Spotlight on Recent Publications
The division faculty publishes their research in premier journals such as Nature, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron, Development and EMBO Journal. Examples of recent publications from our division include:
Rayapureddi JP, Kattamuri C, Steinmetz BD, Frankfort BJ, Ostrin EJ, Mardon G, Hegde RS. Eyes absent represents a class of protein tyrosine phosphatases. Nature 2003;426(6964):295-8.
Gebelein B, McKay DJ, Mann RS. Direct integration of Hox and segmentation gene inputs during Drosophila development. Nature. 2004 Oct 7;431(7009):653-9.
Belenkaya TY, Han C, Yan D, Opoka RJ, Khodoun M, Liu H, Lin X. Drosophila Dpp morphogen movement is independent of dynamin-mediated endocytosis but regulated by the glypican members of heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Cell. 2004 Oct 15;119(2):231-44.
Gotoh N, Ito M, Yamamoto S, Yoshino I, Song N, Wang Y, Lax I, Schlessinger J, Shibuya M, Lang RA. Tyrosine phosphorylation sites on FRS2alpha responsible for Shp2 recruitment are critical for induction of lens and retina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 7;101(49):17144-9.
Qinghua Tao, Chika Yokota, Helbert Puck, Matt Kofron, Bilge Birsoy, Dong Yan, Makoto Asashima, Christopher C. Wylie, Xinhua Lin and Janet Heasman. (2005). Maternal Wnt11 activates the canonical Wnt signaling pathway required for axis formation in Xenopus embryos. Cell. in press.
