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Our preprint “Local and regional processes drive distance decay in structure in a spatial multilayer plant-pollinator network” is now available on EcoEvoRxiv!
Our latest preprint, published on November 21, 2023, in EcoEvoRxiv, explores the intricate spatial dynamics of plant-pollinator communities across the …
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War efforts: contributing to national agriculture through volunteer work.
We encounter challenges that call for collective action during these challenging times (Israel–Hamas War, 2023). To support national agricultural initiatives …
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Our new research, “Scale-dependent signatures of microbial co-occurrence revealed via multilayer network analysis,” is now available on EcoEvoRxiv!
The study uses the rumen microbiome of 1,012 cows in seven European farms as a case study to explore the …
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Our paper was published in “Methods in Ecology and Evolution”. Give the EMLN R package a try.
Our article “Practical guidelines and the EMLN R package for handling ecological multilayer networks” was published in Methods in Ecology …
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Our research on cancer and ecological networks published in ‘Nature Communications’!
Our paper, “Ecological network analysis reveals cancer-dependent chaperone-client interaction structure and robustness, ” was officially published in “Nature Communications” on …
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Modeling microbiome dynamics. A productive week after EcoNet2023.
Following EcoNet2023, Johannes Nauta (postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Padua, Italy) extended his stay in our lab for …
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6th Symposium on Ecological Networks (EcoNet2023), September 4-7, 2023
This year, Shai hosted the EcoNet2023 workshop (Ecological networks from theory to application) at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Seeing everything …
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Our new paper on EcoEvoRxiv, “Practical guidelines and the EMLN R package for handling ecological multilayer networks.”
Our new paper introduces the EMLN R package, a tool for analyzing multilayer networks. It provides practical guidelines and detailed …
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Our NetSci 2023 experience: excellent talks and networking opportunities
In July 2023, our lab had the excellent opportunity to participate in the NetSci 2023 conference, organized by the Network …
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Hanging out – Last Friday of June 2023
Sandy reunion: Tel Aviv, June 2023 – beach, dessert research, former lab members, and unforgettable memories …
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