Ph.D.:	Kiev State University, Ukraine, 1988
Phone:	(Office) +972-3-640-5540 (Fax) +972-3-640-7857
E-mail:	kosman@post.tau.ac.il
Room#:	109 Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement

VAT Software

Software -VAT Virulence Analysis Tools

Personal Information

Education: 1976-1981 Kiev State University, Mathematics
1985-1988 Kiev State University, Ph.D. Abstract Algebra

Research Interests

1. Concept for a general theory of measuring diversity among populations.
2. Development of general strategy and logically consistent approaches for analyzing structure of populations with an asexual or mixed mode of reproduction for different types of organisms and markers.
3. Development of computational tools for diversity analysis (in particular, for populations of plant pathogens and their hosts).
4. Analysis of different host-pathogen systems.
5. Modeling of plant pathogen epidemics.

Selected Publications

1. Kosman E., Levy Y. 1994. Fungal foliar plant pathogen epidemic: Modeling and qualitative analysis. Plant Pathology 44: 328-337.
2. Kosman E., Cohen Y. 1996. Procedures for calculating and differentiating synergism and antagonism in action of fungicide mixtures. Phytopathology 86: 1263-1272.
3. Kosman E. 1996. Difference and diversity of plant pathogen populations. A new approach for measuring. Phytopathology 86: 1152-1155.
4. Kosman E., Eshel A., Waisel Y. 1997. The “Travelling Salesman Problem”: A new approach for identification of differences among pollen allergens. Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol. 112: 371-377.
5. Manisterski J., Eyal Z., Ben-Yehuda P., and Kosman E. 2000. Comparative analysis of indices in the study of virulence diversity between and within populations of Puccinia recondita f. sp. tritici in Israel. Phytopathology 90: 601-607.
6. Maor R., Kosman E., Golobinski R., Goodwin P., and Sharon A. 2003. PF-IND: probability algorithm and software for separation of plant and fungal sequences. Curr. Genet. 43: 296-302.
7. Kosman E. 2003. Nei’s gene diversity and the index of average differences are identical measures of diversity within populations. Plant Pathology 52: 533-535.
8. Kosman E. 2003. Measure of multilocus correlation as a new parameter for study of plant pathogen populations. Phytopathology 93: 1464-1470.
9. Kosman E., Pardes E., Anikster Y., Manisterski J., Ben Yehuda P., Szabo L. J., and Sharon A. 2004. Genetic variation and virulence on Lr26 in the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina. Phytopathology 94: 632-640.
10. Kosman E., Leonard K. J. 2005. Similarity coefficients for molecular markers in studies of genetic relationships between individuals for haploid, diploid, and polyploid species. Molecular Ecology 14: 415-424.
11. Kosman E., Leonard K. J. 2007. Conceptual Analysis of Methods Applied to Assessment of Diversity Within and Distance Between Populations with Asexual or Mixed Mode of Reproduction. New Phytologist 174: 683-696.
12. Hau B., Kosman E. 2007. Comparative Analysis of Flexible Two-Parameter Models of Plant Disease Epidemics. Phytopathology 97: 1231-1244.

1998 – Present Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv University.
1995 – 1998 Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
1991 – 1995 School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
1981 – 1990 Institute of Botany, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.