EGF signaling required for gut homeostasis in drosophila

new paper by b. lemaitre's lab

ERK phosphorylates grainy head in vivo

new paper from mcginnis lab showing erk phosphorylates grainy head and that this is required for epidermal barrier re-establishment after injury but not for wound closure itself neither for development of an epidermal barrier during normal development..on PNAS!

cps new paper about blebbing

Nature paper by Pavel and Casey

Complicated evolution paper by Pavel Tomancak and Casey Bergman.

short review on signaling pathways guiding hemocyte response

New Wood paper

Will has got a new paper out in Diease Models & Mechanisms.
The story on Ena in lamellipodia as opposed to filopodia.

new paper by cp's lab

role of oriented cell divisions in midline formation, zebrafish

a very good paper about the role of sterols during drosophila development!

zyxin and repair of actin stress fibers

Sérgios paper is out

Sérgios paper is out in DevCell, congrats.

wound closure screen in larvae

new paper from the Galko lab - candidate gene approach, JNK pathway regulators and transcription factors

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

Check this out:

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin

New paper on tension sensing using vinculin

wound healing, PCP, and RhoGEF

Buzz paper out in DevCell

Michael/Marios/Buzz paper on the Delta-Notch inhibition driving SOP patterning is out in DevCell..

Acknowledgements to Don Tony and me for the ablation .. (but what about Marco?!)

e-cadherin can really feel it...;)

2 hemo papers

Another RNAi screen in hemocytes

and

Rho-1, autophagy and recruitment of hemocytes to wounds

Blog by Development

There's a new blog by Development. It hasn't really started yet, but maybe keep an eye on it in the future...

Carlos Ribeiro

Carlos (IGC) got his paper in Current Biology.

alfa catenin as mechanosensing in wound healing

New paper is out identifying alfa-catenin together with vinculin and E-cadherin in wound healing..
A must read!!

the wood strikes again ;)

talking about cell-matrix interactions in the fly embryo...

Two important papers

Two important papers are out in Development.
One is Will's study of hemocytes "squeezing" their way underneath the epithelia,
and the other is on Par complex in amnioserosa during dorsal closure

Sophophora melanogaster

If the fly was identified today it would have been named Sophophora melanogaster!!
Is this an Aprils fool joke?!

lot of interesting stuff this week...
histoblast motility and invasiveness,
polarity in the ventral embryonic epidermis,
and one from last week by Baum's lab

paper studying JNK and cell death, using the gal4/gal80 system

Must read!!

Interesting paper out on RhoA signalling from Ways lab ;-)

New Wieschaus paper

There's a a new paper out by Wieschaus looking at contractile forces during invagination.

small European company for fly transgenics

A new(ish) French company who claim to offer fast and cheap generation of Drosophila transgenic lines by P-element based or by PhC31 site-specific methods. They will also do your RNAi screen for you!

They keep emailing me, so I thought I'd pass it on...Fly Facility

rita's paper :)

it seems H2O2 is really a hot topic these days ;)

Fascin and invadopodia

Hello!
Just found a paper in Current Biology that could interest some of us:
"The Actin-Bundling Protein Fascin Stabilizes Actin in Invadopodia and Potentiates Protrusive Invasion"

Check it here

CP on Collective Migration

CP has got a paper out in Current Biology.
Here, he describe how cells need cell-cell adhesion for collective migration. Without cell-cell adhesion, cells migrates, but not in a coordinated manner.

paper on cell extrusion during metamorphosis (this work was presented at the Nice Drosophila meeting)