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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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