William A. Harris

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William A. Harris

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PhD Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology Stanford University

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A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses (1998) (895)
Binocular impulse blockade prevents the formation of ocular dominance columns in cat visual cortex (1986) (678)
Conditioned behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. (1974) (637)
[Development of the nervous system]. (2000) (542)
Specification of the vertebrate eye by a network of eye field transcription factors (2003) (494)
Cellular determination in the xenopus retina is independent of lineage and birth date (1988) (414)
Genetic dissection of the photoreceptor system in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster (1976) (392)
Genetic Disorders of Vision Revealed by a Behavioral Screen of 400 Essential Loci in Zebrafish (1999) (374)
Expression of an extracellular deletion of Xotch diverts cell fate in Xenopus embryos (1993) (372)
The genetic sequence of retinal development in the ciliary margin of the Xenopus eye. (1998) (340)
Inhibition of Activin/Nodal signaling promotes specification of human embryonic stem cells into neuroectoderm. (2008) (309)
Xotch inhibits cell differentiation in the xenopus retina (1995) (308)
Retinal axons with and without their somata, growing to and arborizing in the tectum of Xenopus embryos: a time-lapse video study of single fibres in vivo. (1987) (307)
Mapping of the presumptive brain regions in the neural plate of Xenopus laevis. (1990) (300)
Xotch, the Xenopus homolog of Drosophila notch. (1990) (295)
Molecular mechanisms of axon growth and guidance. (1991) (291)
The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons (2005) (284)
Regulation of neuronal diversity in the Xenopus retina by Delta signalling (1997) (283)
Xath5 Participates in a Network of bHLH Genes in the Developing Xenopus Retina (1997) (272)
Navigational errors made by growth cones without filopodia in the embryonic xenopus brain (1993) (260)
Neurogenesis and the Cell Cycle (2003) (250)
Actomyosin Is the Main Driver of Interkinetic Nuclear Migration in the Retina (2009) (249)
p27Xic1, a Cdk Inhibitor, Promotes the Determination of Glial Cells in Xenopus Retina (1999) (247)
Neuronal determination without cell division in xenopus embryos (1991) (245)
Giant Eyes in Xenopus laevis by Overexpression of XOptx2 (1999) (234)
Late Endosomes Act as mRNA Translation Platforms and Sustain Mitochondria in Axons (2019) (233)
From progenitors to differentiated cells in the vertebrate retina. (2009) (232)
Polarization and orientation of retinal ganglion cells in vivo (2006) (226)
Hereditary retinal degeneration in Drosophila melanogaster. A mutant defect associated with the phototransduction process (1977) (225)
Xenopus Pax-6 and retinal development. (1997) (221)
Topographic Mapping in Dorsoventral Axis of the Xenopus Retinotectal System Depends on Signaling through Ephrin-B Ligands (2002) (215)
Mechanisms of ventral patterning in the vertebrate nervous system (2006) (210)
The Neuronal Architecture of Xenopus Retinal Ganglion Cells Is Sculpted by Rho-Family GTPases In Vivo (1999) (208)
How Variable Clones Build an Invariant Retina (2012) (205)
In Vivo Time-Lapse Imaging of Cell Divisions during Neurogenesis in the Developing Zebrafish Retina (2003) (203)
Order in the initial retinotectal map in Xenopus: a new technique for labelling growing nerve fibres (1983) (203)
Semaphorin 3A Elicits Stage-Dependent Collapse, Turning, and Branching in Xenopus Retinal Growth Cones (2001) (193)
Ephrin-B Regulates the Ipsilateral Routing of Retinal Axons at the Optic Chiasm (2000) (193)
Metabolism in physiological cell proliferation and differentiation. (2013) (189)
Neural activity and development. (1981) (184)
Influences on neural lineage and mode of division in the zebrafish retina in vivo (2005) (181)
Cellular diversification in the vertebrate retina. (1997) (177)
Frizzled 5 Signaling Governs the Neural Potential of Progenitors in the Developing Xenopus Retina (2005) (176)
Retinal stem cells in vertebrates. (2000) (171)
Endocytosis-dependent desensitization and protein synthesis–dependent resensitization in retinal growth cone adaptation (2005) (169)
A novel function for Hedgehog signalling in retinal pigment epithelium differentiation (2003) (164)
Co-ordinating retinal histogenesis: early cell cycle exit enhances early cell fate determination in the Xenopus retina. (2002) (157)
Hedgehog signaling and the retina: insights into the mechanisms controlling the proliferative properties of neural precursors. (2006) (153)
Reconstruction of rat retinal progenitor cell lineages in vitro reveals a surprising degree of stochasticity in cell fate decisions (2011) (149)
Fate of the anterior neural ridge and the morphogenesis of the Xenopus forebrain. (1995) (147)
Cell cycle and cell fate in the nervous system (2001) (144)
X-ngnr-1 and Xath3 promote ectopic expression of sensory neuron markers in the neurula ectoderm and have distinct inducing properties in the retina. (1999) (138)
Local positional cues in the neuroepithelium guide retinal axons in embryonic Xenopus brain (1989) (135)
The effects of eliminating impulse activity on the development of the retinotectal projection in salamanders (1980) (132)
RNA Docking and Local Translation Regulate Site-Specific Axon Remodeling In Vivo (2017) (129)
Molecular characterization of the GnRH system in zebrafish (Danio rerio): cloning of chicken GnRH-II, adult brain expression patterns and pituitary content of salmon GnRH and chicken GnRH-II. (2003) (128)
Determination of vertebrate retinal progenitor cell fate by the Notch pathway and basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors (2000) (128)
Metabolic differentiation in the embryonic retina (2012) (127)
Lineage in the vertebrate retina (2006) (126)
Two cellular inductions involved in photoreceptor determination in the Xenopus retina (1992) (122)
Position, guidance, and mapping in the developing visual system. (1993) (121)
XASH genes promote neurogenesis in Xenopus embryos. (1994) (118)
Vitamin A deprivation and Drosophila photopigments (1977) (117)
Vsx2 in the zebrafish retina: restricted lineages through derepression (2009) (115)
Apical migration of nuclei during G2 is a prerequisite for all nuclear motion in zebrafish neuroepithelia (2011) (114)
A directional Wnt/β-catenin-Sox2-proneural pathway regulates the transition from proliferation to differentiation in the Xenopus retina (2009) (112)
XOtx5b and XOtx2 regulate photoreceptor and bipolar fates in the Xenopus retina (2003) (110)
Homing behaviour of axons in the embryonic vertebrate brain (1986) (110)
The Oriented Emergence of Axons from Retinal Ganglion Cells Is Directed by Laminin Contact In Vivo (2011) (108)
Tsukushi functions as an organizer inducer by inhibition of BMP activity in cooperation with chordin. (2004) (105)
The zebrafish as a tool for understanding the biology of visual disorders. (2003) (105)
Lysophosphatidyl choline facilitates labeling of CNS projections with horseradish peroxidase (1980) (103)
Molecular recapitulation: the growth of the vertebrate retina. (1998) (103)
Dorsoventral patterning of the Xenopus eye: a collaboration of Retinoid, Hedgehog and FGF receptor signaling (2005) (102)
XASH1, a Xenopus homolog of achaete-scute: a proneural gene in anterior regions of the vertebrate CNS (1993) (96)
Growth cones of developing retinal cells in vivo, on culture surfaces, and in collagen matrices (1985) (95)
Müller glia provide essential tensile strength to the developing retina (2015) (90)
On-Site Ribosome Remodeling by Locally Synthesized Ribosomal Proteins in Axons (2018) (90)
Targeted misexpression of a Drosophila opsin gene leads to altered visual function (1988) (89)
Axonal pathfinding in the absence of normal pathways and impulse activity (1984) (88)
Ptf1a is expressed transiently in all types of amacrine cells in the embryonic zebrafish retina (2009) (86)
The role of combinational coding by homeodomain and bHLH transcription factors in retinal cell fate specification. (2005) (85)
Retinoic acid receptor signaling regulates choroid fissure closure through independent mechanisms in the ventral optic cup and periocular mesenchyme (2011) (81)
A General Role of Hedgehog in the Regulation of Proliferation (2007) (80)
Cep70 and Cep131 contribute to ciliogenesis in zebrafish embryos (2009) (76)
Cellular competence plays a role in photoreceptor differentiation in the developing Xenopus retina. (2001) (71)
Coupling of NF-protocadherin signaling to axon guidance by cue-induced translation (2013) (70)
New views on retinal axon development: a navigation guide. (2004) (68)
Sequential genesis and determination of cone and rod photoreceptors in Xenopus. (1998) (65)
Microcephaly models in the developing zebrafish retinal neuroepithelium point to an underlying defect in metaphase progression (2013) (64)
Origin and Determination of Inhibitory Cell Lineages in the Vertebrate Retina (2011) (59)
Tsukushi controls ectodermal patterning and neural crest specification in Xenopus by direct regulation of BMP4 and X-delta-1 activity (2006) (57)
The molecular genetics of invertebrate phototransduction (1991) (57)
Single-molecule analysis of endogenous β-actin mRNA trafficking reveals a mechanism for compartmentalized mRNA localization in axons (2018) (56)
The multiple decisions made by growth cones of RGCs as they navigate from the retina to the tectum in Xenopus embryos. (2000) (55)
Spectrum of Fates: a new approach to the study of the developing zebrafish retina (2014) (55)
The ciliary marginal zone of the zebrafish retina: clonal and time-lapse analysis of a continuously growing tissue (2016) (54)
Exclusive multipotency and preferential asymmetric divisions in post-embryonic neural stem cells of the fish retina (2014) (54)
Numb is Required for the Production of Terminal Asymmetric Cell Divisions in the Developing Mouse Retina (2012) (54)
Myosin functions in Xenopus retinal ganglion cell growth cone motility in vivo. (1997) (53)
Pax-6: where to be conserved is not conservative. (1997) (53)
RNA-Binding Protein Hermes/RBPMS Inversely Affects Synapse Density and Axon Arbor Formation in Retinal Ganglion Cells In Vivo (2013) (51)
Target selection: invasion, mapping and cell choice (1998) (51)
Zic-associated holoprosencephaly: zebrafish Zic1 controls midline formation and forebrain patterning by regulating Nodal, Hedgehog, and retinoic acid signaling. (2009) (51)
Early events in the embryogenesis of the vertebrate visual system: cellular determination and pathfinding. (1990) (50)
Engrailed and retinotectal topography (1996) (49)
The vertebrate retina: A model for neuronal polarization in vivo (2011) (47)
Growth cone interactions with a glial cell line from embryonic Xenopus retina. (1989) (46)
The transplantation of eyes to genetically eyeless salamanders: visual projections and somatosensory interactions (1982) (45)
Cellular Requirements for Building a Retinal Neuropil (2013) (44)
Reconciling competence and transcriptional hierarchies with stochasticity in retinal lineages☆ (2014) (44)
Induction and patterning of the telencephalon in Xenopus laevis (2002) (43)
Lipofection strategy for the study of Xenopus retinal development. (2002) (43)
Slit1b-Robo3 Signaling and N-Cadherin Regulate Apical Process Retraction in Developing Retinal Ganglion Cells (2012) (38)
Biasing Amacrine Subtypes in the Atoh7 Lineage through Expression of Barhl2 (2012) (38)
Differential requirement of F-actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in cue-induced local protein synthesis in axonal growth cones (2015) (37)
Axon-Axon Interactions Regulate Topographic Optic Tract Sorting via CYFIP2-Dependent WAVE Complex Function (2018) (37)
The Role of GSK3β in Regulating Neuronal Differentiation inXenopus laevis (1998) (37)
Xenopus fibrillin is expressed in the organizer and is the earliest component of matrix at the developing notochord‐somite boundary (2006) (36)
The Independent Probabilistic Firing of Transcription Factors: A Paradigm for Clonal Variability in the Zebrafish Retina (2015) (35)
Multiple roles of Activin/Nodal, bone morphogenetic protein, fibroblast growth factor and Wnt/β-catenin signalling in the anterior neural patterning of adherent human embryonic stem cell cultures (2013) (33)
Engrailed, Retinotectal Targeting, and Axonal Patterning in the Midbrain during Xenopus Development: An Antisense Study (1996) (33)
Using myc genes to search for stem cells in the ciliary margin of the Xenopus retina (2012) (33)
Regions of the brain influencing the projection of developing optic tracts in the salamander (1980) (32)
A nutrient-sensitive restriction point is active during retinal progenitor cell differentiation (2014) (32)
Expression of Xenopus laevis Lhx2 during eye development and evidence for divergent expression among vertebrates (2006) (32)
Properties of Ectopic Neurons Induced byXenopusNeurogenin1 Misexpression (1998) (32)
Non-SMC condensin I complex proteins control chromosome segregation and survival of proliferating cells in the zebrafish neural retina (2009) (31)
Inhibitory neuron migration and IPL formation in the developing zebrafish retina (2015) (31)
The serotonergic somatosensory projection to the tectum of normal and eyeless salamanders (1981) (30)
From tags to RAGS: Chemoaffinity finally has receptors and ligands (1995) (30)
Axonal guidance from retina to tectum in embryonic Xenopus. (1994) (29)
Metabolic differentiation in retinal cells (2012) (27)
A Drosophila E(spł) gene is "neurogenic" in Xenopus: a green fluorescent protein study. (1995) (27)
The role of GSK3beta in regulating neuronal differentiation in Xenopus laevis. (1998) (24)
5 – Axon growth and guidance (2012) (23)
Neurobiology: Slit, the midline repellent (1999) (21)
Lineage versus environment in the embryonic retina (1993) (19)
Hermes Regulates Axon Sorting in the Optic Tract by Post-Trancriptional Regulation of Neuropilin 1 (2016) (19)
Two zebrafish mutants, ebony and ivory, uncover benefits of neighborhood on photoreceptor survival. (2003) (17)
Self-organising aggregates of zebrafish retinal cells for investigating mechanisms of neural lamination (2017) (17)
Genetic control of cellular morphogenesis in Müller glia (2018) (16)
Time-lapse analysis of retinal differentiation. (2005) (15)
Xenopus Brn-3.0, a POU-domain gene expressed in the developing retina and tectum. Not regulated by innervation. (1997) (15)
The maxillae of Drosophila melanogaster as revealed by scanning electron microscopy (1972) (15)
Activin/Nodal Signaling Supports Retinal Progenitor Specification in a Narrow Time Window during Pluripotent Stem Cell Neuralization (2015) (15)
NF-Protocadherin Regulates Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Behaviour in the Developing Visual System (2015) (14)
A Novel Tool to Measure Extracellular Glutamate in the Zebrafish Nervous System In Vivo (2017) (13)
Mechanisms of Müller glial cell morphogenesis (2017) (13)
Erratum: Xath5 participates in a network of bHLH genes in the developing xenopus retina (Neuron 19 (981-994)) (1998) (13)
Cellular Determination in Amphibian Retina (1999) (13)
Nuclear crowding and nonlinear diffusion during interkinetic nuclear migration in the zebrafish retina (2020) (12)
Dorsoventral patterning of the Xenopus eye involves differential temporal changes in the response of optic stalk and retinal progenitors to Hh signalling (2015) (12)
Erratum to: Differential requirement of F-actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in cue-induced local protein synthesis in axonal growth cones (2015) (12)
Learned topography: the eye instructs the ear (1986) (11)
Retinal Development: Formation of the eye field (2006) (11)
Nutrient-Deprived Retinal Progenitors Proliferate in Response to Hypoxia: Interaction of the HIF-1 and mTOR Pathway (2016) (9)
Differences between embryos and adults in the plasticity of somatosensory afferents to the axolotl tectum. (1983) (9)
Connecting the eye with the brain: the formation of the retinotectal pathway. (2000) (8)
Common mechanisms in vertebrate axonal navigation: retinal transplants between distantly related amphibia. (1984) (8)
The eyeless axolotl: experimental embryogenetics and the development of the nervous system (1983) (8)
Osmotically induced changes in the ornithine decarboxylase activity of Dictyostelium discoideum (1982) (7)
Binary decisions in neurogenesis (1986) (7)
Developmental biology: Clocking the birth of neurons (2003) (6)
Temporal coordinates: the genes that fix cell fate with birth order. (2001) (6)
Spectrum of Fates: a new approach to the study of the developing zebrafish retina (2014) (6)
In vivo expression of Nurr1/Nr4a2a in developing retinal amacrine subtypes in zebrafish Tg(nr4a2a:eGFP) transgenics (2017) (6)
Imaging retinal progenitor lineages in developing zebrafish embryos. (2013) (5)
Neurogenesis in Xenopus: a molecular genetic perspective. (1994) (5)
Neural Transplants in Lower Vertebrates (1984) (5)
Disaggregation and Reaggregation of Zebrafish Retinal Cells for the Analysis of Neuronal Layering. (2017) (4)
Retinal Development: Cell determination (2006) (4)
Many cell types specified by Notch function (1991) (4)
Specifying motor neurons: up and down and back to front (2003) (4)
Progenitor Competence: Genes Switching Places (2013) (4)
8 – Synapse formation and function (2012) (4)
Signal transduction in vertebrate growth cones navigating in vivo. (1996) (3)
Demonstration of neural induction using nuclear markers inXenopus (1985) (3)
Apical migration of nuclei during G2 is a prerequisite for all nuclear motion in zebrafish neuroepithelia (2012) (3)
Preparation of transgenic zebrafish embryos for imaging the developing retina. (2013) (3)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Computational prediction of neural progenitor cell fates. (2010) (3)
4 – Determination and differentiation (2012) (3)
Induction of Hypoxia in Living Frog and Zebrafish Embryos. (2017) (3)
7 - Naturally-occurring neuron death (2012) (2)
Interkinetic nuclear migration in the zebra1sh retina as a diffusive process (2019) (2)
Development of the Nervous System Ed. 3 (2011) (2)
Two of These or Two of Those? (2005) (2)
3 – Genesis and migration (2012) (2)
Retinal cell clones in xenopus laevis exhibit a definite sequence of genesis (1996) (1)
Current Topics in Developmental Biology. Volume 15: Neural Development, Part 1 (Emergence of Specificity in Neural Histogenesis). A. A. Moscona , Alberto Monroy , R. Kevin Hunt (1981) (1)
1 – Neural induction (2012) (1)
Chapter 10 – Behavioral development (2012) (1)
Imaging retinal progenitor lineages in the developing Zebrafish Retina (2010) (1)
Conditioned Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster ( learnin / memory / odor discrimination / color vision ) (1)
A glial cell line promotes the outgrowth of neurites from embryonic Xenopus retina. (1988) (1)
9 – Refinement of synaptic connections (2012) (1)
Wiring Up the Brain: Axon Navigation (2019) (1)
Neural Development: bHLH Genes (2003) (1)
Book Review:Body and Brain: A Trophic Theory of Neural Connections. Dale Purves (1989) (1)
Müller glia provide tensile strength to the developing retina (2015) (0)
DEV114108 2912..2912 (2014) (0)
Four-dimensional dense reconstruction of retinogenesis in zebrafish (2017) (0)
08-P001 Interkinetic nuclear migration in the zebrafish retina: Actomyosin contraction is the prime mover (2009) (0)
Many cell types specified by Notch function The Notch protein may be a receptor for various ligands that mediate lateral inhibition in clusters of cells all trying to achieve the same fate. (1991) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Quantitative analysis of microtubule dynamics during adhesion-mediated growth cone guidance. (2008) (0)
Author response: Nuclear crowding and nonlinear diffusion during interkinetic nuclear migration in the zebrafish retina (2020) (0)
Hermes regulates axon sorting in the optic tract by post-transcriptional regulation of Neuropilin 1 Abbreviated title : Hermes regulates retinotectal projections (2016) (0)
Book Review:Development of Nerve Cells and Their Connections. W. G. Hopkins, M. C. Brown (1985) (0)
Roles of c-Myc and n-Myc in regulating proliferation in the Xenopus retina (2009) (0)
Xenopus Frizzled 5 Regulates the Transition of Retinal Progenitors to the Neural Precursor State (2005) (0)
Polarity and Regional Identity (2019) (0)
The Metamorphosis Antidote (1999) (0)
Analysis of neurogenesis in the amphibian retina (1996) (0)
THE FRUIT-FLY (DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER): A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC STUDY (1972) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Promoting axon regeneration in the adult CNS by modulation of the PTEN/mTOR pathway. (2009) (0)
13-P022 Zic-associated holoprosencephaly: Zebrafish Zic1 controls midline formation and forebrain patterning by regulating Nodal, Hedgehog and retinoic acid signalling (2009) (0)
Dedication to Friedrich Bonhoeffer (2004) (0)
Differential requirement of F-actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in cue-induced local protein synthesis in axonal growth cones (2015) (0)
6 – Target selection (2012) (0)
Wnt-ß-catenin Signaling Blocks Differentiation of Retinal Progenitors in a Sox2- and Notch-dependent Manner (2007) (0)
Conditioned Behavior in Drosophila mela (learning/memory/odor discrimination/color vision) (2016) (0)
21-P024 Ptf1a enforces an inhibitory fate upon glutamatergic lineages in the zebrafish retina (2009) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Ectopic expression of multiple microbial rhodopsins restores ON and OFF light responses in retinas with photoreceptor degeneration. (2009) (0)
2 – Polarity and segmentation (2012) (0)
Erratum to: Differential requirement of F-actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in cue-induced local protein synthesis in axonal growth cones (2015) (0)
Generation of Neural Diversity (2019) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Retinoblastoma has properties of a cone precursor tumor and depends upon cone-specific MDM2 signaling. (2010) (0)
20-P020 An involvement of cue-induced regulation of NFPC in retinal growth cone navigation (2009) (0)
Chapter 14 – Cellular Determination (2013) (0)
Wnt-β-catenin signaling blocks retinal progenitor differentiation in a Sox2- and Notch-dependent manner (2007) (0)
Yoshiki and KS222 (2012) (0)

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