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Epithelial Reintegration and Architecture
Christian Cammarota, Nicole S. Dawney, Phillip M. Bellomio, Maren Jüng, Alexander G. Fletcher, Tara M. Finegan, Dan T. Bergstralh. The Mechanical Influence of Densification on Initial Epithelial Architecture. (2024) PLOS Computational Biology 20(4): e1012001.
Christian Cammarota, Dan T Bergstralh, Tara M Finegan. Automated Layer Analysis (ALAn): An Image Analysis Tool for the Unbiased Characterization of Mammalian Epithelial Architecture in Culture. (2024) Bio-protocol 14(8): e4971.
Tara M. Finegan, Christian Cammarota, Oscar Mendoza Andrade, Audrey M. Garoutte, Dan T. Bergstralh. Fas2[EB112]: A Tale of Two Chromosomes. (2024) G3 jkae047.
Nicole S. Dawney*, Christian Cammarota*, Qingyuan Jia, Alicia Shipley, Joseph A. Glichowski, Muskaan Vasandani, Tara M. Finegan, Dan T. Bergstralh. A novel tool for the unbiased characterization of epithelial monolayer development in culture. (2023) Mol Biol Cell 43(4):ar25.
Christian Cammarota*, Tara M. Finegan*, Tyler J. Wilson, Sifan Yang, Dan T. Bergstralh. An axon-pathfinding mechanism preserves epithelial tissue integrity. (2020) Current Biology 30(24) 5049-5057.
Dan T. Bergstralh*, Holly E. Lovegrove*, Daniel St Johnston. Lateral adhesion drives reintegration of misplaced cells into epithelial monolayers. (2015) Nature Cell Biology 17(11) 1497-1503.
Spindle Orientation
Kathryn E. Neville*, Tara M. Finegan*, Nicholas Lowe, Philip M. Bellomio, Daxiang Na, Dan T. Bergstralh. The Drosophila mitotic spindle orienting machinery requires activation, not just localization. (2023) EMBO Reports e56074
Emily A. Schiller, Dan T. Bergstralh. Interaction between Discs large and Pins/LGN/GPSM2: a comparison across species. (2021) Biol Open 10 (11): bio058982.
Tara M. Finegan, Daxiang Na, Christian Cammarota, Austin V. Skeeters, Tamás J. Nádasi, Nicole S. Dawney, Alexander G. Fletcher, Patrick W. Oakes, Dan T. Bergstralh. Tissue tension and not interphase cell shape determines cell division orientation in the Drosophila follicular epithelium. (2019) The EMBO Journal 38:e100072.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Holly E. Lovegrove, Izabela Kujawiak, Nicole S Dawney, Jinwei Zhu, Samantha Cooper, Rongguang Zhang, Daniel St Johnston. Pins is not required for spindle orientation in the Drosophila wing disc. (2016) Development Jul 15;143(14):2573-81.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Holly E. Lovegrove, and Daniel St Johnston. Discs large links spindle orientation to apical-basal polarity in Drosophila epithelia. (2013) Current Biology Sep 9;23(17):1707-12
Reviews and Previews
Lindsay I Rathbun, Coralee A Everett, Dan T Bergstralh. Emerging Cnidarian Models for the Study of Epithelial Polarity. (2022) Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Apr 1;10:854373.
Tara M. Finegan and Dan T. Bergstralh. Neuronal immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecules in epithelial morphogenesis: insights from Drosophila. (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1809), 20190553.
Christian M. Cammarota and Dan T. Bergstralh. Cell Division: Interkinetic Nuclear… Mechanics. (2020) Current Biology Jul 6;30(13):R759-R761.
Tara M. Finegan and Dan T. Bergstralh. Division orientation: disentangling shape and mechanical forces. (2019) Cell Cycle 18 (11), 1187-1198.
Tyler J. Wilson and Dan T. Bergstralh. Cell reintegration: Stray epithelial cells make their way home. (2017) Bioessays 39 (6), 1600248.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Nicole S. Dawney, Daniel St Johnston. Spindle orientation: a question of complex positioning. (2017) Development 144 (7), 1137-1145.