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Morphogenesis

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    Burdine R, Caspary T. Left-right asymmetry: lessons from Cancún. Development (Cambridge, England). 2013;140(22):4465–70. PMCID: PMC3817937
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    Martínez-Calvo A, Bhattacharjee T, Bay K, Luu H, Hancock A, Wingreen N, Datta S. Morphological instability and roughening of growing 3D bacterial colonies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022;119(43):e2208019119. PMCID: PMC9618147
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    Paramore S, Goodwin K, Nelson C. How to build an epithelial tree. Phys Biol. 2022;19(6). PMID: 36317265
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    Prentice J, Bridges A, Bassler B. Synergy between c-di-GMP and Quorum-Sensing Signaling in Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Morphogenesis. J Bacteriol. 2022;204(10):e0024922. PMCID: PMC9578409
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    Devenport D. A squash and a squeeze. Elife. 2022;11. PMCID: PMC9246364
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    McFann S, Shvartsman S, Toettcher J. Putting in the Erk: Growth factor signaling and mesoderm morphogenesis. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2022;149:263–310. PMID: 35606058
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    Stern T, Shvartsman S, Wieschaus E. Deconstructing gastrulation at single-cell resolution. Curr Biol. 2022;32(8):1861–1868.e7. PMCID: PMC9221752
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    Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Sundarakrishnan A, Spurlin J, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Transmural pressure signals through retinoic acid to regulate lung branching. Development. 2022;149(2). PMCID: PMC8917413
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    Farahani P, Nelson C. Revealing epithelial morphogenetic mechanisms through live imaging. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2022;72:61–68. PMCID: PMC8860867
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    Lemke S, Nelson C. Dynamic changes in epithelial cell packing during tissue morphogenesis. Curr Biol. 2021;31(18):R1098-R1110. PMCID: PMC8496771
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    Nelson C. The mechanics of crypt morphogenesis. Nat Cell Biol. 2021;23(7):678–679. PMID: 34155380
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    Nerger B, Jaslove J, Elashal H, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Link J, Nelson C. Local accumulation of extracellular matrix regulates global morphogenetic patterning in the developing mammary gland. Curr Biol. 2021;31(9):1903–1917.e6. PMCID: PMC8119325
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Uncovering cellular networks in branching morphogenesis using single-cell transcriptomics. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2021;143:239–280. PMID: 33820623
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Mechanics of Development. Dev Cell. 2021;56(2):240–250. PMCID: PMC8177046
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    Stern T, Shvartsman S, Wieschaus E. Template-based mapping of dynamic motifs in tissue morphogenesis. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020;16(8):e1008049. PMCID: PMC7442231
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    Johnson H, Djabrayan N, Shvartsman S, Toettcher J. Optogenetic Rescue of a Patterning Mutant. Curr Biol. 2020;30(17):3414–3424.e3. PMCID: PMC7730203
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Branching morphogenesis. Development. 2020;147(10). PMID: 32444428
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    Goodwin K, Mao S, Guyomar T, Miller E, Radisky D, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Smooth muscle differentiation shapes domain branches during mouse lung development. Development. 2019;146(22). PMCID: PMC6899029
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    Spurlin J, Siedlik M, Nerger B, Pang M-F, Jayaraman S, Zhang R, Nelson C. Mesenchymal proteases and tissue fluidity remodel the extracellular matrix during airway epithelial branching in the embryonic avian lung. Development. 2019;146(16). PMCID: PMC6737900
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    Johnson H, Toettcher J. Signaling Dynamics Control Cell Fate in the Early Drosophila Embryo. Dev Cell. 2019;48(3):361–370.e3. PMCID: PMC6394837
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    Wittes J, Schüpbach T. A Gene Expression Screen in Identifies Novel JAK/STAT and EGFR Targets During Oogenesis. G3 (Bethesda). 2019;9(1):47–60. PMCID: PMC6325903
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    Cetera M, Leybova L, Joyce B, Devenport D. Counter-rotational cell flows drive morphological and cell fate asymmetries in mammalian hair follicles. Nat Cell Biol. 2018;20(5):541–552. PMCID: PMC6065250
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    Nerger B, Nelson C. 3D culture models for studying branching morphogenesis in the mammary gland and mammalian lung. Biomaterials. 2019;198:135–145. PMCID: PMC6387650
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    Jaslove J, Nelson C. Smooth muscle: a stiff sculptor of epithelial shapes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018;373(1759). PMCID: PMC6158200
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    Anlas A, Nelson C. Tissue mechanics regulates form, function, and dysfunction. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2018;54:98–105. PMCID: PMC6214752
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    Chakrabarti R, Celià-Terrassa T, Kumar S, Hang X, Wei Y, Choudhury A, Hwang J, Peng J, Nixon B, Grady J, DeCoste C, Gao J, van Es J, Li M, Aifantis I, Clevers H, Kang Y. Notch ligand Dll1 mediates cross-talk between mammary stem cells and the macrophageal niche. Science. 2018;360(6396). PMCID: PMC7881440
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    Grimes D, Burdine R. Left-Right Patterning: Breaking Symmetry to Asymmetric Morphogenesis. Trends Genet. 2017;33(9):616–628. PMCID: PMC5764106
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    Cetera M, Leybova L, Woo F, Deans M, Devenport D. Planar cell polarity-dependent and independent functions in the emergence of tissue-scale hair follicle patterns. Dev Biol. 2017;428(1):188–203. PMCID: PMC5549468
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    Misra M, Audoly B, Shvartsman S. Complex structures from patterned cell sheets. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017;372(1720). PMCID: PMC5379023
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    Goodwin K, Nelson C. Generating tissue topology through remodeling of cell-cell adhesions. Exp Cell Res. 2017;358(1):45–51. PMCID: PMC5544595
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    Spurlin J, Nelson C. Building branched tissue structures: from single cell guidance to coordinated construction. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017;372(1720). PMCID: PMC5379029
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    Gregor T. Beyond D’Arcy Thompson: Future challenges for quantitative biology. Mech Dev. 2017;145:10–12. PMCID: PMC5771656
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    Vega M, Schwarzbauer J. Collaboration of fibronectin matrix with other extracellular signals in morphogenesis and differentiation. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2016;42:1–6. PMCID: PMC5055409
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    Doubrovinski K, Swan M, Polyakov O, Wieschaus E. Measurement of cortical elasticity in Drosophila melanogaster embryos using ferrofluids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(5):1051–1056. PMCID: PMC5293093
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    Tenenbaum C, Gavis E. Removal of Drosophila Muscle Tissue from Larval Fillets for Immunofluorescence Analysis of Sensory Neurons and Epidermal Cells. J Vis Exp. 2016;(117). PMCID: PMC5226124
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    Nerger B, Siedlik M, Nelson C. Microfabricated tissues for investigating traction forces involved in cell migration and tissue morphogenesis. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2017;74(10):1819–1834. PMCID: PMC5391279
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    Varner V, Nelson C. Computational models of airway branching morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2017;67:170–176. PMCID: PMC5136345
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    Nelson C. Choreographing tissue morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2016;55:79. PMID: 27288887
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    Piotrowski-Daspit A, Nelson C. Engineering Three-dimensional Epithelial Tissues Embedded within Extracellular Matrix. J Vis Exp. 2016;(113). PMCID: PMC4993436
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    Devenport D. Tissue morphodynamics: Translating planar polarity cues into polarized cell behaviors. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2016;55:99–110. PMCID: PMC5005802
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    Misra M, Edmund H, Ennis D, Schlueter M, Marot J, Tambasco J, Barlow I, Sigurbjornsdottir S, Mathew R, Vallés A, Wojciech W, Roth S, Davis I, Leptin M, Gavis E. A Genome-Wide Screen for Dendritically Localized RNAs Identifies Genes Required for Dendrite Morphogenesis. G3 (Bethesda). 2016;6(8):2397–405. PMCID: PMC4978894
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    Aw W, Heck B, Joyce B, Devenport D. Transient Tissue-Scale Deformation Coordinates Alignment of Planar Cell Polarity Junctions in the Mammalian Skin. Curr Biol. 2016;26(16):2090–100. PMCID: PMC5005808
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    Aw W, Devenport D. Planar cell polarity: global inputs establishing cellular asymmetry. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2017;44:110–116. PMCID: PMC5326696
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    Levario T, Lim B, Shvartsman S, Lu H. Microfluidics for High-Throughput Quantitative Studies of Early Development. Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2016;18:285–309. PMID: 26928208
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    Kim H, Pang M-F, Varner V, Kojima L, Miller E, Radisky D, Nelson C. Localized Smooth Muscle Differentiation Is Essential for Epithelial Bifurcation during Branching Morphogenesis of the Mammalian Lung. Dev Cell. 2015;34(6):719–26. PMCID: PMC4589145
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    Navis A, Nelson C. Pulling together: Tissue-generated forces that drive lumen morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2016;55:139–47. PMCID: PMC4903947
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    Tkačik G, Dubuis J, Petkova M, Gregor T. Positional information, positional error, and readout precision in morphogenesis: a mathematical framework. Genetics. 2015;199(1):39–59. PMCID: PMC4286692
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    Devenport D, Fuchs E. Planar polarization in embryonic epidermis orchestrates global asymmetric morphogenesis of hair follicles. Nat Cell Biol. 2008;10(11):1257–68. PMCID: PMC2607065
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    Wagner E, Stolfi A, Choi Y, Levine M. Islet is a key determinant of ascidian palp morphogenesis. Development. 2014;141(15):3084–92. PMCID: PMC4197658
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    Osterfield M, Schüpbach T, Wieschaus E, Shvartsman S. Diversity of epithelial morphogenesis during eggshell formation in drosophilids. Development. 2015;142(11):1971–7. PMCID: PMC4460739
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