Lab News

Hannah publishes Developmental Cell paper

Hannah publishes Developmental Cell paper

Postdoctoral fellow, Hannah Yevick, published her research titled Structural redundancy in supracellular actomyosin networks enables robust tissue folding in Developmental Cell. You can hear her talk about what she discovered in the video produced by Raleigh McElvery of the MIT Biology department. Read an MIT News article on the research.

Clint publishes paper on Journal of Cell Biology

Clint publishes paper on Journal of Cell Biology

Congratulations to graduate student, Clint Ko, on publishing his research titled Microtubules promote intercellular contractile force transmission during tissue folding in the Journal of Cell Biology. Clint discovered that microtubules maintain intercellular adhesion by regulating actin.

Welcome Babli Adhikary!

Welcome Babli Adhikary!

Babli is doing summer research as part of the prestigious Khorana Scholars Program.

Marlis featured in MIT Biology news

Marlis featured in MIT Biology news

Congratulations to graduate student, Marlis Denk-Lobnig, who was featured in the MIT Biology department news. Read the article.

Hannah Yevick and Clint Ko submitted papers

Hannah Yevick and Clint Ko submitted papers

Congratulations to Hannah Yevick and Clint Ko on submitting their papers. You can read Hannah’s paper titled Structural redundancy in supracellular actomyosin networks enables robust tissue folding, and Clint’s paper titled Microtubules stabilize intercellular contractile force transmission during tissue folding on BioRxiv.

Hannah publishes WIREs Developmental Biology review

Hannah publishes WIREs Developmental Biology review

Congratulations to postdoc, Hannah Yevick, for publishing her review article “Quantitative Analysis of Cell Shape and the Cytoskeleton in Developmental Biology” in WIREs Developmental Biology.

Welcome new lab members

Welcome new lab members

We have a number of new additions to the lab including postdocs Jasmin Imran Alsous and Nat Clarke, graduate students Anna Yeh and Jaclyn Camuglia, undergraduates Prateek Kalakuntla and Jennifer Nwako, and technician Vardges Tserunyan.

Congratulations Dr. Heer

Congratulations Dr. Heer

Congratulations to graduate student, Natalie Heer, on giving an excellent research presentation and successfully defending her thesis. Best of luck at your new position as a Data Scientist.

Natalie publishes Development review

Natalie publishes Development review

Congratulations to graduate student, Natalie Heer, for publishing her review article “Tension, Contraction and Tissue Morphogenesis” in Development. Natalie contributed to the special issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of “On Growth and Form.” Her review article describes the latest research explaining how forces are generated to sculpt tissues.

Soline publishes Current Biology paper

Soline publishes Current Biology paper

Congratulations to Soline on publishing her work “Myosin 2-Induced Mitotic Rounding Enables Columnar Epithelial Cells to Interpret Cortical Spindle Positioning Cues” in Current Biology. Soline showed how mitotic cell rounding is critical to orient cell division such that both daughter cells remain in the tissue.

Marlis Passed Qualifying Exam

Marlis Passed Qualifying Exam

Congratulations to graduate student, Marlis Denk-Lobnig, on passing her qualifying exam.

Soline publishes Nature Communications paper

Soline publishes Nature Communications paper

Congratulations to Soline on publishing her work “Actomyosin Meshwork Mechanosensing Enables Tissue Shape to Orient Cell Force” in Nature Communications. Soline discovered a mechanism by which tissue and organism shape can instruct cells how to generate force. This has implications in understanding how tissues and organs acquire their correct shape.

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

Jonathan Jackson passed qualifying exam

Congratulations to graduate student, Jonathan Jackson, on passing his qualifying exam.

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Nat Clarke published review on Current Biology

Congratulations postdoc Nat Clarke on his review paper on the cytoskeleton, adhesion, and morphogenesis being published in Current Biology.

Marlis Denk-Lobnig’s publishes paper in Development

Marlis Denk-Lobnig’s publishes paper in Development

Congratulations grad student, Marlis Denk-Lobnig, on her paper titled Combinatorial patterns of graded RhoA activation and uniform F-actin depletion promote tissue curvature being published by Development.

Jasmin Imran Alsous and Jonathan Jackson published their paper in PNAS

Jasmin Imran Alsous and Jonathan Jackson published their paper in PNAS

Congratulations postdoc Jasmin Imran Alsous and grad student Jonathan Jackson on publishing their paper titlec Dynamics of hydraulic and contractile wave-mediated fluid transport during Drosophila oogenesis in PNAS.

Juana De La O joins the lab

Juana De La O joins the lab

Juana De La O comes to us from the University of Chicago and the MIT Biology PhD program.

Clint and Prateek publish paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell

Clint and Prateek publish paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell

Graduate student Clint Ko and Undergraduate Prateek Kalakuntla publish MBoC paper on how mitotic entry can repress ‘active’ contractility and result in relaxation that promotes neighboring tissue folding.

Mary Ann Collins and Jonathan Jackson join the lab

Mary Ann Collins and Jonathan Jackson join the lab

Jonathan comes to us from the Harvard Biophysics PhD program and Mary Ann did her PhD on nuclear movement in muscle.

Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh passed Ph.D. candidacy exams

Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh passed Ph.D. candidacy exams

Congratulations to Jaci Camuglia and Anna Yeh on passing their Ph.D. candidacy exams! Excited to see what research directions we go in over the next few years.