 May;36(10):1748-1757.
Shafran N, Shafran I, Ben-Zvi H, Sofer S, Sheena L, Krause I, Shlomai A, Goldberg E, Sklan EH. Secondary bacterial infection in COVID-19 patients is a stronger predictor for death compared to influenza patients. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun
16;11(1):12703.
Shlomai A, Leshno A, Sklan EH, Leshno M. Modeling Social Distancing Strategies to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Israel: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Value Health. 2021 May;24(5):607-614.
Shomron O, Nevo-Yassaf I, Aviad T, Yaffe Y, Zahavi EE, Dukhovny A, Perlson E, Brodsky I, Yeheskel A, Pasmanik-Chor M, Mironov A, Beznoussenko GV, Mironov AA, Sklan EH, Patterson GH, Yonemura Y, Sannai M, Kaether C, Hirschberg K. COPII collar defines the boundary between ER and ER exit site and does not coat cargo containers. J Cell Biol. 2021 Jun 7;220(6):e201907224.
Goldberg E, Ben Zvi H, Sheena L, Sofer S, Krause I, Sklan EH, Shlomai A. A real-life setting evaluation of the effect of remdesivir on viral load in COVID-19 patients admitted to a large tertiary centre in Israel. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Jun;27(6):917.e1-917.e4.
Hada-Neeman S, Weiss-Ottolenghi Y, Wagner N, Avram O, Ashkenazy H, Maor Y, Sklan EH, Shcherbakov D, Pupko T, Gershoni JM. Domain-Scan: Combinatorial Sero-Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Using Machine Learning. Front Immunol. 2021 Feb 10;11:619896.
Shlomai A, Ben-Zvi H, Glusman Bendersky A, Shafran N, Goldberg E, Sklan EH. Nasopharyngeal viral load predicts hypoxemia and disease outcome in admitted COVID-19 patients. Crit Care. 2020 Sep 1;24(1):539.
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