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January in preprints

Posted by , on 2 February 2021

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental biology (and related) preprints. 


The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv, arXiv and, for the first time, preprints.org (check out our new ‘Reviews’ section!) – use these links to get to the section you want.

Developmental biology

Patterning & signalling

Morphogenesis & mechanics

Genes & genomes

Stem cells, regeneration & disease modelling

Plant development

Evo-devo & evo
Cell biology
Modelling
Reviews
Tools & resources
Research practice & education

 

 

Developmental biology

| Patterning & signalling

Fatty acid metabolic reprogramming promotes C. elegans development
Xuwen Cao, Yusu Xie, Beining Xue, Hanwen Yang, L. Rene Garcia, Liusuo Zhang

 

Glowing worms in Rasmussen, et al.

 

Nuclear translocation of tagged endogenous ERK/MPK-1 MAP Kinase denotes a subset of activation events in C. elegans development
Neal R. Rasmussen, David J. Reiner

 

Neuronal post-developmentally acting SAX-7S/L1CAM can function as cleaved fragments to maintain neuronal architecture in C. elegans
V.E. Desse, C.R. Blanchette, P. Perrat, C.Y. Bénard

 

Amnion signals are essential for mesoderm formation in primates
Ran Yang, Alexander Goedel, Yu Kang, Chenyang Si, Chu Chu, Yi Zheng, Zhenzhen Chen, Peter J. Gruber, Yao Xiao, Chikai Zhou, Nevin Witman, Chuen-Yan Leung, Yongchang Chen, Jianping Fu, Weizhi Ji, Fredrik Lanner, Yuyu Niu, Kenneth Chien

 

Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 regulates the genesis of the rare displaced ganglion cell retinal subtype
Elena Kisseleff, Robin J Vigouroux, Catherine Hottin, Sophie Lourdel, Parth Shah, Alain Chédotal, Muriel Perron, Anand Swaroop, Jerome E Roger

 

Rostrocaudal patterning and neural crest differentiation of human pre-neural spinal cord progenitors in vitro
Fay Cooper, George E Gentsch, Richard Mitter, Camille Bouissou, Lyn Healy, Ana Hernandez Rodriguez, James C Smith, Andreia S Bernardo

 

PGCLC aggregates in Morgani and Hadjantonakis

 

Quantitative analysis of signaling responses during mouse primordial germ cell specification
Sophie M. Morgani, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

 

Cell competition acts as a purifying selection to eliminate cells with mitochondrial defects during early mouse development
Ana Lima, Gabriele Lubatti, Jörg Burgstaller, Di Hu, Alistair Green, Aida Di Gregorio, Tamzin Zawadzki, Barbara Pernaute, Elmir Mahammadov, Salvador Perez Montero, Marian Dore, Juan Miguel Sanchez, Sarah Bowling, Margarida Sancho, Mohammad Karimi, David Carling, Nick Jones, Shankar Srinivas, Antonio Scialdone, Tristan A. Rodriguez

 

Cell-to-cell heterogeneity in Sox2 and Brachyury expression ratios guides progenitor destiny by controlling their motility.
Michèle Romanos, Guillaume Allio, Léa Combres, Francois Médevielle, Nathalie Escalas, Cathy Soula, Ben Steventon, Ariane Trescases, Bertrand Bénazéraf

 

Mouse heads from Lo, et al.

 

Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits Hedgehog-dependent patterning during development
Hsiao-Fan Lo, Mingi Hong, Henrietta Szutorisz, Yasmin L. Hurd, Robert S. Krauss

 

A small increase in CHEK1 activity leads to the arrest of the first zygotic division in human
Beili Chen, Jianying Guo, Ting Wang, Qianhui Lee, Jia Ming, Fangfang Ding, Haitao Li, Zhiguo Zhang, Lin Li, Yunxia Cao, Jie Na

 

Mouse hearts in Miyamoto, et al.

 

Cardiac progenitors auto-regulate second heart field cell fate via Wnt secretion
Matthew Miyamoto, Suraj Kannan, Hideki Uosaki, Tejasvi Kakani, Sean Murphy, Peter Andersen, Chulan Kwon

 

Multiple sources of Shh are critical for the generation and scaling of ventral spinal cord oligodendrocyte precursor populations
Lev Starikov, Miruna Ghinia-Tegla, Andreas H. Kottmann

 

Mouse muscles from Ono, et al.

 

Scx-positive tendon cells are required for correct muscle patterning
Yudai Ono, Tempei Sato, Chisa Shukunami, Hiroshi Asahara, Masafumi Inui

 

Gradual differentiation uncoupled from cell cycle exit generates heterogeneity in the epidermal stem cell layer
Katie Cockburn, Karl Annusver, Smirthy Ganesan, Kailin R. Mesa, Kyogo Kawaguchi, Maria Kasper, Valentina Greco

 

The role of Gdf5 in the development of the zebrafish fin endoskeleton
Laura Waldmann, Jake Leyhr, Hanqing Zhang, Amin Allalou, Caroline Ohman-Magi, Tatjana Haitina

 

Mouse cochlea from Sun, et al.

 

Dual expression of Atoh1 and Ikzf2 promotes transformation of adult cochlear supporting cells into outer hair cells
Suhong Sun, Shuting Li, Zhengnan Luo, Minhui Ren, Shunji He, Guangqin Wang, Zhiyong Liu

 

Slit2 is necessary for optic axon organization in the zebrafish ventral midline
Camila Davison, Flavio R. Zolessi

 

Neuroepithelial organoid patterning is mediated by Wnt-driven Turing mechanism
Abdel Rahman Abdel Fattah, Sergei Grebenyuk, Idris Salmon, Adrian Ranga

 

GATA2 deficiency during embryogenesis elevates Interferon Regulatory Factor-8 to subvert a progenitor cell differentiation program
Emery H Bresnick, Kirby D Johnson

 

KIT is required for fetal liver erythropoiesis but dispensable for angiogenesis
Alessandro Fantin, Alice Plein, Carlotta Tacconi, Emanuela Villa, Elena Ceccacci, Laura Denti, Christiana Ruhrberg

 

Microglial Neuropilin-1 trans-regulates oligodendrocyte expansion during development and remyelination
Amin Sherafat, Friederike Pfeiffer, Alexander M. Reiss, William M. Wood, Akiko Nishiyama

 

BMP pathway antagonism by Grem1 regulates epithelial cell fate in intestinal regeneration
Martijn AJ Koppens, Hayley Davis, Gabriel N Valbuena, Eoghan J Mulholland, Nadia Nasreddin, Mathilde Colombe, Agne Antanaviciute, Sujata Biswas, Matthias Friedrich, Lennard Lee, Oxford IBD cohort investigators, Lai Mun Wang, Viktor H Koelzer, James E East, Alison Simmons, Douglas J Winton, Simon J Leedham

 

Differential requirement of NPHP1 for compartmentalized protein localization during photoreceptor outer segment development and maintenance
Poppy Datta, J. Thomas Cribbs, Seongjin Seo

 

Wnt target enhancer regulation by a CDX/TCF transcription factor collective and a novel DNA motif
Aravinda-Bharathi Ramakrishnan, Lisheng Chen, Peter Burby, Ken M. Cadigan

 

Fish spinal cords from Appel, et al.

 

Zebrafish spinal cord oligodendrocyte formation requires boc function
Bruce Appel, Christina A Kearns, Macie Walker, Andrew M Ravanelli, Kayt Scott, Madeline R Arzbecker

 

FOXO1 and FOXO3 cooperatively regulate innate lymphoid cell development
Thuy T. Luu, Jonas Nørskov Søndergaard, Lucía Peña-Pérez, Shabnam Kharazi, Aleksandra Krstic, Stephan Meinke, Laurent Schmied, Nicolai Frengen, Yaser Heshmati, Marcin Kierczak, Thibault Bouderlique, Arnika Kathleen Wagner, Charlotte Gustafsson, Benedict J. Chambers, Adnane Achour, Claudia Kutter, Petter Höglund, Robert Månsson, Nadir Kadri

 

PEDF and Derived Peptides Prevent Apoptosis and Promote Differentiation of Retinal Photoreceptors
Germán Michelis, Olga Lorena German, Rafael Villasmil, Nora P. Rotstein, Luis Politi, S Patricia Becerra

 

Cep55 regulation of PI3K/Akt signaling is required for neocortical development and ciliogenesis
Behnam Rashidieh, Belal Shohayeb, Amanda Louise Bain, Patrick R. J. Fortuna, Debottam Sinha, Andrew Burgess, Richard Mills, Rachael C. Adams, J. Alejandro Lopez, Peter Blumbergs, John Finnie, Murugan Kalimutho, Michael Piper, James Edward Hudson, Dominic Ng, Kum kum Khanna

 

Hyperoxia Inhibits the Growth of Mouse Forebrain Oligodendrocyte Progenitors
Lisamarie Moore, Lauren E. McLane, Stacey Wahl, Isis M. Ornelas, Teresa L. Wood, Peter Canoll, Steven W. Levison

 

PTEN regulates adipocyte progenitor growth, differentiation and cellular aging
Anna S. Kirstein, Stephanie Kehr, Michèle Nebe, Judith Lorenz, Melanie Penke, Jana Breitfeld, Diana Le Duc, Peter Kovacs, Peter F. Stadler, Wieland Kiess, Antje Garten

 

Vangl2, a core component of the WNT/PCP pathway, regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis and age-related decline in cognitive flexibility
M Koehl, E Ladevèze, M Montcouquiol, DN Abrous

 

Developmental emergence of two-stage nonlinear synaptic integration in cerebellar interneurons
Laurence Cathala, Celia Biane, Florian Rückerl, David DiGregorio, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Therese Abrahamsson, Cécile Saint-Cloment, Jean Mariani, Rachel M Sherrard

 

Intrinsic network activity in human brain organoids
Tal Sharf, Tjitse van der Molen, Elmer Guzman, Stella M.K. Glasauer, Gabriel Luna, Zhouwei Cheng, Morgane Audouard, Kamalini G. Ranasinghe, Kiwamu Kudo, Srikantan S. Nagarajan, Kenneth R. Tovar, Linda R. Petzold, Paul K. Hansma, Kenneth S. Kosik

 

mTOR inhibition represses transcription of cholesterol biosynthesis genes and alters cholesterol levels in primary neurons and in the developing brain
Martin Schüle, Tamer Butto, Sri Dewi, Susanne Strand, Susanne Gerber, Kristina Endres, Susann Schweiger, Jennifer Winter

 

Mitochondrial fusion regulates proliferation and differentiation in the type II neuroblast lineage in Drosophila
Dnyanesh Dubal, Prachiti Moghe, Bhavin Uttekar, Richa Rikhy

 

Gelsolin and dCryAB act downstream of muscle identity genes and contribute to preventing muscle splitting and branching in Drosophila
Benjamin Bertin, Yoan Renaud, Teresa Jagla, Guillaume Lavergne, Cristiana Dondi, Jean-Philippe Da Ponte, Guillaume Junion, Krzysztof Jagla

 

AP2 regulates Thickveins trafficking through Rab11 to attenuate NMJ growth signaling in Drosophila
Manish Kumar Dwivedi, Saumitra Dey Choudhury, Abhinandan Patnaik, Shirish Mishra, Raghu Padinjat, Vimlesh Kumar

 

Bazooka/Par3 cooperates with Sanpodo for the assembly of Notch signaling clusters following asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursor cells
Elise Houssin, Mathieu Pinot, Karen Bellec, Roland Le Borgne

 

 

 

| Morphogenesis & mechanics

 

Cell shape anisotropy and motility constrain self-organised feather pattern fidelity in birds
Camille Curantz, Richard Bailleul, Magdalena Hidalgo, Melina Durande, François Graner, Marie Manceau

 

The Biomechanical Basis of Biased Epithelial Tube Elongation in Lung and Kidney Development
Lisa Conrad, Steve Runser, Harold Gomez, Christine Lang, Mathilde Dumont, Aleksandra Sapala, Laura Kramps, Odysse Michos, Roman Vetter, Dagmar Iber

 

Subcellular tube guidance requires anchoring of the apical and basal actin cortices through late endosomes
LD Rios-Barrera, M Leptin

 

Actin dependent membrane polarization reveals the mechanical nature of the neuroblast polarity cycle
Bryce LaFoya, Kenneth E. Prehoda

 

Pulsatile actomyosin contractions underlie Par polarity during the neuroblast polarity cycle
Chet Huan Oon, Kenneth E. Prehoda

 

Septate junction proteins are required for egg elongation and border cell migration during oogenesis in Drosophila
Haifa Alhadyian, Dania Shoaib, Robert Edwin Ward

 

Invivo and systematic analysis of random multigenic deletions associated with human diseases during epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila
Usha Nagarajan, Shanmugasundaram Pakkiriswami, Sandiya Srinivasan, Niveditha Ramkumar, Rajeswari Rajaraman, Kumarasamy Thangaraj

 

Fly embryos from Guru, et al.

 

Moving patronin foci and growing microtubule plus ends direct the spatiotemporal dynamics of Rho signaling and myosin during apical constriction
Anwesha Guru, Surat Saravanan, Deepanshu Sharma, Maithreyi Narasimha

 

20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) signaling regulates amnioserosa morphogenesis during Drosophila dorsal closure: Ecdysone receptor modulates gene expression in a complex with the AP-1 component, Jun
Byoungjoo Yoo, Hae-yoon Kim, Xi Chen, Weiping Shen, Ji Sun Jang, Olga Cormier, Charles Krieger, Bruce Reed, Nicholas Harden, Simon Ji Hau Wang

 

Mechanical control of morphogenetic robustness in an inherently challenging environment
Emmanuel Martin, Sophie Theis, Guillaume Gay, Bruno Monier, Christian Rouvière, Magali Suzanne

 

Ataxin-2 is essential for neurodevelopment in Drosophila and is a major regulator of the cytoskeleton
Urko del Castillo, Rosalind Norkett, Anna Serpinskaya, Vladimir I. Gelfand

 

Eya1-dependent homeostasis of morphogenetic territories during collective cell migration
Hernan Lopez-Schier, Matthias Hammerschmidt, Koichi Kawakami, Filipe Pinto Teixeira, Jeronimo R Miranda Rodriguez, Augusto Borges, Indra Wibowo

 

Functional plasticity of polarity proteins controls epithelial tissue architecture
Cornélia Biehler, Katheryn E. Rothenberg, Alexandra Jetté, Hélori-Mael Gaudé, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Patrick Laprise

 

Rapid assembly of a polar network architecture drives efficient actomyosin contractility
Vlad Costache, Serena Prigent Garcia, Camille N. Plancke, Jing Li, Simon Begnaud, Shashi Kumar Suman, Anne-Cécile Reymann, Taeyoon Kim, François B. Robin

 

Yolk platelets impede nuclear expansion in Xenopus embryos
Sora Shimogama, Yasuhiro Iwao, Yuki Hara

 

Worm embryos from Jankele, et al.

 

Physically asymmetric division of the C. elegans zygote ensures invariably successful embryogenesis
Radek Jankele, Rob Jelier, Pierre Gönczy

 

CYK-1/Formin activation in cortical RhoA signaling centers promotes organismal left-right symmetry breaking
Teije C. Middelkoop, Júlia Garcia-Baucells, Porfirio Quintero-Cadena, Lokesh G. Pimpale, Shahrzad Yazdi, Paul Sternberg, Peter Gross, Stephan W. Grill

 

Worm embryos from Ozugergin, et al.

 

The Ran pathway uniquely regulates cytokinesis in cells with different fates in the early C. elegans embryo
Imge Ozugergin, Karina Mastronardi, Chris Law, Alisa Piekny

 

Regulation of apical constriction via microtubule- and Rab11-dependent apical transport during tissue invagination
Thao Phuong Le, SeYeon Chung

 

The recycling endosome protein Rab25 coordinates collective cell movements in the zebrafish surface epithelium
Patrick Morley Willoughby, Molly Allen, Jessica Yu, Roman Korytnikov, Tianhui Chen, Yupeng Liu, Isis So, Neil Macpherson, Jennifer Mitchell, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Ashley E. E. Bruce

 

The Amot/Integrin protein complex transmits mechanical forces required for vascular expansion
Yuanyuan Zhang, Yumeng Zhang, Sumako Kameishi, Giuseppina Barutello, Yujuan Zheng, Nicholas P. Tobin, John Nicosia, Katharina Hennig, David Kung-Chun Chiu, Martial Balland, Thomas H. Barker, Federica Cavallo, Lars Holmgren

 

Hepatocyte lumens and nuclei from Belicova, et al.

 

Bulkhead-like apical membrane structures between hepatocytes are required for anisotropic lumen expansion and liver tissue morphogenesis
Lenka Belicova, Urska Repnik, Julien Delpierre, Elzbieta Gralinska, Sarah Seifert, José Ignacio Valenzuela, Hernán Andrés Morales-Navarrete, Christian Franke, Helin Räägel, Evgeniya Shcherbinina, Tatiana Prikazchikova, Victor Koteliansky, Martin Vingron, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Timofei Zatsepin, Marino Zerial

 

Convergent extension requires adhesion-dependent biomechanical integration of cell crawling and junction contraction
Shinuo Weng, Robert J. Huebner, John B. Wallingford

 

A two-phase model of skin epidermal stratification: lessons from centrosomes
Mareike Damen, Lisa Wirtz, Ekaterina Soroka, Houda Khatif, Christian Kukat, Benjamin D. Simons, Hisham Bazzi

 

Endothelial NRP2 influences angiogenesis by regulating actin pattern development and α5-integrin-p-FAK complex recruitment to assembling adhesion sites
Christopher J Benwell, James AGE Taylor, Stephen D Robinson

 

Muscle-specific Cavin4 interacts with Bin1 to promote T-tubule formation and stability in developing skeletal muscle
Harriet P. Lo, Ye-Wheen Lim, Zherui Xiong, Nick Martel, Charles Ferguson, Nicholas R. Ariotti, Jean Giacomotto, James A. Rae, Matthias Floetenmeyer, Shayli Varasteh Moradi, Ya Gao, Vikas A. Tillu, Di Xia, Huang Wang, Samira Rahnama, Susan J. Nixon, Michele Bastiani, Ryan D. Day, Kelly A. Smith, Nathan J. Palpant, Wayne A. Johnston, Kirill Alexandrov, Brett M. Collins, Thomas E. Hall, Robert G. Parton

 

Lrrcc1 and Ccdc61 are conserved effectors of multiciliated cell function
Aude Nommick, Camille Boutin, Olivier Rosnet, Elsa Bazellieres, Virginie Thome, Etienne Loiseau, Annie Viallat, Laurent Kodjabachian

 

Basal epidermis collective migration and local Sonic hedgehog signaling promote skeletal branching morphogenesis in zebrafish fins
Joshua A. Braunstein, Amy E. Robbins, Scott Stewart, Kryn Stankunas

 

Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as perceived by cells in vivo
Alessandro Mongera, Marie Pochitaloff, Hannah J. Gustafson, Georgina A. Stooke-Vaughan, Payam Rowghanian, Otger Campàs

 

High resolution, dynamic imaging of early mouse and human liver bud morphogenesis in three dimensions
Tala Mon, Ogechi Ogoke, Daniel Guiggey, Claire Shamul, Shatoni Ross, Saroja Rao, Natesh Parashurama

 

Mouse embryonic palatal mesenchyme cells from Goering, et al.

 

In-frame deletion of SPECC1L microtubule binding domain results in embryonic tissue movement and fusion defects
Jeremy P. Goering, Luke W. Wenger, Marta Stetsiv, Michael Moedritzer, Everett G. Hall, Dona Greta Isai, Brittany Jack, Zaid Umar, Madison K. Rickabaugh, Andras Czirok, Irfan Saadi

 

Cell cycle-dependent active stress drives epithelia remodeling
John Devany, Daniel M. Sussman, Takaki Yamamoto, M. Lisa Manning, Margaret L. Gardel

 

 

 

| Genes & genomes

 

Unveiling unexpected complexity and multipotentiality of early heart fields
Qingquan Zhang, Daniel Carlin, Fugui Zhu, Paola Cattaneo, Trey Ideker, Sylvia Evans, Joshua Bloomekatz, Neil C Chi

 

Spatiotemporal transcriptional dynamics of the cycling mouse oviduct
Elle C. Roberson, Anna M. Battenhouse, Riddhiman K. Garge, Ngan Kim Tran, Edward M. Marcotte, John B. Wallingford

 

Semi-coordinated allelic-bursting shape dynamic random monoallelic expression in pre-gastrulation embryos
C H Naik, K Hari, D Chandel, S Mandal, M K Jolly, S Gayen

 

Recovering planarians from Arnold et al.

 

Hox genes regulate asexual reproductive behavior and tissue segmentation in adult animals
Christopher P. Arnold, Analí Migueles Lozano, Frederick G. Mann Jr., Jeffrey J. Lange, Christopher Seidel, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

 

Zebrafish Polycomb repressive complex-2 critical roles are largely Ezh2- over Ezh1-driven and concentrate during early embryogenesis
Gabriel A. Yette, Scott Stewart, Kryn Stankunas

 

Transcriptome profile of the zebrafish atrioventricular canal reveals molecular signatures of pacemaker and valve mesenchyme
Abu Nahia Karim, Migdał Maciej, Quinn T. Alexander, Poon Kar-Lai, Łapinski Maciej, Sulej Agata, Pawlak Michał, Bugajski Łukasz, Piwocka Katarzyna, Brand Thomas, Kohl Peter, Korzh Vladimir, Winata Cecilia

 

Production of functional oocytes requires maternally expressed PIWI genes and piRNAs in golden hamsters
Hidetoshi Hasuwa, Yuka W Iwasaki, Au Yeung Wan Kin, Kyoko Ishino, Harumi Masuda, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Haruhiko Siomi

 

Mouse testes from Maezawa, et al.

 

Polycomb suppresses a female gene regulatory network in Sertoli cells
So Maezawa, Masashi Yukawa, Kazuteru Hasegawa, Ryo Sugiyama, Mengwen Hu, Miguel Vidal, Haruhiko Koseki, Artem Barski, Tony DeFalco, Satoshi H. Namekawa

 

Altered temporal sequence of transcriptional regulators in the generation of human cerebellar granule cells
Hourinaz Behesti, Arif Kocabas, David E. Buchholz, Thomas S. Carroll, Mary E. Hatten

 

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues
MAMMALIAN METHYLATION CONSORTIUM, Ake T. Lu, Zhe Fei, Amin Haghani, Todd R. Robeck, Joseph A. Zoller, Caesar Z. Li, Joshua Zhang, Julia Ablaeva, Danielle M. Adams, Javier Almunia, Reza Ardehali, Adriana Arneson, C. Scott Baker, Katherine Belov, Pete Black, Daniel T. Blumstein, Eleanor K. Bors, Charles E. Breeze, Robert T. Brooke, Janine L. Brown, Alex Caulton, Julie M. Cavin, Ioulia Chatzistamou, Hao Chen, Priscila Chiavellini, Oi-Wa Choi, Shannon Clarke, Joseph DeYoung, Christopher Dold, Candice K. Emmons, Stephan Emmrich, Chris G. Faulkes, Steven H. Ferguson, Carrie J. Finno, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Eva Garde, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Rodolfo G. Goya, Matthew J Grant, Erin N. Hales, M. Bradley Hanson, Martin Haulena, Andrew N. Hogan, Carolyn J. Hogg, Timothy A. Hore, Anna J. Jasinska, Gareth Jones, Eve Jourdain, Olga Kashpur, Harold Katcher, Etsuko Katsumata, Vimala Kaza, Hippokratis Kiaris, Michael S. Kobor, Pawel Kordowitzki, William R. Koski, Brenda Larison, Sang-Goo Lee, Ye C. Lee, Marianne Lehmann, Jean-Francois Lemaitre, Andrew J. Levine, Cun Li, Xinmin Li, David TS Lin, Nicholas Macoretta, Dewey Maddox, Craig O. Matkin, Julie A. Mattison, June Mergl, Jennifer J. Meudt, Khyobeni Mozhui, Asieh Naderi, Martina Nagy, Pritika Narayan, Peter W. Nathanielsz, Ngoc B. Nguyen, Christof Niehrs, Alexander G. Ophir, Elaine A. Ostrander, Perrie O’Tierney Ginn, Kim M. Parsons, Kimberly C. Paul, Matteo Pellegrini, Gabriela M. Pinho, Jocelyn Plassais, Natalia A. Prado, Benjamin Rey, Beate R. Ritz, Jooke Robbins, Magdalena Rodriguez, Jennifer Russell, Elena Rydkina, Lindsay L. Sailer, Adam B. Salmon, Akshay Sanghavi, Kyle M. Schachtschneider, Dennis Schmitt, Todd Schmitt, Lars Schomacher, Lawrence B. Schook, Karen E. Sears, Andrei Seluanov, Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Anastasia Shindyapina, Kavita Singh, Ishani Sinha, Russel G. Snell, Elham Soltanmaohammadi, Matthew L. Spangler, Lydia Staggs, Karen J. Steinman, Victoria J. Sugrue, Balazs Szladovits, Masaki Takasugi, Emma C. Teeling, Michael J. Thompson, Bill Van Bonn, Sonja C. Vernes, Diego Villar, Harry V. Vinters, Mary C. Wallingford, Nan Wang, Robert K. Wayne, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Christopher K. Williams, Robert W. Williams, X. William Yang, Brent G. Young, Bohan Zhang, Zhihui Zhang, Peng Zhao, Yang Zhao, Joerg Zimmermann, Wanding Zhou, Jason Ernst, Ken Raj, Steve Horvath

 

A sexual dimorphic role of the miR-465 cluster in placental development
Zhuqing Wang, Nan Meng, Yue Wang, Tong Zhou, Musheng Li, Shawn Wang, Sheng Chen, Huili Zheng, Shuangbo Kong, Haibin Wang, Wei Yan

 

Meiosis-specific ZFP541 repressor complex promotes meiotic prophase exit during spermatogenesis
Yuki Horisawa-Takada, Chisato Kodera, Kazumasa Takemoto, Akihiko Sakashita, Kenichi Horisawa, Ryo Maeda, Shingo Usuki, Sayoko Fujimura, Naoki Tani, Kumi Matsuura, Ryuki Shimada, Tomohiko Akiyama, Atsushi Suzuki, Hitoshi Niwa, Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Ohba, Hidetaka Katabuchi, Satoshi H. Namekawa, Kimi Araki, Kei-ichiro Ishiguro

 

Codon composition in human oocytes reveals age-associated defects in mRNA decay
Nehemiah S. Alvarez, Pavla Brachova, Lane K. Christenson

 

Multiple RNA regulatory pathways coordinate the activity and expression pattern of a conserved germline RNA-binding protein
Mennatallah M.Y. Albarqi, Sean P. Ryder

 

A miR-124-mediated post-transcriptional mechanism controlling the cell fate switch of astrocytes to induced-neurons
Elsa Papadimitriou, Paraskevi N. Koutsoudaki, Timokratis Karamitros, Dimitra Karagkouni, Dafni Chroni-Tzartou, Christos Gkemisis, Maria Margariti, Evangelia Xingi, Irini Thanou, Socrates J. Tzartos, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou, Dimitra Thomaidou

 

Identification of TIA1 mRNA targets during human neuronal development
Loryn P. Byres, Marat Mufteev, Kyoko E. Yuki, Wei Wei, Alina Piekna, Michael D. Wilson, Deivid C. Rodrigues, James Ellis

 

Dnmt3a knockout in excitatory neurons impairs postnatal synapse maturation and is partly compensated by repressive histone modification H3K27me3
Junhao Li, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Mark Zander, Chi-Yu Lai, Julia Osteen, Linjing Fang, Chongyuan Luo, Jacinta D. Lucero, Rosa Gomez-Castanon, Joseph R. Nery, Isai Silva-Garcia, Yan Pang, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Susan B. Powell, Joseph R. Ecker, Eran A. Mukamel, M. Margarita Behrens

 

Complexity and graded regulation of neuronal cell type-specific alternative splicing revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing
Huijuan Feng, Daniel F Moakley, Shuonan Chen, Melissa G McKenzie, Vilas Menon, Chaolin Zhang

 

Mouse cochlea from Ahmed et al.

 

The chromatin remodelling factor Chd7 protects auditory neurons and sensory hair cells from stress-induced degeneration
Mohi Ahmed, Ruth Moon, Ravindra Singh Prajapati, Elysia James, M. Albert Basson, Andrea Streit

 

Loss of Foxc1 and Foxc2 function in chondroprogenitor cells disrupts endochondral ossification.
Asra Almubarak, Rotem Lavy, Nikola Srnic, Yawen Hu, Devi P Maripuri, Tsutomo Kume, Fred B Berry

 

Control of neurogenic competence in mammalian hypothalamic tanycytes
Sooyeon Yoo, Juhyun Kim, Pin Lyu, Thanh V. Hoang, Alex Ma, Vickie Trinh, Weina Dai, Lizhi Jiang, Patrick Leavey, Jae-Kyung Won, Sung-Hye Park, Jiang Qian, Solange P. Brown, Seth Blackshaw

 

Chromatin and gene-regulatory dynamics of the developing human cerebral cortex at single-cell resolution
Alexandro E. Trevino, Fabian Müller, Jimena Andersen, Laksshman Sundaram, Arwa Kathiria, Anna Shcherbina, Kyle Farh, Howard Y. Chang, Anca M. Paşca, Anshul Kundaje, Sergiu P. Paşca, William J. Greenleaf

 

Cell type resolved co-expression networks of core clock genes in brain development
Surbhi Sharma, Asgar Hussain Ansari, Soundhar Ramasamy

 

Dicer promotes genome stability via the bromodomain transcriptional co-activator Brd4
MJ Gutbrod, B Roche, JI Steinberg, AA Lakhani, K Chang, AJ Schorn, RA Martienssen

 

Single-cell transcriptome lineage tracing of human pancreatic development identifies distinct developmental trajectories of alpha and beta cells
Li Lin, Yufeng Zhang, Weizhou Qian, Yao Liu, Yingkun Zhang, Fanghe Lin, Cenxi Liu, Guangxing Lu, YanLing Song, Jia Song, Chaoyong Yang, Jin Li

 

Single Cell Enhancer Activity Maps Neuronal Lineages in Embryonic Mouse Basal Ganglia
Linda Su-Feher, Anna N. Rubin, Shanni N. Silberberg, Rinaldo Catta-Preta, Kenneth J. Lim, Iva Zdilar, Christopher S. McGinnis, Gabriel L. McKinsey, Thomas E. Rubino Jr., Michael Hawrylycz, Carol Thompson, Zev J. Gartner, Luis Puelles, Hongkui Zeng, John L. R. Rubenstein, Alex S. Nord

 

A Single Cell Atlas of Lung Development
Nicholas M Negretti, Erin J Plosa, John T Benjamin, Bryce A Schuler, A. Christian Habermann, Christopher S Jetter, Chase J Taylor, Peter Gulleman, David Nichols, Brittany K Matlock, Susan H Guttentag, Timothy S Blackwell, Nicholas E Banovich, Jonathan A Kropski, Jennifer MS Sucre

 

Molecular profiling of retinal pigment epithelial cell differentiation for therapeutic use
Sandra Petrus-Reurer, Alex R Lederer, Laura Baqué-Vidal, Iyadh Douagi, Belinda Pannagel, Monica Aronsson, Hammurabi Bartuma, Magdalena Wagner, Helder André, Erik Sundström, Aparna Bhaduri, Arnold Kriegstein, Anders Kvanta, Gioele La Manno, Fredrik Lanner

 

Single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals penaeid shrimp hemocyte subpopulations and cell differentiation process
Keiichiro Koiwai, Takashi Koyama, Soichiro Tsuda, Atsushi Toyoda, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Hiroaki Suzuki, Ryuji Kawano

 

A single cell atlas reveals unanticipated cell type complexity in Drosophila ovaries
Maija Slaidina, Selena Gupta, Ruth Lehmann

 

Single-cell sequencing of the Drosophila embryonic heart and muscle cells during differentiation and maturation
Georg Vogler, Bill Hum, Marco Tamayo, Yoav Altman, Rolf Bodmer

 

Fly discs from Loker, et al.

 

Ubx orchestrates tissue identity through regional and bidirectional changes to chromatin accessibility
Ryan Loker, Jordyn E. Sanner, Richard S. Mann

 

Fly embryos from Mendoza-Garcia, et al.

 

DamID transcriptional profiling identifies the Snail/Scratch transcription factor Kahuli as Alk target in the Drosophila visceral mesoderm
Patricia Mendoza-Garcia, Swaraj Basu, Sanjay Kumar Sukumar, Badrul Arefin, Georg Wolfstetter, Vimala Anthonydhason, Linnea Molander, Henrik Lindehell, Jan Larsson, Erik Larsson, Mats Bemark, Ruth H. Palmer

 

GAF is essential for zygotic genome activation and chromatin accessibility in the early Drosophila embryo
Marissa M. Gaskill, Tyler J. Gibson, Elizabeth D. Larson, Melissa M. Harrison

 

Genetic variation among wMel strains of Wolbachia pipientis differentially rescues a bag of marbles partial loss of function mutant in Drosophila melanogaster
Jaclyn E. Bubnell, Paula Fernandez-Begne, Cynthia K. Ulbing, Charles F. Aquadro

 

Proapoptotic RHG genes and mitochondria play a key non-apoptotic role in remodelling the Drosophila sensory system
Amrita Mukherjee, Sinziana Pop, Shu Kondo, Darren W Williams

 

High levels of Dorsal transcription factor downregulate, not promote, snail expression by regulating enhancer action
Jihyun Irizarry, James McGehee, Angelike Stathopoulos

 

 

 

| Stem cells, regeneration & disease modelling

Self-organized stem cell-derived human lung buds with proximo-distal patterning and novel targets of SARS-CoV-2
E.A. Rosado-Olivieri, B. Razooky, H.-H. Hoffmann, R. De Santis, C.M. Rice, A.H Brivanlou

 

hPSCs in Kim, et al.

 

Multiplexed live visualization of cell fate dynamics in hPSCs at single-cell resolution
Sungmin Kim, Edward Ren, Paola Marco Casanova, Eugenia Piddini, Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas

 

BMP-treated human embryonic stem cells transcriptionally resemble amnion cells in the monkey embryo
Sapna Chhabra, Aryeh Warmflash

 

Cell-cell communication through FGF4 generates and maintains robust proportions of differentiated cell types in embryonic stem cells
Dhruv Raina, Azra Bahadori, Angel Stanoev, Michelle Protzek, Aneta Koseska, Christian Schröter

 

Fish embryos and organoids in Zilova, et al.

 

Fish primary embryonic stem cells self-assemble into retinal tissue mirroring in vivo early eye development
Lucie Zilova, Venera Weinhardt, Tinatini Tavhelidse, Thomas Thumberger, Joachim Wittbrodt

 

Constitutive high expression of NOXA sensitizes human embryonic stem cells for rapid cell death
Richa Basundra, Sahil Kapoor, Emilie Hollville, Nazanin Kiapour, Adriana Beltran Lopez, Nicole Marie Melchiorre, Mohanish Deshmukh

 

A signaling axis involving CNOT3, Aurora B and ERK promotes mesendodermal differentiation of ES cells
Moumita Sarkar, Matteo Martufi, Monica Roman-Trufero, Yi-Fang Wang, Chad Whilding, Dirk Dormann, Pierangela Sabbattini, Niall Dillon

 

Cell cycle exit and stem cell differentiation are coupled through regulation of mitochondrial activity in the Drosophila testis
Diego Sainz de la Maza, Silvana Hof-Michel, Lee Phillimore, Christian Bökel, Marc Amoyel

 

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived three-dimensional cardiomyocyte tissues ameliorate the rat ischemic myocardium by remodeling the extracellular matrix and cardiac protein phenotype
Junya Yokoyama, Shigeru Miyagawa, Takami Akagi, Mitsuru Akashi, Yoshiki Sawa

 

Nuclear m6A reader Ythdc1 regulates the scaffold function of LINE1 in mouse ESCs
Chuan Chen, Wenqiang Liu, Jiayin Guo, Yuanyuan Liu, Xuelian Liu, Jun Liu, Xiaoyang Dou, Rongrong Le, Yixin Huang, Chong Li, Lingyue Yang, Xiaochen Kou, Yanhong Zhao, You Wu, Jiayu Chen, Hong Wang, Bin Shen, Yawei Gao, Shaorong Gao

 

Robust integrated intracellular organization of the human iPS cell: where, how much, and how variable
Matheus P. Viana, Jianxu Chen, Theo A. Knijnenburg, Ritvik Vasan, Calysta Yan, Joy E. Arakaki, Matte Bailey, Ben Berry, Antoine Borensztejn, Jackson M. Brown, Sara Carlson, Julie A. Cass, Basudev Chaudhuri, Kimberly R. Cordes Metzler, Mackenzie E. Coston, Zach J. Crabtree, Steve Davidson, Colette M. DeLizo, Shailja Dhaka, Stephanie Q. Dinh, Thao P. Do, Justin Domingus, Rory M. Donovan-Maiye, Tyler J. Foster, Christopher L. Frick, Griffin Fujioka, Margaret A. Fuqua, Jamie L. Gehring, Kaytlyn A. Gerbin, Tanya Grancharova, Benjamin W. Gregor, Lisa J. Harrylock, Amanda Haupt, Melissa C. Hendershott, Caroline Hookway, Alan R. Horwitz, Chris Hughes, Eric J. Isaac, Gregory R. Johnson, Brian Kim, Andrew N. Leonard, Winnie W. Leung, Jordan J. Lucas, Susan A. Ludmann, Blair M. Lyons, Haseeb Malik, Ryan McGregor, Gabe E. Medrash, Sean L. Meharry, Kevin Mitcham, Irina A. Mueller, Timothy L. Murphy-Stevens, Aditya Nath, Angelique M. Nelson, Luana Paleologu, T. Alexander Popiel, Megan M. Riel-Mehan, Brock Roberts, Lisa M. Schaefbauer, Magdalena Schwarzl, Jamie Sherman, Sylvain Slaton, M. Filip Sluzewski, Jacqueline E. Smith, Youngmee Sul, Madison J. Swain-Bowden, W. Joyce Tang, Derek J. Thirstrup, Daniel M. Toloudis, Andrew P. Tucker, Veronica Valencia, Winfried Wiegraebe, Thushara Wijeratna, Ruian Yang, Rebecca J. Zaunbrecher, Allen Institute for Cell Science, Graham T. Johnson, Ruwanthi N. Gunawardane, Nathalie Gaudreault, Julie A. Theriot, Susanne M. Rafelski

 

Identification of X-chromosomal genes that drive global X-dosage effects in mouse embryonic stem cells
Oriana Genolet, Anna A. Monaco, Ilona Dunkel, Michael Boettcher, Edda G. Schulz

 

Neural stem cells in Rossi, et al.

 

Neural stem cells alter nucleocytoplasmic partitioning and accumulate nuclear polyadenylated transcripts during quiescence
A. Rossi, A. Coum, M. Madelenat, L. Harris, A. Miedzik, S. Strohbuecker, A. Chai, H. Fiaz, R. Chaouni, P. Faull, W. Grey, D. Bonnet, E. V. Makeyev, A. P. Snijders, G. Kelly, F. Guillemot, R. Sousa-Nunes

 

Standardized quality control workflow to evaluate the reproducibility and differentiation potential of human iPSCs into neurons
Carol X.-Q. Chen, Narges Abdian, Gilles Maussion, Rhalena A. Thomas, Iveta Demirova, Eddie Cai, Mahdieh Tabatabaei, Lenore K. Beitel, Jason Karamchandani, Edward A. Fon, Thomas M. Durcan

 

Dynamic adult tracheal plasticity drives stem cell adaptation to changes in intestinal homeostasis.
Jessica Perochon, Gabriel N Aughey, Tony Southall, Julia B Cordero

 

Pannexin 1 influences lineage specification of human iPSCs
Rebecca J. Noort, Grace A. Christopher, Jessica L. Esseltine

 

HLF Expression Defines the Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell State
Bernhard Lehnertz, Jalila Chagraoui, Tara MacRae, Elisa Tomellini, Sophie Corneau, Nadine Mayotte, Isabel Boivin, Guy Sauvageau

 

Induced neural differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells affects lipid metabolism pathways
Pnina Green, Inna Kan, Ronit Mesilati-Stahy, Nurit Argov-Argaman, Daniel Offen

 

Engineering a niche supporting haematopoietic stem cell development using integrated single cell transcriptomics
Brandon Hadland, Barbara Varnum-Finney, Stacey Dozono, Tessa Dignum, Cynthia Nourigat-McKay, Dana L Jackson, Tomer Itkin, Jason M. Butler, Shahin Rafii, Cole Trapnell, Irwin D. Bernstein

 

Detection of hematopoietic stem cell transcriptome in human fetal kidneys and kidney organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)
Jin Wook Hwang, Christophe Desterke, Julien Loisel-Duwattez, Frank Griscelli, Annelise Bennaceur-Griscelli, Ali G Turhan

 

Megakaryocyte Progenitor Cell Function is Enhanced Upon Aging Despite the Functional Decline of Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Donna Poscablo, Atesh Worthington, Stephanie Smith-Berdan, Camilla Forsberg

 

Characterization in mice of the stromal niche maintaining AT2 stem cell self-renewal in homeostasis and disease
Sara Taghizadeh, Monika Heiner, Jochen Wilhelm, Susanne Herold, Chengshui Chen, JinSan Zhang, Saverio Bellusci

 

Y705 and S727 are required for mitochondrial import and transcriptional activities of STAT3 and regulate proliferation of embryonic and tissue stem cells
Margherita Peron, Giacomo Meneghetti, Alberto Dinarello, Laura Martorano, Riccardo M. Betto, Nicola Facchinello, Annachiara Tesoriere, Natascia Tiso, Graziano Martello, Francesco Argenton

 

ACVR1R206H increases osteogenic/ECM gene expression and impairs myofiber formation in human skeletal muscle stem cells
Emilie Barruet, Steven M. Garcia, Jake Wu, Blanca M. Morales, Stanley Tamaki, Tania Moody, Jason H. Pomerantz, Edward C. Hsiao

 

Histone Deacetylase 2 (HDAC2) influences maturation and mitochondrial dynamics in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons
Harald Frankowski, Fred Yeboah, Bonnie J. Berry, Chizuru Kinoshita, Michelle Lee, Kira Evitts, Joshua Davis, Yoshito Kinoshita, Richard S. Morrison, Jessica E. Young

 

Trajectory reconstruction identifies dysregulation of perinatal maturation programs in pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Suraj Kannan, Matthew Miyamoto, Brian L Lin, Chulan Kwon

 

In-depth analysis of proteomic and genomic fluctuations during the time course of human embryonic stem cells directed differentiation into beta cells
Bogdan Budnik, Juerg Straubhaar, John Neveu, Dmitry Shvartsman

 

Drosophila intestinal trachea cells from Tamamouna, et al.

 

Remodeling of oxygen-transporting tracheoles drives intestinal regeneration and tumorigenesis
Vasilia Tamamouna, M. Mahidur Rahman, Monika Petersson, Irini Charalambous, Kristina Kux, Hannah Mainor, Verena Bolender, Buse Isbilir, Bruce A. Edgar, Chrysoula Pitsouli

 

In vivo proximity labeling identifies cardiomyocyte protein networks during zebrafish heart regeneration
Mira I. Pronobis, Susan Zheng, Sumeet P. Singh, Kenneth D. Poss

 

Hydrodynamic stress and phenotypic plasticity of the zebrafish regenerating fin
Paule Dagenais, Simon Blanchoud, David Pury, Catherine Pfefferli, Tinri Aegerter-Wilmsen, Christof M. Aegerter, Anna Jaźwińska

 

Extracellular histones, a new class of inhibitory molecules of CNS axonal regeneration
Mustafa M. Siddiq, Sari S. Hannila, Yana Zorina, Elena Nikulina, Vera Rabinovich, Jianwei Hou, Rumana Huq, Erica L. Richman, Rosa E. Tolentino, Jens Hansen, Adam Velenosi, Brian K. Kwon, Stella E. Tsirka, Ian Maze, Robert Sebra, Ravi Iyengar, Marie T. Filbin

 

Regenerating planarians from Sakar, et al.

 

DDX24, a D-E-A-D box RNA helicase, is required for muscle fiber organization and anterior pole specification essential for head regeneration in planarians
Souradeep R. Sarkar, Vinay Kumar Dubey, Anusha Jahagirdar, Vairavan Lakshmanan, Mohamed Mohamed Haroon, Sai Sowndarya, Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Dasaradhi Palakodeti

 

Formation and Spontaneous Long-Term Repatterning of Headless Planarian Flatworms
Johanna Bischof, Jennifer V. LaPalme, Kelsie A. Miller, Junji Morokuma, Katherine B. Williams, Chris Fields, Michael Levin

 

Neutrophil extracellular traps impair regeneration
Eric Wier, Mayumi Asada, Gaofeng Wang, Martin P. Alphonse, Ang Li, Chase Hintelmann, Christine Youn, Brittany Pielstick, Roger Ortines, Lloyd S. Miller, Nathan K. Archer, Luis A. Garza

 

Ischemic tolerance and cardiac repair in the African spiny mouse
Tim Koopmans, Henriette van Beijnum, Elke F. Roovers, Divyanshu Malhotra, Antonio Tomasso, Jochem Boeter, Danielle Versteeg, Eva van Rooij, Kerstin Bartscherer

 

Inhibition of BMP and FGF signaling prior to wound epithelium formation leads to an aberrant regenerative response in teleost fish Poecilia latipinna
Isha Ranadive, Sonam Patel, Siddharth Pai, Kashmira Khaire, Suresh Balakrishnan

 

Coupled myovascular expansion directs growth and regeneration of the neonatal mouse heart
Paige DeBenedittis, Anish Karpurapu, Albert Henry, Michael C Thomas, Timothy J McCord, Kyla Brezitski, Anil Prasad, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Svati H Shah, Christopher D Kontos, Purushothama Rao Tata, R Thomas Lumbers, Ravi Karra

 

Midkine-a regulates the formation of a fibrotic scar during zebrafish heart regeneration
Dimitrios Grivas, Alvaro Gonzalez-Rajal, Jose Luis de la Pompa

 

Forebrain Shh overexpression improves cognitive function in a Down syndrome mouse model and euploid littermates
Feng J. Gao, Donna Klinedinst, Bei Cheng, Alena Savonenko, Benjamin Devenney, Yicong Li, Dan Wu, Martin G. Pomper, Roger H. Reeves

 

Efficient GNE myopathy disease modeling with mutation specific phenotypes in human pluripotent stem cells by base editors
Ju-Chan Park, Jumee Kim, Hyun-Ki Jang, Seung-Yeon Lee, Keun-Tae Kim, Seokwoo Park, Hyun Sik Lee, Hee-Jung Choi, Soon-Jung Park, Sung-Hwan Moon, Sangsu Bae, Hyuk-Jin Cha

 

Reduced axon caliber in the associative striatum of the Sapap3 knockout mouse
E. Lousada, M. Boudreau, J. Cohen-Adad, B. Nait Oumesmar, E. Burguière, C. Schreiweis

 

Increased cortical volume without increased neuron number in heterozygous Chd8 mutant mouse cortex
Cesar P. Canales, Samuel Frank, Jeffrey Bennett, Paris Beauregard, Pierre Lavenex, David G. Amaral, Alex. S. Nord

 

An activating mutation in Pdgfrb causes skeletal stem cell defects with osteopenia and overgrowth in mice
Hae Ryong Kwon, Jang H. Kim, John P. Woods, Lorin E. Olson

 

Extracellular Matrix Dysfunction in Sorsby Patient-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium
Abbi L. Engel, YeKai Wang, Thomas H. Khuu, Emily Worrall, Megan A. Manson, Kaitlen Knight, Aya Yanagida, Jian Hua Qi, Aravind Ramakrishnan, Richard G Weleber, Michael L. Klein, David J. Wilson, Bela Anand-Apte, James B. Hurley, Jianhai Du, Jennifer R. Chao

 

Myogenesis defects in a patient-derived iPSC model of hereditary GNE myopathy
Rebecca E Schmitt, Douglas Y Smith IV, Dong Seong Cho, Lindsey A Kirkeby, Zachary T Resch, Teerin Liewluck, Zhiyv Niu, Margherita Milone, Jason D Doles

 

Developmental and behavioral phenotypes in a new mouse model of DDX3X syndrome
Andrea Boitnott, Dévina C Ung, Marta Garcia-Forn, Kristi Niblo, Danielle Mendonca, Michael Flores, Sylvia Maxwell, Jacob Ellegood, Lily R Qiu, Dorothy E Grice, Jason P Lerch, Mladen-Roko Rasin, Joseph D Buxbaum, Elodie Drapeau, Silvia De Rubeis

 

 

 

| Plant development

 

A hetero-oligomeric remorin-receptor complex regulates plant development
Nikolaj B. Abel, Corinna A. Buschle, Casandra Hernandez-Ryes, Sandy S. Burkart, Anne-Flore Deroubaix, Julia Mergner, Julien Gronnier, Iris K. Jarsch, Jessica Folgmann, Karl Heinz Braun, Emmanuelle Bayer, Véronique Germain, Paul Derbyshire, Frank L.H. Menke, Birgit Kemmerling, Cyril Zipfel, Bernhard Küster, Sébastien Mongrand, Macarena Marín, Thomas Ott

 

MicroRNA775 targets a β-(1,3)-galactosyltransferase to regulate growth and development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Parneeta Mishra, Akanksha Singh, Ashwani Kumar Verma, Rajneesh Singh, Sribash Roy

 

A conserved regulatory module regulates receptor kinase signaling in immunity and development
Thomas A. DeFalco, Pauline Anne, Sean R. James, Andrew Willoughby, Oliver Johanndrees, Yasmine Genolet, Anne-Marie Pullen, Cyril Zipfel, Christian S. Hardtke, Zachary L. Nimchuk

 

An autoregulatory negative feedback loop controls thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Sanghwa Lee, Ling Zhu, Enamul Huq

 

The LEAFY floral regulator displays pioneer transcription factor properties
Xuelei Lai, Romain Blanc-Mathieu, Loïc GrandVuillemin, Ying Huang, Arnaud Stigliani, Jérémy Lucas, Emmanuel Thévenon, Jeanne Loue-Manifel, Hussein Daher, Eugenia Brun-Hernandez, Gilles Vachon, David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed, Renaud Dumas, Chloe Zubieta, François Parcy

 

The lncRNA APOLO interacts with the transcription factor WRKY42 to trigger root hair cell expansion in response to cold
Michaël Moison, Javier Martínez Pacheco, Leandro Lucero, Camille Fonouni-Farde, Johan Rodríguez-Melo, Natanael Mansilla, Aurélie Christ, Jérémie Bazin, Moussa Benhamed, Fernando Ibañez, Martin Crespi, José M. Estevez, Federico Ariel

 

A vacuolar hexose transport is required for xylem development in the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis
Emilie Aubry, Beate Hoffmann, Françoise Vilaine, Françoise Gilard, Patrick A.W. Klemens, Florence Guérard, Bertrand Gakière, H. Ekkehard Neuhaus, Catherine Bellini, Sylvie Dinant, Rozenn Le Hir

 

Proline-rich Extensin-like Receptor Kinases PERK5 and PERK12 are involved in Pollen Tube Growth
Cecilia Borassi, Ana R. Sede, Martin A. Mecchia, Silvina Mangano, Eliana Marzol, Silvina P. Denita-Juarez, Juan D. Salgado Salter, Silvia M. Velasquez, Jorge P. Muschietti, José M. Estevez

 

Arabidopsis siliques from Hickl, et al.

 

CTP-Synthase 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana is required for complete embryo development
Daniel Hickl, David Scheuring, Torsten Möhlmann

 

The AFB1 auxin receptor controls rapid auxin signaling and root growth through membrane depolarization in Arabidopsis thaliana
Nelson BC Serre, Dominik Kralík, Ping Yun, Sergey Shabala, Zdeněk Slouka, Matyáš Fendrych

 

Arabidopsis roots from Kong, et al.

 

The PELOTA-HBS1 Complex Orchestrates mRNA Translation Surveillance and PDK1-mediated Plant Growth and Development
Wei Kong, Shutang Tan, Qing Zhao, De-Li Lin, Zhi-Hong Xu, Jiří Friml, Hong-Wei Xue

 

The intrinsic chaperone network of Arabidopsis stem cells confers protection against proteotoxic stress
Ernesto Llamas, Salvador Torres-Montilla, Hyun Ju Lee, María Victoria Barja, Elena Schlimgen, Nick Dunken, Prerana Wagle, Wolfgang Werr, Alga Zuccaro, Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción, David Vilchez

 

Estimation of cell cycle kinetics in higher plant root meristem with cellular fate and positional resolution
Taras Pasternak, Stefan Kircher, Klaus Palme

 

Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors
Vinay Shukla, Jian-Pu Han, Fabienne Cl&eacuteard, Linnka Legendre-Lefebvre, Kay Gully, Paulina Flis, Alice Berhin, Tonni Grube Andersen, David E Salt, Christiane Nawrath, Marie Barberon

 

Electrophysiological evidence of synergistic auxin transport by interacting Arabidopsis ABCB4 and PIN2 proteins
Stephen D. Deslauriers, Edgar P. Spalding

 

Redefining the roles of UDP-glycosyltransferases in auxin metabolism and homeostasis during plant development
Eduardo Mateo-Bonmatí, Rubén Casanova-Sáez, Jan Šimura, Karin Ljung

 

Arabidopsis anthers from Long, et al.

 

Nurse cell-derived small RNAs define paternal epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis
Jincheng Long, James Walker, Wenjing She, Billy Aldridge, Hongbo Gao, Samuel Deans, Xiaoqi Feng

 

VISUAL network analysis reveals the role of BEH3 as a stabilizer in the secondary vascular development in Arabidopsis
Tomoyuki Furuya, Masato Saito, Haruka Uchimura, Akiko Satake, Shohei Nosaki, Takuya Miyakawa, Shunji Shimadzu, Wataru Yamori, Masaru Tanokura, Hiroo Fukuda, Yuki Kondo

 

The CLASSY family controls tissue-specific DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis
Ming Zhou, Ceyda Coruh, Guanghui Xu, Clara Bourbousse, Alice Lambolez, Julie A. Law

 

Brassinosteroid signaling component SlBES1 promotes tomato fruit softening through transcriptional repression of PMEU1
Haoran Liu, Lihong Liu, Dongyi Liang, Min Zhang, Chengguo Jia, Mingfang Qi, Yuanyuan Liu, Zhiyong Shao, Fanliang Meng, Songshen Hu, Chuanyou Li, Qiaomei Wang

 

Arabidopsis embryos from Imoto and Aida

 

A ClearSee-Based Clearing Protocol for 3D Visualization of Arabidopsis thaliana Embryos
Ayame Imoto and Mitsuhiro Aida

 

An integrative model of plant gravitropism linking statoliths position and auxin transport
Nicolas Levernier, Olivier Pouliquen, Yoël Forterre

 

Design principles of plant root morphogenesis
Marco Marconi, Marcal Gallemi, Eva Benkova, Krzysztof Wabnik

 

Function of the HYDROXYCINNAMOYL-CoA:SHIKIMATE HYDROXYCINNAMOYL TRANSFERASE is evolutionarily conserved in embryophytes
Lucie Kriegshauser, Samuel Knosp, Etienne Grienenberger, Kanade Tatsumi, Desirée D. Gütle, Iben Sørensen, Laurence Herrgott, Julie Zumsteg, Jocelyn K.C. Rose, Ralf Reski, Danièle Werck-Reichhart, Hugues Renault

 

Enhanced reproductive thermotolerance is associated with increased accumulation of flavonols in pollen of the tomato high-pigment 2 mutant
Nicholas Rutley, Golan Miller, Fengde Wang, Jeffrey F Harper, Gad Miller, Michal Lieberman-Lazarovich

 

All-Flesh Tomato Regulated by Reduced Dosage of AFF Provides New Insights into Berry Fruit Evolution
Lei Liu, Kang Zhang, JinRui Bai, Jinghua Lu, Xiaoxiao Lu, Junling Hu, Chunyang Pan, Shumin He, Jiale Yuan, Yiyue Zhang, Min Zhang, Yanmei Guo, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zejun Huang, Yongchen Du, Feng Cheng, Junming Li

 

CcLBD25 functions as a key regulator of haustorium development in Cuscuta campestris
Min-Yao Jhu, Yasunori Ichihashi, Moran Farhi, Caitlin Wong, Neelima R. Sinha

 

Spatial distribution of rice lectin protein r40g3 determines its dual regulatory role in imparting salinity tolerance while impeding seed development
Chandan Roy, Salman Sahid, Riddhi Datta, Soumitra Paul

 

An early-morning flowering trait in rice helps retain grain yield under heat stress field conditions at flowering stage
Tsutomu Ishimaru, Khin Thandar Hlaing, Ye Min Oo, Tin Mg Lwin, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Patrick D. Lumanglas, Eliza-Vie M. Simon, Tin Tin Myint, Aris Hairmansis, Untung Susanto, Bharathi Ayyenar, Raveendran Muthurajan, Hideyuki Hirabayashi, Yoshimichi Fukuta, Kazuhiro Kobayasi, Tsutomu Matsui, Mayumi Yoshimoto, Than Myint Htun

 

Whole-genome sequence analysis of mutations in rice plants regenerated from zygotes, mature embryos, and immature embryos
Masako Ichikawa, Norio Kato, Erika Toda, Masakazu Kashihara, Yuji Ishida, Yukoh Hiei, Sachiko N. Isobe, Kenta Shirasawa, Hideki Hirakawa, Takashi Okamoto, Toshihiko Komari

 

Maize (Zea mays L.) nucleoskeletal proteins regulate nuclear envelope remodeling and function in stomatal complex development and pollen viability.
Joseph Francis McKenna, Hardeep K. Gumber, Zachary M. Turpin, Alexis M. Jalovec, Andre C. Kartick, Katja Graumann, Hank W. Bass

 

Cell cortex microtubules contribute to division plane positioning during telophase in maize
Marschal A. Bellinger, Aimee N. Uyehara, Pablo Martinez, Michael C. McCarthy, Carolyn G. Rasmussen

 

ENHANCED GRAVITROPISM 2 encodes a STERILE ALPHA MOTIVE containing protein that controls root growth angle in barley and wheat
Gwendolyn K. Kirschner, Serena Rosignoli, Isaia Vardanega, Li Guo, Jafargholi Imani, Janine Altmüller, Sara G. Milner, Raffaella Balzano, Kerstin A. Nagel, Daniel Pflugfelder, Cristian Forestan, Riccardo Bovina, Robert Koller, Tyll G. Stöcker, Martin Mascher, James Simmonds, Cristobal Uauy, Heiko Schoof, Roberto Tuberosa, Silvio Salvi, Frank Hochholdinger

 

STARCH SYNTHASE 4 is required for normal starch granule initiation in amyloplasts of wheat endosperm
Erica Hawkins, Jiawen Chen, Alexander Watson-Lazowski, Jennifer Ahn-Jarvis, J Elaine Barclay, Brendan Fahy, Matthew Hartley, Frederick J Warren, David Seung

 

Serial Section-Based 3D Reconstruction of Anaxagorea (Annonaceae) Carpel Vasculature and Implications on Integrated Axial-Foliar Origin of Angiosperm Carpels
Ya Li, Wei Du, Ye Chen, Shuai Wang, Xiao-Fan Wang

 

Teosinte introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and induces early maize flowering time
Fausto Rodríguez-Zapata, Allison C Barnes, Karla A Blöcher-Juárez, Dan Gates, Andi Kur, Li Wang, Garrett M Janzen, Sarah Jensen, Juan M Estévez-Palmas, Taylor Crow, Rocío Aguilar-Rangel, Edgar Demesa-Arevalo, Tara Skopelitis, Sergio Pérez-Limón, Whitney L Stutts, Peter Thompson, Yu-Chun Chiu, David Jackson, Oliver Fiehn, Daniel Runcie, Edward S Buckler, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Matthew B. Hufford, Ruairidh JH Sawers, Rubén Rellán-Álvarez

 

Resetting of 24-nt siRNA landscape is initiated before the first zygotic division in rice
Chenxin Li, Jonathan I. Gent, Hengping Xu, Hong Fu, Scott D. Russell, Venkatesan Sundaresan

 

THE REGULATORY EFFECT OF LIGHT OVER FRUIT DEVELOPMENT AND RIPENING IS MEDIATED BY EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS
Ricardo Bianchetti, Nicolas Bellora, Luis A de Haro, Rafael Zuccarelli, Daniele Rosado, Luciano Freschi, Magdalena Rossi, Luisa Bermudez

 

 

 

Evo-devo & evo

 

Fish flanks from McCluskey, et al.

 

A complex genetic architecture in zebrafish relatives Danio quagga and D. kyathit underlies development of stripes and spots
Braedan M. McCluskey, Susumu Uji, Joseph L. Mancusi, John H. Postlethwait, David M. Parichy

 

Evolution of lbx spinal cord expression and function
José L. Juárez-Morales, Frida Weierud, Samantha J. England, Celia Demby, Nicole Santos, Sylvie Mazan, Katharine E. Lewis

 

Platynereis juveniles from Novikova, et al.

 

Annelids win again: the first evidence of Hox antisense transcription in Spiralia.
Elena L. Novikova, Nadezhda I. Bakalenko, Milana A. Kulakova

 

Conserved and unique transcriptional features of pharyngeal arches in the skate (Leucoraja erinacea) and evolution of the jaw
Christine Hirschberger, Victoria A. Sleight, Katharine E. Criswell, Stephen J. Clark, J. Andrew Gillis

 

Gene family evolution underlies cell type diversification in the hypothalamus of teleosts
Maxwell E.R. Shafer, Ahilya N. Sawh, Alexander F. Schier

 

Tarantula embryos from Heather Bruce

 

How to align arthropod leg segments
Heather S. Bruce

 

Early acoel development from Kimura, et al.

 

Embryonic development in the acoel Hofstenia miamia
Julian O. Kimura, Lorenzo Ricci, Mansi Srivastava

 

Development of larvae of the Australian blowfly, Calliphora augur (Diptera: Calliphoridae), at constant temperatures
Donnah M. Day, Nathan J. Butterworth, Anirudh Tagat, Gregory Markowsky, James F. Wallman

 

The development and neuronal complexity of bipinnaria larvae of the sea star Asterias rubens
Hugh F. Carter, Jeffrey R. Thompson, Maurice R. Elphick, Paola Oliveri

 

The evolution of Sox gene repertoires and regulation of segmentation in arachnids
Luis Baudouin-Gonzalez, Anna Schoenauer, Amber Harper, Grace Blakeley, Michael Seiter, Saad Arif, Lauren Sumner-Rooney, Steven Russell, Prashant P. Sharma, Alistair P. McGregor

 

The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages and chelicerate genome architecture
Guilherme Gainett, Vanessa L. González, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Emily V. W. Setton, Caitlin M. Baker, Leonardo Barolo Gargiulo, Carlos E. Santibáñez-López, Jonathan A. Coddington, Prashant P. Sharma

 

Structural and functional characterization of a putative de novo gene in Drosophila
Andreas Lange, Prajal H. Patel, Brennen Heames, Adam M. Damry, Thorsten Saenger, Colin J. Jackson, Geoffrey D. Findlay, Erich Bornberg-Bauer

 

The Genetics and Evolution of Eye Color in Domestic Pigeons (Columba livia)
Si Si, Xiao Xu, Yan Zhuang, Xiaodong Gao, Honghai Zhang, Zhengting Zou, Shu-Jin Luo

 

The dynamic ontogenetic patterns of adaptive divergence and sexual dimorphism in Arctic charr
Marina De la Cámara, Lieke Ponsioen, Quentin J.B. Horta-Lacueva, Kalina H Kapralova

 

Continuous cis-regulatory changes in an advantageous gene are linked with adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes
Langyu Gu, Chenzheng Li, Xiaobing Mao, Zongfang Wei, Youkui Huang, Ximin He, Wenjun Zhou, Li Li, Deshou Wang

 

 

Cell biology

 

Fly neuroblasts from Gallaud, et al.

 

Aurora kinases promote mitotic progression and asymmetric cell division through activation of Polo kinase
Emmanuel Gallaud, Aude Pascal, Mathieu Métivier, Laurent Richard-Parpaillon, Vincent Archambault, Régis Giet

 

Aurora kinase A is essential for meiosis in mouse oocytes
Cecilia S. Blengini, Patricia Ibrahimian, Michaela Vaskovicova, David Drutovic, Petr Solc, Karen Schindler

 

Asymmetric chromatin capture and nuclear envelopes separate chromosomes in fused cells during mitosis
Bharath Sunchu, Nicole Lee, Roberto Carlos Segura, Chantal Roubinet, Clemens Cabernard

 

MCF10A monolayers in Gagliardi, et al.

 

Collective ERK/Akt activity waves orchestrate epithelial homeostasis by driving apoptosis-induced survival
Paolo Armando Gagliardi, Maciej Dobrzynski, Marc-Antoine Jacques, Coralie Dessauges, Pascal Ender, Yannick Blum, Robert M Hughes, Andrew R Cohen, Olivier Pertz

 

Quantitative live-cell imaging and computational modelling yield novel insight into endogenous WNT/CTNNB1 signaling dynamics
S.M.A. de Man, G. Zwanenburg, T. van der Wal, M.A. Hink, R. van Amerongen

 

Dia1 Coordinates Differentiation and Cell Sorting in a Stratified Epithelium
Robert M. Harmon, John Devany, Margaret L. Gardel

 

scATAC-Seq reveals epigenetic heterogeneity associated with an EMT-like process in male germline stem cells and its regulation by G9a
Jinyue Liao, Hoi Ching Suen, Alfred Chun Shui Luk, Annie Wing Tung Lee, Judy Kin Wing Ng, Ting Hei Thomas Chan, Man Yee Cheung, David Yiu Leung Chan, Huayu Qi, Wai Yee Chan, Robin M. Hobbs, Tin-Lap Lee

 

A novel adhesive complex at the base of intestinal microcilli
Klaus T Ebnet, Christian Hartmann, Eva-Maria Thüring, Brigitta E Michels, Denise Pajonczyk, Sophia Leußink, Lilo Greune, Frauke Brinkmann, Mark Glaesner-Ebnet, Eva Wardelmann, Thomas Zobel, M. Alexander Schmidt, Volker Gerke

 

Organization of DNA replication origin firing in Xenopus egg extracts : the role of intra-S checkpoint
Diletta Ciardo, Olivier Haccard, Hemalatha Narassimprakash, Jean-Michel Arbona, Olivier Hyrien, Benjamin Audit, Kathrin Marheineke, Arach Goldar

 

 

 

Modelling

From heterogeneous datasets to predictive models of embryonic development
Sayantan Dutta, Aleena L. Patel, Shannon E. Keenan, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman

 

ERK waves in Hayden, et al.

 

Mathematical modeling of Erk activity waves in regenerating zebrafish scales
Luke Hayden, Kenneth D Poss, Alessandro De Simone, Stefano Di Talia

 

Reaction-diffusion Model for the Arrest of Oscillations in the Somitogenesis Segmentation Clock
Jesús Pantoja-Hernández, Víctor F. Breña-Medina, Moisés Santillán

 

A stochastic model of homeostasis: the roles of noise and nuclear positioning in deciding cell fate
Amit Jangid, Suriya Selvarajan, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

 

An “individualist” model of an active genome in a developing embryo
Shao-Kuei Huang, Sayantan Dutta, Peter H Whitney, Stanislav Shvartsman, Christine Rushlow

 

Role of cell polarity dynamics and motility in pattern formation due to contact dependent signalling
Supriya Bajpai, Ranganathan Prabhakar, Raghunath Chelakkot, Mandar M. Inamdar

 

Quantifying cell transitions in C. elegans with data-fitted landscape models
Elena Camacho-Aguilar, Aryeh Warmflash, David A. Rand

 

Modelling cell guidance and curvature control in evolving biological tissues
Solene G.D. Hegarty-Cremer, Matthew J. Simpson, Thomas L. Andersen, Pascal R. Buenzli

 

Evolution of irreversible somatic differentiation
Yuanxiao Gao, Hye Jin Park, Arne Traulsen, Yuriy Pichugin

 

Topological data analysis distinguishes parameter regimes in the Anderson-Chaplain model of angiogenesis
John T. Nardini, Bernadette J. Stolz, Kevin B. Flores, Heather A. Harrington, Helen M. Byrne

 

Contact-mediated cellular communication supplements positional information to regulate spatial patterning during development
Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi, Shakti N. Menon, Sitabhra Sinha

 

 

Tools & resources

In Vivo Subcellular Mass Spectrometry Enables Proteo-Metabolomic Single-cell Systems Biology in a Chordate Embryo Developing to a Normally Behaving Tadpole (X. laevis)
Camille Lombard-Banek, Jie Li, Erika P. Portero, Rosemary M. Onjiko, Chase D. Singer, David Plotnick, Reem Q. Al Shabeeb, Peter Nemes

 

Bespoke micropatterns from Zhu, et al.

 

Rapid fabrication of hydrogel micropatterns by projection stereolithography for studying self-organized developmental patterning
Ye Zhu, Daniel Sazer, Jordan Miller, Aryeh Warmflash

 

Bioengineered embryoids mimic post-implantation development in vitro
Mehmet Girgin, Nicolas Broguiere, Sylke Hoehnel, Nathalie Brandenberg, Bastien Mercier, Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Matthias P Lutolf

 

Monitoring the promoter activity of long noncoding RNAs and stem cell differentiation through knock-in of sgRNA flanked by tRNA in an intron
Yu-Ting Zhao, Yangming Wang

 

Manipulating the murine Lgr5 locus using a rapid, efficient and flexible CRISPR/Cas9 pipeline
Jan Reichmuth, Johannes vom Berg, Michael Brügger, George Hausmann, Tomas Valenta, Konrad Basler

 

A quick and versatile protocol for the 3D visualization of transgene expression across the whole body of larval Drosophila
Oliver Kobler, Aliće Weiglein, Kathrin Hartung, Yi-chun Chen, Bertram Gerber, Ulrich Thomas

 

AGES: An auxin-inducible, GAL4-compatible, gene expression system for Drosophila
Colin D. McClure, Amira Hassan, Aneisha Duggal, Chee Ying Sia, Tony D. Southall

 

A Practical Guide to Sparse Clustering for Studying Molecular Development of the Human Brain
Justin L. Balsor, Keon Arbabi, Dezi Ahuja, Ewalina Jeyanesan, Kathryn M. Murphy

 

TopoStats – a program for automated tracing of biomolecules from AFM images
Joseph G. Beton, Robert Moorehead, Luzie Helfmann, Robert Gray, Bart W. Hoogenboom, Agnel Praveen Joseph, Maya Topf, Alice L. B. Pyne

 

Easymap: a user-friendly software package for rapid mapping by sequencing of point mutations and large insertions
Samuel Daniel Lup, David Wilson-Sánchez, Sergio Andreu-Sánchez, José Luis Micol

 

Zebrafish embryos from Tromp, et al.

 

Pipeline for generating stable large genomic deletions in zebrafish, from small domains to whole gene excisions
Alisha Tromp, Kate Robinson, Thomas E Hall, Bryan Mowry, Jean Giacomotto

 

Generation of a New Frizzled 2 Flox Mouse Model to Clarify Its Role in Development
Megan N. Michalski, Cassandra R. Diegel, Zhendong A. Zhong, Kelly Suino-Powell, Levi Blazer, Jarrett Adams, VAI Vivarium and Transgenics Core, Ian Beddows, Karsten Melcher, Sachdev S. Sidhu, Stephane Angers, Bart O. Williams

 

Generation of a novel Nkx6-1 Venus fusion reporter mouse line
Ingo Burtscher, Marta Tarquis-Medina, Ciro Salinno, Julia Beckenbauer, Mostafa Bakhti, Heiko Lickert

 

Optical Tissue Clearing Enables Rapid, Precise and Comprehensive Assessment of Three-Dimensional Morphology in Experimental Nerve Regeneration Research
Simeon C. Daeschler, Jennifer Zhang, Tessa Gordon, Gregory H. Borschel

 

A mesh microelectrode array for non-invasive electrophysiology within neural organoids
Matthew McDonald, David Sebinger, Lisa Brauns, Laura Gonzalez-Cano, Yotam Menuchin-Lasowski, Michael Mierzejewski, Olympia-Ekaterini Psathaki, Angelika Stumpf, Jenny Wickham, Thomas Rauen, Hans Schöler, Peter D. Jones

 

Adult porcine (Sus scrofa) derived inner ear cells possessing multipotent stem/progenitor cell characteristics in in vitro cultures
Printha Wijesinghe, Anand Sastry, Elizabeth Hui, Tristan A. Cogan, Boyuan Zheng, Germain Ho, Juzer Kakal, Desmond A. Nunez

 

CiliaQ – a simple, open-source software for automated quantification of ciliary morphology and fluorescence in 2D, 3D, and 4D images
Jan Niklas Hansen, Sebastian Rassmann, Birthe Stüven, Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, Dagmar Wachten

 

Microscope-Cockpit: Python-based bespoke microscopy for bio-medical science
Mick A Phillips, David Miguel Susano Pinto, Nicholas Hall, Julio Mateos-Langerak, Richard M Parton, Josh Titlow, Danail V Stoychev, Thomas Parks, Tiago Susano Pinto, John W Sedat, Martin J Booth, Ilan Davis, Ian M Dobbie

 

CRISPR Del/Rei: A simple, flexible and efficient pipeline for scarless genome editing
Marah H. Wahbeh, Kyra L. Feuer, Sara Abdollahi, Christian Yovo, Eman Rabie, Anh-Thu N. Lam, Lindsay J. Young, Dimitrios Avramopoulos

 

Split-wrmScarlet and split-sfGFP: Tools for faster, easier fluorescent labeling of endogenous proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jérôme Goudeau, Catherine S. Sharp, Jonathan Paw, Laura Savy, Manuel D. Leonetti, Andrew G. York, Dustin L. Updike, Cynthia Kenyon, Maria Ingaramo

 

Zebrafish vasculature from Umans, et al.

 

Using zebrafish to elucidate glial-vascular interactions during CNS development
Robyn A. Umans, Carolyn Pollock, William A. Mills III, Harald Sontheimer

 

Minimal genetically encoded tags for fluorescent protein labeling in living neurons
Aleksandra Arsić, Cathleen Hagemann, Nevena Stajković, Timm Schubert, Ivana Nikić-Spiegel

 

Imaging cytoplasmic lipid droplets in vivo with fluorescent perilipin 2 and perilipin 3 knockin zebrafish
Meredith H. Wilson, Stephen C. Ekker, Steven A. Farber

 

QUAREP-LiMi: A community-driven initiative to establish guidelines for quality assessment and reproducibility for instruments and images in light microscopy
Glyn Nelson, Ulrike Boehm, Steve Bagley, Peter Bajcsy, Johanna Bischof, Claire M Brown, Aurelien Dauphin, Ian M Dobbie, John E Eriksson, Orestis Faklaris, Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez, Alexia Ferrand, Laurent Gelman, Ali Gheisari, Hella Hartmann, Christian Kukat, Alex Laude, Miso Mitkovski, Sebastian Munck, Alison J North, Tobias M Rasse, Ute Resch-Genger, Lucas C Schuetz, Arne Seitz, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, Jason R Swedlow, Ioannis Alexopoulos, Karin Aumayr, Sergiy Avilov, Gert-Jan Bakker, Rodrigo R Bammann, Andrea Bassi, Hannes Beckert, Sebastian Beer, Yury Belyaev, Jakob Bierwagen, Konstantin A Birngruber, Manel Bosch, Juergen Breitlow, Lisa A Cameron, Joe Chalfoun, James J Chambers, Chieh-Li Chen, Eduardo Conde-Sousa, Alexander D Corbett, Fabrice P Cordelieres, Elaine Del Nery, Ralf Dietzel, Frank Eismann, Elnaz Fazeli, Andreas Felscher, Hans Fried, Nathalie Gaudreault, Wah Ing Goh, Thomas Guilbert, Roland Hadleigh, Peter Hemmerich, Gerhard A Holst, Michelle S Itano, Claudia B Jaffe, Helena K Jambor, Stuart C Jarvis, Antje Keppler, David Kirchenbuechler, Marcel Kirchner, Norio Kobayashi, Gabriel Krens, Susanne Kunis, Judith Lacoste, Marco Marcello, Gabriel G Martins, Daniel J Metcalf, Claire A Mitchell, Joshua Moore, Tobias Mueller, Michael S Nelson, Stephen Ogg, Shuichi Onami, Alexandra L Palmer, Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, Jaime A Pimentel, Laure Plantard, Santosh Podder, Elton Rexhepaj, Arnaud Royon, Markku A Saari, Damien Schapman, Vincent Schoonderwoert, Britta Schroth-Diez, Stanley Schwartz, Michael Shaw, Martin Spitaler, Martin T Stoeckl, Damir Sudar, Jeremie Teillon, Stefan Terjung, Roland Thuenauer, Christian D Wilms, Graham D Wright, Roland Nitschke

 

 

Reviews

Hormonal Regulation of Oligodendrogenesis I: Effects across the Lifespan
Kimberly Long, Jocelyn Breton , Matthew Barraza, Olga Litvin, Daniela Kaufer

 

Hormonal Regulation of Oligodendrogenesis II: Implications for Myelin Repair
Jocelyn Breton, Kimberly Long, Matthew Barraza, Olga Litvin , Daniela Kaufer

 

Zebrafish as a Biomedical Model for Stem Cells Research in Hearing Impairment
Salma Hafeez

 

 

Research practice & education

Randomized controlled studies comparing traditional lectures versus online modules
Kiran Musunuru, Zarin P. Machanda, Lyon Qiao, William J. Anderson

 

Intelligence and academic performance: Is it all in your head?
Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Jessica E. Bartley, Michael C. Riedel, Taylor Salo, Elsa I. Bravo, Rosalie Odean, Alina Nazareth, Robert W. Laird, Erica D. Musser, Shannon M. Pruden, Eric Brewe, Matthew T. Sutherland, Angela R. Laird

 

Oncofly: A CURE for Cancer
Floyd A. Reed, H. Gert de Couet

 

Alignment of biomedical data repositories with open, FAIR, citable and trust-worthy principles
Fiona Murphy, Michael Bar-Sinai, Maryann E. Martone

 

Evaluating features of scientific conferences: A call for improvements
Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Aziz Khan, Samantha Seah, Aneth D. Mwakilili, Fiona N. Mumoki, Pablo J. Sáez, Benjamin Schwessinger, Humberto J. Debat, Tomislav Mestrovic

 

An open-source tool to assess the carbon footprint of research
Jérôme Mariette, Odile Blanchard, Olivier Berné, Tamara Ben-Ari

 

Overburdening of peer reviewers. A multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective on causes, effects and potential policy implications
Anna Severin, Joanna Chataway

 

Comprehensive mapping of local and diaspora scientists: a database and analysis of 63951 Greek scientists
John P.A. Ioannidis, Chara Koutsioumpa, Angeliki Vakka, Georgios Agoranos, Chrysanthi Mantsiou, Maria Kyriaki Drekolia, Nikos Avramidis, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Konstantinos Drosatos, Jeroen Baas

 

Mentorship as a strategy to improve research ability of students and young researchers in Africa: an exploratory study and initial findings on the CORE Africa Research Mentorship Scheme
Lem Ngongalah, Ngwa Niba Rawlings, James M. Musisi, Kimonia Awanchiri, Emmanuella Akwah, Etienne Ngeh, Andrew Ssemwanga

 

 

 

 

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Postdoctoral position in mammalian developmental stem cell biology

Posted by , on 1 February 2021

Closing Date: 3 April 2021

The Sozen laboratory is looking for talented postdoctoral associates with a background in mammalian developmental stem cell biology to join our team. We conduct research in early mouse/human embryogenesis with the goal of understanding the mechanisms that underlie developmental programming in human health and disease.

 

Our laboratory in the Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, is a part of a highly collaborative, translational developmental biology program that includes stem cell biology, reproductive biology, genetics and computational biology.

 

The candidate will lead a project to participate in our larger efforts to unravel how the developmental environment impacts on physiologic, metabolic, transcriptomic and epigenomic landscapes during embryo implantation and gastrulation, the time when the maternal-fetal interface is established. The project will integrate cutting-edge technologies such as the in vitro reconstitution of development in 3D with stem cells (Harrison et al. Science 2017, Sozen et al. Nature Cell Bio. 2018, Sozen et al. Dev. Cell 2019), advanced imaging techniques and transcriptomic profiling to map developmental trajectories and cellular function during tissue patterning under environmental challenges.

The postdoctoral candidate will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with a team of world-leading researchers, clinicians, and bioinformaticians, and there will be opportunities to develop additional independent projects with clinical collaborators at Yale University.

 

In addition to high-quality research facilities, career and professional development training for postdoctoral researchers is provided. Additional information on being a postdoc at Yale University School of Medicine can be found at https://postdocs.yale.edu/

 

Qualified candidates should have a PhD in Developmental Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Reproductive Biology, Bioengineering or a relevant field. The candidate must have hands-on experience with mammalian embryo culture and/or mammalian stem cell culture. Expertise in 3D cell culture techniques and gene editing methods (e.g. Crispr-Cas9, to engineer stem cell lines with multiple fluorescent reporters) are highly desirable. Experience in transcriptomic profiling techniques (e.g. single-cell RNA-seq) and bioinformatics analyses are desirable but not essential. Please respond with a cover letter that includes a short description of relevant expertise, a CV with publication list, and the names of two references by email to: berna.sozen@yale.edu

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Remembering Lewis Wolpert

Posted by , on 1 February 2021

On Friday we learned of the death of Lewis Wolpert, a huge figure in developmental biology, a popular science writer and communicator. Here we’ve gathered some memories of Wolpert from the internet – please share your own with a comment below the piece.

 

Image credit: The British Library

 

No one who met Lewis could fail to be impressed by his intellect, warmth and humour. Always keen to engage with scientists, regardless of career stage, it was common to see him in animated debates with students and post-docs at conferences. His oratory skills gave him a Thespian aura that could have graced a Shakespearian stage.

Philip Ingham – writing for the Society of Developmental Biologists Singapore

 

Lewis Wolpert had beautiful ideas and expressed them with elegant words. He inspired so many of us to become developmental biologists

Sally Lowell – writing one of the BSDB committee members’ recollections. They also link to Wolpert’s 2015 Waddington Medal Lecture, embedded below, an award that led Development to interview him.

 

 

Wolpert combined his interest in fundamental problems of development with a parallel career as a science communicator. He enjoyed performing in public, and brooked no compromise in his quest to persuade people that “science is the best way to understand the world”. 

Guardian Obituary by Georgina Ferry

 

 

Memories from Twitter

 

Please email Jim your stories: jim.smith@crick.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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The people behind the papers – Andrew Economou and Jeremy Green

Posted by , on 31 January 2021

This interview, the 89th in our series, was published in Development last year

Interacting morphogens produce periodic patterns in developing tissues. Such patterning can be modelled as reaction-diffusion (RD) processes (as originally formulated by Alan Turing), and although these models have been developed and refined over the years, they often tend to oversimplify biological complexity by restricting the number of interacting morphogens. A new paper in Development reports how perturbation analysis can guide multi-morphogen modelling of the striped patterning the roof of the mouse mouth. To hear more about the story, we caught up with first author Andrew Economou and his former supervisor Jeremy Green, Professor of Developmental Biology at King’s College, London.

Andrew (L) and Jeremy (R).

Jeremy, can you give us your scientific biography and the questions your lab is trying to answer?

JG: As an undergraduate I started off studying physics but switched to biochemistry, and I was lucky enough to take the famous Developmental Biology course at Cambridge taught by such luminaries as John Gurdon, Michael Ashburner and Peter Lawrence. That was really what inspired me to follow the subject. For my PhD I got slightly side-tracked into gene expression in yeast, but that was enough to convince me that what I was really interested in was the macro-spatial aspect of biology. I managed to get myself funded to go to a conference where I saw Jim Smith, then a newly-independent investigator, announce his discovery of a mesoderm-inducing factor in Xenopus, and I knew that this was a big deal. Fortunately, Jim took me on as a post-doc and together we did the experiments that showed the inducing factor to be a classic Wolpert French Flag-style morphogen, triggering different cell fates according to dose thresholds.

I then worked with John Gerhart and Ray Keller at UC Berkeley, mostly following up threshold-sharpening with John, but all the while soaking up the morphogenesis culture of the Keller lab. In my own lab (at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, part of Harvard Medical School) I then got into cell polarity and Wnt signalling – becoming quite biochemical – but on returning to London and joining King’s College London I re-focused back onto spatial organisation, both with morphogen action and physical morphogenesis.

It has been great harking back to my undergraduate days by approaching this with a physics mind-set, especially working with great collaborators and a mathematically talented postdoc like Andrew.

And Andrew – how did you come to work in Jeremy’s lab and what was the main drive behind your research there?

AE: As a PhD student, I worked in the field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, looking at the evolution of arthropod segmental identity. Having never had a formal developmental biology training – in my undergraduate I largely specialised in palaeontology – I always felt that there was something missing from the way I thought about embryonic development. After my PhD, I decided that I needed to get a better understanding of the processes that actually shaped the embryo, and it was fortunate that at that time Jeremy was advertising a project for studying the cellular mechanisms underlying the morphogenesis of the mouse face.

When I started with Jeremy, I had no background in any sort of quantitative or computational biology, but it became clear that these approaches were necessary to understanding how the embryo is patterned and shaped. Fortunately, Jeremy was very happy for me to have a go and try to apply computational approaches to my data and see how far we could get. Ultimately, my research became focussed on extracting quantitative information on the different cellular- and molecular-level processes and understanding how they contribute to the distinctive patterning processes seen in the mouse palate epithelium, at the level of both tissue growth and signalling networks.

How has your research been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

AE: Like so many other people, I had to put all experiments on hold for the months we were in lockdown. While that obviously held back many parts of my current project (I have moved on from Jeremy’s lab to another postdoc), I have always had some more computational aspect to my work, which I usually keep running in the background. The enforced break from the lab gave me the opportunity to really push on with these parts of my project, so I had plenty of work to keep me occupied! I had also been guilty of allowing a lot of data analysis to build up, so time away from the lab finally gave me a chance to catch up with that. In many ways, this actually helped me understand where I was in my project, and has given me a clearer idea of what my priorities should be since getting back into the lab.

JG: My lab at King’s was shut down completely for a longer time than in some places – partly because we are embedded in a hospital building – so although it has been good for me to catch up on manuscripts, both postdocs and students in the lab are only now (in September) really beginning to pick up momentum again. We were very much in an experimental rather than computational or data analysis phase, so we’re now going to be dependent on supplementary funding from UKRI and King’s to be able to make up for lost time. Fortunately, there are signs that this will be forthcoming, so I’m optimistic.

What have been the main developmental insights – and limitations – of RD modelling before your paper?

AE & JG: Although Turing published his seminal paper almost 70 years ago, we think it’s fair to say that the developmental biology community has only really started to appreciate its importance relatively recently. While we have known for a long time that RD systems can capture biological patterns such as tiger stripes, it has only been in the last 10-20 years that developmental systems have been identified for which RD processes can not only recapitulate the observed patterns, but also for which specific biological molecules have been identified as morphogens.

There has also been a lot of recent theoretical progress, moving beyond the well-established criteria for pattern formation in two-component RD systems, exploring more generally the criteria for the formation of periodic patterns, and looking at how different features of network topology affect the spatial pattern for these larger – more biologically realistic – networks. However, although these larger networks capture more of the complexity of these real biological systems, one thing coming out of these studies was that many networks can produce the same pattern. This is one of the main aspects our paper addresses: how can we use other forms of data, such as inhibiting the different morphogens and following their dynamics during pattern formation, to constrain our understanding of the patterning network?

Shh in situ hybridisations on palatal shelf explants cultured in the specified small molecule inhibitor.

Can you give us the key results of the paper in a paragraph?

AE & JG: RD systems are brilliant for describing the self-organising behaviour of morphogens and morphogen-like systems. RD models, from Turing to the very recent past, have been very focused on the minimal two-component system. (Turing’s genius was to strip problems down to the bare minimum and RD is a perfect example of that: two components is all you need.) But biology is messy and evolution isn’t always parsimonious, so in real life there are often more components than you need. As biologists, we want to explain what’s there and see how all these potentially redundant components fit in. Although two-component RD systems have been extensively studied, it is not clear how such simple systems relate to ‘real’ biological networks. We set out to determine how the four signalling pathways Hedgehog, FGF, Wnt and BMP could interact to produce the pattern seen in the palatal rugae – ridges in the roof of the mouse’s mouth. We first established a relatively simple set of experimental observations: how does the pattern respond to the inhibition of each pathway, and what are their spatial patterns of activity? That showed that FGF was working differently in different tissue layers, so we had five rather than four morphogens to deal with. Then, through numerical simulations and mathematical analysis, we established a general framework determining how the response of one component to the inhibition of another is dependent on their position relative to the feedback loops in a minimal RD network, as well as their relative phase. Combining these constraints with temporal information about the sequence of signalling events during the establishment of a rugal stripe, we were able to identify a set of just 154 topologies out of a total set of 39,755 possible networks involving the four pathways, which were consistent with our experimental observations, constraining the sign of all possible interactions in the network.

Biology is messy and evolution isn’t always parsimonious

Rugae stripes appear to be a fairly simple pattern – why do you think it takes five interacting morphogens to make it, when (I guess) two might do the job just as well?

AE & JG: There are three main reasons we can speculate about. One is that the regulatory networks for this system were in effect borrowed from an existing gene regulatory toolkit that happens to include all of these morphogens. There might not be strong selection to get rid of any, so there they are.

The second is that multiple signals might be needed downstream of the stripe formation as such but the system saves time and maybe other kinds of complexity by building them all into the stripe formation. Ruga morphogenesis involves the formation of an epithelial placode and condensation of the underlying mesenchyme, as well as reciprocal signalling between these tissue layers. We suspect that the feedback generated by some of these processes underlies the incorporation of additional pathways into the network after the ruga stripe is initially formed by a subset of pathways.

A third intriguing possibility is that increasing the number of morphogens may increase the robustness of the system. Recent work from other labs has shown that different network topologies vary in their robustness. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to think that initiating a stripe with a system of three morphogens could, for some topologies, be more robust than one made of just two. Although more morphogens provide more targets for perturbations in levels, we were struck by how few of our in silico perturbations changed the stripe spacing and number, so maybe that’s where the robustness needs to be.

How generalisable do you think your approach will be for other developmental problems? And do you have any advice for researchers who wish to increase the number of components in their RD modelling?

AE & JG: Given that our experimental approaches were based on very standard developmental biological techniques – in situ hybridisation and the application of small molecular inhibitors – there is no reason that this approach cannot be applied to other developmental systems patterned by RD processes. Moreover, we think this approach is quite generalisable, even to systems that aren’t obviously periodic. It is known, for example, that Nodal and Lefty proteins constitute a self-organising Turing/RD morphogen pair for left-right patterning in early vertebrates. (The left-right gradient that’s set up is, in effect, a quarter-wavelength of what would be a periodic system if there were enough tissue to encompass it.) So almost any gradient system that involves self-organising feedback might be analysed in much the same way.

One of the most exciting insights from our work, which could be of interest to other researchers, came from looking into the dynamics of stripe formation. Considering the sequence of events which occurred during the formation of the rugae, alongside the feedback we had identified in the system, helped us realise that we can learn more from such a patterning process than just inferring a static depiction of the interactions shown in the network. Different morphogens in a network have different functions: for example, in our system only a subset of the morphogens is actually involved in initiating a new stripe. As the number of components in a network increase, it is important to consider their function in the network.

When doing the research, did you have any particular result or eureka moment that has stuck with you?

AE: The moment that most sticks with me is when I ran my initial set of simulations to look at the effect of inhibiting each component for our set of minimal networks. I had expected that this analysis would pick out a subset of networks but had never really thought about what this would tell us more generally about our system. On seeing the results – that the response of the system to inhibiting different components correlated with the feedback loops they were in – everything made so much more sense and suggested a framework for thinking about much larger networks than the two- and three-component RD systems we were working with.

And what about the flipside: any moments of frustration or despair?

AE: Having run those first simulations and had the initial insight, we then needed a way to actually demonstrate that these results were applicable not just to the two- and three-component systems for which we had run our simulations, but were in theory generalisable to any size of RD system. I had enough of an understanding of the maths to see what needed to be done, but being an experimental biologist actually doing the work was pretty slow progress. Coupled with the fact that I had just started a new postdoc and was therefore having to do a lot of this work in my free time, I sometimes thought we would never get to the end!

What next for you after this paper – I understand you’re now at the Crick?

AE: I have actually been at the Crick for a few years now in Caroline Hill’s lab – this piece of work with Jeremy took a lot longer to wrap up than we initially thought it would! I have been working on early zebrafish development, applying the kinds of computational and quantitative approaches I began to take while in Jeremy’s lab to look at the interactions between signalling pathways during early cell fate decisions in the embryo. I am now looking at options to start my own research group, although in the middle of a pandemic it feels as if this has become even more of a challenge than it normally would be.

Where will this story take the Green lab?

JG: I can see two ways forward with the rugae system. One would be to be more systematic about testing its robustness to perturbation. There’s room for both computational and experimental work to see, for example, whether perturbing two pathways simultaneously does what we predict. Another is to integrate what is really still a fairly minimal system with a transcriptomic picture of what the cells are doing. Have we really captured the key elements of the system, or are there others that we’ve just missed that a transcriptome of the periodicity would reveal?

Finally, let’s move outside the lab – what do you like to do in your spare time in London?

AE: I have 6 and 8 year old sons who have been occupying what spare time I have for the last few years! That said, they are now at an age where we do a lot of fun things together as a family, whether it be going on a bike ride, playing crazy golf or just having a lazy evening watching a film. At times when the work is full on, they certainly force me to switch off!

JG: To my own surprise, I’ve discovered, since working from home, how much I like to get exercise – even a bit of running which I used to hate! My wife and I have been cycling up the Thames in short stages, with a plan to reach the source in a few months, enjoying on the way some beautiful riverside scenery, some lovely little towns, and also a sense of being connected with the world, which is something that rivers give you, I think.

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Genetics Unzipped podcast: 100 not out? Genes and ageing

Posted by , on 28 January 2021

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In the latest episode of Genetics Unzipped, the podcast from the Genetics Society, presenter Kat Arney takes a look at the biological changes that underpin ageing, and how we can use this knowledge to live longer, healthier lives.

Kat speaks with Andrew Steele, author of the new book Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, to take a deep dive into the processes that underlie ageing and – excitingly – whether we might be able to slow them down. Plus, he explains why the most useful anti-ageing product in your bathroom might be your toothbrush, rather than that fancy moisturiser.

Kat also chats with Raheleh Rahbari, a research fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, who is studying how patterns of DNA damage accumulate in our tissues throughout life. She discusses how our bodies are patchworks of mutation, right from the very start of life, and the impact this has on ageing and diseases like cancer and dementia.

Genetics Unzipped is the podcast from The Genetics Society. Full transcript, links and references available online at GeneticsUnzipped.com.

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And head over to GeneticsUnzipped.com to catch up on our extensive back catalogue.

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Assistant Professor in Molecular Cell Biology

Posted by , on 28 January 2021

Closing Date: 15 March 2021

The department of Molecular and Cell Biology in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced is seeking one new faculty member at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track) in the area of Molecular Cell Biology. Candidates working on any aspect of molecular and/or cell biology, from the biochemical to organismal level, are encouraged to apply. We seek outstanding scholars who will establish and maintain creative research programs, complement existing strengths in the Molecular and Cell Biology department, align with one or more of the School of Natural Sciences’ areas of strategic focus (Computational & Data Science, Materials, Biomedical Sciences, Sustainability & Environment, and STEM Education), participate in the development of innovative interdisciplinary research projects, and teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Neurobiology, Genetics, Immunology, Computational Biology, or a related field is required. Postdoctoral experience is highly desirable.
Please apply by March 27, 2021 for full consideration: https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01061
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Postbaccalaureate Program in Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Posted by , on 28 January 2021

Closing Date: 15 March 2021

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is an immersive laboratory experience designed to provide recent college graduates with additional research experience to make them competitive for advanced careers in biomedical science. This program is focused on providing research experience in modern developmental biology and diverse regenerative medicine labs. Postbaccalaureate researchers will also participate in career development workshops and seminars.

This program is designed to primarily be a research-focused program, where the participants will spend most of their time in the laboratory of a selected mentor. However, it will also provide additional training and opportunities for participants to achieve readiness in three main areas:  readiness for research, readiness for academics, and readiness for self-presentation. This will be accomplished through a curriculum that provides educational opportunities in addition to training in the laboratory. Among these will be opportunities to attend tailored workshops, seminars, research forums, and graduate-level classes. A major focus in the second year will be workshops on preparing a Curriculum Vitae and applying to graduate school.

The participant performs research and analysis, as well as technical aspects of studies and experiments, including documentation and preparation of materials.

Individuals accepted into the program will be designated as salaried employees for a period of up to two years and will be eligible for University sponsored benefits, including health insurance.

Full details of the program can be found at: https://sites.wustl.edu/devbioregenmedpostbacc/.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Works under the supervision of senior personnel on research project/s providing independent complex research support.
  2. Presents results of research activities to peers and supervisors in written and/or verbal presentation or form.
  3. Through active research and analysis gains proficiency in essential aspects of research, which may include some or all of the following: conducting experiments, assays, collection of data, preparation of solutions, tissue culture, animal care and maintenance, and set-up and maintenance of equipment.
  4. Complies with established safety procedures and maintains required documentation on laboratory and specimen conditions.
  5. Attends meetings, educational workshops and seminars to prepare for advanced study.
  6. Performs data entry and maintains data files on research.
  7. Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree.
  • Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate with laboratory staff and investigators.
  • Ability to maintain complete and organized records/reports.
  • Demonstrated ability for attention to detail.
  • Effective analysis skills.

 

The salary for this position is $2,964 monthly.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship – Vitamin-Dependent Pathways in Neural Crest Development

Posted by , on 27 January 2021

Closing Date: 15 March 2021

The Poché Lab is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate/fellow with experience in mouse developmental genetics and embryology. This NIH R01-funded position is focused on studying the interplay between nutritional factors, such as vitamins, and genetic and metabolic pathways essential for embryonic development. Special emphasis will be given to neural crest-derived tissues. Our long-term goal is to use this information to devise new therapeutic strategies to modulate the development of neurocristopathies.

Preference will be given to candidates with a strong background in using genetic approaches to study either neural crest or cardiovascular development. This expertise should ideally include next gen sequencing (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, single cell-seq, etc.) data analysis. However, training in these techniques can also be provided.

The Poché lab employs a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing genetic loss- and gain-of-function experiments, fate mapping, gene therapy, molecular biology, and live microscopy. In addition to technical training, all postdocs within the lab routinely receive one-on-one instruction in grant writing and presentation skills.

We are housed in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Located in the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center on the world, BCM postdocs have a tremendous amount of technical and intellectual resources at their disposal, including the 26 BCM Advanced Technology Core Labs https://www.bcm.edu/research/research-services/atc-core-labs.

In your application, please include a cover letter, current CV, and contact information for three references. Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please contact Dr. Poché at poche@bcm.edu.

https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/ross-poche

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Postdoctoral Fellowship – Retinal Regeneration

Posted by , on 27 January 2021

Closing Date: 15 March 2021

The Poché Lab is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate/fellow with experience in retinal developmental biology, tissue regeneration, or transcriptome analysis. This NIH R01-funded position is focused on the study of the molecular mechanisms blocking mammalian Müller glial cell (MG)-mediated retinal regeneration. Our long-term goal is to determine whether the mouse retina retains latent regenerative potential, akin to other vertebrate species, and whether we can genetically “awaken” that potential to restore sight.

Special emphasis will be placed on the investigation of MG transcriptional reprogramming to a progenitor-like state. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong background in mouse genetics and in techniques to probe the transcriptome and epigenome. This expertise should ideally include next gen sequencing (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, single cell-seq, etc.) data analysis. However, training in these techniques can also be provided.

The Poché lab employs a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing genetic loss- and gain-of-function experiments, fate mapping, gene therapy, molecular biology, and live retinal confocal microscopy. In addition to technical training, all postdocs within the lab routinely receive one-on-one instruction in grant writing and presentation skills.

We are housed in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Located in the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center on the world, BCM postdocs have a tremendous amount of technical and intellectual resources at their disposal, including the 26 BCM Advanced Technology Core Labs https://www.bcm.edu/research/research-services/atc-core-labs.

In your application, please include a cover letter, current CV, and contact information for three references. Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please contact Dr. Poché at poche@bcm.edu.

https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/ross-poche

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Development presents… preLights third birthday special

Posted by , on 26 January 2021

 

 

The next webinar in our Development presents… series will be a little different: rather than being chaired by a Development editor, the preLights team will be in control. preLights is the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists, and in February they celebrate their third birthday.

We brought together three preLighters with interests in developmental biology – Sundar Naganathan, Irepan Salvador-Martinez and Grace Lim – who have each invited authors of recent exciting preprints to give talks. The preLighters will chair the talks and the Q&As, and we’ll also hear from outgoing preLights Community Manager Mate Palfy about three years in the life of a preprint-focused community. We hope to see you there!

 

Wednesday 10 February 2021 – 13:00 GMT

 

Michèle Romanos (from Bertrand Benazeraf’s lab at the Centre de Biologie Integrative in Toulouse)

‘Cell-to-cell heterogeneity in Sox2 and Brachyury expression ratios guides progenitor destiny by controlling their motility.’

 

Marc Robinson-Rechavi (University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

‘The hourglass model of evolutionary conservation during embryogenesis extends to developmental enhancers with signatures of positive selection’

 

Meng Zhu (from Magdalena Zernicka Goetz’s lab at the University of Cambridge)

‘Mechanism of cell polarisation and first lineage segregation in the human embryo’

 

 


To register for the event, go to

https://virtual.biologists.com/e/development-presents-4/register

 

The webinar will be held in Remo, our browser-based conferencing platform – after the talks you’ll have the chance to meet the speakers and other participants at virtual conference tables. If you can’t make it on the day, talks will be available to watch for a couple of weeks after the event (look out for details on the Node).

 

For more information about what to expect in Remo, go to

thenode.biologists.com/devpres/


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