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Incoming links: Developmental biologist
Martin Behrndt Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who studied mechanical forces during epiboly, using flow and force measurements to test actomyosin-dependent tissue movement.[ref]
Forces driving epithelial spreading in zebrafish gastrulation by Martin Behrndt and others. Authorship and experimental findings
M. Campione Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated asymmetric PITX2 signaling and its relationship to heart and gut looping; the primary record credits these initials.[ref]
The homeobox gene Pitx2: mediator of asymmetric left-right signaling in vertebrate heart and gut looping by M. Campione and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Minjung Kang Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated how FGF4 controls stable lineage restriction in the early mouse embryo, separating initial marker expression from later commitment.[ref]
Morris F. Maduro Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who tested regulatory-network robustness during Caenorhabditis elegans endoderm development through quantitative genetic perturbations.[ref]
MED GATA factors promote robust development of the C. elegans endoderm by Morris F. Maduro and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Noriyuki Nishioka Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who studied position-dependent Hippo signaling and YAP-TEAD4 activity in the distinction between trophectoderm and inner cell mass.[ref]
Patrick Tschopp Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated the temporal and spatial control of Hox gene expression, using genomic rearrangements to separate regulatory effects.[ref]
Uncoupling time and space in the collinear regulation of Hox genes by Patrick Tschopp and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Peter W. H. Holland Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who studied the amphioxus Hox cluster, using comparison to investigate ancestral chordate gene organization.[ref]
Archetypal organization of the amphioxus Hox gene cluster by Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez and Peter W. H. Holland. Authorship and experimental findings
Philipp J. Keller Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who developed live light-sheet imaging and nuclear tracking to reconstruct cell divisions and movement during zebrafish embryonic development.[ref]
Reconstruction of zebrafish early embryonic development by scanned light sheet microscopy by Philipp J. Keller and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Renata Freitas Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated shared developmental mechanisms in median and paired fins, testing how older patterning systems can be redeployed during evolution.[ref]
Evidence that mechanisms of fin development evolved in the midline of early vertebrates by Renata Freitas and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Robin P. Wharton Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated sequence-dependent control of translation by Nanos, connecting RNA regulatory elements to the posterior body pattern.[ref]
RNA regulatory elements mediate control of Drosophila body pattern by the posterior morphogen nanos by Robin P. Wharton and Gary Struhl. Authorship and experimental findings
Shuichi Ueno Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated stage-dependent effects of Wnt signalling on cardiac specification, separating effects of early and later interventions.[ref]
Biphasic role for Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in cardiac specification in zebrafish and embryonic stem cells by Shuichi Ueno and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Stéphane D. Vincent Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated how graded Nodal signalling changes lineage contributions within the mouse organizer.[ref]
Cell fate decisions within the mouse organizer are governed by graded Nodal signals by Stéphane D. Vincent and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Vivian Irish Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who tested how repression of maternal Hunchback contributes to Nanos-dependent posterior patterning in Drosophila.[ref]
The Drosophila posterior-group gene nanos functions by repressing hunchback activity by Vivian Irish and others. Authorship and experimental findings
Wolfgang Driever Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who studied the Bicoid gradient, testing how changes in its source and concentration shift positional outcomes in the Drosophila embryo.[ref]
The bicoid protein determines position in the Drosophila embryo in a concentration-dependent manner by Wolfgang Driever and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. Authorship and experimental findings
Zhe Wang Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A developmental biologist who investigated a developmental digit identity frameshift hypothesis in avian wing digits, comparing molecular identity with anatomical position.[ref]
Transcriptomic analysis of avian digits reveals conserved and derived digit identities in birds by Zhe Wang and others. Authorship and experimental findings