Publications

2026
Adi Rotem, Kaplan, Yoav , Gefen, Orit , Ronin, Irine , Gutfreund, Alon , Rappeport, Hagai , Faigenbaum-Romm, Raya , Naor, Nitsan , Stav, Elisheva , Agam, Oded , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2026. “Differentiation Between Regulated And Disrupted Growth Arrests Allows Tailoring Of Effective Treatments For Antibiotic Persistence”. Science Advances 12 (1), Eadt6577. . Publisher's Version
2025
Raya Faigenbaum-Romm, Yedidi, Noam , Gefen, Orit , Katsowich-Nagar, Naama , Aroeti, Lior , Ronin, Irine , Bar-Meir, Maskit , Rosenshine, Ilan , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2025. “ Uncovering Phenotypic Inheritance From Single Cells With Microcolony-Seq ”. Cell 188 (19), 5313-5331. E18. . Publisher's Version
Simona Punzi, Cittaro, Davide , Gatti, Guido , Balaban, Nathalie , Crupi, Gemma , Botrugno, Oronza A, Cartalemi, Antonino Alex, Gutfreund, Alon , Oneto, Caterina , Giansanti, Valentina , and Battist, Chiara . 2025. “Early Tolerance And Late Persistence As Alternative Drug Responses In Cancer”. Nature Communications 16 (1), 1291. . Publisher's Version
2024
Mariangela Russo, Chen, Mengnuo , Mariella, Elisa , and , . 2024. “Cancer Drug-Tolerant Persister Cells: From Biological Questions To Clinical Opportunities”. Nature Reviews Cancer 24 (10), 694-717. . Publisher's Version
2022
Roberto Kolter, Balaban, Nathalie , and Julou, Thomas . 2022. “Bacteria Grow Swiftly And Live Thriftily”. Current Biology, 32, 12, Pp. R599–R605. . Publisher's Version
Hagai Rappeport, Reisman, Irit Levin , Tishby, Naftali , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2022. “Detecting Chaos In Lineage-Trees: A Deep Learning Approach”. Physical Review Research, 4, 1, Pp. 013223. . Publisher's Version
Jia-Feng Liu, Gefen, Orit , Zhang, Zi-Yin , Liu, Min-Min , Bar-Meir, Maskit , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2022. “Interaction Tolerance Detection Test For Understanding The Killing Efficacy Of Directional Antibiotic Combinations”. Mbio, 13, 1, Pp. e00004–22. . Publisher's Version
Gilad Lazarovits, Gefen, Orit , Cahanian, Noga , Adler, Karen , Fluss, Ronen , Levin-Reisman, Irit , Ronin, Irine , Motro, Yair , Moran-Gilad, Jacob , Balaban, Nathalie Q, and others, . 2022. “Prevalence Of Antibiotic Tolerance And Risk For Reinfection Among Escherichia Coli Bloodstream Isolates: A Prospective Cohort Study”. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 75, 10, Pp. 1706–1713. . Publisher's Version
S Reich, Maoz, S, Kaplan, Y, Rappeport, H, Balaban, NQ , and Agam, O. 2022. “Slow Relaxation And Aging In The Model Of Randomly Connected Cycles Network”. Physical Review Research, 4, 3, Pp. 033127. . Publisher's Version
2021
Yoav Kaplan, Reich, Shaked , Oster, Elyaqim , Maoz, Shani , Levin-Reisman, Irit , Ronin, Irine , Gefen, Orit , Agam, Oded , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2021. “Observation Of Universal Ageing Dynamics In Antibiotic Persistence”. Nature, 600, 7888, Pp. 290–294. . Publisher's Version
Asher Brauner and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2021. “Quantitative Biology Of Survival Under Antibiotic Treatments”. Current Opinion In Microbiology, 64, Pp. 139–145. . Publisher's Version
2020
Dan I Andersson, Balaban, Nathalie Q, Baquero, Fernando , Courvalin, Patrice , Glaser, Philippe , Gophna, Uri , Kishony, Roy , Molin, Søren , and Tønjum, Tone . 2020. “Antibiotic Resistance: Turning Evolutionary Principles Into Clinical Reality”. Fems Microbiology Reviews, 44, 2, Pp. 171–188.
Jiafeng Liu, Gefen, Orit , Ronin, Irine , Bar-Meir, Maskit , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2020. “Effect Of Tolerance On The Evolution Of Antibiotic Resistance Under Drug Combinations”. Science, 367, 6474, Pp. 200–204.
Babak Javid and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2020. “Impact Of Population Mask Wearing On Covid-19 Post Lockdown”. Infectious Microbes & Diseases.
2019
Nathalie Q Balaban, Helaine, Sophie , Lewis, Kim , Ackermann, Martin , Aldridge, Bree , Andersson, Dan I, Brynildsen, Mark P, Bumann, Dirk , Camilli, Andrew , Collins, James J, and others, . 2019. “Definitions And Guidelines For Research On Antibiotic Persistence”. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17, 7, Pp. 441–448.
Irit Levin-Reisman, Brauner, Asher , Ronin, Irine , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2019. “Epistasis Between Antibiotic Tolerance, Persistence, And Resistance Mutations”. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 116, 29, Pp. 14734–14739.
Nathalie Q Balaban and Liu, Jiafeng . 2019. “Evolution Under Antibiotic Treatments: Interplay Between Antibiotic Persistence, Tolerance, And Resistance”. Persister Cells And Infectious Disease, Pp. 1–17.
2018
Noga Mosheiff, Martins, Bruno MC , Pearl-Mizrahi, Sivan , Grünberger, Alexander , Helfrich, Stefan , Mihalcescu, Irina , Kohlheyer, Dietrich , Locke, James CW , Glass, Leon , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2018. “Inheritance Of Cell-Cycle Duration In The Presence Of Periodic Forcing”. Physical Review X, 8, 2, Pp. 021035.
Ariel Amir and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2018. “Learning From Noise: How Observing Stochasticity May Aid Microbiology”. Trends In Microbiology, 26, 4, Pp. 376–385.
2017
Irit Levin-Reisman, Ronin, Irine , Gefen, Orit , Braniss, Ilan , Shoresh, Noam , and Balaban, Nathalie Q. 2017. “Antibiotic Tolerance Facilitates The Evolution Of Resistance”. Science, 355, 6327, Pp. 826–830.